Yeah, really, there’s been a study…
Grandparents are a potential health hazard for children and may even increase their risk of cancer, say scientists.
They spoil their grandchildren with sweet “treats” and big helpings of fattening food, and expose their young lungs to second hand tobacco smoke, it is alleged.
The extraordinary claims are based on a review of research into the influence grandparents have on lifestyle factors that can sow the seeds of cancer in later life.
Are there no depths to which the public health parasites will not stoop to peddle their poison? Oddly enough, I survived and my grandparents smoked like troopers. The occasional treat didn’t do any harm. This is pure hysteria. It is more of the temperance nonsense that we are being forced to pay for.
The research found no significant evidence of grandparents influencing alcohol consumption or sun exposure.
Oh, well, that’s something, I suppose. But give the bastards time…
Meaning grandparents didn’t risk snowflakes attacking them for telling the children to go out and play in garden with evil Mr Sun.
Meanwhile, rickets increasing in UK due to lack of sunlight on skin – campaingers wat Gov’t to mandate adding Vit. D to bread, … , brocolli, fish & chips.
We erradicated Rickets in UK in 1950s – increase due to, cough RoP immigrants and cough anti-sun health zealots.
All these public sector parasite scum must be culled and common sense promoted
I only met my paternal grandfather 4 times in my life. I’m Canadian, he’s German.
The first time I met him I was 10. He sent me to buy beer, with a note instructing the merchant to send along some “Dunkelbier’. He got me pissed by 2 PM. Sweetness hides the taste and bite of alcohol quite well.
The last time was in Paderborn Germany where he treated me to more secondhand smoke. He lived with my aunt Agnes who also smoked. A lot. At age 90 he also took me and my parents in-law for a walk. 6 hours and about 20 miles later, the old boy with a cane, I was pretending to be tough and my in-laws were gasping like fish. Opa smoked the entire way, non stop, even when he was popping into a Kneipe for some Bier or “ein Glaeschen”. My father had wisely declined to come along.
I invited him for an Opa – Enkel lunch on my last day there. Did he know a nice place? He did, a short drive. Turned out to be 2 hours and a Michelin multi star place, cost me a bundle. He smoked the entire time, ate hugely from an expensive menu and lifted 5 or 6 VSOP something or others off me, for his “digestion”. A large bundle, every pfennig well spent.
Apparently he had become rather carefree after surviving a thorough machine-gunning at Verdun by you filthy Brits, costing him a bicep, most of the muscle on one breast and a puncture right through his lung on the other. Even so, he held no grudges, often visiting the UK to see his daughter who had married a UK occupation soldier.
He did me no harm, to hell with the health Nazis, may they rot.
Hang on, I just looked up ‘lead author’ Dr Stephanie Chambers. Oh FFS! She’s a bloody dietitian. Okay, panic over.
Just when I think they’ve scraped the bottom of the barrel, they go and get a deeper one…
“….that can sow the seeds of cancer in later life.”
Is that even possible?
There you have it. Now we know why Government manages to piss so much money up the wall. Quick cost saving right there Mr Hammond…
The press do have a bit of a track record for misreporting scientific studies and making claims that were not in the original study. Having said that, does anybody recognise the type of grandparents that are described in this piece? Both my grandads smoked but non of my daughter’s grandparents do. In any case, there is a complete lack of evidence that passive smoking has any effect. Neither my grandparents or my daughter’s grandparents ever went overboard with the sugary treats either.
As totally absurd health scares go this one gets the gold. Still, the more ridiculous they become the better as far as I’m concerned, that way everyone will learn to ignore them.
The report on ‘passive smoking’ commissioned (and subsequently buried because it didn’t come up with the ‘right’ results) by the WHO, which was probably the most comprehensive study ever done on the subject, not only came up with null hypothesis, but also found that children raised in a smoking household had somewhere in the region of 20% better long term health outcomes than kids raised in a non-smoking household.
Which gives one pause for thought when you consider the social and economic havoc that has been wrought by smoking bans (brought in ostensibly on the basis of the ‘dangers’ of SHS).