‘Pound for a pound’ scheme could be used to combat obesity problem (From Daily Echo)

People sholdn't be paid to lose weight, they should be encouraged to take responsibility for themselves. I know personally how difficlt is to keep weight off but the only thing that is going to do it is if the individual decides to do something about it themselves. Overeating is little different to drug/alcohol addiction, the individual themself needs to choose to change otherwise any help given is a waste of time and resources. A voucher for veg!!If that was any kind of incentive then they probably wouldnt be overweight in the first place!

The Fat gene and the Stupid gene seem to exist comfortably together in most cases.

Awesome, I'm now going to pile on lots of pounds so I can get paid to loose it again.
Sounds like a good plan well thought out.

This is a total waste of money. I've just been shopping and if people lived on healthy food they would be more healthy and better off as veg costs a lot less than a lot of the processed crap people fill their faces with.

Hmm the studies done with smokers in scotland seem to suggest that human behaviour is such that they always revert back to their old ways after the scheme has finished.

I dont see that this will be any different. These people are fat because they refuse to walk anywhere, do no exercise in general (you need about an hours worth and become slightly breathless and sweaty for it to work), its not just the diet.

Fad schemes never work. Enthusiasm and encouragement does - check out this guy's blog and you'll realise how it works: gazzasblogs.blogspot
.com/ (he's a top bloke too)

It's 'lose', not 'loose'.

Stand in a queue at any fast food outlet, you will see, what I call The Fit Family. Mum,Dad and two kids all grossly over weight ordering,
Extra Large Burger
Extra Large Fries
and a diet coke.
I always ask myself why the diet coke???
Does it taste better than normal coke or is it to clear their conscious about what they are piling down their throats, and now some fool is going to pay the Fit Family and many other to lose weight. What a load of old tosh, just ban them from Macca D's and all the other junk food outlets or just wire their jaws that will sort it out, would save pounds (pardon the pun)

Saints Mike wrote:
Stand in a queue at any fast food outlet, you will see, what I call The Fit Family. Mum,Dad and two kids all grossly over weight ordering, Extra Large Burger Extra Large Fries and a diet coke. I always ask myself why the diet coke??? Does it taste better than normal coke or is it to clear their conscious about what they are piling down their throats, and now some fool is going to pay the Fit Family and many other to lose weight. What a load of old tosh, just ban them from Macca D's and all the other junk food outlets or just wire their jaws that will sort it out, would save pounds (pardon the pun)

"Can I have one burger smoothie to go, please"

Hmm they ban winos from off licenses, I wonder if that would work?

downfader wrote:

Saints Mike wrote:
Stand in a queue at any fast food outlet, you will see, what I call The Fit Family. Mum,Dad and two kids all grossly over weight ordering, Extra Large Burger Extra Large Fries and a diet coke. I always ask myself why the diet coke??? Does it taste better than normal coke or is it to clear their conscious about what they are piling down their throats, and now some fool is going to pay the Fit Family and many other to lose weight. What a load of old tosh, just ban them from Macca D's and all the other junk food outlets or just wire their jaws that will sort it out, would save pounds (pardon the pun)

"Can I have one burger smoothie to go, please"

Hmm they ban winos from off licenses, I wonder if that would work?

What Flavour?

Perhaps people should stop shopping in stores that flog junk food- everywhere from McDonalds to Iceland. Where is the 'real' food in Farmstores? Certainly not from the farm.

Saints Mike wrote:
Stand in a queue at any fast food outlet, you will see, what I call The Fit Family. Mum,Dad and two kids all grossly over weight ordering,
Extra Large Burger
Extra Large Fries
and a diet coke.
I always ask myself why the diet coke???
Does it taste better than normal coke or is it to clear their conscious about what they are piling down their throats, and now some fool is going to pay the Fit Family and many other to lose weight. What a load of old tosh, just ban them from Macca D's and all the other junk food outlets or just wire their jaws that will sort it out, would save pounds (pardon the pun)

Planning permission for any takeaway or fast food outlet should restrict the width of the door to 18" to keep the chubbers out!

Derek of Dibden Purlieu wrote:

Saints Mike wrote: Stand in a queue at any fast food outlet, you will see, what I call The Fit Family. Mum,Dad and two kids all grossly over weight ordering, Extra Large Burger Extra Large Fries and a diet coke. I always ask myself why the diet coke??? Does it taste better than normal coke or is it to clear their conscious about what they are piling down their throats, and now some fool is going to pay the Fit Family and many other to lose weight. What a load of old tosh, just ban them from Macca D's and all the other junk food outlets or just wire their jaws that will sort it out, would save pounds (pardon the pun)

Planning permission for any takeaway or fast food outlet should restrict the width of the door to 18" to keep the chubbers out!

ROFL!!!!

"Planning permission for any takeaway or fast food outlet should restrict the width of the door to 18" to keep the chubbers out!"

Good idea but the chubbers would then get their slightly thinner chavmates to do the ordering.

Like the fat schoolkids, whose moms pushed chips through the fences to get round the healthy eating regimes.

We're all doomed as the Fat Yank syndrome creeps in.

We copy our American cousins in so many ways. I'm sure that our little island will slowly sink under the addded weight in a few decades.