It seems warning labels might be popping up in a few more places - one of which is on the inside of clothing for larger people? I wonder if they're going to put pictures on the label? I can't see a warning label doing much good there.
Check out their other recommendations:
Clothes made in larger sizes should carry a tag with an obesity helpline number, health specialists have suggested. Sweets and snacks should not be permitted near checkouts, new roads should not be built unless they include cycle lanes and food likely to make people fat should be taxed, they say in a checklist of what we might "reasonably do" to deal with obesity.
Here's the original article.
Maybe they should start putting warning labels on the really small clothing as well. So which is more unhealthy, anorexia or obesity?
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That photo is frightening.
yeah tell me about it! One couldn't hope for a better picture illustrating anorexia.
I actually wonder if it was photoshopped.
I say screw it and put warning labels on everything!
You have a warning label recommendation for this blog?
I'd love to put one on! hahah
So which is more unhealthy, anorexia or obesity?
Prevalence for anorexia is 0.3%
Prevalence for obesity [BMI>30] is >30% [in USA]
Prevalence of BMI>35 is ~15%
Cost of obesity >$100 billion
well its clear that obesity is more 'unhealthy' to society but what about personally?
Should I know who the crack whores in the picture are? They are my new anti drug whoever they are.
A quite small proportion of those wearing really small clothing are anorectic, while a rather large proportion of those wearing really large clothing are obese, so the case for warning labels clearly is a lot stronger for the latter.
yeah I wasn't serious about putting warning labels in small clothing ;)
Sam, you don't recognize nicole richie and lindsay lohan?
stop with the crack lohan
This picture is most definetely photoshopped!!
you can die from anerexia faster than obesity. so i think anerexia is worse. at least obese people eat. LOL.
It certainly was photoshopped. The original is here:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/StarletLMg/1522853.jpg
And while the original isn't all that much better, if you really wanted to get your point across you could have found a picture that hadn't been touched up.
meh... I picked that picture b/c it was simply ridiculous. I know that it has been touched up....clearly.
Ok seriously with the warning labels about obesity, fat people know they are fat. We don't need to shove it down their faces or make their health choices for them. That isn't to say that we shouldn't encourage healthy eating and excercise, but last time I checked this was still a free country which means people are free to make their own decisions even if they are bad ones.
I am very tired of the whole nanny state you need to be in the shape we tell you thing.
It WAS PHOTOSHOPPED! and obesity and anorexia are both bad so why not put it on BOTH it will make it easier and no more battles about it! and who ever did that picture on photoshop just to make it look more sick is a retard!
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