Großbritanniens Fettleibigkeit und übergewichtige Epidemie kostet £ 126 Mrd. GBP pro Jahr, so die Studie, so
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/02/obesity-overweight-cost-estimate-nhs-study
Von pajamakitten
Großbritanniens Fettleibigkeit und übergewichtige Epidemie kostet £ 126 Mrd. GBP pro Jahr, so die Studie, so
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/02/obesity-overweight-cost-estimate-nhs-study
Von pajamakitten
19 Kommentare
Fix the food industry, and they’ll fix this. The UK’s food isn’t as bad as the USA, but there’s too many sugars and simple carbs and ultimately calories in the food we buy. Yes, of course people can choose to eat better if they’re educated and make a conscious effort, but that won’t scale. The default choices need to be healthy in order to address this. I think the average person over consumes by 200 calories a day if I remember correctly, it’s 7-10% more calories than we should need and it builds up overtime.
I’ve been complaining for years that healthy foods are both pretty expensive, and mostly target just having less calories in the box than anything else. We got this back in Janurary:
>The Food Foundation found that 1,000 calories of healthy food such as fruit and veg costs £8.80, compared to £4.30 for the equivalent amount of less healthy food, such as ready meals and processed meats.
Guess we go another round of „Make the junk food more expensive“ instead of making healthier alternatives more affordable, horray
Why does it cost more for butter with less salt in it anyway?
If people were forced to spend a day in a hospital caring for bariatric patients, they’d absolutely think twice about their diets. It’s not for the faint-hearted.
What changed my diet and led me to being much much healthier:
Demonise bad food. Accepting I have been brainwashed to eat the shit products on the shelf. Now when I shop, I get pissed off at the multi coloured shelf selling sugary shit. Sugar this. Sugar that. Fuck your shelves you filthy faceless corporations. It’s a chemical concoction of shit. Scoffing our faces with it, ramming more in us. Absolute poison.
It’s also a shame, but I believe we are unconsciously normalising being obese. That slow but gradual exposure to seeing obese humans just becomes an everyday normal occurrence.
We have a lot to work on.
And how much do they make from people getting fatter and fatter. People are not getting fat from eating carrots and peas are they. They get fat from cheap junk that companies cut costs to make at the expense of our health. I’m a bit sick of this narrative, yes it costs the NHS, how much money is ploughed into advertising to push this crap. How much could they recoup from these companies if they taxed them higher because of the damage they do.
Wonder what cost the weightloss jabs are, because long term surely they are much more cost effective
The best way to improve the health of people with obesity is to enable them to exercise more and be more active. Pumping money into programmes that facilitate this would result in lower rates of diabetes, heart disease, joint issues etc. even if not a single pound is lost.
I wonder if this wouldn’t be as much of an issue if Home Economics in school had actually been taught properly for the last 40 years and included budgeting etc
Its an issue with the economy. Wages haven’t matched inflation for years, less money to spend.
It’s cheaper, calorie for calorie, to buy junk like nuggets frozen pizzas and snacks than it is to buy unprocessed ingredients and cook for yourself.
My local swimming pool has just raised its prices yet again. £7 for an adult swim, £5 for kids, more if they put the big floaty thing out. A family swim once a week is becoming too expensive. The gym and badminton courts are even more expensive. To use the facilities you also need to use their app to book slots, another barrier to participation.
School playing fields, once used recreationally on evenings and weekends are now behind massive fences. Local parks have shrunk or have prohibited ball games.
There are now reports of women being hassled or spat at when going for a jog in some places.
That’s before you consider that some people need to work extra hours or unsocial hours to pay the bills and often buy what is convenient.
Exercise is becoming a luxury.
You can eat absolutely anything and maintain a healthy weight. It’s about portion control. Eating 4000 kcal of healthy food in a day is still going to make you fat, eating 1600 kcal of junk food a day is still going to make you lose weight
What’s sad is if people want to cycle somewhere (or even walk) it’s not a realistic choice for them because we’ve designed around cars so much.
We literally choose to make it hard for people to exercise, and are shocked when those people get no exercise.
Target the takeaways, that’s what these lazy slobs are eating.
What do other countries do to have much lower obesity rates?
Can we look at them maybe?
One massive problem is that exercise isn’t incorporated into most people’s lives. A major example for me is pretty much being forced to drive 2 miles down the road to work when (if the infrastructure existed) it would be easy to cycle.
Meanwhile in the Netherlands, 27% of journeys are by bike. Despite cycling being easier than walking, it’s still a lot more exercise than sitting in a car. Not to mention the other effects, such as reduced noise and greatly improved health, freedom and independence for children.
Tax fat people.
Bump taxes up by 5%. Slash it back based on your weight.
Done.
Tax parents of fat kids. Slash it back based on their weight.
Discriminate healthcare based on weight. Oh you’re obese? Back of the queue. Oh you’re obese? You go to the worst hospitals. Etc. Etc. Etc.
Legalise weight discrimination. Oh you’re fat? Pay double for your flight ticket. Oh you’re fat? Pay more for your clothing.
Legalise mocking and degrading fat people. Make it so uncomfortable and unpleasant.
Oh you’re fat? You can’t do this job, you’re fired. Etc etc
Food industry, education, exercise etc etc… All bollocks. It’s down to the individual or the parent. They eat too much. That’s literally it. Force them to lose weight with direct financial and social penalties. Then they’ll do it.
Or I’ll see you in 10 years where and when this problem has only gotten worse.
Its expensive per 1000 calories because veg has so few damn calories in it. No one is trying to get their daily intake just from fruit and veg.
But 375g of broccoli is like 79p and that will do for 2/3 portions.
Its cheap to eat healthily if you also eat boringly.
Firstly I would say make healthier food cheaper. That’s the biggest reason
Give people proper nutrition and cooking information rather these gourmet style food shows that take forever to cook up
Ppl goin to talk about the weight loss jabs but they’re extremely hard to get under the new guidelines. I genuinely thought they’d make it easier considering the benefits they bring. I buy it legally from an online pharmacy and have lost 4 stone since Jan.i reckon I would’ve been a heart patient with high blood pressure otherwise. I tried dieting, I’m very physical at my job but just could lose the weight or drop the blood pressure. It’s been a life save for me
The answer is ozempic for everyone and it needs to be subsided because at the moment it is pretty much only affordable for wealthy people.