Posted on 01/18/2023 5:42:23 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Bringing cake into the office is as harmful as passive smoking, the UK's top food watchdog has suggested.
Professor Susan Jebb, chairwoman of the Food Standards Agency, said workers should think twice before bringing unhealthy treats into the workplace which might tempt colleagues.
She told The Times: "We all like to think we're rational, intelligent, educated people who make informed choices the whole time, and we undervalue the impact of the environment.
"If nobody brought cakes into the office, I would not eat cakes in the day, but because people do bring cakes in, I eat them. Now, OK, I have made a choice, but people were making a choice to go into a smoky pub.
She added: "With smoking, after a very long time we have got to a place where we understand that individuals have to make some effort but that we can make their efforts more successful by having a supportive environment.
"We still don't feel like that about food."
Prof Jebb, a professor of diet and population health at the University of Oxford, said she was also frustrated by delays in introducing a television watershed for junk food advertising.
She said the advertisements are "undermining people's free will" and insisted restrictions were "not about the nanny state".
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Oh my, the evils of Twinkies, lol.
One useless eater revealing herself. She has all this time to measure the harm of the occasional cake. Her duties can be given to other people.
Why is it that people can’t mind their own business?
PETERMAN: Do you know what happens to a butter-based frosting after six decades in a poorly ventilated English basement?
About $2.99
They have a case at the end of the aisle.
These liberal women think the rest of us should make it so they don’t have to decide to have a cupcake or not? So because this author doesn’t have any willpower, the rest of us should not have our “cakes”? She can just leave the office on “cake” day, ok? She probably won’t be missed.
Right, because pieces of cake drift around in the air and get into your mouth even if you don’t want them. Exactly like smoke.
Eating cake is a choice. Exposure to second hand smoke is not a choice.
Top Food Watchdog
Why? How?
Don’t be a monster, the kind of person that would bring a cake to work is the same sort that would bake cookies for their grandkids.
Fight the evil.
Typical liberal. One fatso can’t resist the evil cake, so it must be banned for everyone.
Sounds like A woman who can’t stick to her diet so she has to ban everyone so she’s not tempted
Talk about a complete abdication of personal responsibility.
“We all like to think we’re rational, intelligent, educated people who make informed choices the whole time, and we undervalue the impact of the environment.“
Instead, you turned out to be total retards.
Why is it that people can’t mind their own business?
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They have nothing constructive to do so they focus on controlling others.
Funny, but after I brought in my famous BROCCOLI CAKE, my coworkers exempted me from contributing food to office celebrations.
Regards,
Coming ng soon to the US.
It’s just a leftist control issue. It’s part of their mental condition.
Eating cake is a choice. Exposure to second hand smoke is not a choice.
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Absolutely right.
But she’s not really concerned about sweets or smokes. Like liberals everywhere she just a busybody elitist who wants to control people and run their lives. If it isn’t sweets it will be something else to justify another campaign against individual freedom.
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