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Recently, the Tyra Banks Show promoted Tyra's new "So What" attitude campaign. Tyra had been taking some heat on her apparent weight gain and had enough. Her audience all wore t-shirts with numbers on them. It was their bodyweight. She then had some of them stand up and say something like, "When I walk my thighs rub together, so what." The theme for the show was to ignore your little imperfections and minor flaws and to start loving skyward fbisd yourself for who you are. I agree with this wholeheartedly, but unfortunately, despite the show's insistence that this wasn't an excuse for obesity, acceptance of obesity was really what was reflected from this show.
Around the same time, the television
show 60 Minutes was reporting on how in 30 some years are Medicaid and Social
Security funding will be completely dried up. There were a combination of
reasons to why this is happening, but the big reasons were that starting next
year the first group of baby boomers will be hitting retirement age. With all
those people retiring and fewer wage earners contributing to the system, there
won't be enough money left to pay for the benefits of all those people.
The other problem is that Congress
passed the prescription drug bill. This bill allows all prescription drugs to
be paid for by Medicaid. This is bad. Yes, we are living longer, but we aren't
living healthier. Our society is very reactionary. If we acquire a disease, we
ask the doctor to give them something to relieve the symptoms. Very rarely do
we take proactive action and try to prevent these symptoms from attacking us in
the first place. With our obesity rates rising, this is leading to more and
more preventable diseases that will require prescriptions written. Which will
just drain all the money in those systems.
The "So What" campaign
that the Tyra Banks show has been promoting didn't just start with her. It has
been going on awhile and it is becoming more and more acceptable to be obese
and unhealthy. Remember, Rosie O'Donnell encouraging it on her show. That
attitude is, "It is my life darn it. I will live it the way I
choose." That is all fine and dandy, but those people are growing exponentially
and if the attitude isn't changed, our country is going to be hurting
financially very, very soon.
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