Britain’s weight problem costs almost £100bn a year, analysis suggests, prompting calls for a government crackdown on unhealthy food and a drive to promote fresh ingredients.
The spiralling cost shows that the growing prevalence of people being overweight is “an absolute public health disaster”, said Henry Dimbleby, the government’s former adviser on food.
No hospital treatment if you’re too overweight. Then watch those fattys run!
A pound can be a very small disc of metal, a thin, small plastic rectangle, or an entry in a ledger, now chiefly if not entirely electronic, that can be incremented or decremented by whoever ultimately controls the ledger.
There may be a cost to this society of people eating (not weighing, as per [‘Pyecraft’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fELFP0WAQsw)) too much; it is not to be sensibly measured in GBP.
Mr. Dimbleby thinks it ‘dystopian’ that people might be able to eat as much as they please and not become obese due to the advances of science providing chemicals that will make it so. Mr. Dimbleby complains that Mr. Sunak’s attempt to ‘eradicate’ smoking among the populace that has elected him their pen-pusher in chief is wrong, but not ‘dystopian’, because he would rather see something else ‘eradicated’ instead.
That the majority of humanity for the majority of existence would have defined ‘eutopia’ as a place where one can have one’s cake and eat it and not get fat seems not to have impressed itself upon him.
It would be wrong, however, amusing, to suggest the eradication of the sort of behaviour the likes of Messrs Dimbleby and Sunak display, if only because it gives no sanction by which such a thing might be accomplished.
> Katherine Jenner, the director of the Obesity Health Alliance, said: “In those 30 years, our food environment has changed beyond recognition into an obesogenic environment. It is not that our genes have changed but that we are surrounded by unhealthy food at every turn – on TV, in the shops, on our high streets and in our workplaces. If we only attempt to treat people without changing the environment that made them ill in the first place, we will simply be spending huge amounts of extra money in the NHS for little to no long-term benefit.”
I ate my fill of curries and crisps
And Haribos while watching T. V. . . . .
There is much fat round my insides.
Why’s my environment afflicted me?
Ow! I am a burden on ‘are N.H.S.’!
Wow! I doth drag down the economy!
What is the sense of Freedom and Rights:
Look how my environment’s afflicted me!
Never gonna change until the obesity drugs become widespread.
The average person just has too little self control and we have the 2nd most affordable food in the world after America so it isn’t stopped by unaffordability like in most countries.
Personally I don’t have a problem with this since everyone should be allowed to make their own choices even if they’re terrible but I do have a problem with having to pay for it in the form of high taxes for the NHS.
There needs to be some sort of tax on overweight people or we just all have private healthcare cause it’s not right for those of us who exercise and eat responsibly to have to pay for all this. This is what they do in Japan and it’s the only wealthy country which doesn’t have an issue with obesity.
I doubt that will ever happen though so well just have half the population on ozempic or other weight loss drugs.
I think if you have weight related issues, smoke or drink related you should have to pay towards treatment. Unpopular opinion but what else can be done?
Curious how would you calculate that. Would you include potential “savings”, not having to pay pensions or the extra tax they pay for non-essential food etc. It mentions care but how much more is that if someone lives till they are 85 with Alzheimers?
You can never see they’re working so it means little more then. pushing an agenda. Think there should be government help in less overweight people but never trust these numbers.
Classic tory britain seeing the cost of everything and the value of nothing. This is a direct attack on the freedoms of XXL stores.
I honestly don’t mind my taxes paying for some fat fuck to get a triple bypass. As long as I can have full size chocolate bars and some fucking cordial with actual Fucking sugar in it instead of fucking aspartame or ascfultame or stevia or whatever bullshit they concoct next.
Maybe they should address the root causes.
Unhealthy food is cheaper, more filling and more satisfying than healthy food.
People are sat working in an office all day, barely allowed to leave their desk for minimum wage, by the time they get home after a 90 minute commute, they’re too tired to make something “healthy”.
And our health secretary is married the director at British sugar…. Tory Britain.
How much money do they put into the economy buying food?
How much VAT are they charged on their food per year?
How many overweight people see their pension, probably not many?
Do they therefore pay in more than they take out? Probably.
I fail to see how it’s any different to smoking. It’s been socially acceptable to challenge smokers to quit for a long time.
Part of Brexit was to get rid of EU regulations on food . Why do you think so many US fast food chains have opened? We didn’t have Dunkin Donuts, Popeyes and Wendy’s 5 years ago .
V interesting comparing these comments to the threads about banning vaping
While the media keep pushing body positivity and schools fail to educate people on basic nutrition like calorie deficits lose weight you’ve got not chance of sorting this. The governments ban on smoking is well supported because of the cost to the nhs but no one seems to want to tackle junk food
Yeh! That’s the problem. Fat people! *raises pitchfork*
It’s just more bullshit distraction.
