Who Lobbies for Fat People?

It sounds incredible, but expect it to happen.

An overweight patron, who has fought pounds for years will succumb to eating the craziest fried foods offered at the NC State Fair. This person may suffer a stroke. And, he or she will find an attorney to serve the State of North Carolina with a lawsuit.

Why?

Because he or she found themselves unable to resist certain offerings. The biggest dietary problem to combat are fatty foods. So, what's at the State Fair? The following deep fried specialities that will challenge the obese, the curious and the health conscious:

-peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
-macaroni and cheese
-dill pickle spear
-candy
-pecan pie
-cheesecake
-Ho-Hos

Rounding out this gastrointestinal mess? Chocolate covered bacon.

Some will say, “If you don’t want it, don’t eat it”. But that’s the problem with overweight people, like myself. What we want is sometimes predicated on how we feel at the moment. Some overeating challenges appear genetic while others are learned.

Of course some people enjoy comfort foods like ice cream and cookies with no visible or obvious problems. Only a health professional can explain the hidden dangers that lurk behind newly fattening arteries. For others, additional health problems are immediately obvious and magnified. That's why the swine flu virus has proven most deadly to children with underlying health problems.

State employees have been forwarned of a possible ‘fat tax’. Notice how it’s generally put forward by lawmakers and those who only see the effect on the bottom line. Not the fat person's complicated makeup.

Some wonder why poor people seem especially overweight. A look in the grocery cart easily reveals that less expensive cuts of food, (i.e. fattier) has become a staple in the household. Unless one was raised to expect and enjoy more nutritional foods, early learned unhealthy habits are difficult to break.

Ask any smoker. Or alcoholic. Or drug user.

So here again are more traps (like the lottery) for people least able to fight for themselves. Increased alcohol sales are touted now at ABC stores, which sell hard liquor! More people trying to drown their problems.

Ever seen a lite whiskey?

What to do? Just watch them walk slowly around the NC State Fair.

And wonder why we continue to make money by setting traps for people who have the greatest problems. The disadvantaged.