Do you know how much sugar do you eat?
BBC News looks at the amount of sugar found in the kind of food and drink we consume every day.
Whatever I feel like eating. I don’t bother to count it because it is of no consequence.
Do you think food companies should pay a “sin tax” for putting sugar in their products?
No.
Or is it down to the individual to make healthy choices?
Or how about you, the state and the various taxpayer funded parasites, fuck off and leave us alone?
A panel of experts will be available to answer your questions live on air,
Bwahahahahahahahahaha! Experts, my arse. Oh, do fuck off and die. I’ll eat what I want to eat and I don’t need you nagging me about the poison of the day.
“Whatever I feel like eating. I don’t bother to count it because it is of no consequence”.
You may not count it (and I agree with your sentiment that it’s none of the state’s business, but it cannot correctly be said to be of no consequence. Every cell in your body renews (schedules vary), and they can only be renewed from what you consume, or what can be salvaged from the old cells. Eat shit long enough, and future cells will (or will not) be manufactured from shit. Fairly consequential.
“Do you know how much sugar you eat?”
What a moronic question. Of course I do! I’m perfectly capable of reading the nutritional information printed on the packaging, as *legally mandated* by the hated[1] EU. This includes not only the sugar content, but even includes other information that helps me make my own informed decision on whether the foodstuff in question gets included in my fortnightly shopping.
We named ourselves “Homo Sapiens” — “[The] Wise Man” — for a damned reason. It’s high time we started living up to it.
[1] (Not by me. I’m neutral. I don’t care for the way it is run by any means, but it _has_ done a pretty good job of keeping its members from each others’ throats for over 50 years, which was the fundamental purpose of the thing. It’s not a perfect record, but when you look at what the continent was like before, it’s definitely an improvement. Even if the EU as we know it today falls, I’d rather see it replaced by something better rather than abandoned outright. That said, there’s no reason why the UK needs to be involved.)
Hello Sean. If you think the British government wouldn’t insist on food laballing out side the EU I’ve good a bridge to sell you.
And if you think the EU has kept the peace in Europe – well now there’s moronic. You might want to read up about NATO, the Soviet Union the western Eurpean Union, and then contemplate how the various inadequacies of the EU seem likely to end in a political fission the like of which we haven’t seen since 1918.
@Cuffleyburgers:
All it takes for a company to legally claim a product is “British” is to repackage it in the country, I, too, have a couple of bridges and even a slightly used Palace of Westminster in stock if you’re interested.
Re. the EU and peace:
I’m half-Italian, half-English. I was born and raised in the UK, and lived there most of my life, but I currently reside in Italy and I’m *still* learning new things about continental Europe’s long and bloody history.
It’s easy to forget that the British Isles were effectively isolated from much of the warfare due to their geography and the ocean itself providing its physical borders.
The history of continental Europe is *much* more violent and bloody than the typical UK history curriculum suggests. We get very edited highlights — i.e. if it didn’t involve the UK directly, it didn’t happen. Many Britons today will make jabs about the Americans’ “late” entries to the two World Wars, utterly ignorant of the fact that the UK itself took its own sweet time to get stuck in as well.
Until the 1800s, neither Italy nor Germany even existed as nations. Both were the result of long, drawn-out battles. (Italy’s current borders aren’t even a century old.)
NATO helped up to a point, but it’s essentially a US-led club whose primary concern was with protecting US interests while keeping the USSR in check. The USSR collapsed well over 20 years ago now, and NATO was of fuck all use in preventing the bloody collapse of the former Yugoslavia.
The EU, on the other hand, started as a trading bloc and gradually morphed into an attempt at a European Federation (with hilarious results), but its role was to provide *business stability* in the region, which discourages wars with the neighbours.
Two tools using very different approaches, but your notion that the European Union has provided no peacetime benefit at all is the moronic one.
Let me repeat: the EU has many, many flaws and I would support “Brexit” if I still lived in the UK. It’s a corrupt organisation with about as much credibility as FIFA.
Unfortunately, that description would apply equally to both the EU and the UK. The UK is certainly not special in this regard.
Yes, I am concerned about how much sugar my food contains. If it does not haver as much as I would like, I add some, and the Sugar Police will never stop me doing that.
Strange how years ago most had two or more tps of refined white sugar in their tea and on their breakfast cereal, ate marmalade/jam on toast, cakes, pastries, bread etc – yet obesity/diabetes/heart disease weren’t crippling the NHS.
Rather a good point, well made
Thanks, though TBH it was the other half’s observation. Obvious really.
Similar for smoking, nearly half males and many woman smoked and life expectancy for that generation is now c.80 years. And alcohol for that matter, during the time adults weren’t badgered on a daily basis that we shouldn’t drink more than a glass of wine a few days a week. The drastic increase in the number of infirm elderly (the majority non smokers) is one reason the NHS has started, in effect, to ‘blame’ people for developing the inevitable age-related illness and diseases by living longer.
The thing about diabetes is that my experience of it suggests that, given sufficient draconian powers, the health Nazis could possibly cure it*. When I was first diagnosed, nearly three years ago, I took steps to exercise more. The more I exercised the less medication I needed until now I don’t need any. I no longer experience any symptoms and the only evidence of my condition is the readings from six monthly urine and blood tests. The only problem is that I need to consume shed loads of complex and simple carbs to fuel my highly active lifestyle.
*Type 2 that is, type 1 takes no account of your lifestyle.
“The only problem is that I need to consume shed loads of complex and simple carbs to fuel my highly active lifestyle”
You really don’t – we’re only told that we do. I’ve eaten very high fat for years, and training 10 hours or more a week is no problem. Itend to eat more carbs in the summer, more fat in the winter, and either works fine.
I don’t recall the advisor who scoffed at fat being the source of heart disease, but his words were along the lines of ‘to think a historical food can be responsible for a new rate of disease is ridiculous’. Same goes for sugar – we’ve eaten it for millennia, have specific hormones an pathways to deal with it – seems very unlikely. Personally I’d look more at foods which have never been part of human consumption until recently (on evolutionary terms!) – seed oils, the chemical soup that accompanies ready meals, etc. I doubt sugar is at the root of it.
Diabetics are slightly different in that our metabolism doesn’t balance our blood glucose levels quite the way it should. Now that I am not taking any medication my becoming hypoglycemic is far less likely but it can still happen.