Why don’t the media find decent examples to use in their whinge-fest stories these days.
This woman should lose weight then she might find her health problems will go away. She smokes as well. No wonder the health dollar keeps rising.
Is this fair when it is up to us to the lose weight? Read more »
Once again it looks like the masses will suffer because the few can’t stop stuffing food into their gobs. They should tax fat bastards not food.
Biscuits could be made smaller under plans to cut obesity rates by reducing the amount of fat in the nation’s diet.
Ministers are set to demand that food manufacturers, cafes and supermarkets reduce the portion size of items high in saturated fat, such as biscuits, doughnuts, milky coffees and cakes.
Under the plans, seen by The Telegraph, customers could be encouraged to buy low-fat options by restricting the availability of less healthy food in restaurants and shops.
When ready meals and snacks are being manufactured, saturated fat would also be replaced with healthier ingredients, where possible, under the deal. Read more »
Fat-shaming doesn’t work, we need a fat bastard tax, if only to save fat bastards from themselves.
Fat shaming as a ‘motivational technique’ has divided the health and fitness community.
Queensland personal trainers, Sharny and Julius Keiser have been in the spotlight in recent weeks for their controversial comments likening the obese to dole bludgers, labelling them as ‘whingers’ and ‘lazy’.
Despite a public backlash, after the pair appeared on Today Tonight and Sunrise, they are unapologetic. “What we said came from a place of caring and after years of hearing too many excuses,” says Julius. “We know that many people don’t agree with us, but somebody needed to say it.” Read more »
This Innocent smoothie has as much sugar as 3.5 Krispy Kreme Original Glazed Donuts
Water salesman Tony Falkenstein is on a crusade to…well…sell more of his water coolers…but he is dressing it up as a wanting people to wean themselves off unhealthy fluids and fight obesity. He has proposed a sugar tax in the fight against obesity…but the reality is his only solution is for people to buy his water coolers, which is bizarre in a city like Auckland that has good water reticulation.
Nonetheless the usual suspects are calling for a sugar tax…well here is why such a tax will never work.
A single serving of so-called healthy fruit juice has been found to contain the same amount of sugar as three-and-a-half doughnuts or 13 hobnob biscuits.
Exclusive research for Mailonline has revealed that a single 250ml serving of white grape juice contained the same amount of sugar as four Krispy Kreme glazed doughnuts.
Until recently, we thought the ‘bad’ drinks were those such as Coke and Pepsi, while orange juice was an easy way to get one of our ‘five a day’.
But the goalposts have shifted. More and more experts are warning that sugary drinks in any form are largely to blame for our ballooning waistlines. Read more »
Michael Bloomberg’s planned soft drink tax took one in the chook:
A judge struck down New York City’s groundbreaking limit on the size of sugar-laden drinks shortly before it was set to take effect.
The judge agreed with the beverage industry and other opponents that the rule is arbitrary in applying to only some sweet beverages and some places that sell them.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has championed the rule as a pioneering move for fighting obesity. It follows on other efforts his administration has made to improve New Yorkers’ eating habits, from compelling chain restaurants to post calorie counts on their menus to barring artificial trans-fats in restaurant food to prodding food manufacturers to use less salt. Read more »
I was on The Huddle again last night with Josie Pagani and Larry Williams.
Our topics were:
I am on The Huddle again tonight with Josie Pagani and Larry Williams.
Our topics are:
You can listen in the usual fashion or online.
I will post the audio tomorrow.
Kim DotCon is not going to be very happy about this finding…perhaps it is the reason why he is studiously trying to avoid court.
Researchers at Yale University’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity have found that a defendant’s body weight and gender impact jurors’ perceptions of guilt and responsibility.
Their research has been published online in the International Journal of Obesity.
The online study involved 471 adult participants. They were presented with a mock court case, including images of alleged defendants. Participants viewed one of four defendant images: a lean male, a lean female, an obese male, and an obese female. After viewing each of these, participants were asked to rate how guilty they thought the defendant was. Read more »
Back in 2011 I blogged about the new fat tax in Denmark and said at the time it wouldn’t work.
Unfortunately the Danes experiment won’t work because they are taxing the wrong things. Instead of taxing foods with fat in them they need to be taxing things with carbohydrates in them, that is a much broader tax base to start with and secondly will actually address the issue.
You would think that after 50 years of telling people to eat less fat to get thinner we would have a whole heap of thin people, instead we have the exact opposite with the high focus on carbohydrate rich foods. The obesity epidemic is being caused by the health professionals forcing us to carb load.
I was right…it didn’t work and is now it is being repealed…though that won’t stop Labour and the Greens adopting similar stupid policies:
Citing a harmful effect on businesses and consumer buying power, lawmakers in Denmark have repealed the so-called fat tax, which was charged on foods high in saturated fats, after just one year.
In a related decision, the Danish tax ministry said it was canceling plans for a sugar tax. “The fat tax is one of the most criticized we had in a long time,” Mette Gjerskov, minister of food, agriculture and fisheries, said on Saturday during a news conference in Copenhagen, the day the repeal was announced.
“Now we have to try to improve public health by other means.”
Fat bastards just need to stop stuffing food in their gobs.
Labour wants us to think that we need to take GST off fruit and veges to make it cheaper for poor people to buy…that policy was tits when they thought it up and it is tits now that reality bites.
Furthermore Labour’s MPs proved convincingly that it is easy to live on just $2.25 a day, even when an enthusiastic Young Nat managed to out fund-raise the entire Labour team combined.
Eating healthy will cost you the same as splurging out on junk food, according to a study on New Zealand’s shopping habits.
The Auckland research disproved a view that the cheap cost of fatty and sugary food was driving an obesity epidemic.
But this latest research, presented at an obesity conference in Auckland last week, revealed there was no difference in the weekly spends between the most and least healthy eaters.
A quick browse down the supermarket aisle showed a $2 bag of chips costs the same as a kilogram of potatoes. Milk will set you back about the same as a 2.25l coke, at roughly $3.
Auckland nutritionist Rebecca Whiting, who led the study, said a person’s ethnicity and salary can have more influence on shopping habits than pricing.
“There are a number of factors that drive consumption, and the cost of food is only one – and it may not be as important as we think.
“Habit, preference, meal planning, time, taste, and the desire for family harmony all contribute to the types of food families buy and the meals they prepare.”
Parents in the study were asked how often they shopped at the supermarket, grocer, takeaways, restaurant and dairy.
Maori, Pacific and Asian shoppers were more likely to shop at farmers markets, but Pacific and Maori shoppers were also more often buying take-outs or snacks from petrol stations.
