{"id":1087,"date":"2008-08-28T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/alabamas-fat-tax-on-the-way\/"},"modified":"2008-08-28T12:00:10","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T17:00:10","slug":"alabamas-fat-tax-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/alabamas-fat-tax-on-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama&#8217;s Fat Tax on the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/fat-thin-workers.jpg\" alt=\"fat belly\" align=\"right\" \/>There&#8217;s more news to fuel the debate over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/californias-fast-food-ban-battle-continues\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Fast Food\">government&#8217;s role<\/a> in health issues. Alabama is going to start charging obese state employees $25 a month in 2026. It will be based on people with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/celebritybmi\/\" title=\"bmi\" target=\"_blank\">BMIs<\/a> (Body Mass Index) over 35.<\/p>\n<p>This may almost sound outlandish to some, until you realize that state employees are getting free health care, and that Alabamans are paying $1.32 billion a year in estimated medical charges. Alabama is the second heaviest state, behind its neighbor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/meridian-ms-loses-it-with-oprah\/\" title=\"mississippi\" target=\"_blank\">Mississippi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pokedandprodded.health.com\/2008\/08\/26\/alabama-slaps-a-tax-on-fat-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"alabama fat tax\">Here&#8217;s more<\/a> on the details of the debate, and feel free to chime in with your own opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s more news to fuel the debate over the government&#8217;s role in health issues. Alabama is going to start charging obese state employees $25 a month in 2026. It will be based on people with BMIs (Body Mass Index) over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/alabamas-fat-tax-on-the-way\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695],"tags":[8283,749,8284,31],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-alabama","tag-bmi","tag-fat-tax","tag-health-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}