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Originally Posted by lostalex

Let me try to explain this to our more simple minded forum members who think that FAT people are a burden on the NHS...

Please explain to me how a fat person that dies age 65 is BURDEN on the NHS compared to the SKINNY person who dies aged 95?? That means that skinny people use an extra 30 years of NHS services than fat people.

Skinny people put MORE burden on the NHS, not fat people. IF as you say fat people are unhealthy and die earlier, then you say that they put MORE burden on the NHS when they die younger??

Simples math should tell you otherwise.

Obviously, if someone is dying at a younger age, that is LESS burden on the NHS.

Why is it these people can't do simple math???

Be nice lostalex to fellow members, it's called a bit of respect that us 'simple minded' folk over in the UK like to afford one another.

Anyhow: I'll bite.

I hate to point out the obvious errors in your calculations above: who is saying that skinny people between the ages of 66-95 even require anything from the NHS - at all.

Many are very healthy and need no treatment whatsoever because they have eaten the right things, because they have exercised and taken care of their body, inside and out. Give or take the odd annual flu jab.

Most obese people have breathing difficulties and require several types of medications, as well as meds to prevent DVT etc, and that's not taking into account the treatment for their heart attacks, operations for heart bypasses etc, meds for their heart conditions due to the excess stress their obesity places on the internal organs, high blood pressure, wasted attempts at gastric bypass operations, gastric band operations - all before they get to the magic 65 then pop their clogs.

All in all, I'd say the skinnies still cost less.