All the news today is that the ‘fat jab’ Mounjaro now costs 170% more than before thanks we believe to Trump who has demanded that drugs from the UK are sold at a cheaper price in the US. In response Ely Lilly put up the price of Mounjaro in the UK to, ostensibly, match prices in other EU countries.
There is probably panic among millions of Britons who are or who had designs on being dependent on the stuff. On average is reduces weight by around 20% through a loss of appetite while the competitors such as Ozempic are less effective at around 12%, understand.
But the great popularity of these appetite-suppressing drugs is rooted in an equally great loss of self-discipline among the British people where millions live off the state on welfare; a lifestyle that inevitably makes one soft and flabby both emotionally and physically. I also claim that bunking off school when a student is a precursor to economic inactivity.
Britain needs to sharpen up. It has become inordinately sloppy with an acute loss of self-discipline and an unerring desire for the quick fix. The proper way to do things has been thrown out the window. The hard graft mentality has gone. When I was a youngster we did not question working 5 days a week, 9-5. Now, Gen Z demand less work.
I am being harsh but I mean it. The country is sinking into a malaise of entitlement and getting something for nothing. The easy life. It is a false goal. And it means that the UK loses ground to China for example where there is still a good work ethic it seems to me which is why their economy has consistently outperformed old, flabby Europe. Why almost everything we buy is MADE IN EFFING CHINA.
We need to force – not ‘encourage’ as the Labour politicians like to say – these obese citizens into EATING LESS. It is not complicated.
So, you like food? A lot of people do. I do. It brings pleasure. But that does not mean you can eat as much of it as you wish. That’s hedonism – a dangerous MO.
And there needs to be a strong adjustment when you become elderly. After around 65 all people should begin a completely new and permanent diet in which they eat about one half to one third of what they ate before. It is that severe an adjustment in my view. It took me around 10 years to utterly change my diet (permanently) to the point where my weight is as it was when I was in my 20s. It was and is hard but it promotes health and wellbeing and extends life. The discomfort of eating much is less is far outweighed by the happiness it brings through improved health well-being and self-esteem.
I am sick of seeing horribly obese senior professional golfers plying their trade on the seniors circuit with huge bellies protruding from their abdomens, getting in the way of their swing and sending a really poor signal to the young fans that being grossly obese is acceptable.
The worst offender is Thomas Bjorn. He looks gross. Actually disgusting. Shame on him (he is a fine golfer though!). But really! His belly is horrendous. It seems he has a mental health issue actually, to be kind. I suspect that he is depressed and is seeking pleasure in eating. Understandable but positively not the way to go.
Almost all senior golfers have a dire weight problem and they entirely accept it as okay. As normal. It is not. It is wrong that top sportsmen can get away with being so obese.
Almost none of them have exercised self-restrain. Self-discipline in EATING LESS.
Turn the plate over and eat of the base.
Mounjaro is a dire symptom of a sloppy and degenerate Britain which is gradually – and now more sharply under Labour – going to the dogs.
It is all about quick fixes. Anything but face the music and do things the right way, the hard way. Obese people who take Mounjaro just can’t face a permanent change to their food intake. It is too hard to contemplate. Surely this indicates a dire problem in society which is evident in so many other areas of British life such as:
- working less for the same money.
- a refusal to go to the workplace because working from home is so much better (and so less productive).
- Choosing the welfare benefit lifestyle. A lifestyle choice. Never to work. Perhaps straight from university (crap university with a useless degree probably) onto disability benefit due to ‘anxiety’ and a bad back; symptoms that cannot be properly assessed by professionals.
- getting food delivered all the time. This lessens exercise and fat burning. Just sitting at home waiting for the Tesco van to turn up with the wine and goodies. This is a crap way to live.
There is an argument that online buying in general including food provisions fuels the obesity crisis in the UK as it bypasses getting out to the shops which entails WALKING! Yes, walking is good for you. It is a form of exercice.
More exercise and less food intake = LESS OBESITY. To get there Britain needs much greater self-discipline. A dirty word nowadays. An old-fashioned notion. A word that is almost redundant and archived.
Bring it back. Dust it off and adhere to its mantra. You’ll be much happier in the long run and economically better off as will the nation as Mounjaro is now prohibitively expensive at around £300 per month as I understand it. The country can’t afford the stuff. And we are being ripped off by the big pharmas.
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