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Nonsense! Show me how it costs more to treat a fat person's diabetes than it does to treat a skinny person's diabetes (and you must stick to only treating the diabetes).
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Show me a skinny eleven year old with diabetes. Give me a random sampling of a hundred "skinny" people and a hundred obese people and we can see where massive rates of diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, etc. rear their ugly little heads.
As far as "tackling" obesity I think the only viable and democratic means is through education. A national paradigm must shift. Suing McDonalds is not the solution.
As far as strains on health-care, I'm not so sure. Sure, the uninsured obese are driving up health costs, but at the same time obesity is single-handedly funding vast sectors of the pharmaceutical and health markets.