Pay People To Lose Weight?
 

A quarter of all adults and one in five children in the UK are obese.
The government is considering measures that would see overweight people being given vouchers to spend on healthy food in supermarkets and possibly cash rewards for those who successfully lose weight.
What do you think of this proposal?


I think it stupid, vouchers indeed:rolleyes:, what will they be veg only vouchers!!???

also cash??
whoohoo dont work, get fat and then get paid for losing it:p..............its the most stupidest thing iv ever heard!!!

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Another headline-catching gimmick from a gimmick-obsessed government.

Surely the most effective incentive for someone to lose weight is knowing that if you do, Blazey won't hate you anymore. ;)

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I'm just off to the chippy for 50 steak puddings and hundred portions of chips :)

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If it would let me, I would've given you some karma for that one, Dave. Just nearly choked on my brew laughing. :D

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Do you think they'll let me back date it, I've just lost two stone:D

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why not if you go to prison you get a free gym tv free education when you come out you get help with a flat money to help you get buy so why not pay peple to slim.why not pay people to give up smoking and drink.why not just put another tax burden on the working class

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how big do you have to be???

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Yet another social experiment by the government. When are they going to stop??
I don't mean to be tight but what's in it for me? I am not overweight but I am a taxpayer, just because I have what they deem a normal BMI, does this mean that I have to pay for an obese person to lose weight?
If the government were serious about the obesity problem then they would employ what I call the Mac Tax and inflate the prices of ready meals (many of which have been shown to be bad for you), kebabs, junk food outlets, crisps, cakes, sweets etc and reduce the prices of fresh fruit, fresh veg, fish, lean meat. The tax from the junk food could be used to subsidise our farmers and make the fresh food cheaper...:)

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You've just listed everything I eat and I'm skinny as a rake!

"It's not my fault", he wails, "I'm thin boned!".
:cook38:

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Your damn right!

This is a stupid idea but surely Panther as your a dieter you should be in favour of it? Your going to get paid for what your already doing.

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Most skinny/normal sized people eat crap and have no problems. Changing prices doesn't make any difference I think, vegetables, fruit and lean meats are already cheaper than all that crap in my experience as a student on a tight budget.

How do people put on weight eating ready meals anyway? You hardly get a big enough portion!

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probably because of the fat content........:rolleyes:, and you say your smart.....LOL

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--and they probably microwave them which makes them not much better than cardboard for nutritional value.

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Nature has a, well, natural way of things, we are all different heights as well as weights, for some strange reason to be five foot nothing is as acceptable as being six foot three. That is natural.

Some people eat next to nothing and gain weight no matter what they do about it, others, (such as I), can 'pig out' all day and every day and not even put on an ounce.
Suprise, suprise, that is also natural.

We don't complain about the height of people, why should we complain about the width of people?

Of course there are those that take the hobby of eating a little too far and they become grossly obese, these people no doubt have a problem and perhaps need assistance, the majority of larger framed people should be the way they are, nothing can really be gained from dieting for them, that is the size they ought to be.

What a miserable looking world we would have if everyone was five foot eight, thirty three inch waist and a pinky orange skin, Yuckk!

Not many centuries ago a wife was expected to be fat, it was a symbol of how well the family was doing!

Hurray for the difference let it long continue!

(I still claim to be thin boned though).

:)

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Some cultures admire obesity - remember the Queen of Tonga in 1953?
Sometimes I have been thankful for that bit of extra padding - when I have been laid up and unable to eat for a week - fat reserves can come in handy

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no doubt the local shop will gladly exchange these vouchers for fags and fatty foods just like they did with the milk vouchers pregnant women used to get , not sure if they still do get vouchers but thats what happened

also why should you have to be fat to get vouchers for healthy food , the govenment keeps pushing us to eat our 5 a day but does sod all to get the price of good healthy food down

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Overweight people need help not food.

Why not give vouchers for health clubs and sport centres.
Help them to start feeling good about themselves and then the rest will follow..

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OMG pass me the donuts and pies

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Do I know you?

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once again blazey takes the bait :D
you never fail to amaze :D

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I just wondered if it was someone under a different name. I've never even seen this person before :confused: thought perhaps Less had bought a parrot, he said the exact same thing near enough a bit further up in this thread...

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did he ? where - sorry must have missed it

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You just use beer as a lubricant to help get rid of it :D

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Ah sorry it was Lancsdave, bit of a silly mistake thinking LESS had bought a new pet when he's getting rid of the one he already has :rolleyes:

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brain dead comes to mind:rolleyes:

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that comment doesn't seem to link to anything that's been said. are you making some form of statement/confession?

You follow me around a lot, didn't somebody make a fool out of you already for saying you dont know wh anyone listens to me yet you comment on every post I make? I'm sure someone did.

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im saying you are brain dead....derrr, you made a remark about less which to me was uncalled for so do us all a favour and do one smelly

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I didn't realise you had such a special friendship with Less and I thought he was more than capable of fighting his own battles with his own wit without someone resorting to names like 'smelly' which belong in nowhere greater than a primary school play ground, and even these days it'd be rare to see a bully use such a pathetic word.

same for the sound 'derrr'. Isn't that a noise ou'd be more likely to associate with the brain dead person themself rather than the person calling them that? I never understood that gesture at all.

I knew exactly what you were inferring, and for once, YOU took the bait. Not quite the sharpest knife in the drawer are you?

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there you go again reckoning to be smart.....you know what chelle?
you as thick as they come:rolleyes::p.....

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I didn't say I was smart at all then. Do I come across as being smart, is that why you get that assumption?

I'm at law school, studying one of the most competitive subjects there are. If I wasn't intelligent I wouldn't be here! Simple as that.