Comments on: Too fat to work http://healthcare-economist.com/2007/11/26/too-fat-to-work/ An unbiased look at today's health care issues Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:02:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Chuck McKay http://healthcare-economist.com/2007/11/26/too-fat-to-work/#comment-110903 Chuck McKay Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:13:17 +0000 http://healthcare-economist.com/2007/11/26/too-fat-to-work/#comment-110903 There comes a point in obesity in which joint pain makes movement difficult, and once that threshold is crossed the obese person becomes even more sedentary. From that point forward it takes incredibly strong willpower to make a change, and the obese person has already demonstrated lack of willpower. Is this a disease? I'm not convinced, but I do recognize the tendency of these changes to be non-reversible. There comes a point in obesity in which joint pain makes movement difficult, and once that threshold is crossed the obese person becomes even more sedentary. From that point forward it takes incredibly strong willpower to make a change, and the obese person has already demonstrated lack of willpower.

Is this a disease? I’m not convinced, but I do recognize the tendency of these changes to be non-reversible.

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