I mean, if you just give everyone exervise bikes, will they even use them? Which is why I think the education is more important

So we drive more

The excercise bikes are easy to use is the general idea, you can sit there watching tv and slowly peddling

ideally it will be more like a couch

like really comfortable to sit in

Now THAT is going to be expensive and I can't really see people buying it

the lazy way to excercise xD

Hence governmeant funding

A free one to everyone in the country?

Although it wouldn't really be that expensive

THAT is left leaning even for Europe 😉

Yarp, the theory is it cuts down on neccessary governmeant healthcare costs, thus saving them money

so it makes money in the long run

by saving it

We could just implement a plan to give people little tax incentives for working out a minimum amount per week.

God speed if you can implement that.. @everybodydothatdinosaur

Maybe @𝕯𝖊𝖗_𝕶𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖎𝖘𝖘𝖆𝖗

Then, how would you prove you exercised?

Also vitamin pills and whatnot can help

mainly to improve health in general

gives people more energy

I generally frown on an increase in bureaucracy, but some sort of legal infrastructure to interact with the manifold private exercise companies to allow them to document citizen's exercise if the citizen wishes them to might work.

So, subsidies the drug industry?

You're starting to sound European.

The simple thing would be a tax break if you are healthy

Sounds like monitor state material right there @𝕯𝖊𝖗_𝕶𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖎𝖘𝖘𝖆𝖗

So if you are below a certain fat level you'd get a tax break

You don't need to prove you excercised just that you are healthy, however you got there

fat level is not a perfect measure of health, but it's an easy measure

If you can prove it's below X level you get a tax break

I'm not saying it's perfect; I just haven't quite figured out a better way one might try to implement it.

Make health insurance work like car insurance. Breaks for good health, spikes for risks.

I wonder if subsidising gym memberships would be cheaper?

Nope.

Because every time our government subsidizes anything, that industry just cranks up the prices to suckle that financial teat.

Regulate the prices they can set then 😉

That's a no-go here chief, too.

Just learn to embrace regulation, it's great

*Embrace your overlords*

The only practical way around this would be price fixing, which can carry problems without extensive auditing to make sure the prices are correct

The thing is Americans tend to want to be more free, so we don't have extensive government regulations on us being fat xD

If we were going to do anything, it would be to incentivize people rather than try to control them

Freedom comes at a price, and at times that price may have to be death

I prefer death over tyranny

Trying to control all of society to make them stop eating junk food or being lazy is kind of a problem

It's better to try to incentivize then control or regulate

>You haven't implemented a sugar tax yet

Oh, you have so much to learn yet.

How does taxing the poor more help fix obesity

Now they are just more poor and also fat

This is stupid

You can also get fat by things other than sugar

Pushes up the cost of those goods making the others more accessible

All taxes like this to control behavoir are not only dumb, but cruel

Sugar was found to be the main common ingredient in 'bad' food here

it doesn't make others more accessible it just makes it more expensive and takes up more of their money

Sugar is literally in most foods

like glucose is neccessary for life

it's how our metabolism works

Those "bad" foods were found to have a higher portion in compared to the better ones

So, they pushed up the price of the high sugar foods

you can in theory eat all fat, but then you'd be super tired as you'd be in keto all the time

Right, the governmeant punishes people and then gives itself rotor cuff surgery patting itself on the back for how great it is

To where they're more expensive than the lower sugar ("better") foods

And does so through taxes

"better" in their words

Rather than trying to help poor people it just taxes them, making it so only good tasting things are affordable by the rich

it's stupid

and frankly orwellian xD

A better idea is to try to just help the poor

You can still access them, but they become a luxury

Making the prices go up is a cruel way to punish someone that largely effects the poor the most

and arbitriary sales taxes on everything are just silly

You take away money that could go to health foods instead

The healthy foods become the cheaper option at that point

That doesn't make the 'better' foods cheaper; It just makes food in general more expensive.

*Within reason, of course*

Spiting the poor.

^

It just makes all food more expensive, it doesn't make healthier foods cheaper

*Since Nathan is his number one fan I just wanted to mention that Stalin has overheard this conversation from the grave and he's very pleased with Nathan's efforts*

it just makes life harder on the poor

For the benefit of the governmeant

sales taxes like this are regressive

Meh, the government is happy to cover healthier eating through an increase in food stamp usage

So, at best, it takes money from people, to give it back to them

>Food stamps
>Healthier

Mission accomplished

https://tenor.com/view/spit-take-laugh-lmao-gif-9271200

You take someone's money and just give it back to them

This is all the governmeant can do

Pretty much

the theory is that, if done correctly it can do things no individual can do, as economies of scale can then make something more efficient

Funnily enough, it got a super majority in parliament

like, building roads is valuale for all of society, for every business along that stretch of road, even if no single business would profit from it etc.

But just to give the mback what you take from them directly offers no benefit, usually it's a detriment

Am I wrong on this? The most obese demographic in the US is the one that receives the most food stamps?

It's the government trying to keep money moving around the economy

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/05/the-messy-relationship-between-food-stamps-and-health/527820/

Most of the funds don't come from the poor, since they're a minority