To deep fry something, you need oil or fat. I think that'll be taxed.

So making every fast food company go out of business, getting rid of millions of jobs wouldn't make the economy worse?

To ClansAreForGays: I assume you have never deep fried anything before. You do not need a deep fryer. You can use a wok or a pot filled with oil and deep fry that way.

Why would you tax plant based cooking oil? Taxing cooking oil will hurt everybody because it becomes difficult to cook anything without it. Biodiesel prices will probably go up. I find your treating of cooking oil as a commodity disgusting.

and all three of these things can be changed by the government, but it does nothing.

And yet so many probably wonder why we havent cured cancer yet...

You're assuming that there's one type of thyroid disorder? I had Graves' Diesease, an overactive thyroid: the week before I was diagnosed I lost about 20 lbs (yes, one week). After I started treatment, my thyroid did not even out as they had hoped, but they insisted I should still take my medicine, despite it horribly debilitating my immune system - god knows why - and causing me to gain weight at an increased weight, not to mention it horribly aggravated the other symptoms of Graves' Disease, such as anxiety and panic attacks. In the first year and a half, I went from 5mg of Tapozole to 20mg of it, and it fluxuated everywhere in between. It was shoddy diagnosis that did it. I could have had my thyroid removed from the get-go, but I that might have forced me into hypothyroid. So I took my chances. I am not taking my medicine anymore and I feel better and I've started to lose weight at a natural rate. Just don't tell my doctor. They think they're controlling my thyroid on 10mg daily.

Graves' Disease has a yet unknown cause. It is suggested that it is inherited, and it women are more susceptible to it: about 1 in 4 women I believe get it. My Aunt had it, so it could be from her, if inherited other fun medical problems from that side, too. It can also be caused by stress: when I was diagnosed, I also was in the process of getting over mono, and I was emotionally/mentally stressed for other reasons. It is an auto immune disorder, but a very slight one. Now that I stopped taking the medicine, my immune system is functioning normally. Graves' Disease is basically when your immune system sends antibodies to aggressively attack your thyroid, secreting more hormone that speeds up metabolism. It is important that I went in when I did, because given how progressed it had appeared to be, on top of the the current medical complications, I could have forced myself into thyroid storm.

So really syphon, do your homework. There's more than one type of thyroid disease. Also, this: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/graves-disease/DS00181

And ShredderIV, a lot of obese people don't die before age 30.

No matter how much you tax the food, people will find a way to become fat. If it was up to the government to determine what foods qualified as "fattening" enough to be taxed, they'd either get it wrong, leave loopholes, or fast food restaurants will resort to using artificial substances which would be just as bad, or even worse, than ordinary fattening foods.

I'd suggest raising the tax on gasoline (and the cars themselves) to promote walking as opposed to driving, but I know a lot people would hate that:

1. Some places are too far to walk and have no public transportation.

2. Increasing tax on automobiles would hurt the already dying American vehicle industry.

3. Senators, representatives, and other government officials are sponsored by automobile manufacturers.

And ShredderIV, a lot of obese people don't die before age 30.

You talk like people want to get fat. Yes, people will get fat anyway, but if they have to focus on eating unhealthy foods to do it, that's good. Seriously, who's going to be looking at loopholes to find the least healthy foods available?

Additionally, the US doesn't have the public transportation infrastructure to handle taxes on cars and gasoline, and this problem is magnified by the suburbia phenomenon, where people are unnecessarily spread out.

I will look for the least healthy food possible. Yes seriously. I enjoy the microwaveable meals and the instant noodles because its quick and its simple and I dont seem to be getting any fatter. This tax is likely to ruin my diet because your also taxing cooking oil. It takes cooking oil to cook most things. If I can't cook healthy food why should I buy it? If normal healthy food is going to cost more why should I change?

You do that, and enjoy paying the taxes. Other, non-crazy people will benefit from them.

I will look for the least healthy food possible.

here's something that you guys are neglecting:

Go to your grocery store, go into the cereal aisle. If your preferred grocery store is anything like mine, you will see a part of the aisle dedicated to health cereals, and the remaining part of the aisle containing normal cereal. Pick up a box of the healthy cereal. You may notice that it's price tag has a number almost 3X that of the fruity pebbles 4 feet down the shelf.

Next, purchase the healthy cereal. In addition, purchase a box of any of the normal cereals - the one that looks the most appealing to you. This part of the experiment is over. Moving on...

