The initiative from the lawmakers has angered obese individuals

How about this for a method of preventing obesity in America? Ukmedix News has learned that Federal law makers from the State of Mississippi have put forward a proposal which would mean that if a restaurant was to serve food to obese people they could lose their licence to operate.

The initiative from the lawmakers has angered not only obese individuals who say they have the right to eat whatever they want and whenever they want, but also civil rights activists who say that this law would impinge on fundamental human rights. They argue that whether you are obese or not is a private matter for yourself and the government has no right to interfere. Others people however say that it is all very well for obese people to say that but at the end of the day the government may have to foot the bill for their obesity.

Obesity costs America billions of dollars every year in increased medical health care costs and in lost productivity, and so while obese people may say that their obesity is purely their problem and their right their actions can have an ongoing implication on third parties.

Should the State of Mississippi ask for larger health insurance contributions from obese people and so in turn reduce the contributions for normal weight people? Private health insurers often ask for bigger premiums from smokers and those who are overweight as they are more likely to claim in the future. Normal weight individuals are sometimes resentful of the fact that they have to pay more in the form of taxes to finance the unhealthy lifestyles of other people.

At Ukmedix News we believe that any initiative regarding the problem of obesity should be one which actually helps to eradicate the problem of the condition and not one which merely penalises obese people. Stopping obese individuals from going to restaurants will not have any real effect on the level of obesity in America and therefore we feel that the above initiative is a waste of time and badly thought out.