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I made the point earlier about parents and kids and I agree with you.Yes, it does. Obese parents fairly frequently have obese kids so they are directly affecting their own kids/family and setting them up with bad life time habits. Obesity is having a direct impact on the NHS services/budget for example. For example, Diabetes costs the NHS 10% of its budget, about 1.5% of the 10% is due to non-preventable Type 1 whereas 8.5% is for Type 2 Diabetes (as per https://www.diabetes.co.uk/cost-of-diabetes.html). One of the major risk factors for Type 2 Diabetes is being overweight. Then chuck in Cancer as in the original article, specially adapted equipment needing to be provided, bed blocking as morbidly obese people need specialist social care/recovery beds causing other people's care being cancelled etc, so it is directly and indirectly affecting other people.
Also, the argument was about shaming causing mental health issues well I'm sure shaming somebody for smoking, taking drugs etc would have the same mental health issues but that seems to be acceptable to shame them. I certainly don't see much, if any, outrage when they get shamed.
As for the NHS stuff, I understand the maths, but those people have paid NI for it, too. Insurance pays out for some and not for others, that's the nature of it. What next, do we stop people going to the NHS for injuries they sustained while taking part in extreme sports or doing something stupid? After all, they did it to themselves, right? Many people are not visibly obese but have conditions caused by dietary choices, how about them?
We should educate and ensure that business does not prey upon the weak, rather than shame anyone. Take a look at a film called 'That Sugar Film', which, if you haven't already seen it, is a real eye opener to the immoral way people are manipulated by food producers.
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