It’s time to ban obesity in NHS employees

[...]I hear cries of unfair discrimination, but recruitment to the armed forces and the police considers physique, and it is in the long term interests of obese people as well as setting an example to the rest of us.Current evidence all around us and especially in hospitals is that the epidemic is o...

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Published inBMJ (Online) Vol. 347; no. jul23 3; p. f4646
Main Author Fouin, Francois L P
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England British Medical Journal Publishing Group 23.07.2013
BMJ Publishing Group LTD
Subjects
Cross-Sectional Studies
Epidemics
Forecasting
Health Policy
Health Promotion - trends
Humans
Obesity
Obesity - epidemiology
Obesity - prevention & control
Occupational Diseases - epidemiology
Occupational Diseases - prevention & control
Occupational Health Services
Personnel Selection
State Medicine - trends
United Kingdom
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Summary:[...]I hear cries of unfair discrimination, but recruitment to the armed forces and the police considers physique, and it is in the long term interests of obese people as well as setting an example to the rest of us.Current evidence all around us and especially in hospitals is that the epidemic is out of control and that milk and water proposals are useless when people live for the day and the future with all its complications is way out of sight.
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DOI:10.1136/bmj.f4646