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I saw a post on Facey the other day.
A friend had been in hospital and was praising the staff there.
Commenting that they “should be paid more than a footballer”
Loads of comments agreeing and I’ve seen this expressed many times before.
About other public services too.
Now I fully agree that the NHS is massively underfunded.
And that the staff do a great job and are deserving of higher pay for what they do (most of the rest of the public sector too).
A number of our members (and Kirsty, one of the coaches) work at Macc hospital.
And work hard in a difficult job for an unreflective wage.
But, unfortunately, in real life, paying them more than footballers can’t happen.
Nice as it would be.
How would it work?
We put nurses on a hundred grand a week?
Where does that come from?
Dropping to only a handful of staff per hospital?
A massive increase in taxes?
Huge cuts somewhere else?
Or do we slash footballer wages to about 1% of the current Premier League level?
All the best players leave this country and British football dies.
It should (and could) be possible to narrow the gap.
But nurses getting paid more than footballers?
Nice in theory, but impossible in practice.
Weight Loss Lies
It’s like a lot claims about different ways of eating.
“Eat as much as you like with;
Paleo
Intermittent fasting
Keto
Etc”
All nice in theory.
Doesn’t quite work in practice.
Depends, of course, how much you ‘like’ to eat.
But the implication is you can’t overeat on them.
And you can. These are just some of the weight loss lies people tell.
All have been shown (as has any way of eating) to only bring weight loss when in a calorie deficit.
In controlled studies, sure.
And we’re aware real life isn’t like a controlled study.
But, none work when in a calorie surplus.
All work when in a calorie deficit.
Been shown time and time again.
All perfectly valid approaches to use if you find they work for you.
But not the magical approaches they can be proclaimed as.
Use any eating approach you like if it helps you.
If you can lose weight and it not adversely affect your health, it’s all good.
But don’t fall for the ‘nice in theory, impossible in practice’ idea that “you can have as much as you like”.
Much love,
Jon ‘Barnes’ Hall and Matthew ‘LeTissier’ Nicholson
P.S. New dates up for the June find-out-more meeting for July starters at the Briefing Meeting page of RISE in Macclesfield’s website 🙂
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