Families need more help with tackling childhood obesity?!
Discussion
Thinks it's about time we started to consider sugar to be addictive and control it's supply (and demand). I'm not nutritional biologist but from what I understand the effect it has on your gut bacteria and the cravings it causes are symptomatic of such.
He says swigging his daily can of Coke and scoffing a white bread tuna and sweetcorn butty.
He says swigging his daily can of Coke and scoffing a white bread tuna and sweetcorn butty.
Mr_B said:
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”
Indeed. My quality of life is much reduced every time I see Abbopotomus on the telly, can't the government do something about it, a red triangle or similar...“Obesity is ruining the quality of life for growing numbers of people… this Tory Government are failing to take the obesity crisis seriously”
Frimley111R said:
FFS! Eat less, eat less s
t 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!
Its not even about doing some exercise. SImply eat less.t 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!
You can control maybe 30% of your energy output. The rest is all metabolism and there isn't a huge amount you can do about that (seen a study that showed people slumped in offices have much the same base metabolism as those people from tribes in the jungle that have to hunt their dinner every day. Their base metabolic rate wasn't much different for similar build. Of course the difference is we have 3 square meals a day with plenty of it, they don't).
You can control 100% of what energy you put in your mouth. No brainer to focus on that first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXTiiz99p9o
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36763102
not terribly scientific reports, but I think they give the gist.
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. 
Does anyone really crave McDonald's food? ds like you keep reminding me about Big Macs... fortunately, I'm too lazy to drive to the local McD's. If I were less lazy, I'd be a lazy fat bd. I guess being ultra lazy has its plus points.Just watched the news at lunchtime on BBC1, bemoaning not enough help from doctors and interviewing the mother of a girl who was overweight, the mother 
, i'll let you guess, she was the wrong side of 20 stone, yet its everyone elses fault that she cant feed her daugher sensibly, she is obviously the problem.
Edit, just noticed someones posted the same thing earlier, not just me then.
, i'll let you guess, she was the wrong side of 20 stone, yet its everyone elses fault that she cant feed her daugher sensibly, she is obviously the problem.Edit, just noticed someones posted the same thing earlier, not just me then.
Edited by Cupramax on Thursday 18th August 13:37
PurpleMoonlight said:
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 
but it did make me giggle.I have given up with the fatfights at work. Every week it is another crash diet. This week we are on meal replacement shakes, slimming world was too much effort.
I have left the fatties to it. I used to be fat i lost weight the hard way, diet and exercise. I am sick and tired of giving help and advice to people that is largely ignored. Hey what do i know? fat Brenda lost 2 pounds this week from having protein shakes breakfast and lunch.
Everyone is just looking for an easy option, meal replacements,C9, juiceplus etc.
I have left the fatties to it. I used to be fat i lost weight the hard way, diet and exercise. I am sick and tired of giving help and advice to people that is largely ignored. Hey what do i know? fat Brenda lost 2 pounds this week from having protein shakes breakfast and lunch.
Everyone is just looking for an easy option, meal replacements,C9, juiceplus etc.
ChunkyloverSV said:
I have given up with the fatfights at work. Every week it is another crash diet. This week we are on meal replacement shakes, slimming world was too much effort.
I have left the fatties to it. I used to be fat i lost weight the hard way, diet and exercise. I am sick and tired of giving help and advice to people that is largely ignored. Hey what do i know? fat Brenda lost 2 pounds this week from having protein shakes breakfast and lunch.
Everyone is just looking for an easy option, meal replacements,C9, juiceplus etc.
My daughter; 23, steadily put on weight after the birth of my grandson almost 3 years ago now; she was never a skinny but never had a weight problem until grandson came about, probably a combination of baby weight, always in a rush so unable to eat properly and the burger van outside work. I have left the fatties to it. I used to be fat i lost weight the hard way, diet and exercise. I am sick and tired of giving help and advice to people that is largely ignored. Hey what do i know? fat Brenda lost 2 pounds this week from having protein shakes breakfast and lunch.
Everyone is just looking for an easy option, meal replacements,C9, juiceplus etc.
She has always been one for expensive faddy diets; the quick fix, myself and her boyfriend, who is a head chef and knows his food, have always told her to ditch the faddy diets, watch what you eat, avoid the cakes and burger van, just be sensible with what you eat; her activity levels are already high due to her job and an an active toddler.
Finally after two years of me nagging and many £ hundreds wasted on quick fix diets that don't work, just as we hit summer this year she took my advice; guess what......yep she is losing weight, she found it hard for the first week or two but it is working and it is actually saving her money too, she feels alot better and has more energy too.
It's not rocket science
Edited by HTP99 on Thursday 18th August 14:28
ChunkyloverSV said:
I have given up with the fatfights at work. Every week it is another crash diet. This week we are on meal replacement shakes, slimming world was too much effort.
I have left the fatties to it. I used to be fat i lost weight the hard way, diet and exercise. I am sick and tired of giving help and advice to people that is largely ignored. Hey what do i know? fat Brenda lost 2 pounds this week from having protein shakes breakfast and lunch.
Everyone is just looking for an easy option, meal replacements,C9, juiceplus etc.
I call them the permadieters. They're the same people that if you told them you were reading about this moneymaking scheme that involved betting on the horses to make a million in under 6 months, they'd tell you that you're crazy to think it would work.I have left the fatties to it. I used to be fat i lost weight the hard way, diet and exercise. I am sick and tired of giving help and advice to people that is largely ignored. Hey what do i know? fat Brenda lost 2 pounds this week from having protein shakes breakfast and lunch.
Everyone is just looking for an easy option, meal replacements,C9, juiceplus etc.
Adrian W said:
its great to see so many righteous experts on here, its simple eat less etc etc, however the real problem must be the vested interests, otherwise why not just make it illegal for any business to sell crap food.
Black market burgers anyone?
Eat less and eat correctly, it isn't hard, you can have a Burger, you can have a bacon sarnie, you can have crisps, you can have cheese, but not every single day and not in vast quantities. Black market burgers anyone?
Walk to to school, walk to the shops, take the stairs as opposed to the lift.
It ain't hard.
HTP99 said:
Adrian W said:
its great to see so many righteous experts on here, its simple eat less etc etc, however the real problem must be the vested interests, otherwise why not just make it illegal for any business to sell crap food.
Black market burgers anyone?
Eat less and eat correctly, it isn't hard, you can have a Burger, you can have a bacon sarnie, you can have crisps, you can have cheese, but not every single day and not in vast quantities. Black market burgers anyone?
Walk to to school, walk to the shops, take the stairs as opposed to the lift.
It ain't hard.
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