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January 7, 2008
British Weight Crisis: People Are Too Fat and Skinny
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.
On a tip from Bill V.
Posted by Van Helsing at January 7, 2008 4:04 PM
Comments
How consumed with idiocy are the British? Do they not see the road down which they are barrelling? Every day it seems we hear something even stupider from across the pond than the day before.
Posted by: Ed at January 7, 2008 4:42 PM
OT - VH, can you please post something on Hillary weeping like a little girl earlier today at her news conference? I found it one of the funniest moments in modern political history. Thanks.
Posted by: mega at January 7, 2008 5:06 PM
Consumed with idiocy, or is it something else?
American author sued in Britain for allegedly libellious remarks in her book about terrorism sponsors.
http://www.redplanetcartoons.com/index.php/2008/01/07/financial-jihad/
Posted by: BUUUUURRRRNING HOT at January 7, 2008 5:58 PM
And the same kind of thing is going on in Canada.
http://www.redplanetcartoons.com/index.php/2007/12/27/canadas-thought-police/
Posted by: BUUUUURRRRNING HOT at January 7, 2008 5:58 PM
Quick!! Get that girl a twinkie and a big mac!! STAT!
Posted by: NudeGayWhalesForJesus at January 7, 2008 7:05 PM
Bring out yer Dead, Bring out yer Dead:
CREMATORIUM TO KEEP MOURNERS WARM BY BURNING BODIES OF LOVED ONES
Instead of letting the gases emitted by cremation escape into the atmosphere, councils want to use them to heat radiators or even generate electricity.
Ultimate Recycling.
Posted by: xantl at January 7, 2008 7:32 PM
"Someone please give this model a cheeseburger."
If I can have my hankie back!
Posted by: Proof at January 7, 2008 8:51 PM
Ed, Britain's slightly in the vanguard but America's in a handbasket too. The collapse into insanity is a worldwide problem.
That's not to also mention that the obesity panic was drummed up primarily by the American health establishment (with able assistance from drug companies). If you guys can sort your nutbars out, the rest of us have a hope of dealing with ours.
Many of us British are quite aware of the road we're on. The problem is there isn't a darned thing we can do about it.
Posted by: Ian from the EUSSR at January 7, 2008 9:07 PM
Cheeseburger, Hell!
This is an emergency - give that woman a stick of butter and a chicken-fried steak w/extra cream gravy.
Posted by: Jimbo at January 7, 2008 10:20 PM
Ian, yep, the world is going insane. Read more here:
http://www.exitmundi.nl/insanity.htm
Posted by: Anonymous at January 8, 2008 5:43 AM
SHE CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?
Posted by: Crush Liberalism at January 8, 2008 10:06 AM
It is ironic that in the developed countries, obesity is common among the poor, while anorexia is prevalent among the rich.
As for that model, I've seen clothes hangers with more on them.
Posted by: James F McEnanly at January 8, 2008 5:21 PM
Wow! She looks like she was just liberated from Auschwitz -- how could anyone want to be that emaciated deliberately? Beyond me . . .
Posted by: jc14 at January 8, 2008 9:57 PM
