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After all they are only trying to better their lives. They will pick the cranberries, cut the grass, shovel the snow and all the other jobs no one else wants or is willing to do. So what if they overcrowd our schools, quardruple the cost of health care and break Social Security and cost the taxpayers billions if not trillions of dollars? It's the humanitarian thing to do - right?
Think about it.
Interesting though. I would respond by asking you to think about this:
In the midst of all the weak correlations and bad science that is prompting cries of an "obesity epidemic", there is one health problem facing our society that is known to be serious: an aging population.
For all the cries of the risk factors of obesity, the single highest risk factor for ALL of the conditions in the claimed spectrum is age.
83% of people who die from heart attacks are over the age of 65, 21% of people over 60 have diabetes, and the numbers continue to hold up for blood pressure, cholesterol, cancer, etc...
We have a huge population of baby boomers that are just coming into the old age phase of their lives, and unless somebody manages to find the fountain of youth we're stuck with this problem.
This is going to be a HUGE burden on our society, obesity is not even a blip on the screen.
But that's just the way things are, and laying blame won't do any good. I don't think anybody here is about to make accusations of fault against our parents and grandparents.