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Tories: 'Obese must face reality'

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Published Date: 27 August 2008
OVERWEIGHT people need to face up to reality to conquer obesity and live healthily, the Tories said today.
Launching plans for a "Responsibility Deal" on public health, shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley said it was time to "take away the excuses" so overweight people started looking after themselves.


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  • Last Updated: 27 August 2008 10:42 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Obesity
 
1

Alternative (High-Octane) Fuel Head,

Edinburgh 27/08/2008 14:01:19
#1:

Were you one of the writers for Monty Python?
2

Dragonhead,

Dalian,China 28/08/2008 06:16:36
Obese must face reality?It is on the way anyway.With rising prices and the inevitable shortages it will create.They will be slimming down whether they like it or not.It will be tough on those who are genuinely,medically obese. If the cap fits weare it, if not, ignore that remark.
Clinically obese folk devour an inordinate amount of the planets resources. Bull***t I hear you scream. Is it though? They seem to in many cases, produce nothing but problems to medical facilities,making really genuinely ill people suffer longer waits to be treated.Clothes take more materials etc.They take up huge amounts of room on aircraft inconveniencing others.Plus it takes more fossil fuels to transport a 150lb person than it does a 300lb one.Yet pay the same fare.Time for change, in this user pays world. It would be a real incentive to lose weight,if they had to pay for the extra blubber.
3

Calvinist,

28/08/2008 16:11:49
Watch out Shr-Eck. They're on to you.
4

Fairfax,

28/08/2008 21:38:27
Dragonhead (4): "Plus it takes more fossil fuels to transport a 150lb person than it does a 300lb one."

The solution is simple: the lipo-enhanced car. A permanent implant is used to remove fat via liposuction, which can then be used in a diesel engine. Finally Britain's enormous investment (£12 billion per year) in the clinically useless and lazy will prove to be a prescient investment, as their obese biomass powers our cars during peak oil . . .
5

Dragonhead,

Dalian,China 03/09/2008 04:51:29
#6 Fairfax my comment on the weights was all ass about face. I realized that intelligent folk would understand the meaning behind it. Yep Liposuction would be good.As a bi-product, they could harvest all that excess skin and use it in transplants. A new business perhaps to make "billions for britain".Even sounds good. All the clothes they wouldn't fit could be recycled etc
6

moaning auld git,

auld reekie 18/12/2008 03:05:25
thats rich,bunch of twits,just because they think nothing of paying £100 for what looks like cr*p,at some snooty restuarant
stop the takeaway shops then it will be a start,in the 70s we only had wimpeys
now they are every where selling greasy yuk,shoving lettuce and tomato on doesnt make it any better
cut down the outlets and then you will see a difference
7

Davy,

09/06/2009 19:27:41
Aye the Tory’s, the macaronis the fast balonies’.
I dead to think what is going to happen if that mob of gangsters gets in to power.
Will we be able to afford food, or will they encourage the eating of the young?


 

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