You're at home. Bust out your gallon of milk and enjoy a serving of delicious normal cereal. Savor each bite because what you're about to do next is going to ruin your day. After you enjoy a few bites of the normal cereal, pour yourself some of the healthy stuff and dig in.

You may notice that it tastes horrible. Actually, if you're taste buds work properly, you will definitely notice the horrid flavor. This is the end of the experiment.

Conclusion: You just paid 3X more for cereal that tastes horrible when you could have just gotten froot loops instead. Healthy food sucks.

here's something that you guys are neglecting:

Go to your grocery store, go into the cereal aisle. If your preferred grocery store is anything like mine, you will see a part of the aisle dedicated to health cereals, and the remaining part of the aisle containing normal cereal. Pick up a box of the healthy cereal. You may notice that it's price tag has a number almost 3X that of the fruity pebbles 4 feet down the shelf.

Next, purchase the healthy cereal. In addition, purchase a box of any of the normal cereals - the one that looks the most appealing to you. This part of the experiment is over. Moving on...

You're at home. Bust out your gallon of milk and enjoy a serving of delicious normal cereal. Savor each bite because what you're about to do next is going to ruin your day. After you enjoy a few bites of the normal cereal, pour yourself some of the healthy stuff and dig in.

You may notice that it tastes horrible. Actually, if you're taste buds work properly, you will definitely notice the horrid flavor. This is the end of the experiment.

Conclusion: You just paid 3X more for cereal that tastes horrible when you could have just gotten froot loops instead. Healthy food sucks.

My solutions:
1. Make healthy food taste more delicious but still remain healthy
2. Force parents to keep kids healthy at an early age, since obesity can happen easily as a toddler. There are parents who are too much of a pussy to do this, and instead would rather keep kids happy by providing fatty food
3. Change the food pyramid. And good thing they already did, but the old food pyramid was either confusing on servings or told kids to eat fatty food cause it was on the top of the pyramid, and basically told them fatty food is King of the World. (Seriously, if the old food pyramid is compared to the feudalism pyramid, top provided higher quality)
4. Forced diet. But no, we live in America so that's impossible.
5. Added policies such as one meal in limited servings per person (Much like buying stuff through the internet, 1 ____ per household). And I don't give a fuck if people protest.
6. Ban or close down restaurants/stores. The city where I live had banned Wal-mart. I don't give a fuck if this is protested too.
7. Kill them all, but I oppose this.

1) Better, tastier, foods will be created once unhealthy foods are heavily taxed.
2) Eh. Not the biggest problem, but, again, I think that very fat toddler food will be taxed, too.
3) No idea.
4) Even I'm against this, and I'm a pro-eugenics socialist crazy person.
5) I'm somewhat against this, because, when ordering out, it'll get very difficult. What, when they deliver you have to show them that there are x people in your house? Well, one of them's in the bathroom, now you can't get food for them.
6) Yay this.
7) Fat people?

I do my homework, I pretty much know everything about thyroid physiology, I just assumed because you were gaining weight you were suffering from an under activity condition, not an over activity one. You should've talked about the weight gain being caused by medication, not your thyroid problems.

No matter how much you tax the food, people will find a way to become fat. If it was up to the government to determine what foods qualified as "fattening" enough to be taxed, they'd either get it wrong, leave loopholes, or fast food restaurants will resort to using artificial substances which would be just as bad, or even worse, than ordinary fattening foods.

You talk like people want to get fat. Yes, people will get fat anyway, but if they have to focus on eating unhealthy foods to do it, that's good. Seriously, who's going to be looking at loopholes to find the least healthy foods available?

here's something that you guys are neglecting:

Go to your grocery store, go into the cereal aisle. If your preferred grocery store is anything like mine, you will see a part of the aisle dedicated to health cereals, and the remaining part of the aisle containing normal cereal. Pick up a box of the healthy cereal. You may notice that it's price tag has a number almost 3X that of the fruity pebbles 4 feet down the shelf.

Next, purchase the healthy cereal. In addition, purchase a box of any of the normal cereals - the one that looks the most appealing to you. This part of the experiment is over. Moving on...

You're at home. Bust out your gallon of milk and enjoy a serving of delicious normal cereal. Savor each bite because what you're about to do next is going to ruin your day. After you enjoy a few bites of the normal cereal, pour yourself some of the healthy stuff and dig in.

You may notice that it tastes horrible. Actually, if you're taste buds work properly, you will definitely notice the horrid flavor. This is the end of the experiment.

Conclusion: You just paid 3X more for cereal that tastes horrible when you could have just gotten froot loops instead. Healthy food sucks.