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| Thread ID: 110360 | 2010-06-13 22:41:00 | Obese people complaining about not getting free gastric surgery... | wratterus (105) | PC World Chat |
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| 1110002 | 2010-06-14 05:20:00 | End of the day, they're essentially being "rewarded" for their bad behavior by having nanny state step in and rescue them. Dying from cancer is different from dying from obesity. You can also have insurance that will cover you against the risk of cancer, operations etc. Why should somebody elses taxes have to fund their poor choices? For the vast majority of obese people, it's a choice, or a series of choices at least, usually bad choices. Nobody wakes up in the morning and thinks "Woah damn, where did this all come from, it wasn't here last night", whereas that can be what it's like with cancer. Sure, there are exceptions to the rule, but weight is a condition which is (for the vast majority of the population at least) manageable. Just because somebody chooses not to mow their back yard, or look after it, should not mean the government needs to step in and resolve it. You know that if you let your weeds grow then eventually they're going to need more than just a basic "pulling out", but rather long extended treatments and specialists which will cost you money, as will lapband surgery. Werd, did someone cancel shortland street or something for those woman to do that? |
rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 1110003 | 2010-06-14 05:26:00 | There were very few fat people around, let alone morbidly obese during the war in the UK. Wartime rations kept weight in check, yet people on the whole were healthier then, than they had ever been. Just look at wartime photos, neither were there any fat kids at school. The obesity problem is bad now in the UK too: here's what Jamie Oliver says..www.jamieoliver.com ...and from The Daily Mail..www.dailymail.co.uk America and Canada have led the way in the obesity stakes. :punk |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1110004 | 2010-06-14 05:29:00 | ...and from The Daily Mail..www.dailymail.co.uk Only sensible eating and regular exercise can help you shift excess pounds in the long term - and choosing not to do either of these, opting instead to become a couch potato and eat junk food, is a choice not an illness. :punk |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 1110005 | 2010-06-14 05:30:00 | Perhaps those that drink should be denied treatment for liver disease until it's too late? Smokers too? Rugby players would fund their own spinal unit? Cyclists? Yes. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1110006 | 2010-06-14 06:28:00 | They reckon more people die prematurely each year now from obesity more-so than any other terminal illness. What a race of glutens we have become :( |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1110007 | 2010-06-14 06:28:00 | There were very few fat people around, let alone morbidly obese during the war in the UK. Wartime rations kept weight in check, yet people on the whole were healthier then, than they had ever been. Just look at wartime photos, neither were there any fat kids at school. The obesity problem is bad now in the UK too: here's what Jamie Oliver says..www.jamieoliver.com ...and from The Daily Mail..www.dailymail.co.uk America and Canada have led the way in the obesity stakes. :punk Yet the average age of logevity has gone up. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1110008 | 2010-06-14 06:29:00 | What a race of glutens we have become A race of grain proteins? :p |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1110009 | 2010-06-14 06:31:00 | Yet the average age of longevity has gone up. You may need to borrow Terrys rose coloured glasses. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1110010 | 2010-06-14 06:35:00 | You may need to borrow Terrys rose coloured glasses. I thought I was bad at those were the days,but our Terr is in a class of his own. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1110011 | 2010-06-14 06:39:00 | It would almost make sense to make health insurance mandatory. That way people would think more about there eating, smoking (I am a smoker but still think this is fair), drinking etc because it would cost them more in insurance. It'd be a hard thing to bring in but could nudge some fatties into eating less or exercising more knowing that it's saving THEM money. A lot of people seem to take health care for granted. I do a fair bit of work in the plantrooms at the hospitals down here in CHCH and tbh I don't know how they struggle on. My line of work is kinda lucky in that we are classed in the "this needs to be done right now" catagory unlike a lot of areas in the hospital that are only attended to if there's money left over in the budget, which there never is, so things slowly get worse. Even things like wheelchairs, majority in chch central are old and stuffed, as well as quite a few beds. But because of people who can't eat 5 pies instead of 10 for dinner the government can't put $20,000 into improving the services and have to give some lazy **** an op to do something they SHOULD be able to do themselves with a bit of can do attitude. SO in my view anyone complaining about not gettin free surgery for being fat should throw a 3 yo stlye tantrum about it in the privacy of their home and burn some calories |
hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
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