LAST week, I half-heard someone on the radio say that unless Britain gets a grip on its obesity problem the NHS will be bankrupt by 2020.
LAST week, I half-heard someone on the radio say that unless Britain gets a grip on its obesity problem the NHS will be bankrupt by 2020.
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Ian Bell
It was early. I hadn't started my morning fitness regime of banging my head off a wall because of the things I hear on the radio.
Cost predictions for the health service are, like a lot of waistbands, elastic. Most of us know the dire prophecy will never come to pass. One way or another, choices for fat folk will be made. The overweight will sink, swim, or (more likely) bob to their early graves. That wasn't really the point.
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The right to lard (and fags and cheap booze)
LAST week, I half-heard someone on the radio say that unless Britain gets a grip on its obesity problem the NHS will be bankrupt by 2020.
It was early. I hadn't started my morning fitness regime of banging my head off a wall because of the things I hear on the radio.
Cost predictions for the health service are, like a lot of waistbands, elastic. Most of us know the dire prophecy will never come to pass. One way or another, choices for fat folk will be made. The overweight will sink, swim, or (more likely) bob to their early graves. That wasn't really the point.
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