Tag Archives: obesity

Scares and Counter-Scares

Posted on August 23, 2020 by the archivist

James Delingpole: Unless you live somewhere enlightened like Sweden, you’ll have had personal experience of this authoritarian lunacy – compulsory masks, extended quarantines, and so on. To anyone familiar with the nature of the pandemic it seems as if the … Continue reading →

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Why are we Measuring People Like Carpets?

Posted on October 10, 2019 by the archivist

Thank goodness she’s leaving. Ban and tax our way out of obesity – top doctor Could it be curtains for the buffet car? Banning snacks on public transport is just one way England’s departing chief medical officer, Dame Sally Davies, reckons the … Continue reading →

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Beautiful People

Posted on July 1, 2019 by the archivist

There seems to have been a bit of a tweetstorm in the aftermath of Jeremy Vine’s recent tweet. I was writing about it yesterday in The Inconsiderate Jeremy Vine. And now my blog has been sucked into the storm as … Continue reading →

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Blackmailing NHS

Posted on April 23, 2016 by the archivist

Mail: Three million refused NHS ops… for smoking or being too fat: Third of trusts deny routine procedures including hip and knee replacements to overweight patients One in eight NHS trusts will not fund routine operations for smokers Figures from … Continue reading →

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Fat Story

Posted on August 20, 2014 by the archivist

I was arguing last night that one cause of obesity might be reduced metabolic rates in warmer housing, workplace, and transport internal environments. Today I thought I’d take a stab at estimating what the difference might be, using Humphreys and … Continue reading →

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