Families need more help with tackling childhood obesity?!

Families need more help with tackling childhood obesity?!

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Frimley111R

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15,537 posts

233 months

Thursday 18th August 2016
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FFS! Eat less, eat less st foods and do some fking exercise!

Just saw some woman on the TV complaining that her doctor said that her kid would only be put on a waiting list for pills or something. Why are we wasting money on this stuff (yes, I know, NHS later life etc.). Just wait for tomorrow when its all about pressures on young people to look like models/anorexics too!

Digga

40,206 posts

282 months

Thursday 18th August 2016
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It is abuse sufficient to have your dog removed if you allow it to become obese. The threat is not often carried out, but the sentiment and law is clear.

No idea why the same is not applied. Pills and doctors are not required for the vast majority of cases.

r11co

6,244 posts

229 months

Thursday 18th August 2016
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I posted this in another thread but it bears repeating here. Any news story that begins by quoting a statistic is not 'news' - it is invariably the blithe repeating of the output of some pressure or interest group looking to redirect funds their way.

IMO when being reported in any media, it should be mandatory that such reports are preceded by the words 'It was stated in a press/media release today by (name of interest/pressure group) that......'.

walm

10,609 posts

201 months

Thursday 18th August 2016
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Frimley111R said:
FFS! Eat less, eat less st foods and do some fking exercise!
I am sure people know HOW - they just don't do it.
So the government has a choice - ignore people's bad choices or introduce some regulation to push them towards making better decisions.

Hence no cigarette advertising on the telly... were you against that change when it came in?
(I mean... "just stop smoking FFS"....)

Of course it is the nanny state but these things help, if only a little bit.

I have experienced first hand how much I want a burger every time I see one advertised.
If those adverts didn't exist I am sure I would have eaten fewer burgers!

Foliage

3,861 posts

121 months

Thursday 18th August 2016
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The price of food at the moment is really cheap, that's the issue, especially luxuries, so luxury treat items are being consumed most days now. I blame the supermarkets who are driving the price down in the name of market share, and trying to continue an unsustainable sales growth.

Have a watch of stuff like live well for less to see how the great unwashed of middle england actually shop, every meal has to be tasty and special, its then followed by cake and sweets and snacks.. and a bottle of wine.

Hoofy

76,253 posts

281 months

Thursday 18th August 2016
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walm said:
I have experienced first hand how much I want a burger every time I see one advertised.
If those adverts didn't exist I am sure I would have eaten fewer burgers!
Oddly, I always fancy junk food after reading about someone quitting eating junk food or reading an article about how junk food is bad for you. If people didn't mention it at all, I'd not crave a Big Mac. biggrin

Hoofy

76,253 posts

281 months

Thursday 18th August 2016
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Foliage said:
trying to continue an unsustainable sales growth.
I've always wondered about that irrespective of the industry.

Gecko1978

9,603 posts

156 months

Thursday 18th August 2016
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ok could we not do what my kids pre school does no junk food avalible lots of fresh fruit an veg etc lean meat. So if kids are there 5 days a week they get at least 1 good meal a day or as with most pre schools breakfast lunch an dinner. Snack time is veggie sticks etc.

So expand that model and do it in Schools up to 16. Make the meals free make them compulsory sure some kids will refuse to eat most wont etc.

Or we could just give them diet pills FFS

Sticks.

8,707 posts

250 months

Thursday 18th August 2016
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Foliage said:
The price of food at the moment is really cheap, that's the issue, especially luxuries, so luxury treat items are being consumed most days now. I blame the supermarkets who are driving the price down in the name of market share, and trying to continue an unsustainable sales growth.
I just had a look at the half price offers on Tesco online.

7Up, Tango, french fries, snack cheeses, Rustler Deluxe (no idea), Fridge Raiders, Rolo deserts, profiteroles, pizza, sausage rolls, biscuits, crisps etc.

snotrag

14,446 posts

210 months

Thursday 18th August 2016
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Gecko1978 said:
ok could we not do what my kids pre school does no junk food avalible lots of fresh fruit an veg etc lean meat. So if kids are there 5 days a week they get at least 1 good meal a day or as with most pre schools breakfast lunch an dinner. Snack time is veggie sticks etc.

So expand that model and do it in Schools up to 16. Make the meals free make them compulsory sure some kids will refuse to eat most wont etc.

Or we could just give them diet pills FFS
Schools are for education/learning the national curriculum.

This is not the schools job. They are not the parents, nor are they social workers.


The blame for fat kids lies solely with the parents/carers.

Sticks.

8,707 posts

250 months

Thursday 18th August 2016
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snotrag said:
The blame for fat kids lies solely with the parents/carers.
Turkey Twizzlers.

