Obesity

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matticus

matticus

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England, near a river, near some hills
battered said:
All addictions share the same characteristic, that "enough" is never enough . Food, alcohol, heroin. Addiction is addiction. I've had morphine, in hospital. It's an amazing drug, for me there were no downsides. But I'm not going to take it again unless I find myself in the same position and it's being administered.
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I got mildly addicted to morphine* in hospital. Luckily only in a small way. I'm glad that experts were controlling the supply not me, and when they took me off I didn't get massive withdrawal symptoms. I could imagine it being awful if you came off after several months on the stuff :sad:

*Pethedrine too. No doubt spelt wrong!
 
Milzy

Milzy

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My wife is a district nursery nurse and finds 2 year olds + drinking full fat coke & energy drinks.
Roma families like to force milk down their necks to make them nice & fat as it’s a sign of wealth/status.
Disgusting behaviour.
 
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Edwardoka

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matticus said:
I got mildly addicted to morphine* in hospital. Luckily only in a small way. I'm glad that experts were controlling the supply not me, and when they took me off I didn't get massive withdrawal symptoms. I could imagine it being awful if you came off after several months on the stuff :sad:

*Pethedrine too. No doubt spelt wrong!
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When I came to after jaw surgery I felt magic for a while. The most serene I had felt in years - or indeed, since. I'd like to think that I had some kind of epiphany while under, but I suspect that the culprit was the stuff arriving via cannula.

Even if it weren't for the horrendous chemical dependence it induces, I can totally see why people would chase that feeling.
 
Ridgeway

Ridgeway

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Location
Lausanne, Switzerland
Obesity isn't common here as you'd need to be a millionaire to afford to get fat:laugh:

We had our yearly Chinese take away a few weeks back, 2 boiled rice, sweat & sour chicken, lemon chicken and one portion of noodles and that was £50 for a takeaway - Deliveroo won't be making Switzerland a target country:rolleyes:

When were back in the UK, usually 1wk a year to see the family we do tend to go crazy on the range, cheapness and shear easy access to so much low cost food. We do also notice that the food is extremely heavily salted which we're just not used to, also even the bread seems to taste of sugar (?) I have to say though we do enjoy that week and my waist is glad it is only 1wk.....

On the opposite side cigarettes are about 1/3rd of the price here and there's way way too many people that smoke here, even youngsters are still taking it up so we are way behind on that more serious topic.
 
Reynard

Reynard

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Location
Cambridgeshire, UK
Ridgeway said:
Obesity isn't common here as you'd need to be a millionaire to afford to get fat:laugh:

We had our yearly Chinese take away a few weeks back, 2 boiled rice, sweat & sour chicken, lemon chicken and one portion of noodles and that was £50 for a takeaway - Deliveroo won't be making Switzerland a target country:rolleyes:

When were back in the UK, usually 1wk a year to see the family we do tend to go crazy on the range, cheapness and shear easy access to so much low cost food. We do also notice that the food is extremely heavily salted which we're just not used to, also even the bread seems to taste of sugar (?) I have to say though we do enjoy that week and my waist is glad it is only 1wk.....

On the opposite side cigarettes are about 1/3rd of the price here and there's way way too many people that smoke here, even youngsters are still taking it up so we are way behind on that more serious topic.
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Not to mention all those hilly bits that keep you all fit! :becool:

BTW, sweet & sour sauce is made from the following: a splooshette of stock, pineapple juice (and chopped pineapple), garlic, ginger, chilli to taste and tomato ketchup. No need to spend oooooodles on a takeaway. ^_^
 
simongt

simongt

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Location
Norwich
Arrowfoot said:
taxes on junk food sugared drinks etc
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With all the double standards that governments are famous for, why are sugary drinks being blamed when you can go into any branch of Greggs or similar and see row upon row of cakes, buns etc. covered in icing sugar and so forth - ? :dry:
Hmm. :whistle:
 
Milzy

Milzy

Guru
simongt said:
With all the double standards that governments are famous for, why are sugary drinks being blamed when you can go into any branch of Greggs or similar and see row upon row of cakes, buns etc. covered in icing sugar and so forth - ? :dry:
Hmm. :whistle:
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Why should fit athletes have to pay a tax on such drinks? Nothing like a can of coke 50 miles in & there’s still 50 miles back home.
 
BoldonLad

BoldonLad

Not part of the Elite
Location
South Tyneside
simongt said:
With all the double standards that governments are famous for, why are sugary drinks being blamed when you can go into any branch of Greggs or similar and see row upon row of cakes, buns etc. covered in icing sugar and so forth - ? :dry:
Hmm. :whistle:
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Coffee and cake, the highlight of our cycle rides ;)
 
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Eric Olthwaite

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I sense an implicit sneering aspect to the whole junk food tax thing that puts me right off.
Take away pizza is junk food and should be taxed, whereas Comte and sourdough bread are real food and shouldn't.
But nutritionally, I'm not sure there is a significant difference between the two.
In the scheme of things, E numbers, "chemicals", etc don't really move the dial on the major issue of obesity.
 
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