Walk down any main street in Australia and you’ll see a cross section of Australian society, there’s people from different backgrounds and over 60% have one thing in common- they’re obese. But the love affair between Aussies and obesity is a deadly one. There are some in the world who are so starved of food they develop Kawashiorkor, most Australians are so obese from overeating and a lack of exercise, that we can barely move. So how did we get here?
Boarding a busy Sydney train during peak hour is congested enough, with bodies pushing and shoving each other like sardines, just to get on board. But in an act almost akin to Moses parting of the Red Sea, I once witnessed a morbidly obese middle aged woman driving her electric wheelchair via ramp into the train carriage. Seeing someone on a specially made obese wheelchair reminds you of something peculiar. To see the dereliction of responsibility nesting itself on an auto-charged four wheel super electric chair, is something to behold, it’s something to criticize as well.
Why is the political, economic and medical establishment incentivizing obesity in perpetuity?
Almost 65.8% of Australians are obese, slovenly, indulgent, binge eating and those who balloon up to the point of needing a bariatric wheelchair are incentivised to admonish personal responsibility for their obese laden transgressions.
Australia is the 9th most obese nation in the world and it’s not just because of poor eating choices and a lack of exercise, the medical establishment encourages it.
I’m not saying people shouldn’t have the right to live as they choose so long as they’re not harming others.
But that’s precisely the problem, at some point their obesity does affect others
In 2018 alone, obesity cost the Australian taxpayer $11.8 billion dollars. Predictions estimate that if we stay on this course, by 2032, that figure will balloon up to $87.7 billion dollars.
A 2022 study showed that only 22% of Australians exercised
All human beings possess the gift of free will, our ability to decide our fates despite our circumstances is what our legal system is built upon, its what our Judeo-Christian heritage assumes and its the lifeblood of the Western mind. But the medical establishment thinks otherwise, when Doctors resort to prescribing appetite suppressants like Duromine, it sends the message that you don’t need to exercise self control and discipline, we can simply shortcut our way to weight loss.
The ecosystem of bariatric surgery is no different either. Removing free will and discipline from the equation, this surgery opts to reduce stomach size for obese patients, thereby reducing their appetite and capacity to ingest as much food.
Medical interventions like this may save lives and that’s a positive, but when did we stop to ask whether it’s wise to implement surgical escapes from self responsibility?
The bariatric wheelchair allows people from 158 kg upwards to use a chair
True to the spirit of quick fixes, more than more than 268,000 Australians are currently taking the controversial weight loss drug, ozepemic.
What Australia has is a self control problem with the obesity pandemic and our political system enables it.
You can be fat at my expense
Why does the Australian taxpayer have to cover part of the costs associated with bariatric surgery?
Rather than encouraging Australians to adopt personal responsibility for their weight by changing their diet and exercising regularly, the medical establishment has created a world of comfort where people can escape the coils of responsibility.
Apart from the profound economic burden on taxpayers, if Australia was invaded by the Chinese tomorrow, over 2/3s of the male population would be physically unable to defend anything other than their own right to eat themselves to death.
We have comatosed ourselves into a perpetual acceptance of obesity
We have created a culture of obesity acceptance into the Australian consciousness, so it should come as a surprise when ex Qantas CEO Alan Joyce insisted that ‘obese passengers’ wouldn’t have to pay extra for taking up more than one seat. They should have to pay double. Meanwhile, how many other innocent Australians have been squashed like tomatoes by larger than life eating machines who refuse to take any responsibility for their weight.
Even more disturbing than seeing armies of obese adults in society, seeing obese children is even more disturbing. It’s only when you see the parents do you realize the intractable cyclical nature of the problem.
Ultimately, unless drastic changes are made about how we treat ourselves, what we eat and how often we exercise, the road to hell is paved with fat intentions.
