In Italy there are 6 million of obese costing the NHS 8 billion of euro. It’s a matter with a impressive existential cost and an economic cost equal to the financial maneuvers of the government. They are not one-off costs, they are annual costs. They are not new data, and the passivity of the Italian governments faced with this problem is not new too. It’s a problem that year on year increased and no one tries to give meaningful answers. While there is much talk about cancer and there are rightly money to research into the causes and therapies to treat and prevent it. There is little talk about obesity, because in everyone’s mind it’s considered as a problem which depends only on the individual willingness to have a different life style. In other words, it does not nothing, because the social stereotypes is that people themselves are the cause of their evil. The same goes for physical inactivity, despite being the fourth leading death cause, itìs experienced as a leisure problem, personal laziness to do the daily movement that it would produce benefits to their cardiovascular system and more generally improve their well-being. So for the reason that anyone cares that we are obese, at least we enjoy eating killing us.
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