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 »
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A number of us that visit Whaleoil have identified with Cam’s struggles over the years. It’s because a lot of us have similar ones. Be they alcoholism, depression, personality disorders, brain chemistry issues, addictions, or what have you.
Some of us have won some battles, some of us slip back again only to fight the same battles again.
What makes Cameron’s struggle so valuable is that it has been in public, and we’ve all been able to root for someone that is deeply flawed. Just like us.
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 »
Despite Bloomberg’s loss in court over his ridiculous soda ban he and the city are trying to appeal the court decision. But perhaps there is a better way:
Bloomberg is a true believer in the lifesaving consequences of his health agenda, and his smoking ban did indeed sweep the country. Yet his soda measure is so obviously ineffectual symbolism that it has a whiff of imposing his will for the sheer sake of it.
The city’s lawyers argued in court that the Board of Health could hand down the new soda rule because it has broad powers to fight disease. But there is a difference between an outbreak of a deadly communicable disease that has people dropping in the streets and excessive soda consumption. If someone drinks a 32-ounce Cherry Coke next to you at a movie theater, it doesn’t make you sick. 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 »
A fat bastard who is dying as a result of stuffing his gob with tonnes of food has managed to convince a gullible court that everyone else is to blame.
A morbidly obese man dying of liver cancer has been awarded more than $350,000 from his doctor because the GP failed to refer him to a weight-loss clinic or send him for lap-band surgery.
Medical experts say the case of Luis Almario is a legal landmark in NSW and will force suburban doctors to ensure overweight patients shed kilos or risk being sued.
What are they going to do, forcibly strap these fat bastards to a bench and starve them into thinness? Read more »
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 »
Check out this photo from The Telegraph…
Massive spoiler kit, knickers all bunched, no one with any cash is going to want to tap that unless they are totally sick.
