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Food should be regulated like tobacco, say campaigners
BBC News ^ | May 18, 2014 | By Pippa Stephens

Posted on 05/18/2014 9:19:26 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The food industry should be regulated like the tobacco industry as obesity poses a greater global health risk than cigarettes, say international groups.

Consumers International and the World Obesity Federation are calling for the adoption of more stringent rules.

These could include pictures on food packaging of damage caused by obesity, similar to those on cigarette packets.

The new rules could include reducing the levels of salt, saturated fat and sugar in food, improving food served in hospitals and schools, imposing stricter advertising controls, and educating the public about healthy eating.

Artificial trans-fats should be removed from all food and drink products within five years, said the recommendations.

Advertising to children, during television programmes such as the X-Factor, must be restricted, said the organisations.

Governments could review food prices, introduce taxes, change licensing controls and start new research to make this happen, the report said.

Luke Upchurch at Consumers International said they were asking for the "same level of global treaty" as the tobacco industry faced.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


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KEYWORDS: 1984; asswipes; foodnazis; marxism; nannystate; tyranny
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Since this is an English preoccupation with sticking their nose in everybody’s business, we, in America, need to get rowdy, and make sure that the likes of something of that nature gets shut down over here.


41 posted on 05/19/2014 5:24:52 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Kennard

The issue is not whether sodium, saturated fat and various sugars are harmful; they are. The issue is the proper role of government, in this case none.
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Reports keep coming out that seem to indicate that in and of themselves, none of these are harmful. Perhaps in some people and in some large amounts, especially if they replace other nutrients, but not per se.

I am 71. I eat whatever I want, including sodium, saturated fat and various sugars. I am healthy. I am not obese. I do not “have” a cardiologist. The same is true of my 63-year-old husband. To go further, all my dogs over the past 40 years have participated in our diet and all lived to or beyond their normal lifespan. They were all the canine equivalent of 100 years old or more.

The very few health problems my husband has had were eliminated when he slowly and naturally lost some excess weight through moderate, low-impact exercise and then also eliminated a prescription medication. The medication was causing the secondary health problems.

I have watched the definition of obese change over the past ten years, based on the faulty BMI paradigm. Over the same time period, the metrics for acceptable BP and acceptable cholesterol levels have also been tightened.

People live much longer today and are more active while the nannies are still decrying their weight levels. These health regimes have about the same amount of reliability as the AGW regime and I suspect the same will to power on the part of the *professionals* to be behind both.


42 posted on 05/19/2014 5:34:43 AM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bump


43 posted on 05/19/2014 5:39:27 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Yep, the game's afoot.

2nd easiest way to control people is through their healthcare.

Easiest way, is by starving them. Been done that way for millenia. Truly, there is nothing new under the sun.

44 posted on 05/19/2014 6:22:02 AM PDT by wbill
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To: wbill

Food, energy, and healthcare -

the fascist control trifecta.


45 posted on 05/19/2014 6:22:48 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ok...

Can we just start shooting people like this? Or do we still have to wait until they send the SWAT teams for our tomato plants?


46 posted on 05/19/2014 6:23:58 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (Tri nornar eg bir. Binde til rota...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
It's official.
TIME TO START KILLING LEFTISTS AND STATISTS, OUTRIGHT.

47 posted on 05/19/2014 6:24:14 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: MrB
Yep. Don't need to worry about the populace getting uppity when they're hungry and shivering in the dark.

Or, when they're worried that their kid is going to die from pneumonia, due to lack of antibiotics.

Truly, this administration is the same as the gargoyle in North Korea, or any one of dozens (hundreds? thousands?) of penny-ante tinpot dictators who've ruled through the years.

48 posted on 05/19/2014 6:29:58 AM PDT by wbill
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To: MinuteGal; Lazamataz

“Did I see anything in the article about the dangers of marijuana...and re-regulating it where it’s now legal?”

Junk food and sedentary activity harm more people than all drugs combined (legal and illegal). It is highly addictive and there are even rehab/support groups for it.

I was once so addicted that I could barely walk and collapsed from a heart attack before age 30. I lost my beautiful fiance because I was killing myself and could not stop. Today I am less than half the size but can’t even have one bite of it. Lest I go into a binge until I’m literally too sick to move. Junk is everywhere and it truly is “one day at a time”.

If you want to control people’s consumption of drugs “for the safety of society”, it is even more logical to control junk food. Just like drugs, junk food is nothing but bodily harm for selfish pleasure. The junk food makers are the biggest merchants of death and they are 100% free to hook your kids!

Don’t want a ban because YOU can handle your junk responsibly? Well, the era of personal responsibility is long over. You can thank the Drug Warriors for opening the door!


49 posted on 05/19/2014 7:08:41 AM PDT by varyouga
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To: varyouga

KILL THE FOOD ‘REGULATORS’.


50 posted on 05/19/2014 7:34:32 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; SheLion; Eric Blair 2084; -YYZ-; 31R1O; 383rr; AFreeBird; AGreatPer; Alamo-Girl; ..

Nanny State PING!


51 posted on 05/19/2014 9:07:37 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Of COURSE bacon is good for you!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Didn’t see this one coming...yet many a FReeper celebrated the empowerment of these statists!


52 posted on 05/19/2014 9:21:07 AM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: CSM

There are quite a few anti-tobacco folks on FR...I wonder what, if any response to this will be.

Tried to tell them that these scum will not quit...they are CONTROL freaks.


53 posted on 05/19/2014 9:31:52 AM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: Still Thinking
I agree! Deregulate tobacco!

My thoughts exactly.

54 posted on 05/19/2014 9:50:28 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Pollster1

I love how when somebody finds what appears to be a logical discrepancy in tax rates or regulation levels, it’s always just a given that it should be removed by INCREASING government reach and power, by “fixing” the case which had been till now more pro-freedom, more pro-individual.


55 posted on 05/19/2014 10:38:07 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Translation: We need more Holodomor!

(Fixed the title.)

56 posted on 05/19/2014 10:41:48 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: 9YearLurker
No food until age 18 or indoors, on sidewalks, or in parks could be pretty tough.

LOL — Or in bars or restraints…
(Excellent response, BTW.)

57 posted on 05/19/2014 10:50:54 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
They have floated the idea of calorie cards in the UK. I has not come to pass, yet, but it will.

See, my tagline. Watch the youtubes. All food is rationed via calorie cards.

58 posted on 05/19/2014 11:04:41 AM PDT by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: null and void

Crazy enough for a Nut-job Conspiracy Theory ping?


59 posted on 05/19/2014 11:15:41 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...

DON'T let them eat cake!

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

60 posted on 05/19/2014 11:25:00 AM PDT by null and void (When was the last time you heard anyone say: "It's a free country"?)
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