How much does this cost the NHS.

[Liverbirdie]

Oo, I'd love to see some of your faces when the fatty police throw your mothers, birds and daughters out of the wards.:smirk:

 

[bluewolf]

Oo, I'd love to see some of your faces when the fatty police throw your mothers, birds and daughters out of the wards.:smirk:

Aren't they the same person in some parts of Liverpool?

 

[Liverbirdie]

Aren't they the same person in some parts of Liverpool?

Oo, bitch! :ears:

 

[SocketRocket]

Anorexia is certainly a mental health issue, characterised by a pathological body image and is very had to treat.

Obesity is generally behavioural, and associated with the habit of overeating, which can be managed.

The growing size of the population does not seem to have put much of a brake on ever increasing life expectancy, so I wouldn't panic just yet.

I take by "growing size of the population" you refer to it's girth and not numbers?

If I am correct in that assumption then I would suggest it's a bit early to see how obesity will affect life expectancy. Obesities current increase has not yet had time to show how it will affect life expectancy but my guess is that it will reduce it. Increases in diabetes, blood pressure, heart disease to name but a few of the issues associated to obesity do seem to promote premature death in people, I have noticed a number of overweight people dying prematurely.

 

[Sweep]

If we are going to tackle the obesity problem we have to not only change behavioural patterns but also start to regulate what manufacturers put in our food. The amount of sugar and salt used is just staggering and very often the foods we believe are healthy are anything but. "Healthy" cereals, low fat yoghurts are some of the worst offenders. We really do need to check the labels to see what we are putting into our bodies.
HID's mum is a great cook and she told me she would never dream of putting sugar in a pasta sauce, but you won't believe how much sugar the manufacturers put in this kind of product.
The simple solution is don't buy anything branded and cook from fresh. But who has time for that nowadays?

 

[Snelly]

The simple solution is don't buy anything branded and cook from fresh. But who has time for that nowadays?

Almost everyone.

My wife and I both work in demanding jobs and we manage it for our family of four every night. It requires a bit of prior thought and effort but it is not hard to do. E.g. When we make a Ragu sauce from scratch, we make enough for four meals and we freeze three. One becomes a lasagne, one spaghetti Bolognese and one might be tweaked into Chilli Con Carne or even a Cottage Pie.

And there are hundreds of healthy meals that can be made quickly, easily and cheaply without resorting to processed foods. 20 minutes gets you a fantastic meal for 4.

Cooking is good family time for us all too and we are all invariably in the kitchen every evening together chatting, music on, bit of homework on the go, whilst preparing dinner.

What we don't do is watch TV. Probably a couple of hours a week typically. For those that do watch TV, the time it takes you to watch Eastenders is ample to prepare a nice dinner from scratch.

 

[bluewolf]

Almost everyone.

My wife and I both work in demanding jobs and we manage it for our family of four every night. It requires a bit of prior thought and effort but it is not hard to do. E.g. When we make a Ragu sauce from scratch, we make enough for four meals and we freeze three. One becomes a lasagne, one spaghetti Bolognese and one might be tweaked into Chilli Con Carne or even a Cottage Pie.

And there are hundreds of healthy meals that can be made quickly, easily and cheaply without resorting to processed foods. 20 minutes gets you a fantastic meal for 4.

Cooking is good family time for us all too and we are all invariably in the kitchen every evening together chatting, music on, bit of homework on the go, whilst preparing dinner.

What we don't do is watch TV. Probably a couple of hours a week typically. For those that do watch TV, the time it takes you to watch Eastenders is ample to prepare a nice dinner from scratch.

I fully agree.. Most of those that claim not to have the time to prepare good food are actually just prioritising something else in its place.

 

[Rooter]

Almost everyone.

My wife and I both work in demanding jobs and we manage it for our family of four every night. It requires a bit of prior thought and effort but it is not hard to do. E.g. When we make a Ragu sauce from scratch, we make enough for four meals and we freeze three. One becomes a lasagne, one spaghetti Bolognese and one might be tweaked into Chilli Con Carne or even a Cottage Pie.

And there are hundreds of healthy meals that can be made quickly, easily and cheaply without resorting to processed foods. 20 minutes gets you a fantastic meal for 4.

Cooking is good family time for us all too and we are all invariably in the kitchen every evening together chatting, music on, bit of homework on the go, whilst preparing dinner.

What we don't do is watch TV. Probably a couple of hours a week typically. For those that do watch TV, the time it takes you to watch Eastenders is ample to prepare a nice dinner from scratch.

Exactly the Same here, big pack of mince makes 3 meals. Forward thinking. OK my kids have nuggets and chips (or similar) probably once a week, but for the other 6 nights a week, its fresh. Doesn't cost anymore, probably the same amount of time, just a little bit more effort!

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

When I look around the centre of my wealthy town on a Saturday there are certainly a fair few obese folk about. When I look around the centre of the neighbouring much poorer town on a Saturday there are a lot of obese folk about. The correlations between wealth (or lack of it), (un)employment and obesity are easily drawn. Whether one necessarily follows the other I do not k now - but it is hard to escape drawing conclusions from what your eyes tell you.