On Thu 17 Jul 2008 06:43:32p, Dave Smith told us...

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
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>> Too many obese individuals are enabled by family, friends, and even
>> employers (if they're able to work at all), and their co-workers have
>> to take up the considerable slack
>
> That was certainly the case in a program I watched a few months ago
> about really obese people, like 800 pounds plus. They are so fat they
> can't get out of bed. They showed one guy's daily food intake. It was
> enough for a family of four for a week. Family members were not only
> feeding him all that food, they were cooking it and taking it in to him.
>
> When people like that have a medical emergency it takes a a number of
> emergency service workers to get them loaded onto a stretcher and out to
> the ambulance. I recall reading of one case where they actually had to
> remove a wall to get the guy out of the house.
>
>

Exactly. I've seen several of those shows. In one case they had to remove
a picture window and knock out some of the surrounding bricks, then use a
commercial hoist to get the guy out.

There are numerous clinic type centers that specialize in treating the
super morbidly obese. The problem is that many of them do not enforce the
prescribed diet regimen. They also allow food to be brought in from the
outside.

When people in that category are given the opportunity, support, and 24
hour assistance to help solve their problem, yet they continue to eat and
pile on even more weight, I say let them eat themselves to death.

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Wayne Boatwright
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