Do Weight Loss Drugs Excuse an Unhealthy Lifestyle?
Weight-loss jabs should not be used as an excuse for people to give up on healthy living, the Health Secretary has said. With two in three Britons classed as overweight or obese, experts say the injections are a crucial weapon in tackling Britain’s obesity epidemic, which is estimated to cost the economy £27 billion a year in health care and benefits for those out of work.
Wes Streeting has warned the availability of such treatments on the NHS should not result in obese people believing that “it is OK not to bother” with dieting and exercising to lose weight, and instead rely on the NHS to “pick up the tab”.
It comes as the NHS gears up for the mass rollout of weight-loss jabs for the first time. The proposals will see up to 1.6 million people offered injection. The jabs will be targeted at the heaviest patients with the most health problems, the Government announced this week.
Excerpted from MSN
