After8 10:04 Sat Jan 3
Is it time to tax sugar?
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Jamie Oliver had called for a tax in sugar after claiming that nearly 70% of NHS cases are diet related.
With the nation needing to make savings and people living longer is it not time to tax the fat so to speak?
My own personal view is that successive governments have tried education pro gars and promoting active lifestyles but until people are forced to change their ways and until the food industry is forced to reduce sugar in processed foods we will simply see an increase in fat unhealthy people clogging the NHS up and costing the rest of us a fortune.
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orwells tragedy
2:17 Mon Jan 5
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my wife is at home all day but i can't get a decent meal out of the bitch
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Cony Tottee
11:13 Mon Jan 5
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It's all women's fault. If they hadn't burned their bras and got jobs then they'd be at home cooking decent, healthy meals for their kids.
House prices would be cheaper as well as mortgages would only be based on the MAN'S income.
Bloody women.
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Joke Whole
9:55 Mon Jan 5
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When I was a young lad, sweets & chocolate were seen as "reward foods" - clean your room before being reminded, good school report, even an extra badge from the cubs got a treat - unexpected until the link was made that it was continuous improvement and not just matching the last effort that generated the reward.
The modern generation seems to have picked up on such "rewards" for just getting their screaming brat to shut the fuck up at a supermarket check-out and see no subsequent issue with stuffing themselves full of comfort foods between meals (and genuinely wondering why they then have no appetite or desire to cook later in the day).
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andyd12345
9:35 Mon Jan 5
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Anyone that thinks adding additional tax to a 50p chocolate bar therefore making it 58p will solve (or even in the tiniest way impact) the obesity crisis is utterly looney.
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Ronald_antly
9:28 Mon Jan 5
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There's no point in pussy footing around the issue with taxes.
The only solution would be to round up all the fatties.
A final solution, if you will.
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joe royal
8:02 Mon Jan 5
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100 spoons
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Babelman
12:00 Mon Jan 5
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the window tax in Ireland did not help waist lines..
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bruuuno
9:50 Sun Jan 4
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mashed in maryland 9:19 Sun Jan 4
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I agree
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orwells tragedy
9:22 Sun Jan 4
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Alex_The_Iron 7:19 Sun Jan 4
We have
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riosleftsock
9:22 Sun Jan 4
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We don't eat enough meat and meat products,
That's the problem.
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mashed in maryland
9:19 Sun Jan 4
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bruuuno 8:07 Sun Jan 4
We eat to much carbs imo.
Literally everything is packed out with it.
It's unnecessary
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Willtell
8:12 Sun Jan 4
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Alan Sugar - yes. Hugely so the Tottenham loving cunt...
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bruuuno
8:07 Sun Jan 4
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Haven't read any if this thread or the story but there is a book by some dietician which basically blames western obesity completly on sugar. Anyone who reads this book blathers on about it like it's some amazing relevation. I am assuming that Jamie Oliver has now read this book hence the headlines?
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Alex_The_Iron
7:19 Sun Jan 4
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orwells tragedy 5:38 Sun Jan 4
Think we've had this discussion before mate on a similar thread - Lustig's claims sound great as they focus on an inane aspect of our diets (e.g. the fact that fructose around the 150(!)g/d mark can cause insulin resistance) ignoring the bigger picture and thereby removing responsibility from people, but are unfounded scientifically; like Taubes, Lustig uses uncontrolled data (very selectively to boot), contradicts himself and makes statements which are downright false.
With that said, if people cut out added sugars from their diets, this can also reduce their calorie intake substantially enough to cause weight loss, restore insulin sensitvity and hormone production etc. But the elimination of sugar should be to reduce unnecessary calories, not because sugar itself is bad.
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orwells tragedy
5:38 Sun Jan 4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmC4Rm5cpOI
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RH
4:44 Sun Jan 4
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Jamie Oliver is a cock
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Scraper
3:46 Sun Jan 4
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They are, but SUGAR is only one of many culprits.
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Cliff Richard
12:49 Sun Jan 4
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I don't believe for one minute that 70% of cases are diet related.
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ray winstone
12:48 Sun Jan 4
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After8, just whack a VAT rise on it, the Tories LOVE a VAT rise....
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eusebiovic
12:41 Sun Jan 4
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It's time to regulate Junk Food and the food laws need tightening up again so that experimental shit that bloats people up can't be included in manufactured food products...many of which you will find on the pasta aisle in sauces with Jamie Oliver's new labour rictus grin on the label of the jar...
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Gloucester Iron
12:07 Sun Jan 4
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Two pints of bothered and a Mars bar please...
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