Fat lady in denial about how bad being fat is

Is that you admitting it?

Obesity is a huge problem. I don't think we can just walk around criticising fat people for being fat though. Thought I made that clear.

Obesity is a huge problem. I don't think we can just walk around criticising fat people for being fat though. Thought I made that clear.

Well smoking also drains money and puts strain on the NHS. But no I don't think they need new ambulances for smokers.

Well done! Not as much and as big of a problem as Smoking and Obesity jesus christ what is your problem? Must be hard to hard to understand for you. Yes i've trained in boxing. I've never seen someone so seriously injured that would of come to a major cost to the NHS, major injuries from fight related sports are small.

There’s no comparison between smoking/obesity and a sports injury. A sports injury happens when you doing something good for your health (exercise) and it goes a bit wrong. Smoking/obesity are bad for you whatever way you look at it.

There’s no comparison between smoking/obesity and a sports injury. A sports injury happens when you doing something good for your health (exercise) and it goes a bit wrong. Smoking/obesity are bad for you whatever way you look at it.

The amount the average smoker pays in cigarette tax over their lifetime more than covers the cost to the NHS in most cases.

I think if you're cleary obese you can be critisied. Iam by no means, meaning that people should shout at them in the streets etc I mean they should be more open to debate and people should allow criticism. Such as in the case of the OPs post, people should accept it, not argue back as Cancer research have a very valid point - in fact its fact.

Well in this case I think criticism is fine. If both parties are open for a debate then by all means go ahead.

Food is taxed... Technically if you eat more you pay more to the NHS

Nobody is claiming it's easy to slim down or become healthy from previously being fat/obese. But I have no sympathy for those who don't even try, and rather, as seen by a growing movement of fat acceptance, become comfortable being fat, ergo, implying its a good thing even as well as playing the victim in many situations.

After smoking, being obese is the leading cause of cancer. Apparently only 15% of people know this, so I think it is a good thing for CRUK to raise awareness of this. You will probably have seen some of their new posters this week.

A comedian called Sofie Hagen has taken issue with this, and the BBC also seem to be a bit critical, actually asking questions such as "Is "fatness" a bad thing?" which everybody should know the correct answer to before they reach high school.

In fact, given that there is clearly still ignorance about how bad obesity is, I think that further vindicates CRUK's decision to run this campaign. That people are trying to misrepresent this factual information into "Oh my god, it's fat shaming" is terrible. People may fat shame anyway, but the truth that being obese is a cause of cancer is still a truth people need to be aware of.

There’s no comparison between smoking/obesity and a sports injury. A sports injury happens when you doing something good for your health (exercise) and it goes a bit wrong. Smoking/obesity are bad for you whatever way you look at it.

Some sports carry higher injury risk than others and those that carry higher risk of serious injury aren't necessarily correspondingly better for your health so I don't think it is such a simple argument to make. Diving out of helicopters to snowboard down mountains might be something which keeps you fit but it could be argued that when you break your back and require life-long care, you were rolling the dice just as smokers are.

I agree that certain sports carry a higher risk than others, but you said it yourself. Even the more dangerous sports have a health benefit. Smoking doesn’t have any.