Britain's obesity crisis: NHS spending £16m a year on 200 who are too fat to leave home

30 May 2012

Obesity is an epidemic in the UK, over half of all British people are now so fat they are considered overweight or obese. This costs the NHS more than £4billion a year. There are at least 200 people, who are so obese that it costs the NHS £16million a year for medical help. Some of the costs made are, four visits a day by health workers, fire fighters who had to spent eight hours to free a woman from her bedroom, teenager Georgia Davis who had to have an operation involving 40 emergency workers and expensive gastric bypasses. But the real figure is more than likely much higher because an unknown number are supported by the social care system rather than the clinics and hospitals who record weight data.

It is shocking to read that over half of the British people are getting so fat. They just do not care about their health and risking their life for food. I think it is terrible that it costs the society so much money because they cannot control themselves and get back into shape again. They should pay these expenses themselves maybe it will frighten them and think twice before stuffing themselves. Most of all I think it is terrible that young children are also getting obese. The parents should be ashamed of themselves for neglecting their children. They depend on their parents to be healthy.

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