Eating Disorders
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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This is in reference to an ongoing issue in The Paper's "Speak Out" section, which limits my comments to 150 words. One hundred fifty words will not suffice my comments. I know there are people who have medical problems that prevent them from losing weight and it is not you I am referring to.
I know for a fact that the "overeaters" do not want help from me or anyone else, as I have been told to mind my own business and that they like to eat. Their eating habits are out of control and they are the only ones who can get control. They just don't want to. These people park in the handicap parking place, waddle from their cars, enter a restaurant and stuff their pieholes with all sorts of fattening foods. I have watched them eat and it turns my stomach. They do not need that much food to survive.
They pull into the handicap parking place at the grocery store, waddle from their cars, climb into a cart provided for handicapped people and proceed to stuff their carts with chips, dips, pop, cheese, all sorts of candy, sweet cereal, ice cream, frozen desserts, and a wide array of bakery products and fatty meats. I never meet them in the produce department. They get to the register and pull out their food stamp card. Hello! They are "paid" to eat. Their food bill comes to more than I spend in a month. This really infuriates me to know that my tax dollars go to this type of person. And, there are a lot of them. There are also a lot of people who go hungry or eat cheap, unhealthy foods because they have too much pride to accept help. These are the people who are being robbed by the "overeaters." Shame on you.
One solution is to deny the "overeater" a handicap sticker and/or card. A little exercise is the best thing for them. Duh! Their food stamp card should deny high-calorie, high-fat content foods (junk food) and provide only for fruits and vegetables and limit meat products. They might just lose a little weight, not their dignity and respect. Another idea: Send them to Weight Watchers and put them on special foods.
Overeating is a habit and addiction like drinking and drugs. An addiction is a personal choice like smoking. Yet Social Services spends your investments to Social Security and Medicare on these choices. No wonder Social Security is broke. I don't think smokers get these benefits. Our government really makes it hard on smokers to support their habit by constantly raising their taxes. Why can't all habits be treated in a like manner? It is a crime in my book to reward those who have bad habits. Help with medical treatment only but not support and pay them to make it easy continue their bad habits.
Seems the norm for our governing sector to prefer bad to good, wrong to right, and greed to fairness. When did I land on this planet? I want to go home.
Diane Saldivar
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This is in reference to an ongoing issue in The Paper's "Speak Out" section, which limits my comments to 150 words. One hundred fifty words will not suffice my comments. I know there are people who have medical problems that prevent them from losing weight and it is not you I am referring to.
I know for a fact that the "overeaters" do not want help from me or anyone else, as I have been told to mind my own business and that they like to eat. Their eating habits are out of control and they are the only ones who can get control. They just don't want to. These people park in the handicap parking place, waddle from their cars, enter a restaurant and stuff their pieholes with all sorts of fattening foods. I have watched them eat and it turns my stomach. They do not need that much food to survive.
They pull into the handicap parking place at the grocery store, waddle from their cars, climb into a cart provided for handicapped people and proceed to stuff their carts with chips, dips, pop, cheese, all sorts of candy, sweet cereal, ice cream, frozen desserts, and a wide array of bakery products and fatty meats. I never meet them in the produce department. They get to the register and pull out their food stamp card. Hello! They are "paid" to eat. Their food bill comes to more than I spend in a month. This really infuriates me to know that my tax dollars go to this type of person. And, there are a lot of them. There are also a lot of people who go hungry or eat cheap, unhealthy foods because they have too much pride to accept help. These are the people who are being robbed by the "overeaters." Shame on you.
One solution is to deny the "overeater" a handicap sticker and/or card. A little exercise is the best thing for them. Duh! Their food stamp card should deny high-calorie, high-fat content foods (junk food) and provide only for fruits and vegetables and limit meat products. They might just lose a little weight, not their dignity and respect. Another idea: Send them to Weight Watchers and put them on special foods.
Overeating is a habit and addiction like drinking and drugs. An addiction is a personal choice like smoking. Yet Social Services spends your investments to Social Security and Medicare on these choices. No wonder Social Security is broke. I don't think smokers get these benefits. Our government really makes it hard on smokers to support their habit by constantly raising their taxes. Why can't all habits be treated in a like manner? It is a crime in my book to reward those who have bad habits. Help with medical treatment only but not support and pay them to make it easy continue their bad habits.
Seems the norm for our governing sector to prefer bad to good, wrong to right, and greed to fairness. When did I land on this planet? I want to go home.
Diane Saldivar
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