Is there any real reason anyone should weigh more than 300lbs?

Question

Watching tv shows on TLC or Discovery Health, you'll see these people well over 300lbs , some ranging in the 600lbs + range. I just want to ask in all honesty, why? Is there any real reason that they become this ungodly,inhuman size? I mean I guess I might be a lil over-weight, by that i mean 20lbs give or take, but that is easily workable. When you topple beyond that 300lb mark it's nothing short of a miracle or the aid of science to bring you back down to human form.

So if anyone has a real answer, post it, because I'd love to know. My hypothesis? Lazy, plain and simple. You can't write that size off as genetic or glanduar disorder. There is no way the person's entire lineage weighs that much. It's a few out of an entire family. I suspect it's just plain laziness and over-eating, sitting in front of a TV and never working a true job.

In a way I feel bad for these people because it will most likely kill them, heart disease and so on. But they can only blame themselves for it.

Also, should everyone else in the world who isn't this size, pay for Medicare and Medic-aid for people who are this size to receive treatment or surgery?

We work and barely survive on our own to provide to our families a crude form of medical coverage, mostly out of your own pocket or through a very crappy independent insurance or HMO. Yet we are paying everyday into public programs in which we cannot use ourselves to aid people like this , who have gourged themselves and sat on their asses, not working and putting into the system, yet take from it everyday at our expense. I say we pull the plug on them. Divert the funding towards cancer and AIDS research and housing for homeless families.

Answer 1

Unless youre in the less than one percent of people with actual medical conditions, it's personal choice to be that size by not eating right and not exercising.

As for medical care. I would venture to bet at least 95% of people that require medical attention do something to make them unhealthy. They some, drink, eat fatty food, etc. It would be really difficult, if not impossible to cut people off from government aided health care because they make poor health choices. While I think people that knowingly make bad health choices should bear their own burden, it's not an easy thing to do. Also, the argument comes up that people at low economic levels can only afford McD's and not fresh fruits and veggies, so it becomes poor v. rich.