Posted on 01/27/2009 4:07:15 AM PST by TornadoAlley3
Junk food advertisements which target children should be completely banned, an obesity expert has warned.
Professor Philip James says that drastic action is needed against food firms which he says exploit consumers in the same way as tobacco companies.
The nutritionist from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine told a conference in London: "We have a catastrophic obesity epidemic and the food industry has had a vast impact on society. The food industry is represented by companies like PepsiCo, Coca-Cola and Cadbury which are damaging the health of people across the world.
"We want to reform [the food industry's] behaviour and the way they respond is by mirroring tobacco [companies]. They're focused on the Third World for the next raft of profits."
Professor James, chairman of the International Obesity TaskForce, also attacked the Government for inviting fast food companies to join healthy living campaigns. Ministers have introduced curbs on TV advertising of foods to children, especially products high in salt, sugar and fat and new rules ban junk food advertisements on television before 9pm.
But Professor James wants a complete ban on unhealthy foods on TV and the internet as well as a ban on the use of "child-friendly" logos on supermarket food.
A spokesman for Cadbury said: "We only market to adults."
Why ban junk food? My kids enjoy junkfood and they are both thin and healthy. So my kids have to suffer because other kids are fat?
Simple solution: EAT RESPONSIBLY sign in all fast food places. s/
Simple solution: EAT RESPONSIBLY sign in all fast food places. s/”
Ding, ding, ding,
we have a winner. Or should I say ding-dong, ding-dong, ding, dong.
Of course not, it's just an observation that could lead to some correlation, or not. There are many environmental variables that alone or in combinations might lead to something but I doubt any grant money is available for such a non-pc study.
During my childhood every kid I knew was exposed to second hand smoke on a daily basis because you could smoke everywhere, including the Doctors office then. I didn't know one kid with asthma and very few with allergies. There also were very few obese kids but that's probably partially due to the more sedentary habits of our society.
Hey, they’ve concluded now that too clean an environment can lead to allergies and suppress kids’ immune systems, so who’s to say doctors won’t be purposefully blowing smoke in kids faces in a few years!?!
There is a growing trend towards using stand up desks or workstations. I use one and I feel much better as a result. It doesn’t sound like much but just standing and walking around a bit (instead of sliding my chair back and forth) has made a big difference for me.
LOL to that visual.
Yes. I was a wrestler in high school and college. Strict dieting to get to the next lower weight class was very common. Some of my teammates were literally starving themselves, yet weren't seeing weight loss beyond a certain point, despite daily strenuous exercise. We began to think this was due to a starvation reaction, but there was really no way to know. Ever since those days, and since my siblings are both morbidly obese, I've been interested in diet and nutrition. Now, it's to the point where I grow most of my own food. I could easily be heavy like my brother and sister were it not for my own strict dietary habits in regard to empty sugar calories and daily exercise activity. Thanks for the info!
My dad maintained the same weight for 50 years. Trick...If he gained 5 lbs, he decreased his calorie intake until he got back to his norm.
People have to learn to count actual calories. The fat content, salt and sugar are all related.
As a smoker whose been discriminated against and maligned for most of my life, I cannot help but take a certain sad pleasure in saying the following:
“TAKE THAT, Lardsters!!!”
What goes around comes around...
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As a smoker whose been discriminated against and maligned for most of my life, I cannot help but take a certain sad pleasure in saying the following:
“TAKE THAT, Lardsters!!!”
What goes around comes around...”
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Especially to my 350 pound better-than-thou in law!
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