More fake news from the MSM.
Average 10-year-old has eaten 18 years’ worth of sugar
And that’s just the headline. There is no such thing as an average 10-year-old. Each is an individual. So, bollocks from the off.
The average 10-year-old has consumed as much sugar in their lifetime as the recommended limit for an 18-year-old, according to Public Health England (PHE), which is warning of serious implications for obesity and health.
Aaaaaand, we’re off. Quoting PHE, peddlers of rampant bullshit and junk science all in the name of health fascism. If it isn’t a communicable disease, it isn’t a public health issue and therefore nothing to do with PHE. But, as usual, the Guardian, being a bastion of fake news makes no attempt to challenge the assertions of this nasty little organisation.
One-third of children are overweight or obese at the age of 10 and 4.2% are severely obese in year six at school. Obese children often become obese adults, at risk of heart attacks, strokes and type 2 diabetes.
Bollocks! Utter, utter cobblers! These charlatans are again conflating overweight and obese – much like the tax justice creeps conflate avoidance and evasion. They also use BMI as a measure – a measure that is useless in reality. And, it would appear, not one of these poltroons has stood outside a school at around three in the afternoon. If they had, they would see streams of ordinary – not remotely overweight – children pouring out of the school gates. I pass by at least three schools on my way home at that time in the afternoon and spot the fatties is a bit like looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack. Reality – the reality we all see on the streets of our towns and cities defies this assertion. One third of children are not overweight and never have been. I would also point out that there is a period during a child’s development where they put on weight between growth spurts. This is normal and worrying about it will only cause harm.
To put it bluntly here: these mountebanks are lying to us, and the Guardian – along with the rest of the scum in the MSM are failing in their duty to challenge it.
“Today’s children are growing up in obesogenic environments, bombarded by adverts and promotions for junk food online, on TV and in our supermarkets,” said Caroline Cerny, the alliance lead.
And yet they still manage to remain perfectly normal.
The whole article is little more than a press release for PHE and the usual gang of fake charities and puritans without one hint of challenge from those who have a duty to do so.
If there weren’t so many crap programmes on the awful BBC and then the non-tax-paid stations, and a decent producer showed idiot parents how to buy, prepare and cook healthy food instead of ugly cakes chucked up by uglier people, we might be getting to the root of the problem.
Councils can also do their bit by stripping their High Streets of junk food shops and the dreadful coffee habit dens – that’s if they have the will or the common sense, which is a rarity amongst most pond-dwellers paid for by poll taxes.
But of course, The awful guardian relies on lattes to ‘function’, if not bodily, then by providing the BBC with stupid articles, made meaningless from ‘stats’ supplied by lazy over-paid quangos!
Actually, there are cookery programmes if you look for them. There’s a whole channel devoted to it. But even so – even if PHE was right in what it says, there is a fundamental point that everyone misses here. It is a matter of personal responsibility and in the case of children, parental responsibility.
LR, I was rather hoping that my first para implied that!
Define ‘healthy’ food. Is there sick food and can it get treatment on the NHS?
… stripping high streets of… etc.
When will it be my turn to be dictator and decide things for everyone else?
Definitely not vegan, John. But we here always think of one of Mrs S’s vegtable/lamb stock soups as ‘healthy’, and makes the old pension go a little further too!
That could tick a few boxes on parental responsibility too!
@Scrobs
Define “junk food shops”
Nobody is forced to buy from any shop. Shops cater for demand, they don’t create demand. If no demand, shop closes (Spud U Like, Woolworths etc)
What you propose is make people travel to buy, or buy from black-market.
You really want that?
I refer you, to Guido’s excellent post on Greggs, and also ask you to read the comments – they’re delightful and some are very funny!
A nourishing breakfast of a packet of crisps and a krispy creme donut with a lucozade chaser doesn’t actually help my appetite…
As for the ‘black’ market, you’ll have the pudding stasi on your back for that!
A diatribe, not an answer
Let’s start with Winalot and chips, then move on from there!
Sugar is a carbohydrate. Sugars are present in fruit and vegetables.
Other carbohydrates are also present in fruit, vegetables, grains, legumes.
All carbohydrates, whether sugars or longer chain carbs, are metabolised into glycogen, no matter what they are or whence they originate.
Dietary advice which has encouraged reduction of consumption of meat to be substituted by pasta, rice and other grains, has moved people away from low carb nourishment to high carb, from food less likely to form fatty tissue to one most likely to do so. So now let’s blame sugar.
Once again ignorant, self-interested, low-quality thinkers accuse a single factor amid multiple variables as sole cause of something.
They have done the same with CO2 and climate.
this…. exactly this…
Compounding the problem, the government and know it all advice is still to have a high carb low fat diet.
“Councils can also do their bit by stripping their High Streets of junk food shops and the dreadful coffee habit dens”
No they most certainly do not. These are legitimate businesses catering to people who provide a market for their products. If they pay their rates and are not breaking the law they have the same right to trade as those that sell the kind of stuff that you like. Bansturbators are bad people, try not to be one.
Actually, Stony, having been involved in retail for many years, I find it’s not surprising that High Streets suffer because of an influx of coffee shops, and fast food places. This has been proven in Tunbridge Wells, where as soon as one starts up, another closes.
Hardly a vibrant commercial situation! But of course, you’re right that they are legit businesses, they just don’t seem to cater for better grub that’s all!
(And don’t call me ‘disgusted of TW’, as we spent £90.00 at M and S Foodhall recently, but out of town! Much nicer)!
The independent radio news is parroting this crap uncritically too. Just once I would like to hear them give this kind of story the derisive coverage that it deserves.
You might be listening to an awful lot of wireless, Stony. Paint will dry before that particular take on the subject is dealt with!
PHE would have a fit if they had seen what my brother and I ate when children:
Jam sandwiches, sugar sandwiches, weetabix with syrup – all with butter too.
We were thin!
PHE needs closing and all forbidden from ever breathing again. Same with our modern “no joy” puritans.
A good chum used to like a salt sandwich, Pcar – now that ticks some sort of box as well!
“forbidden from ever breathing again.” Wasn’t there some bloke who claimed that he never ate anything, and got all his nutrients just from breathing the air?
And yes, a good sugar sandwich went down very well when I was a kid, likewise a tomato sandwich with sugar! Luxury! Then I’d get on my bike and work it all off…
Sandwiches – treacle,syrup, dripping, chips, black-pudding, and on and on.
Sugar dip – a chip, (try it) rhubarb, goosegogs,
Ate them all, never fat.
Teeth? Now that was something else.