{"id":1292,"date":"2005-01-02T13:13:13","date_gmt":"2005-01-02T21:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/02\/stop-selling-food-to-fat-people\/"},"modified":"2005-01-02T13:13:13","modified_gmt":"2005-01-02T21:13:13","slug":"stop-selling-food-to-fat-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1292","title":{"rendered":"Stop selling food to fat people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigfatblog.com\/archives\/001471.php#more\">Big Fat Blog <\/a>links to this amazing example of&#8230; well, I don&#8217;t want to use the &#8220;f&#8221; word (not that &#8220;f&#8221; word, the other &#8220;f&#8221; word&#8230; no, not that one either. Think Italy in WW2. Yup, that&#8217;s the one), because it&#8217;s so cliched for a lefty to use that word. The author is George Lundberg, a TV medical pundit:<\/p>\n<div class=\"snip\">How can we stop the obese from becoming more obese? Pretty simple. Stop feeding them. Think about the other common self-destructive human behaviors. On a commercial airplane, in a saloon, or at a professional sports event, if the customer is deemed to be drunk, the keepers of the booze key will lock the cabinet. If a person drives a car at a dangerous speed, the driver is subject to substantial penalties. [&#8230;] Yet, an obese person enters an eating joint, or a supermarket, and buys and eats any and everything he or she wants, and nobody seems to care. Does that make any sense to you?<\/div>\n<p>So fat people shouldn&#8217;t be permitted to buy food? Lovely. &#8220;Sorry, fatty, but your waistline is clearly over the limit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/64.233.161.104\/search?q=cache:Rbqm8YoPqygJ:www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/495270_print\">Here&#8217;s the article <\/a>&#8211; be warned, the link includes audio and video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul at Big Fat Blog links to this amazing example of&#8230; well, I don&#8217;t want to use the &#8220;f&#8221; word (not that &#8220;f&#8221; word, the other &#8220;f&#8221; word&#8230; no, not that one either. Think Italy in WW2. Yup, that&#8217;s the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1292\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fat-fat-and-more-fat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}