Bill Maher: Have You Ever Seen a Fat 90-Year-Old?
Bill Maher: “We’ve gone from fat acceptance to fat celebration — To view letting yourself go as a point of pride?
Seventy-eight percent of hospitalized COVID-19 patients were obese throughout the pandemic — but did you ever hear an elected leader tell us to protect ourselves through improved diet and exercise?
The 69 percent we are afraid to upset
No, because: 36.5 percent of adults are obese, and another 32.5 percent of Americans are overweight — and politicians are afraid to offend the 69 percent who are overweight or obese.
That’s where Bill Maher comes in: one of the lone voices fighting the “madness” of overweight people who don’t even want to be weighed by their doctors. So he laughed at USA Today, claiming in a headline that science hasn’t figured out how to control obesity (consume less food?)
More than 60 years ago, John F. Kennedy feared Americans were “becoming soft” launching the Presidential Fitness Challenge, encouraging Americans to exercise and improve their health. However, it was scrapped in 2013 as obesity rates continued to soar.
Now Maher, host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, who built his name with…
