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Should self induced obesity be considered a handicap?
Question : Should self induced obesity be considered a handicap?
Does the government investigate if an obese person is obese because of a health disorder or if it’s self induced? If so, do you think self induced obese people should be treated as handicapped? ….and have scooters?
handicap scooters
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Answer by Jenifer
While on a personal level, you or I may be able to say X is disease-induce and Y is self-induced, the government can’t, its considered discrimination. Its like saying someone with bulimia shouldn’t be treated for their condition but someone with a stomach virus should, its still a medical problem and can’t be treated preferentially.
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#2 written by TC 1 year ago
As people have already mentioned it would be literally impossible to measure whether someone was a self induced or a medically obese person. It would lead to lots of controversy and besides, i think obesity all round is a result of a medical condition. People just dont become obese for fun, its either a physiological or emotional disorder of some kind. I think we need to address the cause of the problem, and that is better quality foods, education and dealing with the emotional trauma and reasons behind the imbalance that is causing weight gain.
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#3 written by ♥ Puggle Person ♥ 1 year ago
I see what your getting at and I get it but I also get that even though obesity is self induced many people can not control that. It’s harder than it looks to eat healthy and exercise. Most obese people are from low economic standards and can not afford to eat healthy and it just plain hard to become thin after you are obsese…
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not teh obesity itself–but the health probelms it causes–
even when self induced–it is often due to a pyschological disability