People need to more than halve their intake of added sugar to tackle the obesity crisis, according to scientific advice for the government in England.
A draft report by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) says sugar added to food or naturally present in fruit juice and honey should account for 5% of energy intake.
Many fail to meet the old 10% target.
I wasn’t aware there was a target. But, then, it doesn’t apply to me. I eat whatever I choose to eat. I don’t observe government guidelines or targets because my body is mine to do with as I please. I don’t answer to the state and I certainly don’t answer to the health Nazis who continue with their incessant rantings about our lifestyle choices. I am a grown adult. I am well aware of the risks I face and I choose to take some and avoid others.
Sugar will not cause me to become obese. I will not become obese anyway. The health Nazis can go fuck themselves and they can stick their targets where it causes the most discomfort.
One 330ml can of fizzy pop would take a typical adult up to the proposed 5% daily allowance, without factoring in sugar from any other source.
It was warm today – I had a bottle of Lucozade and a can of Pepsi. Fuck me, I am well over. And if I feel like it, I’ll do the same tomorrow and the day after and the day after that. It’s my body and I’ll eat and drink whatever I damned well please.
Public Health England will now reconsider its recommendations on fruit juice and smoothies in its five-a-day campaign.
Doesn’t matter. I’ve been ignoring that as well and intend to continue doing so. I do not take advice from the state and its parasitic hangers-on.
It will also investigate measures to protect children from food advertising while online and whether a sugar tax would have any merit.
Ah, yes, if in doubt, tax it. I’ll cross the Channel and stock up at E. Le Clerk and continue to eat as much sugar as I please while avoiding their tax.
Its draft guidelines reiterated that sugars should constitute no more than 10% of energy intake and that people and governments should be aiming for 5%.
I’ll aim for whatever I decide. I will not be told what to do by these fucktards.
Weird. It’s almost as if these tossers have never heard of the concept of _exercising more_ if one feels one has slightly overindulged. Have the “anti-sugar” lobbyists not met the “more exercise” lobbyists? They’d get along like a house on fire! Just think:
“The Department of Do As We F*cking Tell You, Or Else this week announced their new ‘5-a-day’ Plan:
“Eat five pieces of fruit or vegetables a day!
“Run five miles a day!
“Sing the praises our Glorious Government five times a day!
“Write a five-item list every day!
“Read five wildly conflicting health directives per day!”
Well, I’ll have no problem achieving that last one, at least…
They’re completely delusional of course – they obviously think we faff about measuring our intake using percentages, teaspoonsful, grams or whatever. They see us food-shopping, planning meals and cooking armed with a calculator. Do they imagine, too, that our shopping lists have a column at the side where we write in calorie values and tot them up to see if we’ve overtaken their silly invented limits? That we all have, as individuals, our state-defined daily ‘allowances’ and personal ‘targets’, seems a reality to them too. But the most irritating manifestation of their arrogance are these never-ending pronouncements which they clearly believe we are waiting for with bated breath – and that we will follow the latest diktat with unthinking obedience to the letter. I am sure that sending out press-releases doesn’t really do it for them – what they’d really prefer would be a mic, a balcony, and a uniform.
The odd thing for me is that since being diagnosed with diabetes just over a year ago I have adapted a diet that is pretty close to what these people are advocating for everyone. I was originally diagnosed as type one but diet and exercise have had such a huge positive effect that it is now thought to be type two which is much less serious. I have gone from five injections per day and constant blood tests to just taking a little brown pill every morning. Calculating the carbohydrate content of every meal in order to work out how much insulin to inject was something that I was taught how to do but since my condition improved so much, I never needed to do it.
The health fascists seem to think that life itself is a medical condition, all you have to do is eat like a diabetic and you can live forever.
It;s the converse of that last point that worries me – health fascists assuming that, since you have an illness statistically associated with an ‘unhealthy’ lifestyle, you must have somehow brought it upon yourself.
It was a post here some time ago that led me to a BBC TV interview in which a woman with cancer was asked. “”Why was it you? What was it in your lifestyle that was wrong?”
They have the same problem in America it seems.
http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2014/06/27/appeals-court-overrules-nyc-food-fascists-big-sodas-are-back/
One can only hope that the press coverage these self obsessed arseholes have got for this in the past few days – where most people look at that “one coke is far too much” statement and disregard it as complete bollocks – will be enough to see the end of this campaign and hopefully all the Government funding these people get as well.
We’re employing power-crazed obsessives full time to nag us at the taxpayers expense? Can we not just sack these plonkers instead?