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I climb to keep fit and because it's really fun. It's a moderately dangerous activity, but no one ever says I should consider the pressures on the NHS before I go and maybe fall off a boulder problem and break my ankle or whatever. I think this is just standard fatphobic finger-wagging, to be honest.
I once read that sponsored skydives for NHS related charities end up (in total) costing the NHS more than they raise, because of how often people get injured in them...
It seems like pandering to the Tory press. Getting more people to a healthy weight saves a lot of cash in the long run and frees up resources for other people.
However, I don't like the idea of Big Pharma gouging us on the price and, we do need to take more responsibility for our health. When I was in hospital in 2017 they didn't really know where to put me so I went in the leg wards. Everyone else had badly managed diabetes and smoked, so they all had nasty leg wounds that landed them in hospital and it was only going to get worse. Too many were still sneaking out for a smoke, including No Legs Mick who was being slowly whittled down to a nub. With a bit more care for themselves that entire floor of the hospital could have been largely cleared.
To be fair, at that point it's a little late to quit smoking, and an addiction isn't something you quit overnight.
From what I've read, GLP1 drugs can change how your brain thinks about food, and can cure the "addiction" to high sugar/fat foods. They're even being investigated for other addictions. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1043661824002573
Yeah, the way people who've been on it describe how it changes they way it shifts their mental relationship with food reminds me a lot of the way those with ADHD describe the effects of their meds.