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Ignore the NHS Propaganda: Fat people are not to blame for it's soaring costs.
in fact it is worse than double-counting. Diabetes may cost the NHS £10 billion a year but that figure includes the cost of type-2 diabetes, which is only partially related to obesity, and type-1 diabetes, which is not at all related to obesity. If Mr Stevens thinks it is not deceitful to add the entire NHS diabetes bill to the entire obesity bill and portray the total as an unnecessary and avoidable cost of ‘modifiable health risk factors’ then he has been very poorly advised.
http://health.spectator.co.uk/ignor...fatties-arent-to-blame-for-its-soaring-costs/
in fact it is worse than double-counting. Diabetes may cost the NHS £10 billion a year but that figure includes the cost of type-2 diabetes, which is only partially related to obesity, and type-1 diabetes, which is not at all related to obesity. If Mr Stevens thinks it is not deceitful to add the entire NHS diabetes bill to the entire obesity bill and portray the total as an unnecessary and avoidable cost of ‘modifiable health risk factors’ then he has been very poorly advised.
http://health.spectator.co.uk/ignor...fatties-arent-to-blame-for-its-soaring-costs/