We welcome this opportunity to partner with the UK Government on tackling and preventing disease, and accelerating innovation to advance care delivery models. — David A Ricks, chairman and chief executive of Lilly
Is this an obscene sick joke from Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer, to force overweight unemployed to have a fat loss jab? This is reminiscent of Nazi Germany.
Obesity is a health crisis. We don’t abuse people with cancer, why abuse the obese and overweight? A nice little earner for Big Pharma. Why no questions on donations?
Obesity is costing the NHS £11 billion a year, the economy over £60 billion a year. We tackle by encouraging healthy eating and a healthy lifestyle. Not by punishing people.
- avoid ultra-processed food
- label ultra-processed food with a health warning cf tobacco
- tax ultra-processed food cf sugar tax
- treat ultra-processed food as we treat smoking no promotion no sponsorship
- eat 30 different plants a week
- eat fermented foods
- drink coffee
- eat dark chocolate
Weight loss diets do not work. Calorie counting does not work. Count plants not calories. Focus on the quality of the food not calories. We are what we eat.
30 plants: fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds, legumes, fungi, spices.
Fermented foods: live Greek yoghurt, live kefir, artisan cheese from raw milk, live sauerkraut, live kimchi, sourdough bread.
Will this be compulsory, lose benefits if do not ‘volunteer’for a fat jab? What of compensation for side effects? Have signed away rights by volunteering for a government enforced drug trial? The Nazis used prisoners for their medical experiments, the British government the unemployed.
This is the beginning of privatising the NHS, sick people are for private profit. On the day this was announced, articles appeared in the press promoting private sector involvement in the NHS.
We did warn, NHS not safe under Wes Streeting or Keir Starmer. Look at the money flowing from US private health care interests. It’s now payback time.
This is not to play down we have an obesity crisis. Adults are eating a diet of 60% ultra-processed food. Children and young people 100% ultra-processed food. Toddlers are drinking a can of Coke or fizzy sugary drink a day. Five year olds in the UK are 5cm shorter than kids of the same age in Denmark or the Netherlands.
In France and Spain they eat only around 12% ultra-processed food.
Instead of compulsory jabs oops voluntary but lose benefits if don’t agree, why not offer a year’s enrollment on Zoe? And each time sign on, offer two packs of Zoe Daily30+ which will kick start the 30 plants a week.
And why are the unemployed forced to sign on, to be humiliated and bullied every two weeks? Introduce a Universal income. And instead of demonising unemployed, even worse overweight unemployed, target tax dodging.
We need to help not punish. A chef in Leeds is offering cooking classes for the unemployed. Mint Lane Cafe, a social enterprise cafe in Lincoln, is offering cookery classes.
Hand out free copies of Food For Life Cookbook or How to Eat 30 Plants a Week.
Fat loss jabs paid for privately, £200 a month for the first few months, then increase to £300 to £400 a month. Weight loss is not permanent, will bounce back. Reliant on the jabs. What are the long term consequences ? A nice little earner for Big Pharma.
Dieting does not work. Calorie counting does not work. Creates a yo-yo. The body is not fooled for long, will compensate and bounce back to the original weight.
The only weight loss known to work, is an extreme diet in China, that leads to dramatic weight loss and the weight loss is maintained.
Ultra-processed food is addictive and should be treated as an addiction. The brain is rewired to desire ultra-processed food.
Ultra-processed food feeds bad gut microbes which demand more ultra-processed food.
Ultra-processed food turns off the genetic switches that tells us we are satiated.
Ultra-processed food is nutrient deficient, we eat more to compensate, and thus put on weight.
Consumption of ultra-processed is linked to health issues including cancer risk, high blood pressure, anxiety, asthma and Type 2 diabetes.
Ultra-processed food now kills more people than smoking.
Overweight unemployed are suffering stress, can’t find work, lack of money, bullying by thugs in job centres, leading to binge eating of ultra-processed food.
further reading
- Ultra-processed People
- The Diet Myth
- Spoon Fed
- Food for Life
- How to Eat 30 Plants a Week
- Food for Life Cookbook
watch on YouTube
- Zoe weight loss and obesity
- Zoe Ultra-processed food
- Zoe coffee with James Hoffmann
- Zoe dark chocolate
- Tim Spector and Steven Bartlett Diary of a CEO
Update: Conversation with a pharmacist. Cost £1-99 for four to five weeks, a jab every week. The cost then rises, increased dosage. For how long? When reached the desired weight. Side effects? We manage when they arise. Bounce back to original weight? We advise on lifestyle to maintain the desired weight. Prescription from a doctor? Possible, but unlikely.
Update: Conversation with a pharmacist. No, we do not supply weight loss jabs. A local doctor will not subscribe , not provided on the NHS. Can only obtain privately.
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