- Jul 7, 2005
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More than a million anti-obesity prescriptions were issued in England in the last financial year at a cost of £47million. It means about 88,000 people could be on a course of treatment.
What do you think? To me obesity is just as bad of a medical issue as smoking and drinking excessively. Yet should society pay the cost for people who have no self control, or simply don't care?
While many like to label America the land of fatties all one has to do is go to Europe and realize all those fat people are not tourist from the heartland. Its an epidemic in the 1st world that is the result of people having too little reason to look after themselves. It will only get worse in America when the government imposes universal health insurance. I can look at my workplace and see people with handicap stickers who got them because their body cannot support their weight, most of the people I see at stores in handicap slots are FAT.
Yet how do you alter someone's lifestyle? Penalize them? Put them on a correctional lifestyle and if they don't follow it what can you really do?
What do you think? To me obesity is just as bad of a medical issue as smoking and drinking excessively. Yet should society pay the cost for people who have no self control, or simply don't care?
While many like to label America the land of fatties all one has to do is go to Europe and realize all those fat people are not tourist from the heartland. Its an epidemic in the 1st world that is the result of people having too little reason to look after themselves. It will only get worse in America when the government imposes universal health insurance. I can look at my workplace and see people with handicap stickers who got them because their body cannot support their weight, most of the people I see at stores in handicap slots are FAT.
Yet how do you alter someone's lifestyle? Penalize them? Put them on a correctional lifestyle and if they don't follow it what can you really do?