This Fat Can

This Fat Can

"You Fat People are the reason the NHS is on it's Knees" and other fun discussions of "Burden"

Large bodied people are a burden on society. It's a given. Or is it? Is it as simple as it seems? I talk about a report that came up with an estimation of the total cost of fatness in the UK.

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Jeanette Thompson-Wessen
Jun 20, 2023
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**Massive Trigger Warning** - Use of stigmatising language, talk of weight loss and anti fatness.

Well I wanted to do an update on another of my articles already because the media is focused on another figure that they have grabbed onto which is £60 billion for the “burden” of fat people on the NHS. And what I want you to start doing is to automatically …

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