The City of Westminster, a famous district of London, seeks to make people who have a weight problem feel guilty. The Westminster Council intends to financially sanction obese and overweight people who do not follow the fitness program prescribed by their doctor.
Concretely, the “violators” would see their allowances abolished. To verify their good faith, obese people who must exercise will have to point by means of an electronic card in sports centers where they are supposed to practice, for example, their gym or yoga class.
This measure intended to encourage Londoners to take charge (a quarter of Britons are obese) should save 2 billion pounds. An amount that should be allocated according to the initiators of the project to communication campaigns of the NHS (National health service), the public health system in the United Kingdom.
The taxpayers’ money thus recovered should also be paid to stores to enable them to stock up on fruits and vegetables.
The Westminster Council measure is cringe. Dr Buckman, president of the British Medical Association called the proposal one “of the craziest things ever heard.” While suggesting an equally radical idea: “The best way to prevent obesity and prevent restaurants and fast food to serve what makes you gain weight “.
In France, sports on prescription soon?
To fine obese people, we are far from it in France. Nevertheless, the idea of prescribing exercise to patients who need it gained ground. The city of Strasbourg is experimenting with a system that allows doctors to prescribe sports on prescription to their patients suffering from obesity, diabetes or cardiovascular disease. Free activities which if they are not followed are not (for the moment?) Not sanctioned.
