The NHS spends £6 billion per year treating obesity-related ill-health. A bill that rises each year.
If you’ve got a fat lying Cunt in charge what do you expect ?
Baffling, why would you want to be fat and put crappy food in your body daily with all those chemicals and not exercise and reap the mental benefits of that. Eating unhealthily occasionally is fine but daily is crazy
We need to go Yellowstone. They air dropped wolves into Yellowstone to control deer numbers.
Release wolves at random people won’t be fat anymore.
More like people need self control on their diet and education.
What a load of shit article. Offloading personal responsibility as usual, e.g. people who are trying “really hard” are still exposed to food. What do you want, empty shelves? They aren’t trying that hard. I’m not bothered if someone is fat or not, if you like food then fine. What irritates me is this constant society of having no personal accountability.
Our obesity plan will fail without being able to tell people they’re fat because they’re making bad choices, and that they need the self control to not make bad choices.
There’s a really pernicious aspect to modern culture that people shouldn’t be expected to take personal responsibility for their actions. If you see an advert for a burger or there are sweets at the checkout, you can still take the radical step of *still not buying it*. But while this is deemed “fat shaming” or articles can be written with a straight face saying people are “trying really hard” to lose weight but are “thwarted” by unhealthy food – as if the food jumps off the shelf into your gob unless you fight it off – we have no chance.
To pre-empt the bad faith argument that always comes – yes there are a tiny minority of fat people who have genuine medical issues and need support. But in almost all cases it’s just a combo of too many calories and not enough exercise.
We should also be teaching schoolkids how to cook real food, because too many parents are failing to do that, and it’s as much of a life skill as basic arithmetic or English.
> *Would it not be better if they spent more money on wholesome things like oranges and wholemeal bread or if they even, like the writer of the letter to the New Statesman, saved on fuel and ate their carrots raw? Yes, it would, but the point is that no ordinary human being is ever going to do such a thing. The ordinary human being would sooner starve than live on brown bread and raw carrots. And the peculiar evil is this, that the less money you have, the less inclined you feel to spend it on wholesome food. A millionaire may enjoy breakfasting off orange juice and Ryvita biscuits; an unemployed man doesn’t. Here the tendency of which I spoke at the end of the last chapter comes into play. When you are unemployed, which is to say when you are underfed, harassed, bored, and miserable, you don’t want to eat dull wholesome food. You want something a little bit ‘tasty’. There is always some cheaply pleasant thing to tempt you.*
George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
Healthy food?
Exercise?
Nah, treament is better than prevention. Plus its far better for my stock portfolio.
We don’t need a plan on unhealthy food, we need a plan on unhealthy eating habits, the idea we need a plan or a tax as a means to prevent the poorest from enjoying a snack, is fucking stupid, just like anyone that would suggest a “Tax” on unhealthy food.
Healthy food needs to be cheaper and continue to be made more tasty. Any kind of tax on unhealthy food just punishes poorer people
HEalThY fOod Is MoRE EXPenSiVe.
CoOkinG is HaRd and TiME COnsUMiNg.
Lol the excuses. Healthy food is cheaper, and can buy staples in bulk. It’s not difficult to learn to cook, it’s a basic skill, go on YouTube.
Maybe make companies pay people more and give proper support to families, so they can afford fresh heathy food instead of frozen reclaimed meat and chips.
This thread will not be over before someone mentions ‘pasta bake’ and the mythical £5 chicken which feeds a family of four two dinners, with enough left over for the kids school lunch on the third day *AND* the delicious soup made from the carcass!
Wish the government could just give out free healthy food or subsidise local, organic veg and meat growers. Not sure if they already do to an extent but if we can do free healthcare then we can do this? Healthier people will reduce the amount of people needing the NHS anyway.
What doesn’t help is that it’s cheaper and easier to lay on a beige dinner of chicken nuggets and chips than it is to cook a nutritious meal from scratch. Not only is fresh food prices on the up, but fuck all people nowadays know how to cook on a budget or look in a cupboard/fridge and pull a meal out of nothing. Because they were never taught effectively, or at all.
Do you know what will cause any obesity plan to fail? Continuing to poorly educate people on food, cooking and budgeting.
Can only speak with myself as someone who struggles with my weight but the rise of Uber eats and just eat have made it a lot easier to eat like shit. Not sure what the solution is there but I suspect their rise sure is contributing to the problem
Nobody is too fat or overweight. They simply need to be taller. We need to think more creatively and strategically
The NHS should be offering height improvement programmes for fatties.
As long as people believe shit food is cheaper and ignore anyone who points out how much vegetables you can buy for a burger, this will happen.
Part of the problem is the unhealthy obsession with eating dead animals.