Im afraid it all comes down to bad parenting in the generations before us
Every generation gets worse – eating more shit than their parents and doing less proper cooking.
Its kind of the same with behaviour and discipline in schools etc
Have you tried doing an 11 plus exam recently ?
So Fatties are the governments next target of people to hate. Grab the pitchforks, no health care for fatties, make ’em work for their dole then sanction them anyway & deport them to Rwanda!
To pre-empt the inevitable fat-hating comments where fat people are denigrated as being useless and lazy, here’s an interesting video from somebody who knows way more than you do. Now you have no need to make that stupid hateful comment.
And our taxes are funding the nhs which these land whales overburden
I’ve been eating way too much fast food recently. I started a new job this year and there are around 10 takeaway places within walking distance.
Despite eating burgers or chicken wraps daily I’ve lost 10kg in 3 months, my blood pressure has gone down, and I’m the strongest I’ve been since long covid stole my gains. It’s not what you eat, it’s how much, calories in vs calories out.
Those overweight people out that back into the economy via food intake. I see no issue. It’s the “spending I don’t like so it’s a problem” thing again.
Maybe we should invest more in conversion therapy for the cunts who keep voting in Tories before going after people who just want to get on with life.
I don’t see much of an attempt to actually educate people though. I’ve had so many people, both fat and thin, talk about exercise as if it makes any difference at all to most people’s weight. Unless you’re very into sport, constantly at the gym doing intensive exercise, you’re not going to lose weight exercising. The calories an inexperienced person is going to burn in a full gym session can be eaten back in less than a minute. We’re lucky to retain EU labelling on food that makes calorie counting easier than any fad diet, but people aren’t taught about it
media blaming working class people for everything as always
And yet the body positivity movement is in full swing and if you say anything to the contrary you are cancelled.
Fund the NHS while incentivising weight loss: make obese people pay substantially more in tax.
And while we’re at it, once people get over a certain size, airlines should force them to buy a second seat.
Fatso’s, like smokers, are a huge drain on resources that we all have to cover in order to allow their gluttony
Yeah let’s pick on the over weight people in this cycle of blaming where tax goes.
It can cost hospital wards £200+ a day to rent the larger beds they need.
Will fat people be our next target for demonic policies? They seem easy to scapegoat for our economic woes!
Another culture war article aimed at making people angry at their neighbours. An estimated 80% of supermarket items contains Sugar.
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Britain’s weight problem costs almost £100bn a year, analysis suggests, prompting calls for a government crackdown on unhealthy food and a drive to promote fresh ingredients.
The spiralling cost shows that the growing prevalence of people being overweight is “an absolute public health disaster”, said Henry Dimbleby, the government’s former adviser on food.
No hospital treatment if you’re too overweight. Then watch those fattys run!
A pound can be a very small disc of metal, a thin, small plastic rectangle, or an entry in a ledger, now chiefly if not entirely electronic, that can be incremented or decremented by whoever ultimately controls the ledger.
There may be a cost to this society of people eating (not weighing, as per [‘Pyecraft’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fELFP0WAQsw)) too much; it is not to be sensibly measured in GBP.
Mr. Dimbleby thinks it ‘dystopian’ that people might be able to eat as much as they please and not become obese due to the advances of science providing chemicals that will make it so. Mr. Dimbleby complains that Mr. Sunak’s attempt to ‘eradicate’ smoking among the populace that has elected him their pen-pusher in chief is wrong, but not ‘dystopian’, because he would rather see something else ‘eradicated’ instead.
That the majority of humanity for the majority of existence would have defined ‘eutopia’ as a place where one can have one’s cake and eat it and not get fat seems not to have impressed itself upon him.
It would be wrong, however, amusing, to suggest the eradication of the sort of behaviour the likes of Messrs Dimbleby and Sunak display, if only because it gives no sanction by which such a thing might be accomplished.
> Katherine Jenner, the director of the Obesity Health Alliance, said: “In those 30 years, our food environment has changed beyond recognition into an obesogenic environment. It is not that our genes have changed but that we are surrounded by unhealthy food at every turn – on TV, in the shops, on our high streets and in our workplaces. If we only attempt to treat people without changing the environment that made them ill in the first place, we will simply be spending huge amounts of extra money in the NHS for little to no long-term benefit.”
I ate my fill of curries and crisps
And Haribos while watching T. V. . . . .
There is much fat round my insides.
Why’s my environment afflicted me?
Ow! I am a burden on ‘are N.H.S.’!
Wow! I doth drag down the economy!
What is the sense of Freedom and Rights:
Look how my environment’s afflicted me!
Never gonna change until the obesity drugs become widespread.
The average person just has too little self control and we have the 2nd most affordable food in the world after America so it isn’t stopped by unaffordability like in most countries.
Personally I don’t have a problem with this since everyone should be allowed to make their own choices even if they’re terrible but I do have a problem with having to pay for it in the form of high taxes for the NHS.
