Obesity 'not individuals' fault'

[uni_don]

Obesity 'not individuals' fault'.

 

So it's not longer fat peoples fault they're fat. Of course it bloody is. Eat healthily and do exercise and you won't be as fat. Simple as. I could quite easily spend all day stuffing my face with Big Macs, but I don't - it's something we call will power.

[Dynamo]

I was 14 and half+ stone at one point,

 

Sumo

 

 

Nah, but I mean, you see the size of some folk and you think, even when they were half that size would they not think, jeez i'm getting pretty fat here, maybe I though do something about it. Laziness.

[BTR]

NN is right, unfortunately for some folk it can be glandular. Some people have glands that make them greedy ba$tards.

[Guest CAPSLOCK]

ARE YOU SAYING YOU WANT TO CHEW ON MY GLAND?

[BTR]

Only if it's going to make my tongue tingle.

[Sonoftherock]

NN is right, unfortunately for some folk it can be glandular. Some people have glands that make them greedy ba$tards.

 

:drink:

[Guest CAPSLOCK]

JUST STOP SHAGGING FAT BIRDS.

 

THEY'LL SOON TAKE THE HINT.

[Bobby Connor]

Get some exercise, eat plenty of fruit and veg and watch how much alcohol you drink (trickiest part).

 

It's not rocket science and there are no excuses for being a lump of blubber.

[paulkaneatemyhamster]

Seeing as Junk food is bad for you, why is it not regualted ?

 

We all know smoking is bad for you, hence why it is regualted, taxed & legislated

 

We all know Alcohol is bad for you, hence why it is regualted, taxed & legislated

 

so why not junk food

 

No junk food for the Under 18's

 

You wouldn't give your kids a packet of fags so why give them junk food

 

a bit of patentl discipline is required at home first.

[Guest CAPSLOCK]

THAT, AND STOP SHAGGING FAT BIRDS.

[Henry]

 

Obesity can constitute a disability in certain circumstances, the EU's highest court has ruled.

The European Court of Justice was asked to consider the case of a male childminder in Denmark who says he was sacked for being too fat.

The court said that if obesity could hinder "full and effective participation" at work then it could count as a disability.

The ruling is binding across the EU.

Judges said that obesity in itself was not a disability - but if a person had a long term impairment because of their obesity, then they would be protected by disability legislation.

The case centres around childminder Karsten Kaltoft who weighs about 160kg (25 stone).

He brought a discrimination case against his employers of 15 years, Billund local authority, after he was sacked four years ago.

The authority said a fall in the number of children meant Mr Kaltoft was no longer required.

But Mr Kaltoft said he was dismissed because he was overweight.

Earlier this year he told the BBC that reports he was so fat he was unable to bend down to tie children's shoelaces were untrue.

Describing his work with children, he said: "I can sit on the floor and play with them, I have no problems like that.

"I don't see myself as disabled. It's not OK just to fire a person because they're fat, if they're doing their job properly."

The Danish courts asked the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to clarify whether obesity was a disability.

The ECJ ruled that if the obesity of the worker "hinders the full and effective participation of that person in professional life on an equal basis with other workers", then obesity can fall within the concept of 'disability'.

Rulings from the European Court of Justice are binding for all EU member nations.

The courts in Denmark will now have to assess Mr Kaltoft's weight to see if his case can be classed as a disability.

Jane Deville Almond, the chairwoman of the British Obesity Society, said obesity should not be classed as a disability.

She told the BBC: "I think the downside would be that if employers suddenly have to start ensuring that they've got wider seats, larger tables, more parking spaces for people who are obese, I think then we're just making the situation worse.

"[it is] implying that people have no control over the condition, rather than something that can be greater improved by changing behaviour."

Paul Callaghan, head of employment law at international law firm Taylor Wessing, said the ruling does not change UK law.

"The European Court of Justice has ruled that obesity itself is not a disability, but that the effects of it can be.

"As such, workers who suffer from, for example, joint problems, depression, or diabetes - specifically because of their size - will be protected by the European Equal Treatment Framework Directive and cannot be dismissed because of their weight."

Audrey Williams, employment law partner at Eversheds, said the mere fact someone is obese is not enough to make them disabled.

"What the court are saying is that obesity is not protected unless it hinders professional life."

She said the ruling would increase awareness among employers of their responsibility towards obese employees in the workplace.

This could include making reasonable adjustments to working arrangements, seating arrangements or making access to the office easier.

However, Tam Fry, from the National Obesity Forum, said the ruling had opened a can of worms for UK employers.

"They will be required to make adjustments to their furniture and doors and whatever is needed for very large people.

"I believe it will also cause friction in the workplace between obese people and other workers."

One in four people in the UK is classified as obese.

 

Obesity could constitute a disability.

[dave_min]

Nope.

[daytripping]

Most interesting Harcus.

 

A quiet news week I take it.

[Pudgie]

I'd say certain circumstances could constitute the label of a disability but if you're just lazy and a gluten then you deserve no such tag. I think it could be put under the same bracket as alcoholism, drug dependence, depression (anyone care to enlighten me if these are seen as disabilities?) where if you have a mental reasoning for your situation then you deserve help whereas if you're just a someone that like a drink/line/joint and refuse to give in to the urge then you're just a dick.

[fatjim]

It took lots of effort to get me up to my 36 stone.

[tup]

Fat cunts need the zero tolerance approach.

 

I'd jail them until they slim down.

[Dynamo]

I agree with tup. Zero tolerance. Also take away any cars and bus passes. Make the cunts walk everywhere.

[fatjim]

I walk to and from my car.

[fatjim]

I say walk but I mean I use my wheelchair.

[Bluto10]

Fat cunts need the zero tolerance approach.

I'd jail them until they slim down.

What about portly bald folk like you?

Should I take a zero tolerance approach to you ?

[Henry]

You have a zero tolerance approach to making friends Bluto min.

[Bluto10]

I'll have you know my LinkedIn premium connection number more than 25 min.

So there.

[reekie_dock]

I'll have you know my LinkedIn premium connection number more than 25 min.

So there.

How you feeling on the situation Bluto min?

 

Since your the most round gadjee on the hat?

[Bluto10]

I'm a middleweight reekie min.

90kilos, with a sprinters build.

 

[reekie_dock]

Aye 90 kilo and 5ft....... Still be a fat slob at 90 kilo [emoji6][emoji106]

[Bluto10]

Yeah five foot and the other foot min.

 

Reekie, some of us are just blessed min, with body to match the brains.

 

Dinna be hat in me cause I'm a winner

[Clydeside_Sheep]

Fat people should be forced to do mandatory exercise.

 

(NB - running after the ice-cream van doesnt count).

 

As Ive had quite a sedentary year, I have developed a pauch - its not attractive, but I like it because I can slap it like a drum to play a tune (sometimes whilst doing a little dance - now, that is attractive).

 

There is too much sympathy for the fat in general. We should not see them as fat, but as greedy. That ought to make the sympathy dry up.

[Bluto10]

My muscular frame weights more than your flabby sillohette.

[E-P-K]

Yeah five foot and the other foot min.

 

Reekie, some of us are just blessed min, with body to match the brains.

 

Dinna be hat in me cause I'm a winner

 

 

Aye, you canna fatten a thoroughbred

[daytripping]

Fat cunts need the zero tolerance approach.

 

I'd jail them until they slim down.

 

That would be a good way to get smokers to stop as well, just lock the feckers up, you're a genius tup.

 

BTW Where you doing Panto this year??