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The NHS spends £6 billion per year treating obesity-related ill-health. A bill that rises each year.
If you’ve got a fat lying Cunt in charge what do you expect ?
Baffling, why would you want to be fat and put crappy food in your body daily with all those chemicals and not exercise and reap the mental benefits of that. Eating unhealthily occasionally is fine but daily is crazy
We need to go Yellowstone. They air dropped wolves into Yellowstone to control deer numbers.
Release wolves at random people won’t be fat anymore.
More like people need self control on their diet and education.
What a load of shit article. Offloading personal responsibility as usual, e.g. people who are trying “really hard” are still exposed to food. What do you want, empty shelves? They aren’t trying that hard. I’m not bothered if someone is fat or not, if you like food then fine. What irritates me is this constant society of having no personal accountability.
Our obesity plan will fail without being able to tell people they’re fat because they’re making bad choices, and that they need the self control to not make bad choices.
There’s a really pernicious aspect to modern culture that people shouldn’t be expected to take personal responsibility for their actions. If you see an advert for a burger or there are sweets at the checkout, you can still take the radical step of *still not buying it*. But while this is deemed “fat shaming” or articles can be written with a straight face saying people are “trying really hard” to lose weight but are “thwarted” by unhealthy food – as if the food jumps off the shelf into your gob unless you fight it off – we have no chance.
To pre-empt the bad faith argument that always comes – yes there are a tiny minority of fat people who have genuine medical issues and need support. But in almost all cases it’s just a combo of too many calories and not enough exercise.
We should also be teaching schoolkids how to cook real food, because too many parents are failing to do that, and it’s as much of a life skill as basic arithmetic or English.
> *Would it not be better if they spent more money on wholesome things like oranges and wholemeal bread or if they even, like the writer of the letter to the New Statesman, saved on fuel and ate their carrots raw? Yes, it would, but the point is that no ordinary human being is ever going to do such a thing. The ordinary human being would sooner starve than live on brown bread and raw carrots. And the peculiar evil is this, that the less money you have, the less inclined you feel to spend it on wholesome food. A millionaire may enjoy breakfasting off orange juice and Ryvita biscuits; an unemployed man doesn’t. Here the tendency of which I spoke at the end of the last chapter comes into play. When you are unemployed, which is to say when you are underfed, harassed, bored, and miserable, you don’t want to eat dull wholesome food. You want something a little bit ‘tasty’. There is always some cheaply pleasant thing to tempt you.*
George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
Healthy food?
Exercise?
Nah, treament is better than prevention. Plus its far better for my stock portfolio.
We don’t need a plan on unhealthy food, we need a plan on unhealthy eating habits, the idea we need a plan or a tax as a means to prevent the poorest from enjoying a snack, is fucking stupid, just like anyone that would suggest a “Tax” on unhealthy food.
Healthy food needs to be cheaper and continue to be made more tasty. Any kind of tax on unhealthy food just punishes poorer people
HEalThY fOod Is MoRE EXPenSiVe.
CoOkinG is HaRd and TiME COnsUMiNg.
Lol the excuses. Healthy food is cheaper, and can buy staples in bulk. It’s not difficult to learn to cook, it’s a basic skill, go on YouTube.
Maybe make companies pay people more and give proper support to families, so they can afford fresh heathy food instead of frozen reclaimed meat and chips.
This thread will not be over before someone mentions ‘pasta bake’ and the mythical £5 chicken which feeds a family of four two dinners, with enough left over for the kids school lunch on the third day *AND* the delicious soup made from the carcass!
Wish the government could just give out free healthy food or subsidise local, organic veg and meat growers. Not sure if they already do to an extent but if we can do free healthcare then we can do this? Healthier people will reduce the amount of people needing the NHS anyway.
What doesn’t help is that it’s cheaper and easier to lay on a beige dinner of chicken nuggets and chips than it is to cook a nutritious meal from scratch. Not only is fresh food prices on the up, but fuck all people nowadays know how to cook on a budget or look in a cupboard/fridge and pull a meal out of nothing. Because they were never taught effectively, or at all.
Do you know what will cause any obesity plan to fail? Continuing to poorly educate people on food, cooking and budgeting.
Can only speak with myself as someone who struggles with my weight but the rise of Uber eats and just eat have made it a lot easier to eat like shit. Not sure what the solution is there but I suspect their rise sure is contributing to the problem
Nobody is too fat or overweight. They simply need to be taller. We need to think more creatively and strategically
The NHS should be offering height improvement programmes for fatties.
As long as people believe shit food is cheaper and ignore anyone who points out how much vegetables you can buy for a burger, this will happen.
Part of the problem is the unhealthy obsession with eating dead animals.