Reducing massively the consumption of sugar.
Reducing, as a part of that goal, but also because of its impact on A&E demand, the consumption of alcohol.
Seriously increasing the amount of exercise we take before and during old age to stop people from falling over as they get older.
Morning calisthenics it is then. But that’ll be fin as there will also be no doughnuts and Victory Gin will be 20% proof.
Tim
Will comment more specifically on this one later but those of a curious bent may want to check out the post at Murphy’s entitled ‘Labour is revolting’ – for once I agreed almost in totality with about half of it. A historic occasion!!
He’s just finding another bandwagon to grift on. He can see grant money in UPFs. The fat cunt.
Jimmers, your post succinctly sums up the Spud persona and MOD…
People like him don’t believe in the concept of personal responsibility. In the real world people have a choice about their diet and whether they exercise, about their use of harmful substances like booze and cigs. But no, they shouldn’t have a choice they should be made to follow a healthy lifestyle for their own good and the NHS is always there as a justification.
Time to trot out one of my favourite quotes:
*I’m sure he’d have added NHS if he’d know what would happen
Staying fit so you reduce the chances of falling over and ending up at the tender mercies of the NHS and care system is something that people might want to consider, but not for his reasons. If anyone is interested this is quite a good YouTube channel from a physiotherapist who specialises in the over 50s.
https://www.youtube.com/@HT-Physio/featured
Before accessing “our” NHS you will be required to prove that you’ve walked 10,000 steps a day
’…to stop people from falling over as they get older.’
Getting local councils to properly caretake the roads and pavements would help with that!
How long would he last in this regime of enforced exercise before keeling over? Of course, he doesn’t think it would apply to him.
I think Jimmers has it dead on.
@ Boddicker
The “10,000 steps a day” was just a marketing slogan for the step-counter (it works in Japanese) – like the “five-a-day” was a marketing slogan for Californian farmers whose excessive demands for water in a low-rainfall area has seriously damaged the environment – and is more thany twice the number that provides significant health benefits. It would be interesting to learn how many doctors ask about the marketing slogan and how many ask about the 4,000 that a scientific study suggests is adequate to significantly reduce health risks. Every doctor still asks me about alcohol intake wheter or not it is relevant, but some miss out on questions that even I know are relevant.
Wasn’t compulsory exercises monitored by Big Brother through a camera in your bedroom part of George Orwell’s 1984? As usual Murphy treats it as a manual rather than a warning!
to stop people from falling over as they get older.
People do fascinate me. We had some rain yesterday afternoon. First since early April. As a result, the pavements were as slippery as ice because months of baked on ook now with a film of water. It happens every time we get rain near the end of summer. The rather portly bint I was following slipped but fortunately her sightly slenderer companion grabbed & supported her. So they’d paused for a few moments while she sorted herself out & then set out afresh. Whereupon her feet went out from under her & she took a frightful purler. Been a help if she’d been concentrating on walking & not gazing at shoes in a shop window.
It really is simple. When walking, keep your centre of gravity over your feet & don’t try & abruptly change direction. She was obviously Spanish & must have been dealing this since she was a kid. It’s not age. She must have been 30 years younger than me. But people will not adjust to the current situation. It won’t be the state of the pavements & roads in the UK. Compared with some of the places I’ve lived they’re like billiard tables. And old people there seem to negotiate them safely. I think it’s because people have become habituated to living in an environment that cossets them & they can’t or refuse to adjust when it doesn’t. There will have been the usual clutch of road accidents yesterday. On the high speed autoroute, no doubt some spectacular & entertaining ones. Because drivers don’t appreciate that ABS & traction control don’t function in these conditions. They don’t do what I would do automatically. Drive slower & treble the distance to the car in front. OK, you’re old & getting frail. Then don’t try & walk across that rough bit, walk around it. It’s like your potholes. They become cavernous because drivers persist in driving at speed over them. There was a newspaper article I read a while ago. Some geezer bleating about the damage a hole had done to his car. WTF’d he drive through it at a speed would cause the damage?
And yes, that was a riff on the subject. The answer to the NHS problem is to abolish the NHS & go to an insurance model. Land whales would soon cut back on their sugar when they saw their health insurance premiums treble. Or health service providers would rub their hands in glee at the extra business.
Spud of course wants to take the cosseting route. And that route leads to infinity. Because the more you cosset people the less they’ll take personal responsibility & the more they’ll require cosseting.
Still. Good money for grifters.
I got a health assessment thingy from the doctors this week, and it advised 150 minutes a week of walking. That’s 20 minutes a day! I do more than that staggering back from the supermarket.
Land whales would soon cut back on their sugar when they saw their health insurance premiums treble.
No, there’d be huge screeching and mass stampeeding to the courts to overturn the evil unjust discrimination. Just look at what happened a decade ago with motor insurance premiums being calculated on known, observable, recorded, acknowledged differences in accident risk correlated to biology.
Alternatively, you’d get the Central London Housing Benefit model. Your choices make your purchases too expensive for you? Don’t worry, the government will give you money to obviate you making any changes to your expenses.
“Reducing massively the consumption of sugar.”
As ever with Spud, utter bollocks.
https://iea.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/DP_Sweet%20Truth_62_web%20edited.pdf
“Annual sugar consumption in Britain peaked several decades ago at over 50 kilograms per person and is now typically less than 40 kilograms per person. Britons today consume less sugar per head than they did in 1900. Patterns of obesity and diabetes have not followed patterns of sugar consumption at the population level.”
Here we are now with Boomers like me making up at least 25% of the population. Given the size of the Boomer generation relative to subsequent generations, an entirely foreseeable problem that everyone decided to ignore, except for idiots like Murphy and the entire Public Health busybody establishment.
If they’d let the Boomers keep smoking there’d be rather fewer of us, and we’d have paid more tax and received less pension.
Next time someone asks you why there is som much “intergenerational unfairness’ you know where to point your finger.
jgh @ 12.20, ” I do more than that staggering back from the supermarket”
Addolff ” I do more than that staggering back from the pub”.
PJH @ 12.51, please dear boy, don’t try all that misinformation nonsense using facts, evidence, logic and reasoning…..
@jgh
But this is where you are now. And none of it is sustainable. The end point will be there are no health service providers because it’s impossible to pay for them. It’s the same with taxation. The Laffer curve is real. Eventually people will move outside the taxable economy & collected tax will approach zero.
All systems are consensual. Remove the consent & they cease to function. There’s enough examples in the world where this has happened.
By the way, does anyone know what Murphy’s exercise regime is? I mean, he seems to be the sort of bloke who readily tells his fans just how virtuous in every other area he is, so he must surely have told them how many steps / push ups / squats / miles on the static bicycle / pelvic thrusts he does every day…….