One in 10 children worldwide is obese, according to UNICEF.
Which matters most?
Risks
In a society where the state pays, your waistline suddenly becomes a matter of public policy.
What happens when both when both technical progress and ethical progress stagnate?
If a professional sportswoman can’t be told that she is not in the right shape to compete, without blaming her coach for “shaming” her, she should probably find a new job.
And this is the bigger problem with modern society: For all we talk about “diversity”, every single difference amongst us must be pathologised.
Sorry, what?
According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, research from 52 countries shows that Britain’s obesity crisis is costing every taxpayer more than £400 a year. Conditions fuelled by excess weight are soaking up more than 8 per cent of health expenditure in the UK while cutting life expectancy by 2.7 years on average,” […]