A gross and dehumanising thing to say 😡
Michael Buerk has called obese people ‘weak, not ill’, saying they would cost the NHS less if they ‘keeled over’ in their 50s.
Explaining that Public Health England estimate that obesity costs the UK £6.1 billion a year, the former BBC newsreader wrote: ‘How much would he or she cost if, instead of keeling over with a heart attack at 52, they live to a ripe, dementia-ridden old age, requiring decades of expensive care?‘The obese will die a decade earlier than the rest of us; see it as a selfless sacrifice in the fight against demographic imbalance, overpopulation and climate change.
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