Obesity

Maybe some people are going to argue that obesity doesn’t really deserve a mention here, but when we take into consideration that obesity can reduce a person’s lifespan by two – four years (and that’s not even including the obesity related diseases) it doesn’t really seem much different from smoking.
Obesity isn’t exactly frowned upon, unless of course you include the jibes that people make at the slightly tubbier folks. But other than that it seems to be completely acceptable for people to abuse their bodies in this way. Maybe that’s because it’s quite common, or maybe it’s just because we’d look like heartless morons if we were to constantly comment on other people’s weight.
Either way I think obesity is unacceptable; it’s careless for people to carry so much weight that they’re unhealthy. Not only has it got to prevent them from enjoying life, but it’s also costing the NHS.
I guess it is a person’s choice, just like it’s a person’s choice as to whether they smoke or not, how much they drink and other things which are typically unhealthy, but the smokers are banished to outdoors to light up and the drinkers have unit numbers constantly rammed down their throats, so obese people should receive similar treatment.