McDonald’s adds Weight Watchers logo to some menu items. Lets’ see, I’ll have a Double Quarter Pounder with cheese, large fries, and tofu and raw carrots on the side.
Which will work better: a low-fat or low-carb diet? Your genes have the answer.
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Weight Watchers on a McDonald’s menu? That’s an oxymoron.
Heavier people are bad for the economy?
Tell that to the 46,000 Weight Watchers employees, all of whom would presumably lose their jobs if there were no “heavier people.”
Not to mention the adverse effect it would have on the new McDonald’s campaign to add Weight Watchers logos to its menu items.
I’m not sure where Zeke Emanuel is getting his information from. If anything, heavier people are probably good for the economy.
I’m not saying this is true, but (at least in theory) if we assume heavier people consume more goods and services (e.g. more food, larger clothing, more health care resources, more gas to propel cars carrying a heavier payload, etc.) then heavier people stimulate more economic activity than skinny people.
Zeke Emanuel obviously doesn’t understand political correctness.
Of course obesity is bad on the economy. Obesity is considered as bad as smoking. Mortality cost. The loss of income because of a premature death, which I hope we can all agree on is cause by obesity (diabetes, heart conditions). I’d need a couple days to give all the diseases caused. Wasting tax payer dollars on PREVENTABLE diseases. $168 billion dollars are spent on obesity EVERY YEAR. Even when surgical procedures are covered by private insurance, that insurance is covered by tax payers, which then becomes a burden on the general public.
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