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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57144922
Pretty awful data.
2/3 of those admitted with obesity related issues are women it says.
Pretty awful data.
2/3 of those admitted with obesity related issues are women it says.
This is a waste of time, Obesity is both a mental & physical issue, thinking that adverts on TV will solve the issue is head up their arriss time.Junk-food adverts
Pressure is piling on the government to take radical action to address the obesity problem.
Last month, doctors, academics, campaigners and public-sector experts wrote to the prime minister, urging him to stick to a landmark government proposal to ban junk-food advertising online and on social media - after fears it could be ditched.
The government says it has a clear plan to introduce a ban on junk-food adverts on television before 21:00.
It has now finished a consultation with industry and how far it is prepared to go with restrictions online will be revealed in the next few weeks.
Will not solve all issues, but it's a start,This is a waste of time, Obesity is both a mental & physical issue, thinking that adverts on TV will solve the issue is head up their arriss time.
Yep that really worked for cigarette smokers didn't it, as i understand it's now on the increase again, have you noticed how many more TV shows have smokers in them, not something you saw a few years ago.Massive punitive taxes on junk food. If peole cant afford it, then they won't eat it. May as well lock the thread now.
Do you really think it is? my wife is obese, it's nothing to do with what she sees on TV, there's a mental side of it of which she won't seek help, there are no NHS services available anyway, but there's also an hereditary side of it, she comes from a line of overweight people & has fought it for 50 years & lost most of the time.Will not solve all issues, but it's a start,
Go and have a look at the people in a takeaway. They are the people who can least afford the extra cost. Same goes for smokers, 20 fags a day is £10, or £300 a month. Who has £300 a month to literally burn? Yet they do. It's not driven by affordability. It's about the psychological need for gratification. This is a bit more complex than taxation. Raising the price won't work unless you aim to tax it at 1000%, in which case you may as well make it illegal, at which point people will simply eat in. I can eat in a pub for the same price as a takeaway. I can get a supermarket pizza for less again. Obesity isn't about what's on your plate, it's about what's in your head.Massive punitive taxes on junk food. If peole cant afford it, then they won't eat it. May as well lock the thread now.
True, i count myself lucky in that the worst that happened to me was a loss of fitness in the second dark lockdown. As someone who does most of his drinking in a couple of fine local spoons my drinking went seriously down. Not the case for many i think - i well remember the alcohol shelves at my local sainsburys being stripped nearly bare.Just read that. I wonder how much more there will be now that we've all been locked up for nearly 18 months. Must have been a lot of comfort eating and drinking going on.
I do agree that we need an assault on the junk food advertising, taxes on junk food sugared drinks etc or the country will have to pay to upkeep an more expensive NHS and welfare programme.
Decades ago I went on my first visit to the US and was shocked by the sight of obesity all around. I also noticed that junk food ads were in your face all the time. At that time fast food was few and far between in the UK and hardly any ads except for soda drinks.I'm obese, I was at BMI of 31 prior to lockdown and a little more now. (I gained 3 kg over lockdowns)
I can count on one hand the number of burgers I've eaten in the last 50 yrs, and I've never had a KFC or similar.
I don't drink sugary pop, and prior to March 2020 rode 6 miles a week, went birding at least once a week and spent a couple of days walking around various local towns.
I very much doubt that a ban on adverts will have any effect.
Maybe we don't have the gene heritage eitherWe don't have the food heritage and we have swung the American way.