Pay People To Lose Weight?

[panther]

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, what will they be veg only vouchers!!???

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

[Wynonie Harris]

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.

[lancsdave]

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

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

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

[Wynonie Harris]

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

[WillowTheWhisp]

A bit of genuine constructive help would be more use than cash prizes. I've been struggling with a weight problem for years and if it were as simple as some slim people reckon it is I would be as thin as Kate Moss by now. Maybe they can't offer a genuine helpful solution because there isn't one.

Veggie vouchers? Well I suppose it would help us save the money we already spend on veg and use it for something else. Where do I apply for my cash prize as I've managed to lose 35lbs since last summer. Still got plenty to go.

[jaysay]

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

[davo69]

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

[mrjdallen]

how big do you have to be???

[lettie]

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...

[Less]

Originally Posted by lettie

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

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!".

[blazey]

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

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.

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.

[blazey]

Originally Posted by lettie

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...

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!

[panther]

Originally Posted by blazey

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

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

[MargaretR]

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

[Less]

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).