| Larger sized clothes to carry health warnings |
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| Monday, 18 December 2006 | |
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Among the recommendations of the group was that shopkeepers should not be allowed have any candy or sodas anywhere near the checkout or at the eye level of a child. However, the suggestion that clothes retailers be forced to put a note with a telephone helpline on all items of larger clothing caused most offence. One politician responded "Does this government really think that people who buy larger clothes are not aware that they are overweight? Does it think that these people are incapable of seeking help if they want to reduce their weight? Does the government think that it should be bullying people into conforming with its own prescription of healthy living? This country is turning into a nanny state, run by a bunch of self-righteous, busybody lifestyle nazis." However, the authors of the report were adamant that a person's weight should be a matter for government influence. They said: “People clearly have some responsibility for their health, but society and the Government have a responsibility to make the preferred, easy choices healthier ones.” The report then goes further, threatening that overweight people are likely to bankrupt the country's health system, implying that if overweight people don't take action to reduce their body weight for their own good, then the government should put pressure on these people to avoid the cost of treating them in hospital. The report, published in the British Medical Journal, also suggests that all high school graduates be given a health check, with instructions on how to lead healthy lifestyles, that no new roads be built unless they have dedicated bicycle lanes, and establishing another government agency with special responsibility for obesity. Although they stopped short of recommending that liposuction be carried out free of charge on the public health system, they did suggest that greater use be made of other medical procedures, such as gastric banding, to control the obesity epidemic. |
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