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endarkenment Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-06-08 10:57 AM
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Time to ban healthy activities!
Healthy people place biggest burden on state
By Stephen Adams
Last Updated: 9:38am GMT 05/02/2008



Healthy people cost taxpayers more in medical bills over their lifetimes than smokers or the obese, a new study has found. Because they tend to live longer, the savings that they make the state in youth and middle age are wiped out by the high cost of dealing with lingering diseases of old age like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/05/nhealth105.xml

Mandatory smoking in restaurants that can serve only transfat food in huge portions!


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Tyler Durden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-06-08 11:01 AM
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1. Pass the fries, sporto...
I'm doing my part for the ECONOMY!!
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