[TornadoAlley3]

Ministers have introduced curbs on TV advertising of foods to children, especially products high in salt, sugar and fat and new rules ban junk food advertisements on television before 9pm.

But Professor James wants a complete ban on unhealthy foods on TV and the internet as well as a ban on the use of “child-friendly” logos on supermarket food.

[TomGuy]

Part of the problem may go back further up the ‘food’ chain—to the growth of produce.

Many future food products (meat, vegetable and fruit) are treated with fast-growth hormones and chemicals. This helps get them to the market sooner.

Those fast-growth treatments may not be removed during the processing and cooking; thus, they transfer during consumption. Once consumed, they tell their new host to ‘grow’.

[LibLieSlayer]

They want everyone to eat Soyent Green.

LLS

[MissCalico]

Just a decidedly unscientific observation but... I've noticed that anywhere smoking has decreased due to nanny-state targeting, obesity coincidentally crops up. (Also allergies and asthma in kids.)

Sometimes there can be unintended consequences to "good intentions".

[RSmithOpt]

Not to worry...people will shape up quick after all their USD’s have been burnt in the fireplace / wood stove......better investment to keep warm than to buy manipulative petrol products ($220 brl oil, $1200 / ton clean coal) to generate electricity or burn in a boiler. A fellar can burn quite a bit of fat off in winter splitting wood by hand twice a week 4 hrs a day. I know and 0 don’t. Dems are working on legislation to make it a felony to burn wood to stay warm and cook on...but then again, the rest of the world will get a pass especially on arab tv.

[Colonial Warrior]

ZeroBama gruel is the food of choice for all but the ARISTOCRACY of his ruling class of Dummicrats.

[aruanan]

Professor Philip James is an idiot. I say this as someone with a Ph.D. in human nutrition. He’s substituting for science his desire to control people and to retrofit the world for a socialist paradise. He deserves obloquy and to wind up with the coffee grounds, lemon rinds, and bits of gristle on the trash heap of history.

[HenpeckedCon]

I wonder if all the FReepers who love every smoking ban or tobacco tax increase are listening. Big brother was never going to stop with cigarettes. They are going to come after your cheeseburgers, French Fries etc... After all, it’s for the children.

[aruanan]

But Professor James wants a complete ban on unhealthy foods on TV and the internet as well as a ban on the use of "child-friendly" logos on supermarket food.

There is no such thing as "unhealthy foods," only unhealthy amounts of foods (both too much and too little). More often than not morons like James (and there are a bunch on FR) will say that fast food isn't healthy because it has "empty calories". What these poor boobs don't seem to realize is that one's number one nutritional need is for these "empty calories". You can go without most vitamins for months or years before you start to feel an impact. You can only go a couple of days before starting to feel the effects of not having enough "empty calories."

What James is bitching about is the easy availability of highly nutritious, highly palatable food at historically cheap prices. Yes, if you have too much to eat, you'll have troubles. But if you have chronic under-nutrition, you'll have even more medical problems. The easy availability of food is an expression of the wealth of free western society. I think free western society and his inability to make it do what he wants is what is really giving this schlub a tummy-ache.

[Venturer]

Everyone else is going broke, might as well destroy Pepsi, McDonalds and the rest of them too. That way there wont be anyone working.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Another flavor of fascism. We will tell you how to think and behave because we know better.
For the common good of course.

[RetSignman]

Simple solution: EAT RESPONSIBLY sign in all fast food places. s/

[djf]

As a smoker whose been discriminated against and maligned for most of my life, I cannot help but take a certain sad pleasure in saying the following:

“TAKE THAT, Lardsters!!!”

What goes around comes around...