You fat bastard! You fat bastard! The WORLD OBESITY League Tables

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PostYou fat bastard! You fat bastard! The WORLD OBESITY League Tables
by KK » Tue Feb 06, 2018 11:24 am

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OECD projections show a steady increase in obesity rates until at least 2030. Obesity levels are expected to be particularly high in the United States, Mexico and England, where 47%, 39% and 35% of the population respectively are projected to be obese in 2030. On the contrary, the increase is expected to be weaker in Italy and Korea, with obesity rates projected to be 13% and 9% in 2030, respectively. The level of obesity in France is projected to nearly match that of Spain, at 21% in 2030. Obesity rates are projected to increase at a faster pace in Korea and Switzerland where rates have been historically low.


http://www.oecd.org/health/health-syste ... e-2017.pdf

So, what can we do about it. What's going on in Italy that isn't happening here.

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by <]:^D » Tue Feb 06, 2018 11:25 am

burn their fat for energy

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by Moggy » Tue Feb 06, 2018 11:37 am

We are just building up our fat reserves for when Trump and Kim Jong Un start a nuclear winter.

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PostRe: You fat bastard! You fat bastard! The WORLD OBESITY League Tables
by Mini E » Tue Feb 06, 2018 11:39 am

Improvements in medications increasing our utter reliability on them and stopping people from feeling the need to make any sort of substantial lifestyle changes to protect their health.

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PostRe: You fat bastard! You fat bastard! The WORLD OBESITY League Tables
by Preezy » Tue Feb 06, 2018 11:50 am

They need to invent a lion that a normal healthy person can outrun, but a fatty can't. Then release them into the country.

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by <]:^D » Tue Feb 06, 2018 11:52 am

theyd probably just work out how to trap them, and then eat their tasty lion meat
it would have the complete opposite effect!

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by bear » Tue Feb 06, 2018 12:08 pm

Invest way more in sporting/exercise facilities.


It seems utterly bizarre to me that in the UK and Ireland we want ever increasing investment in our health services but are happy to see governments spend sod all on ways for people to keep healthy.


David Walsh wrote a few great pieces in the Sunday Times about how basketball in the UK gets relatively little funding despite a lot of people playing it and the reason given is that the UK don't do well in basketball at the Olympics.

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PostRe: You fat bastard! You fat bastard! The WORLD OBESITY League Tables
by Preezy » Tue Feb 06, 2018 12:10 pm

bear wrote:David Walsh wrote a few great pieces in the Sunday Times about how basketball in the UK gets relatively little funding despite a lot of people playing it and the reason given is that the UK don't do well in basketball at the Olympics.

Circular thinking at its best :lol:

We don't do well at the World Cup either so best just build more prisons on all those football pitches :toot:

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by Return_of_the_STAR » Tue Feb 06, 2018 12:15 pm

Preezy wrote:
bear wrote:David Walsh wrote a few great pieces in the Sunday Times about how basketball in the UK gets relatively little funding despite a lot of people playing it and the reason given is that the UK don't do well in basketball at the Olympics.

Circular thinking at its best :lol:

We don't do well at the World Cup either so best just build more prisons on all those football pitches :toot:


Unfortunately sports that rely on government funding by sports england all suffer from this. The majority or all of their funding is performance related which is often just ridiculous. You kind of get it in specialist sports that are never going to be mainstream but basketball is something that could easily become even more popular in the country if managed correctly.

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by Oblomov Boblomov » Tue Feb 06, 2018 12:21 pm

Maybe sponsors were taken to a basketball match to encourage them to splash the cash, but then everyone involved fell asleep almost immediately, because they were watching basketball.

I love (most) sports and I genuinely enjoy doing exercise, eating healthily and looking after my body. However, a huge and significant proportion of people feel very much the opposite way. If there is an easier way out, such as surgery or medication, then vast swathes of the population simply won't make the effort, no matter how shiny we make our sports facilities.

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by KK » Tue Feb 06, 2018 12:43 pm

A lot of sports funding in this country, particularly sports equipment in schools, seems to come from Sainsbury's. It's incredible how much they're propping things up and how much schools rely on parents trading in their tokens.

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by Preezy » Tue Feb 06, 2018 12:47 pm

Here's another great idea:

A fat person goes to the local supermarket and is weighed on arrival. If they weigh more than X amount (I guess in relation to their height?), they are turned away. Right next door is another supermarket that only sells healthy foods, and it has no weight limit. They are free to shop there.

Discrimination at its finest, I think you'll agree.

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by Benzin » Tue Feb 06, 2018 12:58 pm

Hire jobless youth to follow fat people around with a trombone?

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by That » Tue Feb 06, 2018 1:35 pm

There will be an acceptably safe fat-burning pill within our lifetimes, so, meh.

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PostRe: You fat bastard! You fat bastard! The WORLD OBESITY League Tables
by Moggy » Tue Feb 06, 2018 1:47 pm

Karl wrote:There will be an acceptably safe fat-burning pill within our lifetimes, so, meh.


Adipose- The Fat Just Walks Away!

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PostRe: You fat bastard! You fat bastard! The WORLD OBESITY League Tables
by more heat than light » Tue Feb 06, 2018 1:50 pm

Only five countries ahead of us, and to be fair Hungary have a pretty good excuse.

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by KK » Tue Feb 06, 2018 1:53 pm

Something ironic about France and Italy being so low on the list because it's all the food we like (pizza, pasta, pastries, 'French' fries)

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by Moggy » Tue Feb 06, 2018 2:03 pm

KK wrote:Something ironic about France and Italy being so low on the list because it's all the food we like (pizza, pasta, pastries, 'French' fries)


And you didn't even mention Denmark with their bacon and pastries.

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by Zellery » Tue Feb 06, 2018 2:28 pm

more heat than light wrote:Only five countries ahead of us, and to be fair Hungary have a pretty good excuse.

:lol:

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PostRe: You fat bastard! You fat bastard! The WORLD OBESITY League Tables
by bear » Tue Feb 06, 2018 2:29 pm

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:Maybe sponsors were taken to a basketball match to encourage them to splash the cash, but then everyone involved fell asleep almost immediately, because they were watching basketball.

I love (most) sports and I genuinely enjoy doing exercise, eating healthily and looking after my body. However, a huge and significant proportion of people feel very much the opposite way. If there is an easier way out, such as surgery or medication, then vast swathes of the population simply won't make the effort, no matter how shiny we make our sports facilities.

A certain percentage of people definitely won't make use of better facilities but I'm reasonably certain that enough would that it'd end up being a net gain economically.


Boogie2988 ( the Francis YouTuber) mentioned in a video that his gastric bypass surgery cost $20,000 which I'll use a rough guide figure going forward even though I'm sure the total cost is higher. Theres around 5,000 stomach shrinking procdeures like that carried out each year in the UK so that's around $100,000,000 a year being spent each year and supposedly that number needs to be closer to the French figure of 37,000 to really make a dent in the obesity issue so close to $750,000,000 a year. At that level of cost even a modest increase in people taking part in some of exercise more often would end up with a significant saving for the exchequer.


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