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02 Feb 17 00:48
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Second ? Series of this programme  and was just as unhelpful as I recall, from the previous  series.
Want to lose weight ? - what's best , exercise or dieting ? They tested two groups of people to see who felt most hungry, the ones eating less, or the ones exercising more.
Answer, the ones eating less !
Didn't give any clues as to which would cause the biggest weight loss though.

Is how much we sleep related to how much we eat.?
Two groups again, the ones who had less sleep, ate the most breakfast !

How do we get more sleep?
Answer, Dark and cool room with no screens to watch.

Rubbish programme.

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By:
ooO{Alpha Centauri}Ooo
When: 02 Feb 17 08:12
Agreed.  They did the test on the bacteria drinks, at the conclusion they say they got the same results as other tests which have been carried out on them, so what was the point?  are they saying until they do the tests none of the others are valid? heads stuck up their own @rses imo

Absolute carp.
By:
wildmanfromborneo
When: 02 Feb 17 08:52
Has there ever been a positive post from Facts.

This bitter little man hates his own country,despises its culture and history.
He also hates religion with the inevitable obligatory soft spot for the religion of peace.
By:
Racingqueen
When: 02 Feb 17 09:00
Laugh
By:
donny osmond
When: 02 Feb 17 09:00
i thought this was going to be about paul nuttall claiming he had a phd

Laugh
By:
lfc1971
When: 02 Feb 17 09:04
Facts hasn't commented on last nights NHS programme which showed health tourists costing the health service hundreds of thousands of pounds.
When this was pointed out to him before he dismissed it and inferred he knew nothing about it.
By:
mememe
When: 02 Feb 17 13:30
Facts is typical of the left wing, isn't he anxious?

When presented with evidence that's counter to his position either rubbishes it without any evidence to support him or makes a counter and totally tangential point.

That's why I just put it down to left wingers being thick.  They're usually unable to follow a logical progression.

For example I posted the fact that the EU was corrupt and had never had a clean audit report to support a particular point.  Response was along the lines of I keep saying this.  ??? Yes, they're thick
By:
Facts
When: 02 Feb 17 14:07
lfc1971

When /where have I ever said I knew nothing about it ?
You post utter crap. Again and again and again.

Educate yourself
https://fullfact.org/health/health-tourists-how-much-do-they-cost-and-who-pays/


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By:
lfc1971
When: 02 Feb 17 14:34
Facts I can' t remember exactly, but the last time health tourism was mentioned you said that the NHS was in the buisness of treating anyone who happened to turn up in England, regardless .

Now that quite simply is a policy that is costing the NHS billions of pounds, the exact figures are estimates as can be seen from your link.
When I mentioned this before your only answer was that this is NHS policy, as far as I can recall. I might be mistaken.
By:
lfc1971
When: 02 Feb 17 14:38
It was an answer of sorts , the type that answers nothing and resolves nothing.
but you might have said something else entirely
By:
saddo
When: 02 Feb 17 14:42
lfc1971    02 Feb 17 14:34 
Facts I can' t remember exactly, but the last time health tourism was mentioned you said that the NHS was in the buisness of treating anyone who happened to turn up in England, regardless .


I am not one for digging at facts, but that is indeed what he said only a week or two ago, sorry facts. Was the program any good?
By:
fife
When: 02 Feb 17 14:52
I thought the cost of health tourism was 2 or 3 hundred million a year which while a lot of money is no where near the billions that have been quoted.
By:
saddo
When: 02 Feb 17 14:59
The actual amount is not really the issue. We invite and allow people to take advantage of us and it should stop immediately.
By:
fife
When: 02 Feb 17 15:01
In that case no need for certain posters to exaggerate the amounts.
By:
lfc1971
When: 02 Feb 17 15:03
the governments own estimate a few years ago was billions, and the NHS management and doctors and staff and politicians are determined to make it difficult to find out the true figures.
It is a colossal scan and they are covering up the true extent of it
By:
lfc1971
When: 02 Feb 17 15:05
The government figures estimated about 2billion lost over the period of the investigation, If was not much more than a year or two
By:
lfc1971
When: 02 Feb 17 15:09
now the case in last nights programme, just a few were costing hundreds of thousands of pounds that they will make no real effort to get back.
These individuals if they can't pay should serve a jail sentence and their respective governments billed .
If the governments don't pay take the money out of international aid
By:
lfc1971
When: 02 Feb 17 15:11
If idiots like fife have a better solution, very good
By:
donny osmond
When: 02 Feb 17 15:12
there are not many satisfactory ways of stopping it

we could bill countries for their citizens treatment but
if they dont pay they dont pay

can we stop pregnant women flying to this country, and
when here can we refuse them treatment ?

