I think that is disgusting personally.
EU Rules obesity can be a 'disability'
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I think that is disgusting personally.
Lets see some proof.
Two things. He's posted an arbritary figure with no evidence, take it with a pinch of salt until he provides something - and not something anecdotal.
Secondly, there are several reasons as to why people get hooked on drinks and drugs, and not always through choice.
What's the difference?
If you don't do the physio that's your issue, if you dont reduce your eating same thing. Both are caused by the same thing. Mental block to stop or start doing something about it.
You seem to have zero point and just be but but but.
So you have no issue if I stop phyiso then. Although if I carry on then over a 98% chance of full recovery. You are incredibly blinded. they are identical situations.
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No I agree there are some people who are generally lazy waste of spaces and I accept that they probably shouldn't be registered as disabled, but it's so hard to be sure if they aren't suffering mental health problems or other disabilities. If you or someone spotted an obese person coming out of their car with a blue badge, you'd probably instinctively think they are just fat - whereas there could potentially be other things wrong with them.
I think we need better education over nutrition, and make junk food less accessible - but that's a whole different debate - people are free to do what they want, but if you excuse the pun, one shouldn't have one's cake and eat it, and expect everything to work out perfectly.
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Was re-watching the Russell Brand documentary on drugs the other evening where he met a neurologist who said they had studied the brains of people who struggled with addiction and they were physically different to those of everyone else.
In his view certain people are physically more prone to addiction than others. In which case, isn't it a physical difference like blindness or cerebal palsy?
Zero point?
My point is I think it is wrong that people who eat too much because they feel like it can categorize themselves under the same banner as people who are blind/ deaf/ autism/ MS/ etc.
Same with apparently drug addicts and alcoholics....
They can't categorize themselves, just another mistake of a huge list you have made in this thread.
What are you going on about? I don't know anything about you? Your injury or anything. If you don't want to continue your physio that's your choice. I would think you was a tool, but that's about it.
Unless you ate yourself to injury then yes, imo, you are disabled.
Just lol. So you have no point, as I said.
What I'm going on about, is you inability to evenly distrabute your opinion for every circumstance. Yu have no issue with a car accident victim giving up phyiso and saying they are disabled, despite being able to rectify the problem, then saying obese is something different.
Yet again your aren't applying your own opinion fairly across everyone and instead are blinded and focusing on things you personally feel is bad.
You said earlier
So if an obese person says 'I am disabled because I am obese' how can one turn round and tell them they are not, based on that EU ruling.
Ok lets try again, post proof from a credible source.
To be fair I am trying to look up the figure too.
How about instead of drip feeding information you tell me what you are under going physio for? Then I would be able to give you a decent answer...
I think it is wrong that someone who eats too much/ is addicted to drugs can be labelled under the same banner as those who suffer from the likes of blindness / deafness / autism.
It's not really that hard to understand and I bet quite a lot of people, feel this way.
Wow really, really?
Do you think people just go I'm disabled and that's that.
Gee not even worth replying to you, with that gem of wisdom.
Just wow.
In that case I'm disabled, oh no I'm not going to provide any evidence, doctor reports or anything else.
Blindness/deathless/autism isn't the only disabled qualification.
I'm not drip feeding anything, the injury doesn't matter. There are people who could rectify there injury but don't and are classified as disabled yet you have no issue with this. Yet this is no different to obese/drugs etc.
Wait what? Obesity is a disabilty. What evidence do you need beyond the fact that you are overweight. It's not rocket science when it comes to obesity.
It's not like autism or epilepsy that require tests and your on a spectrum. Your obese or your not.
Good god what an utterly stupid statement,
And yet again
CAN be a disability
The EU court didn't say it was a disability and off course you can't self diagnose.
ok bro. Bored of this.
MODS. Out of interest can we add a poll.
'Do you think it is fair that people who are obese solely because of their eating habbits could be labelled as disabled.'
Yes
No
According to DWP statistics for the second quarter this year (numbers in thousands):
So, who's right. A crappy tabloid that can't even get the name of the benefit correct, or the government?