If You Are Obese And Don't Even Try To Eat Healthy Why Should I Have To Pay For Your Medical Care?

[My Good Babushka]

55. I agree that American diets are crap

and we should stop subsidizing bad agricultural practices that make garbage food so cheap. Maybe we should even have deep discounts for people with great health. I've never been overweight and I've always had low cholesterol and blood pressure, so I would love to cash in on that. But I disagree that we should take it out on people who become obese. Nutrition and food preparation is a neglected area of our public education. People think stopping off at a fast food place is a meal, because the media promotes it as an "easy dinner solution". Even our best grocery stores do not have very much variety and are mostly filled with preservative-laced and heavy salted, nearly ready meals, so that people who heat up a prepared food think that is "home cooking". I don't think we can even start from the premise that people "know better". I think home economics is an under-appreciated but very valuable skill. Schools stopped teaching things like that thinking anyone can do it, but it turns out, they can't.