Current Events > How are we going to survive if America gets fatter every year?

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Eventually we'll all be so fat that we won't even have any soldiers who can fight in our wars. What are we going to do? Build robots to fight for us? I don't think any other nations are as fat as we are. How are we going to compete?
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Send Americans to Africa to lose weight.
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OpheliaAdenade posted...

How are we going to compete?

In eating competitions, obviously.
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We'll just keep redefining obesity to make it look like there's more of a problem than there actually is until it actually encourages 150lb people to lose weight
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Eventual civil war between the obese and the healthy (with modified gun triggers compatible with fat fingers).

ArchiePeck posted...

Eventual civil war between the obese and the healthy (with modified gun triggers compatible with fat fingers).

sounds like the best solution.
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Woorry about sinking your whole country first before you talk about soldiers.

I thought America was actually losing weight overall but the select groupings were getting worse and unhealthier
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Make a law where everyone has to go to the doctor at least once per year and if you're overweight then you have to pay a fine. The higher your bmi is, the higher the fine. The same thing applies to underweight people. Problem solved.
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Make a law where everyone has to go to the doctor at least once per year and if you're overweight then you have to pay a fine. The higher your bmi is, the higher the fine. The same thing applies to underweight people. Problem solved.

BREAKING: The definition of obesity was changed today, now classifying thise with a BMI above 13 as overweight and over 15 obese...
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DevsBro posted...

Make a law where everyone has to go to the doctor at least once per year and if you're overweight then you have to pay a fine. The higher your bmi is, the higher the fine. The same thing applies to underweight people. Problem solved.

BREAKING: The definition of obesity was changed today, now classifying thise with a BMI above 13 as overweight and over 15 obese...

The goal is to make the country healthy again so it would be counterproductive to change the definition of unhealthy
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The goal is to make the country healthy again so it would be counterproductive to change the definition of unhealthy

1. Tell that to the people who do it.
2. When you introduce money, that always becomes the goal.
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The US Armed Forces, active and reserve, currently represent roughly 0.6% of the total US population. So I'd say your real worries are a long way off yet. So long, in fact, that I reckon you will be building robot armies by then. How do you keep your competitive edge sharp? Technological innovation. It's going to matter more than raw manpower in the end.
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