Do your bit...
The EU as a whole spends €59 billion dealing with obesity...
What would you say if I told you that, I know how £2.5 billion more could be spent on improving health care, finding cures for major killers such as cancer, helping the elderly, bettering children's education and possibly many other things that need critical funding in Britain? I'm sure that you would reply with something a long the lines of "Awesome, how!?"...Well it's this simple, do your part and stay fit...Strange eh? "What has staying fit got to do with money and why by staying fit am I helping all of these people?" You may ask, well, it's simple. Currently Britain spends about £2.5 billion a year on treating people with health issues caused by obesity. So, what if the population of Britain just stayed a little healthier, ate a little less junk food or exercised a little more? It's really not that hard and it can be done and it really doesn't take that much to do...Individuals are willing to do their bit for the enviroment through insignificant life alterations which combined make a massive difference. Why can't we apply the same logic to health and do our bit by staying healthy? Thus saving masses of money which can be diverted to services that need this crucial extra funding.
...Allow me to put that into context for you, currently 50,900 people suffering from Alzheimer's are denied the necessary drugs to help hold the awful deterioration at bay because it's too expensive. The drugs only cost £2.50 a day...So let me do the maths for you:
50,900 x £2.50 = £127,250 = The cost per day to give all needing the drugs their drugs.
£127,250 x 365 = £46,446,250 out of a possible £250000000
Now you may see just one possible route of the massive savings, savings that really could make a massive amount of people's lives better. Do your part and make Britain a better place.
Well anyway, now i've talked about the economic side of our actions, maybe I can talk about the part regarding state intervention. Now, our poor government (yes, I do feel sorry for them despite them being Labour) are stuck between a rock and a hard place. When our government did intervene and encouraged schools to stock healthier food they were attacked by the press and refered to as being a "nanny state" whilst mothers bought McDonalds' and passed them through the school gates to their chubby children. However, contrasting this with the release of the information that Britain is in fact the fattest country in the EU the first questions asked was "Well what are you going to do about this Tony?"...Let me get this straight right now, our health is our personal responsibility and it's really not that hard to look after. If you insist of eating masses of unhealthy food well then...Exercise! How pathetic has today's society gotten that we even rely on the state to keep us slim? Do people honestly feel that they are not responsible for any of their actions?...Truely pathetic and somewhat saddening that our society has degenerated to such a low point...And no Daily Mail, you cannot blame immigrants for this problem no matter how hard you try, this time, we're to blame.
Well, now the question is asked, if the state is not to blame...Who is?...Well of course you are. At the end of the day, if you are an adult then you have choices and you can make these as informed choices if you care to bother. Yes, McDonalds' may offer two for one or Burger King may advertise on TV but does that mean that you have no control over such? Can you not switch channel if you are so weak to adverts, can you not decide against going to McDonalds' to get that two for one? Can you not decide on your children's diet? Can you not educate your children from an early age that fast food may taste nice but is awful for you and it should be used as a treat not a norm? Can you not quiet down your children when they whindge to go to a fast food restaurant? The real truth of it all is that the individual does have control over this matter and they have the abiltity to just say no. This may not be what you want to hear but by dammit I am going to say it. I will write the words Politicians dare not to say and that is because they fear a backlash from their electorate, well I'll say it and know why?.. Because it's true.
Now come on people, do your bit, stay healthy and help save funding thus allowing it to be spent on other sectors, by dammit it's more than certainly needed.
What would you say if I told you that, I know how £2.5 billion more could be spent on improving health care, finding cures for major killers such as cancer, helping the elderly, bettering children's education and possibly many other things that need critical funding in Britain? I'm sure that you would reply with something a long the lines of "Awesome, how!?"...Well it's this simple, do your part and stay fit...Strange eh? "What has staying fit got to do with money and why by staying fit am I helping all of these people?" You may ask, well, it's simple. Currently Britain spends about £2.5 billion a year on treating people with health issues caused by obesity. So, what if the population of Britain just stayed a little healthier, ate a little less junk food or exercised a little more? It's really not that hard and it can be done and it really doesn't take that much to do...Individuals are willing to do their bit for the enviroment through insignificant life alterations which combined make a massive difference. Why can't we apply the same logic to health and do our bit by staying healthy? Thus saving masses of money which can be diverted to services that need this crucial extra funding.
...Allow me to put that into context for you, currently 50,900 people suffering from Alzheimer's are denied the necessary drugs to help hold the awful deterioration at bay because it's too expensive. The drugs only cost £2.50 a day...So let me do the maths for you:
50,900 x £2.50 = £127,250 = The cost per day to give all needing the drugs their drugs.
£127,250 x 365 = £46,446,250 out of a possible £250000000
Now you may see just one possible route of the massive savings, savings that really could make a massive amount of people's lives better. Do your part and make Britain a better place.
Well anyway, now i've talked about the economic side of our actions, maybe I can talk about the part regarding state intervention. Now, our poor government (yes, I do feel sorry for them despite them being Labour) are stuck between a rock and a hard place. When our government did intervene and encouraged schools to stock healthier food they were attacked by the press and refered to as being a "nanny state" whilst mothers bought McDonalds' and passed them through the school gates to their chubby children. However, contrasting this with the release of the information that Britain is in fact the fattest country in the EU the first questions asked was "Well what are you going to do about this Tony?"...Let me get this straight right now, our health is our personal responsibility and it's really not that hard to look after. If you insist of eating masses of unhealthy food well then...Exercise! How pathetic has today's society gotten that we even rely on the state to keep us slim? Do people honestly feel that they are not responsible for any of their actions?...Truely pathetic and somewhat saddening that our society has degenerated to such a low point...And no Daily Mail, you cannot blame immigrants for this problem no matter how hard you try, this time, we're to blame.
Well, now the question is asked, if the state is not to blame...Who is?...Well of course you are. At the end of the day, if you are an adult then you have choices and you can make these as informed choices if you care to bother. Yes, McDonalds' may offer two for one or Burger King may advertise on TV but does that mean that you have no control over such? Can you not switch channel if you are so weak to adverts, can you not decide against going to McDonalds' to get that two for one? Can you not decide on your children's diet? Can you not educate your children from an early age that fast food may taste nice but is awful for you and it should be used as a treat not a norm? Can you not quiet down your children when they whindge to go to a fast food restaurant? The real truth of it all is that the individual does have control over this matter and they have the abiltity to just say no. This may not be what you want to hear but by dammit I am going to say it. I will write the words Politicians dare not to say and that is because they fear a backlash from their electorate, well I'll say it and know why?.. Because it's true.
Now come on people, do your bit, stay healthy and help save funding thus allowing it to be spent on other sectors, by dammit it's more than certainly needed.
posted by Jamescoe | Wednesday, October 11, 2006
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