"Remember when it used to be at least affordable to speedrun yourself into an untimely grave through poor nutritional choices and/or prohibitive socioeconomic status?
Pepperidge Farm remembers. ^Pepperidge Farm was there.^
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Why only for certain foods? This practice is misleading at best.
"Ministers argue the restrictions are an important step to tackle obesity โ and in particular childhood obesity."
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Headline alone does beg the question though.
I do like the BBC and will click the link, though I admit to skimming and missing the first line. (Also not the person you replied to.) I just hate how it redirects .co.uk to .com based on my physical location. This is a UK thing but redirecting me to the US version of the site makes it seem like it's not a UK thing, silly as that may be. The article is mirrored, just let people read it on the .co.uk, since they had to load that page initially anyway.
Scanned that, not seeing the definition of "unhealthy". Anyway, I'm in on about any measure to cut obesity. It's a monster problem, certainly in the US.
Look around your doctor's office. Seems almost every person is fat. Look at people wearing leg casts, except for skinny teens who are probably in sports, all fat. No matter the state's medical system, fat people are a huge drain. I cannot take anyone seriously who disagrees.
Anyway, I was a kid in the 70s and 80s, young adult in the 90s. It was a very different world. Daily I see people in public that hardly existed in the day.
Walked 1.25 miles home in the summer heat from my mechanic's shop today. Wife thought I was nuts. Took my kids hiking the trails to the creek. "How faaaar daddy?" "Little over a mile." "DAAAD!" We started gym class with a mile jog, from 6-yo to 12-yo.
I'd argue obesity is a climate change driver. Anyone who disagrees likely doesn't get out in the country and/or understand farming and ranching. Yet few have an issue stating that eating meat is a problem contributing to all of the above. What about all the energy we put into producing and shipping all our food?
For what it's worth, I'm skinny as hell, and despite abusing the hell out of myself, no real problems, even into middle age. Started a job working my ass off, dropped 3 minor health issues in a month. Now that I quit, 2 are back with another coming. My skinny wife has minor heart issues. Cannot convince her that sitting around her office and bed is making it worse.
Humans did not evolve to be fat or lazy. We have to eat simply and we have to move.