The Men Who Made Us Fat

[Magic919]

That looks interesting. Some of the usual suspects involved.

[Halb]

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

[Magic919]

Have ordered 'Fed Up' from the States. Will see what they have to say.

[Magic919]

Well, 'Fed Up' was a good watch. No real surprises, other than the scale and reach of the food lobby in the US. I wonder what a British version of the film would look like.

[Flibble]

Magic919 said:

Well, 'Fed Up' was a good watch. No real surprises, other than the scale and reach of the food lobby in the US. I wonder what a British version of the film would look like.

Much the same I should think, though AFAIK most schools don't even have school meals so there's that. Also sugar is labelled with an RDA here, which is currently 90g for a 2000 calorie diet (WHO recommends 50g for a 2000 calorie diet).

There's also a lot less corn syrup used here, but it is replaced with sugar or invert sugar syrup instead so real difference.

[Halb]

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

[Flibble]

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

[Halb]

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.

[Flibble]

It was more the irony of Coke promoting a reduced sugar variant of milk.

[Halb]

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

[Flibble]

That would be their carcinogenic water, correct?

[Magic919]

Based on Peckham Spring.

[Halb]

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

[Halb]

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

[Halb]

Junk Food Kids, on C4 tonight @ 10pm.

[Art0ir]

Horrendous stuff really.

[Halb]

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.

[Art0ir]

I'm loving these doctors they're interviewing.

Asian dental surgeon in particular nailed it; I'm not allowed to blame the parents. In this society its nobody's fault.

[susanq]

I think this should be classed as child abuse. That poor little lad sobbing after having TWELVE teeth extracted made me cry. And the obese mum who is constantly shoving crap down her daughters throat should be strung up.

[Halb]

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