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January 7, 2008
British Weight Crisis: People Are Too Fat and Skinny
Posted by Dave Blount at January 7, 2008 4:04 PM
A health crisis is hitting the socialist NHS in Britain, where totalitarian measures have been recommended to curb the supposed obesity epidemic. But the crisis isn't obesity, it's self-induced starvation.
British bureauweenies have gone so far as to recommend electronic "fat quota" ration cards, so as to guarantee no one eats more than officials see fit. Children are confiscated from their parents if deemed to be overfed. You can even be arrested for letting your dog get fat.
Some 1,484 patients with anorexia were admitted to wards in 2006/7 compared with 1,338 the previous year, an increase of 11 per cent. […]
The findings also reveal that NHS hospital admissions for bulimia increased 9 per cent to 150. Experts believe the true figures are likely to be much higher, however, because they do not include those patients who have not sought medical treatment. […]
Last year the Government announced it had given a multimillion-pound grant to the Institute of Psychiatry to research eating disorders after it emerged there had been a 40 per cent surge in anorexia since 1990.
A report by the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit, also released last year, found 206 children under 13 had been suffering from eating disorders in a 13-month period to April 2006. One was just eight years old.
The answer to this crisis? More coercion, of course:
To combat the problem, London Fashion Week was urged last year to consider forcing models to present medical certificates to prove they did not have eating disorders.
What, they don't want the government involved? But I'm forgetting, the government is busy forcing everyone to be thin.
Someone please give this model a cheeseburger.
On a tip from Bill V.
