Obesity could sink Britain’s health system
The weight of obesity could sink the UK’s cash-strapped National Health System predicts a gloomy report from the House of Commons Health Committee. “Obesity will bring levels of sickness that will put enormous strains on the NHS, perhaps even making a publicly funded health service unsustainable,” it says.
If the obesity epidemic continues to spread, the MPs warned, there will be steep increases in diabetes, amputations, blindness and heart disease. “This will be the first generation where children die before their parents as a consequence of childhood diabetes,” they said. Amongst other measures, they called for a voluntary withdrawal of TV advertising of junk food aimed at children.
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