Will This See An End To All 'sweet' Talk From Our Politicians?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2540956/Ill-quit-sugar-day-says-Cameron-wifes-help-PM-vows-treats-campaign-against-obesity.html

[mikey4444]

Another non-story I'm afraid...hardly front page news...more suitable for Chatterbank perhaps ?

[andy-hughes]

One day??? Pah! Wimp!

Anyone knows that giving up anything in a meaningful way is going to take up more than one day - he might as well give up gelling his hair for a day, for all the difference it will make!

It reminds me of that idiot (name escapes me) who said he'd live on the dole for a week to 'experience' the living situation of unemployed people.

A week? Try a year matey!

Living without anything is cululative - so Mr C and Mr Idiot can feel smug and self-righteous for their 'gestures', but as advised, the whole thing smacks of smug self-publicity - so no change there.

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// Another non-story I'm afraid...hardly front page news...more suitable for Chatterbank perhaps ? ///

I am afraid I must disagree with you here mikey, the question of our sugar intake is topical news at the moment, and I was just using this what I considered a humorous way of opening up a debate on the subject.

But if it is the fact that it is a Daily Mail link here is a Guardian link on the concern.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/11/sugar-is-enemy-number-one-now

This has also caused a stir on the internet also.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/01/15/war-on-sugar_n_4601682.html

[DaisyNonna]

Or keeping his mouth shut for a day. Solve his sugar problem too.

[sandyRoe]

Matthew Parris when he was an MP spent a week living 'on the dole'. During that time he knew when the 7 days were up he'd return to a life of relative luxury. People really living on benefits know that the next week, and all the weeks after that, will be as miserable as the one they're enduring now.

[andy-hughes]

sandy - I'd have thought better or Mathew Paris, having always thought of him as a sensible individual.

Anyone in poverty knows, it's the grinding endlessness of it all that wears you down - not something you are ever going to understand, knowing that your soft affluent life awaits you on Monday morning.

Idiot!

[youngmafbog]

Obesity is a real problem we need to tackle now.

But I am not sure this will help in the slightest. If anything it rather makes a joke of the growing issue we have in this country.

[andy-hughes]

Actually, I think obesity is a falling probkem, and the evidence supports this.

There was a discussion on the radio yesterday, advising that some sort of 'Obesity Group' was painting a picture of fifty per cent of the population obese in twenty years, but their evidence is anecdotal, not scientific.

Stats prove that obesity in children is dropping, and is on course to drop below 1998 levels in a short time.

Sorry I have no link - but i am inclined to think that the media, and thus the government, jump on these hobby-horses.

What happened to the horse-meat scandal / bird flu / climate change - and so on ad nauseum? They become an obsession and then they get dropped.

It sells papers, but that doesn't make it fact.