always somebody happy to take advantage, rather
like the usa guy with alhzeimers dumped by his son.
usa agreed to take him back, but he was given great
care by our health service whilst here, at our expense.

something needs to be done to recover costs
By:
lfc1971
When: 02 Feb 17 15:14
I would happily treat the old man with Alzheimer's, he is innocent.
It is the rest of the chancers that should spend time in jail and their gov, have to pay
By:
saddo
When: 02 Feb 17 15:15
Is it possible to insist non eu tourists have health insurance, donny? If this was the case anyone likely to need treatment due to existing conditions would probably be deterred by the cost.
By:
donny osmond
When: 02 Feb 17 15:23
its a possibility saddo

same as billing coutries or taking it direct from aid budgets where applicable

our health service provides a great service , but we dont want to pay for
a world health service but neither do we want our health service turning
folk away because they do not have the right papers
By:
fife
When: 02 Feb 17 15:23
Why insult me for pointing out that your figures were a gross exaggeration lfc1971.
By:
lfc1971
When: 02 Feb 17 15:25
because if you look at the governments own figures they are not a gross exaggeration.
The government themselves, who want to downplay this problem , just a few years ago estimated that the NHS was losing billions of pounds to health tourism.
By:
lfc1971
When: 02 Feb 17 15:28
There was a programme about it, there was a programme last night that if anyone watched showed some of the problems and the massive costs involved, not recoverable ,
By:
fife
When: 02 Feb 17 15:29
The figures I saw included people on holiday becoming unwell and students studying here.
By:
lfc1971
When: 02 Feb 17 15:30
very good, not a problem., that's fine . Get the money back of them, or their parents, or their government.
By:
saddo
When: 02 Feb 17 15:35
My girlfriend saw a doctor for ten minutes in Greece last year, 50 euros. You do not get this back, EU citizen or not, we should reciprocate.
By:
fife
When: 02 Feb 17 15:37
We should try and get the money back but they are not health tourists as they did not come to this country to be treated for illness.
By:
lfc1971
When: 02 Feb 17 15:39
It is semantics, we will not get anywhere if you start that nonsense fife
By:
fife
When: 02 Feb 17 15:45
Its not nonsense as trying to band anyone visiting the UK and receiving treatment as a health tourist is disingenuous.
By:
lfc1971
When: 02 Feb 17 15:51
look it's quite simple, if they fall ill quite innocently while on holiday or as students treat them and charge them or their respective gov. I don't consider them to be health tourists, now in the case of health tourists they are commuting a crime and should serve a jail sentence it be fined, and also the costs of NHS treatment recovered from themselves or their government
I am not worried about what they are called, so stop throwing up dust.
By:
fife
When: 02 Feb 17 15:55
Surely if you put them in jail it will just cost the country more money.
By:
lfc1971
When: 02 Feb 17 15:58
that's not very far sighted of you is it fife, if we jail them , or fine them, and charge them or their governments.
How will that make them think. how will it cost the NHS and Britain more, will it mean a lessening of people wanting to come here.  I don't know, whatever we will be getting the costs back
By:
donny osmond
When: 02 Feb 17 16:07
should we charge them for jailing them too, and looking after their kids

doesnt seem a great scheme
By:
saddo
When: 02 Feb 17 16:07
They might prefer staying home to being in jail. Talk about defeatist, no wonder our NHS is abused.
By:
zorrostrikes
When: 02 Feb 17 16:12
try and avoid meat, carbs and sugar and you may live longer.
But please be aware you will have to listen to more guff in your lifetime.
By:
lfc1971
When: 02 Feb 17 16:13
thete are not likely to be children in the company of a single parent . They can go home with their family. If for some reason this is impossible they can be looked after , and the costs added. It would not even dent the NHS losses
By:
lfc1971
When: 02 Feb 17 16:15
There are always costs when a crime is committed, and these sort of crimes are worthy of a jail sentence or fine.
preferably both.
By:
Slicer
When: 02 Feb 17 16:20
The problem is even if charged, how can they be made to pay if they have already received the treatment. In the USA you pay first and then you receive treatment. The bleeding heart liberals say "It's their lives and health at stake so they must be treated whatever"! The sooner one of these scroungers arrives in the UK, is refused treatment before paying, and then dies the better. A precedent will have been set and the UK will show that one can't get away with it. Unfortunately all the human rights scum, pinko liberals and Guardian readers will say "Oh Slicer, you are a horrible man and we can't let that happen!" My answer to that is YOU pay for them then. They would change their tune if a malinger took the bed away from a critically ill son or daughter of theirs.
Cue the flak!
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