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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So, I guess, light ‘em up then?
That’s your problem, Suze. Exert more willpower, Professor Buzzkill. It’s not all about you.
You Karens won’t be happy until you have removed every enjoyable thing from society so that everyone can be as miserable as you are.
But not racist?
This all about the nanny state.
Britain is the most woke dumpster fire of nation in the world.
Susan should mind her own business and get out of the colonoscopy business.
In the near future, people will be having secret birthday celebrations in the parking lot cautiously eating cupcakes out of someone’s trunk, hoping not to be found out by the food police.
I love carrot cakes
One of the best.
I had a coworker who brought a cake to a job interview. It worked.
To quote most leftists: BANS OFF OUR BODIES!
2nd hand smoke was never shown to be deleterious. Just nasty smelling. So, about as bad as a plate of fat inducing sugar.
Gimme.
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