Ban on junk food TV adverts

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1 hour ago, ECCOnoob said:

 

I wouldn't say shocking. Just a sign of how the world is moved on. 

 

We are in the era of convenience. Everything instant this, instant that.   Why spend time slaving away in a kitchen when at the press of a few buttons someone can cook generally better and easier than one ever could. 

 

People always seem to tar all fast food as the unhealthy declining of society. But I'd argue that's not always the case. Some of these restaurant chains, particularly new wave of independents or premium bands or food court are dishes cooked to order using real ingredients and not particularly unhealthy compared to anything else someone will make at home.

 

Let's be frank here. Even mummy cooking away at home, even 40 years ago doesn't automatically mean healthy.  Plenty of mothers would be there cooking away their potato waffles and deep fried in lard chips with various slabs of processed meats accompanied with some sort of processed watery tinned vegetable.  That of course will be followed by some instant chemical filled whipped dessert. Or maybe a special treat some some heavily manufactured ice cream slab made to look continental and exotic. 

 

Unless you were very privileged, the majority of home cooking can hardly be deemed haute cuisine nor fit for the menu of a health club.  This whole home cooking is better. It's just a myth. 

 

Personally, I found the whole junk food thing, just some lazy political posturing. It's more about the government being seen to do something rather than actually tackle the main problem with the NHS, which is it's over funded, overstaffed, flabby, wasteful and expensive pit.  Too little of them work  their full capacity. Too much wastage, too  overused, too abused and too taken for granted.  

 

Forget all the nanny state like banning advertising and bringing increased sugar taxes, let's see some hard line approach to people failing self responsibility. If you can't control your diet and get too fat, the state won't treat you. If you are diagnosed with some condition like diabetes and fail to follow doctor's advice repeated times, that's it. The state stops your medication. That might soon get people to liven up their attitudes to their own welfare far more than shoving McDonald's ads till post 9pm.  

 

Most people already know that eating burgers five times a week, three times a day is not good for you. Most people know drinking gallons of pop is not going to keep your teeth healthy. Doesn't mean we don't like the occasional treat to ourselves. Doesn't mean that legitimate businesses shouldn't be able to advertise it.  For those exceptions who don't follow such basic common sense, that's their freedom of choice and their own problem to fix when it goes wrong.  

 

If people actually saw the real value of healthcare instead of it being handed to them on a plate to take for granted, then let's see how healthy they might start living 

 

Always the same with this stuff, everyone takes it for granted when spending other people's money. As soon as the burden is on themselves, you watch how quickly people's attitude changes.

The ‘heavily manufactured ice cream slab made to look continental and exotic’ is bringing to mind a Vienetta 😂. The height of sophistication in the 80’s!

[ECCOnoob]

8 minutes ago, pfifes said:

The ‘heavily manufactured ice cream slab made to look continental and exotic’ is bringing to mind a Vienetta 😂. The height of sophistication in the 80’s!

 

Bingo.  Or even something like Birds trifle mix. Oh look at mummy making her fruity dessert for the kids.    Yet, I bet there's just as much chemicals, sugar, fat in that 'homemade' dessert than any McDonalds milkshake. 

 

Funny how only one seems to get the constant stigma and criticism though. 

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31 minutes ago, ECCOnoob said:

 

Bingo.  Or even something like Birds trifle mix. Oh look at mummy making her fruity dessert for the kids.    Yet, I bet there's just as much chemicals, sugar, fat in that 'homemade' dessert than any McDonalds milkshake. 

 

Funny how only one seems to get the constant stigma and criticism though. 

Good point. They didn’t try to ban my mum going to the local Co-op for a selection of

processed delicacies😂

 

Thinking about the Vienneta has brought to mind some 80’s food horrors. Tinned macaroni cheese anyone 🤮

[Al Bundy]

1 hour ago, pfifes said:

I don’t know why some people have kids.  They just seem to ignore them and wish they weren’t there.

For benefits and for getting on planes and other modes of transport before everyone else.

[cressida]

I wonder how many couples split up after their offspring have left home,  they are the 'glue' which holds families together in a lot of instances.

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I wonder if the ban will include ultra processed foods like non dairy milk and plant based butter that's never seen the inside of a cow.

[cressida]

There should be a way of making manufacturers cut down on hidden salt.

[Draggletail]

3 hours ago, Slighty batty said:

The woman started scrolling through her mobile and made absolutely no attempt to interact with the child. Eventually the kid started whining, at which point the mum gave a deep sigh, reached into a bag and gave the kid a huge pack of crisps. No words were spoken. After a few minutes the child started wailing again. This time the mum gave the kid a small bottle of coke and went back to her mobile. 

So the kid is now getting conditioned to having their needs met by eating and drinking, and cr@p at that. 😭

[crisispoint]

3 minutes ago, cressida said:

There should be a way of making manufacturers cut down on hidden salt.

I never buy anything that says it's a low fat, low sugar or low salt version, they tend to be low flavour versions. If you don't have salt you'll die, if you don't have fat you'll die, but if you never have another spoonful of sugar, nothing will happen.

[cressida]

I wonder if some of us are like that with our laptops though.