Charity for Diseases

[Supernick]

I was having a flick through the Daily Mirror today and noticed they had aneditorial piece on whether we are finally turning the corner with cancer and beginning to get a lot more succesful with the treatment of it. It commented that only 100 people a year die from testicular cancer, a figure that I thought would be much bigger, and possibly ran into the thousands. Whilst it's obviously devastating for those involved and I have unfortunately seen cancer within my family, it seems like there must be a disproportionate amount of charity money that gets poured into a disease that kills relatively few. Is that fair? Are there any diseases that are grossly under-represented, or any that receive more public support than is really necessary. I don't want to sound callous at all, because obviously even 1 death is a tragedy, but was just interested

[Scarlett]

I think that if you looked at the figures for breast and colon cancer you would probably answer your own question. In my mind, an even bigger concern is heart disease. Most things can be prevented just by eating properly, so why are our kids being given such dreadful rubbish to eat by their schools every day? They don't stand a chance.

[Gevs1966]

Scarlett, the parents of the Nations children could always make them a healthy nutritious packed lunch to take to school or does that mean that they actually have to take some responsibility themselves.....?