Re: Is banning NHS treatment to obese people entirely legal?

On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 10:30:53 +0000, Derek ^
<usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 20:27:03 -0000, "Helen" <xxx@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>>My reply was not aimed at people who have a condition that makes them
>>bese - eg those on certain thyroid drugs. However, most people who are
>>obese suffer from no illness other than eating - they simply eat too much
>>and the eating itself becomes on obsession.
>>
>
>No the day-time TV talk show horrors are a tiny fraction.
>
>When my wife went to the doctors about her wieght he said what was
>your mother like?
>
>She said "Someting Similar"
>
>Doc said "There you are then!
>
>She then got an inflamed/infected gall bladder and lost 17 kilos in 3
>weeks. After her operation she rather liked her lower weight but
>despite eating the same as the rest of us and being careful to not
>take snacks in between mealtimes (We didn't have them in the house)
>she was back to her normal weight in 3 months.
>
>The sedentary way we live nowadays with access to mechanically
>processed (read concentrated) food is responsible for our obesity.

Possibly correct

>My father used to eat the equivalent of two christmas dinners every
>day, one in the works canteen and another when he came home for his
>tea, he never got obese because he did a manual job and walked 3/4
>miles per day to/from the bus stop.

Hmm.
I walk a mile to work and back (2miles) every day and I'm walking back
and forth between two office buildings and up and down several flights
of stairs. I bust my leg about 10 yrs ago and have since put on 4 ins
round the waist and 30lbs in weight. I put it down to not moving as
fast as I used to do. I certainly eat no differently. In fact I've
given up eating dairy foods to a great extent but still no going back
to 185lbs weight.

>
>We aren't doing enough manual work, it's like a bus engine driving a
>sewing machine -not good. ;-)
>

Probably correct.
>DG

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