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Originally Posted by MatthewS

Probably not the best wording. It's a personal health risk, and if the UK is like Canada, more and more people are becoming overweight, which leads to increased chances of developing problems from weakened immune systems, high cholesterol, high blood pressure etc etc, which leads to strokes, cancer.......etc.

Not sure how healthcare works in the UK specifically, but in Canada it's all covered by the government. Health complications coming from an increasing overweight populations here are costing the government millions and millions a year. It really is a quite serious problem.

Yes it is a personal health risk, and being overweight is as much an issue in UK as it is other countries of the western world.
However we still live a democracy and have some freedoms left to us, so if a person has a weight issue, I don't really see that,that fact alone gives anyone and everyone the right to comment on it.
You maybe able to justify to a small degree that you find it' a little disgusting' by dragging out the tired old, but it's costing us millions argument.
So does smoking, sports, horse riding, skiing, surfing, and every other kind of sport and sports injuries and in the UK, overindulging in alcohol causes far more damage to our society and our health service,than having our small island totally populated by fat people.
Then we have drug abuse....... I could go on....