Junk food addicts face deserts based rationing?

 

Chris Smyth The Times reports 19th June 2014: Junk food and antibiotics blamed for rise in Crohn’s disease among young 

Just as a spoof I am suggesting that junk food addicts get less access to the Health Services…

Four times as many young people are being treated in hospital for Crohn’s disease than a decade ago, according to NHS figures, with junk food blamed as one of the main causes.

The condition, which attacks the intestines and is thought to be triggered by problems with the immune system, appears to be becoming more common.

Sally Mitton, a consultant gastroenterologist at St George’s Hospital in southwest London, told BBC Radio’s Newsbeat that the rise could partly be blamed on a poor diet. “Definitely, if you have a lot of junk food before your diagnosis it actually makes it more likely that you will develop Crohn’s disease.

But deserts based issues are in the news, with Labour suggesting that young unemployed without qualifications don’t get “job seekers” allowance. Ed Miliband: Young jobless must train or lose benefits (BBC News 19th June 2014).

So why not extend the “qualification” for state benefits, which includes the NHS? How about evidence of volunteering, of some sort, for every able bodied/minded retired person in the country?

Volunteering is dying, and many of our institutions depend on volunteers to survive.

Alan Travis in The Guardian 29th April 2010 reports: Charitable giving and volunteering in decline, survey finds

Annual citizenship study also shows expenses crisis has badly dented trust in parliament……………….

 

Or deserts based access to health only if you can speak adequate English? (British Social Attitudes Report: ‘Speak English’ to be British.)