There needs to be some sort of tax on overweight people or we just all have private healthcare cause it’s not right for those of us who exercise and eat responsibly to have to pay for all this. This is what they do in Japan and it’s the only wealthy country which doesn’t have an issue with obesity.
I doubt that will ever happen though so well just have half the population on ozempic or other weight loss drugs.
That is a truly insane amount of money. Weirdly, about the same as [HS2](https://inews.co.uk/news/hs2-how-much-cost-so-far-rishi-sunak-where-money-gone-2658698)
I think if you have weight related issues, smoke or drink related you should have to pay towards treatment. Unpopular opinion but what else can be done?
Curious how would you calculate that. Would you include potential “savings”, not having to pay pensions or the extra tax they pay for non-essential food etc. It mentions care but how much more is that if someone lives till they are 85 with Alzheimers?
You can never see they’re working so it means little more then. pushing an agenda. Think there should be government help in less overweight people but never trust these numbers.
Classic tory britain seeing the cost of everything and the value of nothing. This is a direct attack on the freedoms of XXL stores.
I honestly don’t mind my taxes paying for some fat fuck to get a triple bypass. As long as I can have full size chocolate bars and some fucking cordial with actual Fucking sugar in it instead of fucking aspartame or ascfultame or stevia or whatever bullshit they concoct next.
Maybe they should address the root causes.
Unhealthy food is cheaper, more filling and more satisfying than healthy food.
People are sat working in an office all day, barely allowed to leave their desk for minimum wage, by the time they get home after a 90 minute commute, they’re too tired to make something “healthy”.
And our health secretary is married the director at British sugar…. Tory Britain.
How much money do they put into the economy buying food?
How much VAT are they charged on their food per year?
How many overweight people see their pension, probably not many?
Do they therefore pay in more than they take out? Probably.
I fail to see how it’s any different to smoking. It’s been socially acceptable to challenge smokers to quit for a long time.
Part of Brexit was to get rid of EU regulations on food . Why do you think so many US fast food chains have opened? We didn’t have Dunkin Donuts, Popeyes and Wendy’s 5 years ago .
V interesting comparing these comments to the threads about banning vaping
While the media keep pushing body positivity and schools fail to educate people on basic nutrition like calorie deficits lose weight you’ve got not chance of sorting this. The governments ban on smoking is well supported because of the cost to the nhs but no one seems to want to tackle junk food
Yeh! That’s the problem. Fat people! *raises pitchfork*
It’s just more bullshit distraction.
Im afraid it all comes down to bad parenting in the generations before us
Every generation gets worse – eating more shit than their parents and doing less proper cooking.
Its kind of the same with behaviour and discipline in schools etc
Have you tried doing an 11 plus exam recently ?
So Fatties are the governments next target of people to hate. Grab the pitchforks, no health care for fatties, make ’em work for their dole then sanction them anyway & deport them to Rwanda!
[Is obesity a choice? Or is it just about willpower?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HIgLqiMAQo).
To pre-empt the inevitable fat-hating comments where fat people are denigrated as being useless and lazy, here’s an interesting video from somebody who knows way more than you do. Now you have no need to make that stupid hateful comment.
And our taxes are funding the nhs which these land whales overburden
I’ve been eating way too much fast food recently. I started a new job this year and there are around 10 takeaway places within walking distance.
Despite eating burgers or chicken wraps daily I’ve lost 10kg in 3 months, my blood pressure has gone down, and I’m the strongest I’ve been since long covid stole my gains. It’s not what you eat, it’s how much, calories in vs calories out.
Those overweight people out that back into the economy via food intake. I see no issue. It’s the “spending I don’t like so it’s a problem” thing again.
Maybe we should invest more in conversion therapy for the cunts who keep voting in Tories before going after people who just want to get on with life.
I don’t see much of an attempt to actually educate people though. I’ve had so many people, both fat and thin, talk about exercise as if it makes any difference at all to most people’s weight. Unless you’re very into sport, constantly at the gym doing intensive exercise, you’re not going to lose weight exercising. The calories an inexperienced person is going to burn in a full gym session can be eaten back in less than a minute. We’re lucky to retain EU labelling on food that makes calorie counting easier than any fad diet, but people aren’t taught about it
media blaming working class people for everything as always
And yet the body positivity movement is in full swing and if you say anything to the contrary you are cancelled.
Fund the NHS while incentivising weight loss: make obese people pay substantially more in tax.
And while we’re at it, once people get over a certain size, airlines should force them to buy a second seat.
Fatso’s, like smokers, are a huge drain on resources that we all have to cover in order to allow their gluttony
Yeah let’s pick on the over weight people in this cycle of blaming where tax goes.
It can cost hospital wards £200+ a day to rent the larger beds they need.
Will fat people be our next target for demonic policies? They seem easy to scapegoat for our economic woes!
Another culture war article aimed at making people angry at their neighbours. An estimated 80% of supermarket items contains Sugar.