Barely a day goes past without the food fascists berating us over our eating habits – as if it is any of their business anyway. Once again, salt is on the menu. It causes cancer, apparently – along with all the other scary things it does. eventually, everything reduces itself to causing cancer. It’s the big scary monster the health fascists always use when scraping the barrel tying to petrify us into obedience.
Cutting back on salty foods such as bacon, bread and breakfast cereals may reduce people’s risk of developing stomach cancer, according to the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF).
You would have thought that now the weather is finally behaving itself and we are getting summer conditions with high temperatures, that these people would realise that we need to take in more salt to replace that which we sweat out. But, no…
It wants people to eat less salt and for the content of food to be labelled more clearly.
“Want” and “get” are two different things. I want lots of things but don’t get them. But, then, I don’t go about trying to pressurise other people into fitting in with my ideal lifestyle choices. I like my bacon for breakfast and have every intention of continuing to like having it. You know, that old principle about it being my body, so I decide what risks I will take. My grandmother lived to 93, ate a hearty menu of verboten foods on a regular basis and smoked like a chimney and eventually succumbed to complications related to bronchitis. Not a bad age, I’d have thought and she was independent until the final couple of weeks. Yup, If I go like that, I’ll die happy. I will not die happy if I live according to the sackcloth and ashes lifestyle preferred by the new puritans. And, frankly, I have absolutely no intention of doing so. Yup, my body, my rules and one of those rules is bacon for breakfast.
In the UK, the WCRF said one-in-seven stomach cancers would be prevented if people kept to daily guidelines.
I, on the other hand, prefer to stick to my guidelines. They are very simple. I eat whatever I damned well please whenever I damned well choose and the various fake charities, quangos and other hangers-on who steal my tax money to harangue me about my lifestyle choices can go hang.
It is difficult to express in words how much I loath these people. It wouldn’t be so bad if they just did their preaching and everyone felt free to just ignore them. But they do this for a job and they get paid with my money which, as I am now informed, it is my moral duty to cough up.
I thought fags killed everyone. Does salt kill them a second time?
The problem is that everything kills you sooner or later. So don’t expect the pantswetting scaremongers to go away anytime soon. The truth is that they’re arseholes, and only shit comes out of arseholes.
No surprise there.
XX In the UK, the WCRF said one-in-seven stomach cancers would be prevented if people kept to daily guidelines.XX
And 99% of people would therefore die of starvation instead.
And this morning we were told on the wireless that a quarter of 87-89 year olds had a heart condition that OUGHT TO BE TREATED.
ARRRGGGH!
It’s like the lo-fat / semi-skimmed fantasies, isn’t it?
I mean, what’s the POINT of Yoghurt if it doesn’t have 10% fat?
All this is a diversion.
There IS a food subsatnce that is dangerous … sugar.
So no amount of lo-fat or lo-salt will help if you ingest too much sugar.
Funny how we never hear about that, isn’t it?
Sugar does appear as part of SASS – an evil composite entity that activists want to tax out of existence.
The four horsemen of the dietary apocalypse are, according to campaigners like Professor Sir Nicholas Wald (advocate of statins-for-all), Salt, Alcohol, Saturated fat and Sugar.
Lumping them together like that completely ignores the fact that refined sugar is a relatively recent addition to our diet, while we’ve been consuming the others for thousands of years – to say nothing of the political influence that encouraged the widespread use of HFCS in the USA.
Meanwhile, I have a composite term of my own that, I feel, sums up the puritanical, tasteless, self-righteous low-fate versions of what was once enjoyable food; F*** Off Fat-Free.
FOFF for short.
oops – that should be low-fat, of course.
For the vast majority excess salt is excreted away by your kidneys into your urine. Only if you have some medical problem should you watch you salt intake.
But as usual with the bansturbating nannying fusbuckets they want everyone to stop doing something just to stop a few people who can’t look after themselves getting into trouble. Such people are like the teacher who keeps the whole class behind because one kid wrote “The teacher is a twat on the blackboard”.
Usually it’s cheaper, more efficient, and better to find these few troubled souls who can’t look after themselves and treat just them and no one else. As an example, rather than impose costs and regulations on all house building to cope with all kinds of disabilities it’s usually better to adapt an existing house to a disabled person’s specific needs.