Tag: obesity
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I was otherwise occupied last night. If I hadn’t been, I’d have joined in with the chorus of disapproval regarding Nuffield Health and Prof Michael McMahon’s pop at fat ‘role models‘ (see also the Metro’s coverage). What to add that Costigan and Carol haven’t already said (or for that matter, Susie Orbach and Phill Jupitus)?…
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Small bit of advice to Andrew Lansley. If you have to insist that you are not “nannying” that is almost certainly what you are doing. Finger wagging doesn’t stop being finger wagging just because you have the fingers of your other hand crossed behind your back. I know I need to read the actual speech…
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LighterLife, already in my bad books over TOAST and fat suits, are the subject of a BBC investigation tonight: The liquid-based programme, aimed at people who are three or more stones overweight, involves dieters consuming just 530 calories a day for 12 weeks. But Inside Out has heard from some dieters who have experienced disrupted…
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I wrote the following letter to Lib Dem News last week but they saw fit not to print it. Fair enough, but here it is anyhoo: Just what point is Sandra Gidley trying to make by prancing about in a comedy fat suit (People, 22nd February)? As someone who is at least as fat as…
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It’s a good job I was staying at a hotel on Saturday because if I’d been in the privacy of my own house, I’d have probably put my foot through the telly watching News 24’s coverage of the so-called “fat epidemic“. Apparently, 50% of boys will be obese by 2050. This is one of those…