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DesideriScuri -> RE: Doctors told to report patients who put on weight (12/31/2014 2:38:20 PM)
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ORIGINAL: MariaB
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ORIGINAL: dcnovice
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it still amazes me to see 300-400 pound humans riding the grocery store battery carts due to their obesity and nothing else.
How do you know their medical histories? You can tell if total strangers have, say, congestive heart failure, neuropathy, gout, or something else that doesn't manifest externally?
The thing is we don't know but what I do know is, Britain is now the capital of battery carts in Europe and although you are not supposed to drive around in one of those carts unless you are registered disabled, there is a huge percentage flaunting that law. Five years ago we had 70,000 scooters on our pavements; now we have a whopping 300,000 and the manufacturers have had to modify and re-invent scooters that can now take up to 550lbs in body weight.
Whilst we don't know peoples medical history and pointing out that someone is in a battery cart because they are fat would not only be cruel and incentive but naive and ridiculous. Studies in the UK however, have shown this massive rise in battery trolley use is not for the registered disabled but for the growing numbers in obesity.
If the laws are suddenly tightened and people are stopped and asked to show their disability certificate or display one on their trolley, there will be an awful lot of people who suddenly find themselves walking round the shops instead of riding round them.
Or, just make obesity a disability...quote:
The court said that if obesity could hinder "full and effective participation" at work then it could count as a disability.
The ruling is binding across the EU.
Judges said that obesity in itself was not a disability - but if a person had a long-term impairment because of their obesity, then they would be protected by disability legislation.
Being obese, then, isn't a disability, in and of itself, but if it's causing an impairment, it is a disability. Would diabetes be considered a "long-term impairment?"
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