The Men Who Made Us Fat

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Sugar Vs Fat from Horizon this week.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03t8r4h

There was also another show on last night, not sure of channel showing how crappy the fad diet industry is.
Showed some crazy diets that I was not even aware of. Like the booze diet.

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Decent doc on this week.
The Fantastical World of Hormones.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03wctdg/The_...

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Halb said:

Sugar Vs Fat from Horizon this week.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03t8r4h

Repeated tonight.

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The Truth about Low Fat Food
Monday 8pm
Channel 4 Dispatches: Reporter Antony Barnett reveals the huge amounts of sugar, calories and, in some cases, high amounts of fat, in some of Britain's best-known low and reduced-fat foods.

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grumbledoak said:

Sounds interesting, but I'm off TV and low-fat.

Also currently reading The Great Cholesterol Con - thoroughly recommended. Even Ancel Keys has admitted fat -> cholesterol -> heart disease wasn't true and he was the grandfather of it. Still, it appears "prescribe statins, get swimming pool" won the day.

I have that book...or one very similar! Still not read it! But I started looking into that stuff after a discussion with my mum about my father and a possible high cholesterol level.

Edited by Halb on Monday 7th April 12:06

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Just seen a new Dispatches on next Monday at 8.
Tricks of the Junk Food Business.

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paranoid airbag said:

If I wanted Bolton to win, I'd change the playing field somehow. I'd do the same for obesity too, and the best way of doing that is almost certainly regulating the bigger food companies, who (unless those marketing budgets are for show) damn well know how to change the field themselves. I really don't care that much if Nestle has to lay off workers because fewer people are buying their brightly coloured crap. That crap (after a point) isn't making people's lives better and those workers would be better off making something that does.

I sometimes wonder if the families of the CEOs are fat, or what they look like. Do their kids have litres of visceral fat? Or are they wise to it and make sure their own kids don't overdose on sugary/fat st. I wonder if they all look like Eric Pickles.

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http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/were-in-complete-de...

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Three separate programmes on tonight on how st our food is.

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And another one, C4, Food Unwrapped Diet Special.

They just showed a liver that was abnormal, most likely due to fructose.

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http://www.upworthy.com/if-another-country-did-thi...

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The sugar lobby in the USA came in for some barracking in The Last Week Tonight, last night.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/re...

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Flibble said:

That looks like it could have been lifted from the onion. World's gone mad.

Seen WheyHey's protein ice-cream?

I'm surprised that there isn't more 'protein' based/added food stuffs.
I reckon it'll be the next big fad/explosion.

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They weren't very successful with their low sugar water. I'll watch the milk thing with interest.

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Food Unwrapped on now.
There's a bit on sugar in food.

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https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1015254338922...

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Junk Food Kids, on C4 tonight @ 10pm.

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Art0ir said:

Horrendous stuff really.

Yeah. Obese mum. Obese kid, overeating, but it's thyroid.
Unless there is a weird change, kid won't make 35/40.
And now the mum is in denial about her kid's st teeth.
Wow.

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You can feel the frustration of the doctors.
That fat kid on her phone. Jesus.
stty parenting is the problem.