Duggan – Member
I’m (originally) from the fat capital of Britain
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/feb/18/obesity-tamworth-fat-capital-britain
They are everywhere. I think when it gets to the point that there isn’t even a stigma in an able-bodied person using a mobility scooter just to avoid walking, there is a pretty serious problem.
Also I’m sure it must makes thing worse for those genuinely in need of them as they doubtless all get tarred with the same brush.
One resident in that article above blames the obesity problem on the fact that the town ‘hasn’t got a sporting hero’. It seems doubtful that if someone from the town had won a bronze medal in the long-jump than all of a sudden everybody would be doing triathlons every weekend but maybe I’m just being cynical.
That doesn’t surprise me, I was up there at a show once and had a bit of shall we say aggressive banter at one of the Burger places that tried to gee us into buying some mentally oversized burger meal, we being fairly healthy sports types forced to eat there because there isn’t much else. The ‘manager’ sort got quite stressed that we wouldn’t consider ‘manning up’ to his obesity challenge, totally weird..