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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

This Doctor Wants to Save a Generation From Diabetes... But How Can he When His Hospital Has a Burger King in Reception?


The first thing you see when you enter Mayday University Hospital, Croydon, is a Burger King concession next to the main reception desk.

If you don’t fancy that, there is an Upper Crust, and the shop opposite has a huge display with a buy-two-get-one-free offer on packs of Revels, Maltesers and Skittles.
Bags of custard-filled mini-doughnuts were half price - but they’re all sold out now.

It is a depressing scene, not least because Mayday was the focus of a recent installment of The Hospital - a hard-hitting, five-part Channel 4 series examining the immediate and long-term effects of teenage obesity, alcoholism, violence and sexually transmitted infections.

They are problems which, say health experts, are in danger of crippling the NHS.'

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1 comment:

  1. It's all well and good for a caring Doctor to want to save everybody, but what about these people loving themselves enough to be able to save themselves?

    If the Burger King was not in the hospital they would still find some other way to eat junk food, guaranteed.

    Besides, doughnuts and similar foods are fine if you eat them in moderation. The problem with some people is that they have no self-control and are greedy.

    There needs to be a balance.

    Personally, I like chocolate, but I don't like it enough to eat it every single day anymore. I'm getting older and worry about my teeth rotting for example.

    Another thing, why can't these obese people get out and go for a walk?

    People have to take personal responsibility for their OWN health and not expect the Government to mollycoddle them all the time.

    These are the reasons why the government want to take over everything, because some people like to be spoon-fed all the time. They will not read up on the latest health issues and how it could affect them or watch educational TV, instead preferring to sit down in front of a television watching rubbish programmes such as Big brother, a TV programme which is designed to condition you to accept being watched in a voyeuristic manner 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and other rubbish they put on it.

    Yes, I know some people will get offended when the truth is presented to them, but that won't stop it from being said, either way.

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