This is a broad generalization that is simply not true. E.g. peer pressure among youth to pick up smoking or drinking is a decision to be a member of the group -
Again, a lifestyle choice.
You know that smoking and drinking can be bad for your health, but you chose to ignore that to be in the group. And these decisions are usually made at an age when you are quite capable of reasoning and making your own decisions.
This does not absolve you of personal responsibility.
The sad reality that the poor can often not afford healthy foot, but fat foot is dirt cheap.
Yes, and that's a crime the governments and corporations should be held accountable for.
We as a society should demand that be fixed.
BTW, as an aside, it may come as a surprise to people, but I lived on a high saturated fat and high suger junk food diet for breakfast, lunch and dinner for my entire life until I was in my early-mid 20's. Almost nothing healthy at all.
Yet I was skinniest weediest nerd in the playground. Why? Because I did not over eat.
A lot of people forget this simple fact when they talk about obesity et.al.
Drinking is also legal, and a much more ordinary thing. Your argument is in fact a classic "everything I like should be covered, everything I don't like should not".
I might appear like that on the surface, but you are wrong. Fact is "dangerous sports" are
better than drinking or smoking. Because "dangerous sports" are 100% a healthy lifestyle until a (rare)
accident happens.
Drinking and smoking et.al are
proven to be detrimental to your health and our medical system, and to a vast swath of society.
You still have not said what you consider these "dangerous sports" to be that you want not covered.
Dave.