BoRED S2upid

19,643 posts

239 months

Thursday 18th August 2016
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Hoofy said:
Oddly, I always fancy junk food after reading about someone quitting eating junk food or reading an article about how junk food is bad for you. If people didn't mention it at all, I'd not crave a Big Mac. biggrin
Does anyone really crave McDonald's food?

anonymous-user

53 months

Thursday 18th August 2016
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Frimley111R said:
FFS! Eat less, eat less st foods and do some fking exercise!

Just saw some woman on the TV complaining that her doctor said that her kid would only be put on a waiting list for pills or something. Why are we wasting money on this stuff (yes, I know, NHS later life etc.). Just wait for tomorrow when its all about pressures on young people to look like models/anorexics too!
Always someone else fault, and its the governments and NHS responsibility to fix it for her.

She is fat because she is a salad dodger who eats more calories than she uses and her child is fat because her mother is a moron.

Fat lass said this morning that her daughter "Comfort eats due to bullying about her weight" as the healthy lass said "she wasn't raiding the carrot cupboard"

Put the child in care and shoot the mother in the face and hang her bloated carcass from a lamp post as a warning other salad dodgers.

Digga

40,206 posts

282 months

Thursday 18th August 2016
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BoRED S2upid said:
Hoofy said:
Oddly, I always fancy junk food after reading about someone quitting eating junk food or reading an article about how junk food is bad for you. If people didn't mention it at all, I'd not crave a Big Mac. biggrin
Does anyone really crave McDonald's food?
Yes, and like Hoofy, the craving generally goes away if I'm not reminded about it. I can go for ages without a dirty takeaway (although I do not class the excellent produce of my local, friendly Indian restaurant as such) but every now and then am happy to succumb to temptation.

KTF

9,788 posts

149 months

Thursday 18th August 2016
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If it isn't in the cupboard then they wouldn't be partial to eating it. But then the snack/chocolate manufactures wouldn't be keen if parents started avoiding that part of the supermarket.

PurpleMoonlight

22,362 posts

156 months

Thursday 18th August 2016
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Vandenberg said:
Put the child in care and shoot the mother in the face and hang her bloated carcass from a lamp post as a warning other salad dodgers.
That is in really bad taste and I am offended by it wink but it did make me giggle.

r11co

6,244 posts

229 months

Thursday 18th August 2016
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Foliage said:
every meal has to be tasty and special, its then followed by cake and sweets and snacks.. and a bottle of wine.
And the problem with that is....?!

This whole obesity thing is the pinnacle of the issue of individuals relinquishing responsibility for everything they feel is wrong in their lives and blaming someone else for it. Sorry, but no-one is force-feeding the sad fatties anything and there is more than enough information out there already for individuals (even the 'great unwashed') to make informed choices.

Absolutely zero sympathy for these people (and this comes from someone who knows he can have a 'weight problem' if he stops his regular exercise and gives in to the cravings).

The report today seems to be coming from some group trying to overcome the perception that everyone has a choice of what they eat and that funding is needed to combat a medical problem they are trying to invent.

Jockman

17,912 posts

159 months

Thursday 18th August 2016
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BoRED S2upid said:
Does anyone really crave McDonald's food?
Is this a serious question?

I had my Fat Fighters weigh in last night (weightwatchers). Lost 2 and a half pounds (bag of sugar in normal language).

I celebrated by driving to McDs ordered large chicken select meal with vanilla shake. Sweet chilli sauce and the white one (wallpaper paste I think). Ketchup. Strawberry sundae.

The rationale is that I will have 7 days to work it off.

Down there for dancing wink

Mr_B

10,480 posts

242 months

Thursday 18th August 2016
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Diane Abbott responds to the government’s obesity strategy:

“Obesity is ruining the quality of life for growing numbers of people… this Tory Government are failing to take the obesity crisis seriously”

Thankyou4calling

10,595 posts

172 months

Thursday 18th August 2016
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When i was a kid (and my three brothers) we all went to school, walked home (about a mile and a half) played football in the garden until it was time for tea.

Tea consisted of for instance 2 sausages, mashed potato and peas. For pudding we might have fruit salad.

Then we would play football again and go to bed, not much TV.

We were never allowed to go to the fridge and take food, just ate what we were given and we were pretty active. There weren't really any fast food joints apart from the chippy (this was the 70's)

Contrast that with now. Kids won't normally walk to school, they have a lot more pocket money than we had to buy sweets and crisps, the portions they get for a meal would be huge compared to mine and they won't be anywhere near as active.

Us? We got pocket money, walked to the sweet shop and spent it on a Saturday, that was it. Didn't buy mars bars and Kit kats, it was a few penny chews etc.

I think there is plenty of "Help" for people, everybody (apart from the truly thick) knows what to do but first it is hard to do it and secondly lots just can't be bothered.

Personally, i think just leave people to it, if they get fat so what, they can waddle around but it's not the end of the world for most.

just accept it.

The info, the help is all there just let people carry on either getting fatter or not, it's their choice.