Project Fear Chapter 1798.6....kids Are Fat Because Of Brexit!

[ToraToraTora]

http://metro.co.uk/2018/05/01/children-fat-brexit-jamie-oliver-says-7513003/
Right oh Jamie! Gawd the remoaners are getting desperate!

[Jackdaw33]

What Brexit has to do with fat kids baffles me. Perhaps he should go to Africa. No signs of child obesity there.

[TheChair]

What he actually said was that many government plans have been sidelines due to having to concentrate on Brexit. But I wouldn't expect a brexitoddler to be able to comprehend the difference.

[Mamyalynne]

Good article that and a meaningful video enforces the points we need to address to progress in this task.

[Jackdaw33]

Oh, my giddy aunt!

[Old_Geezer]

Healthy food reforms aren't going to work miracles. If one wants kids to be a healthy weight educate the parents.

[david small]

Put down the tablets/phones, put on the trainers.

[jourdain2]

Back to the '50's is the answer to obesity! We walked everywhere, TV was limited to about half an hour ('Andy Pandy' and 'The Flowerpot Men') and apart from that, well your mum chucked you out to play in the morning, called you in for your lunch and then chucked you out again. You earned a penny by taking a neighbour's dog for a walk.

We also ate like mad - steamed puddings or apple pies to fill us up were everyday. As a generation, I believe I read that we are one of the healthiest ever.

So there's the answer. Limit TV and access to keyboards and send kids out to play. Make sure they stay in groups these days, I suppose.

[Zacs-Master]

We haven’t had Brexit so his claims are a bit strange. What he’s actually saying is that his plans to tackle childhood obesity, drawn up with David Cameron, seem to have been scrapped by T May. The Metro seem to have done the usual trick of putting words in his mouth to lure in the readers who don’t have the nouse (or inclination) to see past a headline.

[Cloverjo]

I can see past the headlines but I can't see how British diets have got so much worse in the past couple of years. I used to like JO but I went off him when he called a woman 'tight' for buying a cheap chicken to feed her kids instead of buying an organic one costing three times more.

[ummmm]

I don't see many fat kids and I'm not walking round with my eyes closed. I live next to a park and the amount of kids there on a daily basis suggests they are all playing computer games.

[waterboatman]

How idiotic can you get! Clutching at straws comes to mind.

[vetuste_ennemi]

//Good article that and a meaningful video enforces the points we need to address to progress in this task//

People of nouse (super fusion word that) care to give an English version of that sentence?
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[Zacs-Master]

Super fusion?

[ummmm]

And I don't understand how VE doesn't understand that sentence.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Isn't it nice to see the children play?

[ummmm]

Yes...it is.

[Old_Geezer]

He's saying his beliefs in things the government should do, and were going to do, has not been implemented, so children's weight hasn't improved: rather than it's got worse. And he blames prioritizing Brexit as the reason his requirements are placed on the back burner. The thing is as far as I'm concerned is that I'm unconvinced the government can make much difference, and I disagree with adding taxes everywhere as a solution. We pay enough taxes and manipulating citizens using strealth taxes on what we buy isn't something that should be done. Not that all suggestions are bad, I quite like the idea of nutrition information on menus.

[Mamyalynne]

He didn't write the headline, as others did - I read further.

[New Judge]

"What he actually said was that many government plans have been sidelines due to having to concentrate on Brexit."

Exactly. And good thing too. With or without Brexit the government has more useful things to do than to explain to ignorant people that it is not a good idea to feed their children and themselves almost exclusively on pizzas, burgers, chips and kebabs.

The dietry habits of many people in this country have become the way they are because they are too lazy to buy and prepare food themselves. The fast food outlets simply cater for demand. If the demand was not there the outlets would not flourish. Unless the government proposes an outright ban on such establishments trading at all then nothing they can do will alter this. Mr Oliver should concentrate on "slamming" things in the oven which, if I recall from one of his TV programmes that I was unfortunate enough to catch a glimpse of, is what his cooking mainly consists of.

[aelmpvw]

those parent who feed their children exclusively on pizzas, burgers, chips and kebabs wouldn't take any notice of the government anyway