EU - obesity is a disability
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http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30529791
Not helping - they'll get even less exercise now they can park in the disabled spaces at the supermarket to pick up their chocolate & crisps & coke.
Not helping - they'll get even less exercise now they can park in the disabled spaces at the supermarket to pick up their chocolate & crisps & coke.
The ECJ ruled: "The Court finds that if, under given circumstances, the laziness of the worker entails a limitation which results in particular from physical, mental or psychological impairments which in interaction with various barriers may hinder the full and effective participation of that lazy bd in professional life on an equal basis with other non-lazy workers, and the laziness is long-term, such laziness can fall within the concept of 'disability' within the meaning of the directive."
Incredible scenes.
Incredible scenes.
This is why Britain needs to leave the EU, we just have more common sense....
"Jane Deville Almond, the chairwoman of the British Obesity Society, said obesity should not be classed as a disability.
She told the BBC: "I think the downside would be that if employers suddenly have to start ensuring that they've got wider seats, larger tables, more parking spaces for people who are obese, I think then we're just making the situation worse.
"[It is] implying that people have no control over the condition, rather than something that can be greater improved by changing behaviour.""
"Jane Deville Almond, the chairwoman of the British Obesity Society, said obesity should not be classed as a disability.
She told the BBC: "I think the downside would be that if employers suddenly have to start ensuring that they've got wider seats, larger tables, more parking spaces for people who are obese, I think then we're just making the situation worse.
"[It is] implying that people have no control over the condition, rather than something that can be greater improved by changing behaviour.""
Yazar said:
This is why Britain needs to leave the EU, we just have more common sense....
"Jane Deville Almond, the chairwoman of the British Obesity Society, said obesity should not be classed as a disability.
She told the BBC: "I think the downside would be that if employers suddenly have to start ensuring that they've got wider seats, larger tables, more parking spaces for people who are obese, I think then we're just making the situation worse.
"[It is] implying that people have no control over the condition, rather than something that can be greater improved by changing behaviour.""
Agree. Decisions like this are for me tipping the balance in favour of leaving the EU. The impact on employers, owners of commercial premises etc will be horrendous. "Jane Deville Almond, the chairwoman of the British Obesity Society, said obesity should not be classed as a disability.
She told the BBC: "I think the downside would be that if employers suddenly have to start ensuring that they've got wider seats, larger tables, more parking spaces for people who are obese, I think then we're just making the situation worse.
"[It is] implying that people have no control over the condition, rather than something that can be greater improved by changing behaviour.""
Listening to a local government spokesman saying how 50% of their cash is pent on 2% of the people, I think the last thing we need is another bunch of freeloading opportunities open to abuse.
(Although to put things in context, the legal bloke on the radio said this ruling would actually only potentially apply to the morbidly obese.)
(Although to put things in context, the legal bloke on the radio said this ruling would actually only potentially apply to the morbidly obese.)
Purity14 said:
Id hardly call it a disability.
It is an addiction.
They are addicted to sugar and the convenience of fast food.
This includes food in supermarkets labeled as healthy when it is actually just as bad.
Eg:
Dolmio Bolognese Original Sauce 500g = (0.6g fat) + 29.5g of sugar (7.3 teaspoons of sugar)
Dolmio Bolognese Low Fat Original Sauce 500g = (0.1g fat) 21g of sugar. (5.25 teaspoons of sugar)
These aren't even the worst culprits, look at "Old el Paso Fajita Mix" - for every 100g of the product, it contains 54g of sugar!
What is all that about?
The problem is, if you told these fatty-bum-bums to create a healthy dish from scratch and showed them how to do it, the following would result:
Day 1: Cry because they are fat and want to loose weight, and decide to man-up and create the meal from scratch.
Day 2: Can't spend time making the meal, because they need their sugar fix as fast as possible.
Day 3+: Can't see instant weight loss and the craving for sugar get greater, experience sugar withdrawal symptoms, then begin creating excuses for eating sugary foods again.
Take away the sugar, and they will lose weight, they need to be treated as someone with a drug addiction.
Fomr my personal experience I'd agree with a lot of that (apart from the cooking stuff from scratch) It is an addiction.
They are addicted to sugar and the convenience of fast food.
This includes food in supermarkets labeled as healthy when it is actually just as bad.
Eg:
Dolmio Bolognese Original Sauce 500g = (0.6g fat) + 29.5g of sugar (7.3 teaspoons of sugar)
Dolmio Bolognese Low Fat Original Sauce 500g = (0.1g fat) 21g of sugar. (5.25 teaspoons of sugar)
These aren't even the worst culprits, look at "Old el Paso Fajita Mix" - for every 100g of the product, it contains 54g of sugar!
What is all that about?
The problem is, if you told these fatty-bum-bums to create a healthy dish from scratch and showed them how to do it, the following would result:
Day 1: Cry because they are fat and want to loose weight, and decide to man-up and create the meal from scratch.
Day 2: Can't spend time making the meal, because they need their sugar fix as fast as possible.
Day 3+: Can't see instant weight loss and the craving for sugar get greater, experience sugar withdrawal symptoms, then begin creating excuses for eating sugary foods again.
Take away the sugar, and they will lose weight, they need to be treated as someone with a drug addiction.
I've quite smoking, drinking and dabbling in drugs when younger. I can't seem to quite the sugar thing though.
Fat Bloke said:
"I don't see myself as disabled. It's not OK just to fire a person because they're fat, if they're doing their job properly."
Oh it is, nothing worse than having some pile of lard sweating and panting opposite your desk all day and don't get me started on the ones constantly eating with their fat gobs open.Purity14 said:
I don't drink either.
I used to smoke, but I quit.
In comparison, I found it easier to quit smoking than quitting excess sugar.
I craved, experienced headaches, I was very irritable, I would eat food and never feel full or content with what I have eaten.
At the beginning I would eat one square of chocolate after a healthy meal as a dessert, for my brain to register that I was content.
Now I can taste things better, flavours in food are enhanced when I eat them now, its great.
I was forced to eat a cup-cake the other day at some event. I was literally climbing the walls, my head was going crazy fast and I felt dizzy and didn't know what to do with myself. - I can't imagine how much sugar went into it, but I felt like vomiting. The whole cupcake mind-melt lasted about 4 hours. Never again!
Have you tried a small teaspoon of honey for your sugar fix?I used to smoke, but I quit.
In comparison, I found it easier to quit smoking than quitting excess sugar.
I craved, experienced headaches, I was very irritable, I would eat food and never feel full or content with what I have eaten.
At the beginning I would eat one square of chocolate after a healthy meal as a dessert, for my brain to register that I was content.
Now I can taste things better, flavours in food are enhanced when I eat them now, its great.
I was forced to eat a cup-cake the other day at some event. I was literally climbing the walls, my head was going crazy fast and I felt dizzy and didn't know what to do with myself. - I can't imagine how much sugar went into it, but I felt like vomiting. The whole cupcake mind-melt lasted about 4 hours. Never again!
Purity14 said:
The problem is, if you told these fatty-bum-bums to create a healthy dish from scratch and showed them how to do it, the following would result:
I cook "healthy" dishes from scratch all the time - were I to eat as much and do as little as I would like, I would be just as enormous as if I were living on take-aways.otolith said:
Purity14 said:
The problem is, if you told these fatty-bum-bums to create a healthy dish from scratch and showed them how to do it, the following would result:
I cook "healthy" dishes from scratch all the time - were I to eat as much and do as little as I would like, I would be just as enormous as if I were living on take-aways.Gassing Station | News, Politics & Economics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff