| 25% British people obese 08:49 - May 19 with 3048 views | onehunglow |
15% of kids at reception class.
Yet ,action against this national scandal delayed
In this regard Conservatives really are shamed
Telling kids they are overweight is seen as wrong ,though
What a state we're in |  |
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| 25% British people obese on 08:54 - May 19 with 2166 views | felixstowe_jack |
It is not the Conservatives that are force feeding children it is their parents. Why can't parents just say no. Mind you over 50% of the adult population are either over weight or obese while at the same time people are claiming they can't afford to eat. | |
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| 25% British people obese on 09:01 - May 19 with 2155 views | JACKMANANDBOY |
45 percent of NHS demand is avoidable metabolic disease. In my view there also has to be as some personal responsibility, my neighbour who was very overweight got told he was borderline diabetic by his GP. He stopped eating junk and started to run and has dropped 6 stone and is no longer a diabetic risk. He says he did not think being overweight was a problem! |  |
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| 25% British people obese on 09:08 - May 19 with 2148 views | JACKMANANDBOY |
| 25% British people obese on 08:54 - May 19 by felixstowe_jack |
It is not the Conservatives that are force feeding children it is their parents. Why can't parents just say no. Mind you over 50% of the adult population are either over weight or obese while at the same time people are claiming they can't afford to eat. |
Trouble is the junk is cheap and people take the easy route. For example, porridge oats are about 70p for 500g and are a good way to start the day but the supermarkets are full of surgery breakfast cereals at £2:50 for 500g. | |
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| 25% British people obese on 09:18 - May 19 with 2138 views | onehunglow |
But we have a Conservative administration who have again prevaricated.
Personal responsibility has almost vanished from many .
We need to hammer this obesity issue and fight it but we won't evidenced by this fat shaming nonsense.We have fat in our bodies but it has a purpose .
Junk food is too cheap as is obvious.
The poorest areas have the greatest volume of shyte food outlets and that is key. | |
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| 25% British people obese on 09:27 - May 19 with 2134 views | JACKMANANDBOY |
| 25% British people obese on 09:18 - May 19 by onehunglow |
But we have a Conservative administration who have again prevaricated.
Personal responsibility has almost vanished from many .
We need to hammer this obesity issue and fight it but we won't evidenced by this fat shaming nonsense.We have fat in our bodies but it has a purpose .
Junk food is too cheap as is obvious.
The poorest areas have the greatest volume of shyte food outlets and that is key. |
If there was a big tax on sugar for example you would have a media frenzy about hitting the poorest hard and as you say a social media campaign about fat shaming. | |
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| 25% British people obese on 10:16 - May 19 with 2101 views | Lorax |
| 25% British people obese on 09:08 - May 19 by JACKMANANDBOY |
Trouble is the junk is cheap and people take the easy route. For example, porridge oats are about 70p for 500g and are a good way to start the day but the supermarkets are full of surgery breakfast cereals at £2:50 for 500g. |
For a long time my breakfast was porridge oats with blueberries and banana. Lovely it was too. Don't know why I stopped!
People don't want personal responsibility, they want someone to blame, overwieght guv,...not my fault, not enough money for food....but I can't go without the latest smartphone and my Mercedes on PLP...can't save for a mortgage...but I need to holiday twice a year. These people blame the government for things that are in their control, they'll blame Labour too.
Mind you, when we are in the middle of an economic maelstrom, rising inflation, massive hikes in prices and many low income and pensioners are genuinely struggling, the tories vote down an emergency budget to try and help. It's nice to be on 80k per year with a very healthy expense account eh. | | | |
| 25% British people obese on 10:38 - May 19 with 2091 views | Wingstandwood |
Crazy but true that I know individuals who travel by car just to go to the shop at the bottom of the road. I know one individual who I have never ever seen shopping on foot not unless it meant walking from the supermarket to the carpark. |  |
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| 25% British people obese on 10:44 - May 19 with 2090 views | onehunglow |
Good posting,folks.
We need to highlight this subject | |
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| 25% British people obese on 10:51 - May 19 with 2082 views | builthjack |
As long as the Gov make money out of fast food they don't care. They are happy to give planning to fast food outlets.
Wouldn't surprise me if Rees Mogg and Co had money in them. |  |
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| 25% British people obese on 10:52 - May 19 with 2081 views | Lorax |
| 25% British people obese on 10:38 - May 19 by Wingstandwood |
Crazy but true that I know individuals who travel by car just to go to the shop at the bottom of the road. I know one individual who I have never ever seen shopping on foot not unless it meant walking from the supermarket to the carpark. |
Our old sons school, I used to walk him down of a morning, about 700 yards, over two thirds of the way there we'd regularly see a dad getting his 2 kids in the car and hed drive them the last 100 yards. it took them longer to get in and back out than it would have taken them to walk it.
Outside the school was always rammed with cars of people who lived no further away than us. Some of them would be stuck in the traffic they caused and wed walk back up before they'd get away. And yes, many of them looked overweight. | | | |
| 25% British people obese on 11:38 - May 19 with 2066 views | Wingstandwood |
| 25% British people obese on 10:52 - May 19 by Lorax |
Our old sons school, I used to walk him down of a morning, about 700 yards, over two thirds of the way there we'd regularly see a dad getting his 2 kids in the car and hed drive them the last 100 yards. it took them longer to get in and back out than it would have taken them to walk it.
Outside the school was always rammed with cars of people who lived no further away than us. Some of them would be stuck in the traffic they caused and wed walk back up before they'd get away. And yes, many of them looked overweight. |
I compare the days of when I and nearly everyone else walked to school and back home again on a daily basis to this day and age where there is vast line of cars of waiting parents. The "that was then this is now" difference is profound. | |
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| 25% British people obese on 11:45 - May 19 with 2060 views | JACKMANANDBOY |
| 25% British people obese on 11:38 - May 19 by Wingstandwood |
I compare the days of when I and nearly everyone else walked to school and back home again on a daily basis to this day and age where there is vast line of cars of waiting parents. The "that was then this is now" difference is profound. |
Very true, I walked to primary school, about a third of a mile and also walked two miles a day to secondary school. If it rained we got wet. | |
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| 25% British people obese on 11:51 - May 19 with 2056 views | Lorax |
I grew up in Mumbles, I didn't have very far to walk to Dunns Lane primary, or to Oystermouth infants before that and Junior Comp later. I lived very close to Covelli's chip shop, which was nice!
Then Bishop Gore and we caught a bus. Spoiled I was  But yes, the difference is vast, people are so lazy.
10minutes walk is just too much for some people. | | | |
| 25% British people obese on 12:21 - May 19 with 2040 views | BryanSwan |
Obesity is an epidemic, it will not be long before we catch up with the US.
Dread to think of the state the NHS will be in with the added burden. | |
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| 25% British people obese on 12:41 - May 19 with 2029 views | Flynnidine_Zidownes |
| 25% British people obese on 09:27 - May 19 by JACKMANANDBOY |
If there was a big tax on sugar for example you would have a media frenzy about hitting the poorest hard and as you say a social media campaign about fat shaming. |
Food is only a tiny part of the problem. If you’re active enough it doesn’t matter how many calories you take in. The nature of work has changed in the last forty years. Active physical jobs are on a downtrend and now a lot more people spend their day sitting in an office in front of a screen or on a phone. It’s the same for kids, a lot of them would prefer to be on their PlayStations rather than out building dens or playing football.
The solution is getting people more active. Sugar taxes and other nanny state policies are completely pointless if people aren’t burning any calories at all. Not sure how you’d convince the lazy buggers to start moving though. | | | |
| 25% British people obese on 14:13 - May 19 with 1996 views | onehunglow |
| 25% British people obese on 10:51 - May 19 by builthjack |
As long as the Gov make money out of fast food they don't care. They are happy to give planning to fast food outlets.
Wouldn't surprise me if Rees Mogg and Co had money in them. |
I must ay I agree with you Builth on that.
I feel the delay is rather sinister.
It's not unlike the refusal to truly hammer tax on alcohol and tobacco.
The Conservative wont as they dont want to ruin the businesses profits and Labour wont as they're the working man's pleasure-as we were told.
Our attitudes to health needs to change dramitically | |
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| 25% British people obese on 15:26 - May 19 with 1978 views | Flashberryjack |
The news can be a little misleading, one minute they're telling us that people need more food banks, then they say 25% of British people are obese, not over weight, but obese.
Make your bloody mind up. |  |
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| 25% British people obese on 16:18 - May 19 with 1969 views | felixstowe_jack |
| 25% British people obese on 09:18 - May 19 by onehunglow |
But we have a Conservative administration who have again prevaricated.
Personal responsibility has almost vanished from many .
We need to hammer this obesity issue and fight it but we won't evidenced by this fat shaming nonsense.We have fat in our bodies but it has a purpose .
Junk food is too cheap as is obvious.
The poorest areas have the greatest volume of shyte food outlets and that is key. |
Why don't they just buy half as much junk food. Two problems solved weight loss and half the money spent on food. | |
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| 25% British people obese on 16:23 - May 19 with 1968 views | felixstowe_jack |
| 25% British people obese on 14:13 - May 19 by onehunglow |
I must ay I agree with you Builth on that.
I feel the delay is rather sinister.
It's not unlike the refusal to truly hammer tax on alcohol and tobacco.
The Conservative wont as they dont want to ruin the businesses profits and Labour wont as they're the working man's pleasure-as we were told.
Our attitudes to health needs to change dramitically |
Think you find they do hammer the tax on tobacco that is why most of the population have stopped smoking and the small percentage that still smoke buy the counterfeit tobacco with all the poison chemicals in it.
Most of the cost of alcohol is duty and VAT. | |
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| 25% British people obese on 16:47 - May 19 with 1960 views | onehunglow |
| 25% British people obese on 16:23 - May 19 by felixstowe_jack |
Think you find they do hammer the tax on tobacco that is why most of the population have stopped smoking and the small percentage that still smoke buy the counterfeit tobacco with all the poison chemicals in it.
Most of the cost of alcohol is duty and VAT. |
Alcohol is way too cheap.
Apart from which we have a serious alcohol issue mainly IMO due to our industrial history.
As for smoking,it appears the more "deprived" areas have the most smokers so it really is a cultural issue.
My opinion anyway | |
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| 25% British people obese on 16:51 - May 19 with 1959 views | felixstowe_jack |
| 25% British people obese on 14:13 - May 19 by onehunglow |
I must ay I agree with you Builth on that.
I feel the delay is rather sinister.
It's not unlike the refusal to truly hammer tax on alcohol and tobacco.
The Conservative wont as they dont want to ruin the businesses profits and Labour wont as they're the working man's pleasure-as we were told.
Our attitudes to health needs to change dramitically |
Think you find they do hammer the tax on tobacco that is why most of the population have stopped smoking and the small percentage that still smoke buy the counterfeit tobacco with all the poison chemicals in it.
Most of the cost of alcohol is duty and VAT. | |
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| 25% British people obese on 16:57 - May 19 with 1952 views | BryanSwan |
| 25% British people obese on 12:41 - May 19 by Flynnidine_Zidownes |
Food is only a tiny part of the problem. If you’re active enough it doesn’t matter how many calories you take in. The nature of work has changed in the last forty years. Active physical jobs are on a downtrend and now a lot more people spend their day sitting in an office in front of a screen or on a phone. It’s the same for kids, a lot of them would prefer to be on their PlayStations rather than out building dens or playing football.
The solution is getting people more active. Sugar taxes and other nanny state policies are completely pointless if people aren’t burning any calories at all. Not sure how you’d convince the lazy buggers to start moving though. |
I've always been fairly active, whether it be football, running cycling etc.
But the other day i looked into going down the gym or maybe the pool, think it was around £7 a pop. Or a £40 odd p/m membership. Clearly excluding a lot of people with pricing like that.
Higher taxes on confectionery and tax breaks for fruit/veg and health and fitness would be a start on tackling the problem. | |
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| 25% British people obese on 18:24 - May 19 with 1921 views | onehunglow |
| 25% British people obese on 16:57 - May 19 by BryanSwan |
I've always been fairly active, whether it be football, running cycling etc.
But the other day i looked into going down the gym or maybe the pool, think it was around £7 a pop. Or a £40 odd p/m membership. Clearly excluding a lot of people with pricing like that.
Higher taxes on confectionery and tax breaks for fruit/veg and health and fitness would be a start on tackling the problem. |
Good point regarding confectionary .
I have a sweet tooth and it’s no doubt due to be spoiled with sweets just after rationing
We are lucky here as we pay 25 quid a month for daybtime use of 10 swimming pools !golf courses,Gyms and various programmes in them.
It is shocking that competitive sports are now basically putrid in schools
I was one lucky boy to be born when I was . I feel truly sorry for kids now
Swansea was one helluva place to grow up. | |
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| 25% British people obese on 20:03 - May 19 with 1892 views | BryanSwan |
| 25% British people obese on 18:24 - May 19 by onehunglow |
Good point regarding confectionary .
I have a sweet tooth and it’s no doubt due to be spoiled with sweets just after rationing
We are lucky here as we pay 25 quid a month for daybtime use of 10 swimming pools !golf courses,Gyms and various programmes in them.
It is shocking that competitive sports are now basically putrid in schools
I was one lucky boy to be born when I was . I feel truly sorry for kids now
Swansea was one helluva place to grow up. |
In moderation everything is fine, my neighbour was into his 90s and had a chocolate bar every day. (Well untill the doctors told him off).
Cracking deal, better than 40 for a old pool and rubbish gym haha
Being a kid now is a different world, definitely a lot harder on them. | |
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