However, they are also not enough. The massive health crisis these foods are creating, from increasing obesity to the rise in diabetes and dementia, with effects also seen in other physical and mental health, requires much more, including:
Planning controls on fast food outlets
Statutory limits on fructose content in food
Total advertising bans
Massive health warnings on packaging
Selective tax changes
Regulation on food displays in supermarkets highlighting risks
Statutory requirements for changes in school and hospital meals
Eventual bans on these abusive substances.
The man is going to ban pears. No, really, he is. High in fructose, see?
But Boat Twat has been reading the Soyence:
Sorry – but please read the science
Fructose is the added sugar
By all means eat fruit – but what do you think added sugar is? Added fructose creates addictive dopamine highs – hence fast food addiction – and big food knows that. I am really not being stupid here. This is the problem. And you’re falling for their cover story.
British people need to be broken of their harmful addiction to eating food.
I just saw a gang of fructose-crazed youth set fire to a tramp after going on a violent Double Dip bender.
JC on a pogo stick, but he definitely said the quiet part out loud there. Not much of a jump from this to mandatory exercise, gov’t inspectors popping in every few days, weigh-ins & blood tests weekly (ooh, your sodium levels are a tad high, it’s a bland diet for you until next week’s test).
But, it is for your own good!
Es ist zu deinem eigenen Besten!
Spud is lining himself up for the role of Chief Bottom Inspector.
The lovely thing about Wes Streetings three-legged masterplan for reforming the NHS is that it’s hard to see how any of this will have the slightest impact on “front line services”:
1) From regional to local means moving the bureaucracy around which will do nothing for patients;
2) From analogue to digital sounds great until you remember that their previous foray into IT cost billions and didn’t work. We now have HS2 to provide us with that facility;
3) Changing the behaviour of the population sounds more like reforming the population than reforming the NHS.
On the other hand people are beginning to realise that medical expertise is disseminated by pharma sales reps and the best kind of doctor may be the one sufficiently open-minded to accept that the digestive transit might be the van that brings the biscuits.
When Spud gets himself down to my weight (and I could lose 8kg if I *really* needed to), then his lectures might be more forgiveable. For someone who is clearly unhealthily overweight (just look at him) to lecture other people on their diet and/or execise regime is offensive.
Even by his own high standards this is a corker.
“Selective tax changes”
We know how this works. Moar Tax! but not for me.
“Massive health warnings on packaging”
Why not a large photo of him? That should put people off their food.
“Total advertising bans”
Let’s make the existence of food a closely guarded secret. Then nobody will buy any,
Jesus H Christ on a banjo
– Planning controls on fast food outlets
Cue a whole raft of ‘pool halls’ or ‘arcades’ where the primary purpose is obscured. It’s also a fairly racist policy given the owners of the fast food outlets in my locale? Why does he hate Indian and Chinese people so much I wonder?
Statutory limits on fructose content in food
Our erstwhile host points out the problem with this. Also more generally how is this going to be enforced – won’t you just be setting up bootleggers?
Total advertising bans
That will be super effective of course.
Massive health warnings on packaging
Because that is working so well on Tobacco and alcohol
Selective tax changes
I think Martin has it surrounded – of course the notion of people taking responsibility for their own health or indeed moving to an in surance based system is off the table
Regulation on food displays in supermarkets highlighting risks
Because children always look at the warnings on any display
Statutory requirements for changes in school and hospital meals
As if the firms running school and hospital canteens have money to burn
Eventual bans on these abusive substances.
You wonder if he is somehow in the pocket of criminal syndicates – he seems to love the idea of bootlegging and black markets
What an utter piece of garbage – sorry Editor but he needs to suffer an unimaginable torture at the hands of either ISIS or a ‘Far right’ counter mob – a piece of crap who is completely worthless. My hatred for him is total
Perhaps it is time to start investigating whether Richard owns a pair of black shorts or secretly designs women’s underclothing.
Note that I said designs, not wears. I think the wears part is largely a given.
Dennis
Genuine ROFL – great stuff….
The State specifying and controlling what you may sell and how you may sell it, and what you may consume. There’s a word for this, begins with ‘f’, seven letters (no, not that one), it’s on the tip of my tongue….
Fructose creates addictive dopamine highs? Strangely I’ve not heard of ‘Honey Nut Loops anonymous’
Noel – Fructose creates addictive dopamine highs?
Psst! Hey, kid, wanna smoke some Cocoa Puffs?
When Spud gets himself down to my weight (and I could lose 8kg if I *really* needed to), then his lectures might be more forgiveable. For someone who is clearly unhealthily overweight (just look at him) to lecture other people on their diet and/or execise regime is offensive.
Looking at Spud (not something most of us can bear to do for very long), the most exercise he gets every day is lifting a cup of coffee to his lips. I wonder what his best time is for 1500m? I suspect you’d need to put away your stopwatch and reach for the calendar (h/t Anthony Buckeridge).
Looking at the distribution of land whales in my area I would say that government attempts to make people lose weight and not get diabetes are institutionally racist.
“On the other hand people are beginning to realise that medical expertise is disseminated by pharma sales reps and the best kind of doctor may be the one sufficiently open-minded to accept that the digestive transit might be the van that brings the biscuits.”
Except when any doctor dares to be open-minded, they (the medico-pharma complex) chop them off at the legs:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/04/27/doctors-could-struck-spreading-fake-news-vaccines-lockdowns/
Also this case:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13842047/Covid-Vaccine-sceptic-GP-struck-misinformation.html
Banning fried chicken outlets in the Islamic Republic of Bradistan would be disastrous for our Beloved Leaders…
Where would the money launderers bung their brown envelopes?
Didn’t we get where we are by following government advice on diet in the first place? The demonising of fat and the insistence that relying on carbohydrates was healthier was pretty much guaranteed to lead to more incidences of diabetes.
Really the key to good nutrition is simply variety. Your local supermarket offers endless choices, make sure that you eat a wide range and nothing to excess and you will be fine.
Does Spud want to confiscate my fruit trees? The pears have been extremely abundant this year.
Most of the problem is people driving. It’s why everyone is buying big cars, to fit their lardarses in.
@ Steve
Fructose naturally occuring in fruit is not *added* sugar.
Does this accountant not understand the meaning of “added”?!?
[Apologies for slow response: I was so incensed that I didn’t pause to read the earlier replies before posting]
@ Chris Miller
I suspect that I could beat him over 1500m if I was Walking (over 5000m or more I should be willing to bet on it)
I weigh 75 kilos, the same as I have weighed for most of my adult life. At the age of 66 I can swim 2.2 kilometres in an hour. I also have type two diabetes. It must be down to eating too much fruit.
@ Stonyground
If you have a lot of fat you will find it easier to float. I hate swimming because I didn’t float as a child I was 4ft 8in and weighed 4st 8lbs, but at your age and 5ft 8in (but weighing nearer 9st 8lb than 5st 8lb) I could walk more than 8.8km in an hour (and still can)