DON'T let them eat cake!
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Posted on 05/18/2014 9:19:26 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The food industry should be regulated like the tobacco industry as obesity poses a greater global health risk than cigarettes, say international groups.
Consumers International and the World Obesity Federation are calling for the adoption of more stringent rules.
These could include pictures on food packaging of damage caused by obesity, similar to those on cigarette packets.
The new rules could include reducing the levels of salt, saturated fat and sugar in food, improving food served in hospitals and schools, imposing stricter advertising controls, and educating the public about healthy eating.
Artificial trans-fats should be removed from all food and drink products within five years, said the recommendations.
Advertising to children, during television programmes such as the X-Factor, must be restricted, said the organisations.
Governments could review food prices, introduce taxes, change licensing controls and start new research to make this happen, the report said.
Luke Upchurch at Consumers International said they were asking for the "same level of global treaty" as the tobacco industry faced.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Since this is an English preoccupation with sticking their nose in everybody’s business, we, in America, need to get rowdy, and make sure that the likes of something of that nature gets shut down over here.
The issue is not whether sodium, saturated fat and various sugars are harmful; they are. The issue is the proper role of government, in this case none.
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Reports keep coming out that seem to indicate that in and of themselves, none of these are harmful. Perhaps in some people and in some large amounts, especially if they replace other nutrients, but not per se.
I am 71. I eat whatever I want, including sodium, saturated fat and various sugars. I am healthy. I am not obese. I do not “have” a cardiologist. The same is true of my 63-year-old husband. To go further, all my dogs over the past 40 years have participated in our diet and all lived to or beyond their normal lifespan. They were all the canine equivalent of 100 years old or more.
The very few health problems my husband has had were eliminated when he slowly and naturally lost some excess weight through moderate, low-impact exercise and then also eliminated a prescription medication. The medication was causing the secondary health problems.
I have watched the definition of obese change over the past ten years, based on the faulty BMI paradigm. Over the same time period, the metrics for acceptable BP and acceptable cholesterol levels have also been tightened.
People live much longer today and are more active while the nannies are still decrying their weight levels. These health regimes have about the same amount of reliability as the AGW regime and I suspect the same will to power on the part of the *professionals* to be behind both.
Bump
2nd easiest way to control people is through their healthcare.
Easiest way, is by starving them. Been done that way for millenia. Truly, there is nothing new under the sun.
Food, energy, and healthcare -
the fascist control trifecta.
Ok...
Can we just start shooting people like this? Or do we still have to wait until they send the SWAT teams for our tomato plants?
Or, when they're worried that their kid is going to die from pneumonia, due to lack of antibiotics.
Truly, this administration is the same as the gargoyle in North Korea, or any one of dozens (hundreds? thousands?) of penny-ante tinpot dictators who've ruled through the years.
“Did I see anything in the article about the dangers of marijuana...and re-regulating it where it’s now legal?”
Junk food and sedentary activity harm more people than all drugs combined (legal and illegal). It is highly addictive and there are even rehab/support groups for it.
I was once so addicted that I could barely walk and collapsed from a heart attack before age 30. I lost my beautiful fiance because I was killing myself and could not stop. Today I am less than half the size but can’t even have one bite of it. Lest I go into a binge until I’m literally too sick to move. Junk is everywhere and it truly is “one day at a time”.
If you want to control people’s consumption of drugs “for the safety of society”, it is even more logical to control junk food. Just like drugs, junk food is nothing but bodily harm for selfish pleasure. The junk food makers are the biggest merchants of death and they are 100% free to hook your kids!
Don’t want a ban because YOU can handle your junk responsibly? Well, the era of personal responsibility is long over. You can thank the Drug Warriors for opening the door!
KILL THE FOOD ‘REGULATORS’.
Nanny State PING!
Didn’t see this one coming...yet many a FReeper celebrated the empowerment of these statists!
There are quite a few anti-tobacco folks on FR...I wonder what, if any response to this will be.
Tried to tell them that these scum will not quit...they are CONTROL freaks.
My thoughts exactly.
I love how when somebody finds what appears to be a logical discrepancy in tax rates or regulation levels, it’s always just a given that it should be removed by INCREASING government reach and power, by “fixing” the case which had been till now more pro-freedom, more pro-individual.
We need more Holodomor!
(Fixed the title.)
LOL — Or in bars or restraints…
(Excellent response, BTW.)
See, my tagline. Watch the youtubes. All food is rationed via calorie cards.
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