Half the Island ‘is overweight’
Wednesday 22nd December 2010, 2:56PM GMT.
JERSEY is still losing the battle with obesity, according to a survey out today that says more than half of Islanders are overweight or obese.
The Jersey Annual Social Survey – based on more than 1,500 survey responses from randomly selected households in June and July – found that, using body mass indexes, 38% of adults were overweight, 13% were obese and 5% were either very or morbidly obese.
In 2008, a Medical Officer of Health report stated that a slightly smaller total of overweight and obese Islanders – 55% rather than 56% – painted a pessimistic picture about future health problems.
• See today’s JEP for the full report
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Another revenue producing avenue to be exploited by the Ozouf Crew!
Introducing the all new BMI Tax.
For every point you are over, with say a 15% allowance, you will be taxed at a set rate. This would increase at certain threshold levels meaning the morbidly obese pay top whack.
Other new taxes on the drawing board are Air Tax, Talking Tax and the re-introduction of Window Tax.
Who says Jersey doesn’t have a progressive tax structure!
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“half the island is overweight”
Yes, it’s the north end, if viewed from the air you can clearly see how much fatter the north coast is. That’s why they have cliffs, it’s not sedimentary rock it’s lard.
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And how did the Medical Officer of Health work this out based on 1500 responses??
Must have been on the fat waist, wallets and mouths of our politicians and hospital management!
No wonder the health system in Jersey and the states is in such a mess with a stupid waste of money on this survey, now we can see where our millions of pounds of money are going.
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COme on Fatty’s get on a treadmill!
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It must be true, because all the birds that I have pulled recently are massive.
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maybe its because the only food that is only just affodable is junk food.
the extra 2% gst will help us all to lose weight
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Just another excuse to try and control what we can and cannot do.
do-gooders,priggish moralists,and other bureaucrats are turning us into a nation of children
We are going down the slippery slope to totalitarian made more dangerous by the “jobsworth”mentality of officialdom.
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Maybe the 1500 responses came from the fat, slobbish, chavs who sit at home all day watching Jeremy Kyle with a can of lager,fag and all the takeaways they can eat…..all at our expense!!?
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Another ridiculous headline “Half the island is overweight” when it is actually half of 1500 people who were surveyed.Totally pointless story yet again from the JEP.
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John Rambo 5 – It must be true, because all the birds that I have pulled recently are massive.
Yeh, thanks for that mate, I got off with their fit mates, any chance we can hook up this weekend.
They should have one of those things they have at the airport to stop your hand luggage being too big on the door of all the clubs.That way no matter how leathered you are you are guaranteed not to wake up with a whale.
The munters can all go to a different club.
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BMI is a flawed measure anyway. Take for example, many male athletes (rugby players being a very good example), although they have very little body fat their BMI would show them as being at least overweight if not obese.
Mind you, anecdotal evidence would suggest there are plenty of fatties on the island!!!
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Jersey Evening Post from the Daily Mail school of ‘journalism’ That transltes into sensational scaremongering and inaccurate headlines
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if a child gets fat take them into care. if you are a normal weight at 18 you’re likely to stay about right.
its parents filling kids up on junk. I’d put a 100% tax on fizzy drinks (cept slimline tonic) as well.
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Stop the fatties allowance the obese receive from Social Security, then the obese may loose a couple of pounds!
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More unadulterated claptrap from Health, how can a response from 1500 people mean that half the island is overweight. A couple of years ago they said that the ‘overwhelming majority of islanders’ wanted to see cigarettes taken off display, it turned out to be a response from a few hundred people to another survey. Health is top heavy, overstaffed in all the wrong places, this how they justify their managerial wages, scaremongering
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What about the other 78500 islanders? what a waste of time & money.
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Hang though! if half the island is unemployed it must come as no surprise that they are spending their social security cheques and P45′s on fags, booze, “space invaders” and “quavers”
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You only have to walk down the street to make this observation.
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What a load of tosh ….
I reckon they are reading the results incorrectly,
surely it’s 44% of islanders are underweight !!
The 56% are happy well rounded citizens and the scrawney little thin runts are’nt happy about it.
Who makes up all this garbage ??
and who’s pay’s for these idiots to publish it ?
Yes, us.
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Half the Island ‘is overweight’
well we could move round abit but that would be costly, suggest as we are a land mass it doesn’t matter that much! lol
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Perhaps if the monkeys in the Chamber voted to take GST off fresh fruit, vegetables, fish and lean cuts of meat from the butcher and stick it on processed food we would be a little more encouraged to eat good healthy food rather than having ‘takeaway’ style diet.
That’s why mum’s go to Iceland…
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In a related story you can buy a family size lasagne at Iceland for £1 …
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So massive unemployment but half the island overweight, now which half would that be ? the rich or the unemployed ? the well paid or the lowest paid ?
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How many times have I heard this statement? It makes my blood boil.
I am overweight….clinically obese i believe, but I would take on a health test with any underweight person in health and agility and turn out better than them.
You see I take regular exercise and my health is monitored regularly by the doctors and yes I have to take blood pressure tablets but my parents passed away aged 70 and 86 of heart attacks…but they were not overweight.
What about the underweight? Well they deprive themselves of important nutrition & usually have no energy to take any exercise. Why cant they be put under the microscope like obese people are? I bet they may be more vulnerable to other death related diseases that cost the healthcsystem just as much.
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Unfortunately this is a problem that is only going to get bigger… and bigger and bigger, literally. Fatties love pies, its a fact!
I’m sure that a lot of the fatties would disagree with some of the comments on here… If they could be bothered to, however, due to the fact many of them would consider typing as an extreme sport, plus at this time of year there is just way to much cake flying around so they are very busy hoovering it all up!
Gotta laugh.
Love & Hugs.
xxx
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@ Missfit&Overweight
I strongly suggest that statement may be pie in the sky (no offence). I’m sure your use of “any” underweight person might be a bit optimistic. Let’s choose an elite marathon runner – oops! You lose.
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ive run out of mince pies…………………oh no
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What do you expect when the States promised us a first class, world beating waterfront and what did we end up with? Pizza Hut and KFC
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Fast food and rubbish diets what do you expect? Look to the US to see the shape of things to come.
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#26 Have to agree. And for the one that is allegedly healthy despite obesity there are way more developing diabetes, developing serious back problems and having heart attacks far too young.
If anyone thinks the numbers being given are too high then they have probably had their idea of a healthy weight skewed by seeing so much obesity around them. It is worrying what children are growing up believing to be a healthy size.
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i guess that 2011 will bring skinny waists and wallets for many.
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oh…dissapointing.I thought someone will blame immigrants for this too
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Does this mean that the island is going to tip up and sink like the Titanic? Someone reassure me.
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On the positive side 50% of the island is slim!
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24. Missfit &overweight.
Sorry love but you are seriously deluding yourself.
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