Obesity
They’ve just given a forum on BBC Breakfast for a very large lady, who calls herself a Size Awareness Campaigner. She objects to being called obese and wants doctors to use other words.
I would just use fat!
After all because of their overeating, they are pushing the NHS down the toilet.
Why should I pay my taxes to fund other clear up the mess causes by the bad habits of others. And of course that includes smoking and excessive drinking!
That item would never have been shown, whilst the program was based in London.
The Anonymous Widower 
On the other hand there are no tax breaks for fat people and smokers either. From their point of view, they’re requested to pay the same while some services available to other taxpayers are denied from them.
Particularly with obesity it’s not always just a lack of discipline. Cheap food is more more likely to make you fat, so poorer people are in a greater risk, and also there are genetic (i.e. uncontrollable) reasons for a significant number of cases.
Comment by Yuriy | May 10, 2012 |
I am fat. I do NOT overeat. I exercise within the limits of my disability, which is not weight related. I am fitter and healthier in fact than many thin people. As Yuriy says, there is a strong genetic element to being fat. You James are genetically thin. So with all due respect you have no idea at all how it is for a fat person who does exactly the same things you do – same calorie intake of same sort of healthy foods, and same amount of exercise, but still being fat. However much extra exercise and however many fewer calories the fat remains. Some people are fat due to poor diet, lack of exercise etc, but 3/4 are not.
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