Obvious really

Well, we could always revert to a private medical insurance system where people are rewarded for making healthy choices. After all, the great and good seem to have to problem with restricting healthcare to the unvaccinated 🙂

Firstly, there isn’t a crisis, there is the BMI providing a convenient justification for the prodnosing. Secondly, there is more to maintaining a healthy weight than monitoring what you eat anyway. How much you move about for instance. Why do we have a system that provides ignorant single issue obsessives with jobs that match their hobbies?

Addolf’s got a point except the weasling will be bangers, chips, mars bars and soda pop are cheap but organic vegan corriander falafels, and agave and gojii smoothies aren’t…therefore poverty.

The problem is that these jokers define ‘unhealthy food’ as food containing salt, sugar and saturated fat which doesn’t leave much in the ‘healthy’ category.

Also, of course, salt, sugar and saturated fat are essential to our survival, hence the fact that we rather enjoy a nice slice of cheesecake.

So, the policy is, must be, either:

A. Singling out the fat buggers and controlling them in some intrusive way to combat actual obesity.

or B. Banning all kinds of food for anyone and everyone fat or not based on fashionable prejudice about what is banned, with the loudest moaners given the most influence.

Who am I kidding, it’s B, and it’s now.

The reference to obesity is more in the way of a catchy synonym for metabolic syndrome, aka insulin resistance. Whilst being obese is itself unhealthy it’s also the most obvious symptom of a much broader condition which, unseen, slowly destroys the constitution, leading to heart disease, certain cancers, strokes, dementia, etc.

(There’s also the wrinkle that people who aren’t noticeably overweight may have dangerous levels of visceral fat, due to a diet of processed food.)

With regard to this particular report it is, of course, complete bollocks. Any contribution which groups salt and fat with sugar should be ignored.

It’s the government’s own guidelines which created the current health issue: daemonising saturated fat and salt whilst pushing grains, starchy vegetables and inflamatory “vegetable oils.” This report is just calling for the government to double-down on the same anti-science.

“Tam Fry, the chair of the National Obesity Forum, said…the researchers’ demands must now be mandated – no ifs and no buts.”

You see what we’re dealing with here: People unfit to run a whelk stool claiming the right and the duty to dictate what everyone eats. Yet on their own web-site they approvingly review Nina Teicholz’s book Big Fat Surprise, which documents how saturated fat wrongly came to be daemonised:

“By the end of this book, utterly convincing as it is, you will begin to questions the old accepted science. I recommend every health care professional to read this book and help to sound the death-knell for the ‘one size fits all approach’. Fat can belong in a healthy diet. Fat, meat and eggs, should not be demonised and we should not be forced to adopt a unitary approach to nutrition therapy. This well-crafted and well written book should form another stepping stone in the quiet revolution against the out-dated nutritional advice that a low fat diet is the only path to follow for optimum health, which is surely helping to fuel the twin scourges of modern society, that of obesity and type two diabetes. ”

Yet their new “damning 28-page report” completely ignores this recognition, pushing instead for the old, failed dogma to be enforced by law.

It’s hard to judge which disastrous government policy is the most catastrophic: dietary prescriptions, global warming, or Covid.

‘There are just lots of middle class, state employed neo puritans getting upset because we have created a society where the poor can afford to eat what they like, which should be fucking celebrated by any normal human being.’

Thanks Harry. Yes!!! Let people eat what they please.