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Pyramid* 07-10-2011 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Cromwell1900 (Post 4629959)
An afters being shunned for a Main.... A victoria sponge as well :crazy:

Btw all your favorites bar the Peanuts would be taxable given a Fat Food's Tax. say you add 10p to a packet of Cheese & Onion, would that make Obese people eat less of them? or just make them spend less on essencials like clothe's?


Happy to pay that extra fat food tax. I don't live on fat foods - I have them as occasional treat - unlike many others who wouldn't know a healthy diet if it smacked them on the face.

lostalex 08-10-2011 08:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Dezzy (Post 4626850)
A better idea if they wanted to fight obesity would be to give organic and healthy foods a tax break. True organic foods tend to be more expensive then the fatty and processed varieties so why don't they go all the way and reduce the tax on them on top of the tax hike for unhealthy food? Make the fatty foods seem more like a luxury once-in-a-while treat while making the healthier foods more accessible.


LESS money for the government?? lol. that DOES make sense, but for some reason i doubt we'd see MP's voting for that! lol i wonder why???

iRyan 09-10-2011 12:35 AM

Psh, Denmark doesn't need a law like that, everyone other there is already skinny as it is!

lostalex 09-10-2011 05:06 AM

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Originally Posted by iRyan (Post 4634854)
Psh, Denmark doesn't need a law like that, everyone other there is already skinny as it is!

How many Danish people have you ever met? ..... yea, that's what I thought... lol

Tom4784 09-10-2011 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by lostalex (Post 4633926)
LESS money for the government?? lol. that DOES make sense, but for some reason i doubt we'd see MP's voting for that! lol i wonder why???

Yeah I never said if it was a realistic option but if it was really about health issues you'd think they'd go the whole hog with it.

arista 09-10-2011 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by iRyan (Post 4634854)
Psh, Denmark doesn't need a law like that, everyone other there is already skinny as it is!



They need the Law as all Food has changed
so yes they have Fat people in Denmark.

letmein 09-10-2011 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Photon (Post 4621443)
Nanny State? No Free Will?

Yeah man, wikileaks is totally going to leak some wire on how the government of Denmark is in on some conspiracy to discourage people from eating junk food. 2k12 y2k UFO's 9/11 bigfoot I'M GOING INSANE MAN.

That doesn't even make sense. This is the very definition of a Nanny State. They are making personal decisions for people for them.

letmein 09-10-2011 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by chuck.pass (Post 4626685)
Everybody eats fast food, not only fat people.

Everyone? :crazy:

Uh, no.

Britain does have an obesity epidemic though. It's the fattest country in Europe.

letmein 09-10-2011 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by lostalex (Post 4626804)
yes, so you don;'t think anorexia is a disease too then? Anorexics only suffer because they eat too few calories, so i guess anorexia is not a disease either pyramid?

Anorexia is a physiological disorder. It's not the same thing. They see themselves as fat. They're seeing themselves as something they're not. Fat people aren't eating because they think they're too skinny.


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