[Parmy]

Originally Posted by Liam-

Absolutely not

It's worth more of a debate than that...

This year there will be 18.7 million more cases of cancer diagnosed worldwide.

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by parmnion

It's worth more of a debate than that...

This year there will be 18.7 million more cases of cancer diagnosed worldwide.

More cancers are caused by obesity than by smoking apparently so yes something needs to be done by food manufacturers, diet companies and us ourselves.

[Parmy]

Originally Posted by Kazanne

More cancers are caused by obesity than by smoking apparently so yes something needs to be done by food manufacturers, diet companies and us ourselves.

I did not know that..I was led to believe smoking was by the Internet.

The food companies and the government need to take a long hard look at themselves...what I would do is change this sin tax thing that they put on sugar cause that doesn't help the poor at all..what I would do is give out tokens to the poor so they can by all the healthy stuff at the same price...the government can pick up the shortfall for the companies...cause I'm sure everything they have said and promised about healthy eating will instantly go out the window when I mention that to them...


So that's the poor sorted...

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Kazanne

More cancers are caused by obesity than by smoking apparently so yes something needs to be done by food manufacturers, diet companies and us ourselves.

Quite right. It's simplistic to suppose that everyone who is overweight is lazy and greedy. So many mental health issues can lead to comfort eating and other strange relationships with food and yet look at all the people here saying that all you need to do is eat less and move more. If only it was that simple. Maybe it makes some people feel better about their own fat bodies to laugh at others, I don't know... but obese people need just as much sympathy and support as the little waif-like anorexia sufferers. Obesity and anorexia are different ends of the same scale and yet no one says to anorexia sufferers, you just need to eat something, that's all.

Sadly, people will look as a super skinny anorexia sufferer and say, oh look she's tiny, like a little waif.... or something equally as inane. At the same time they'll look at someone who's obese and say, look at that fat, lazy cow.

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by Livia

Quite right. It's simplistic to suppose that everyone who is overweight is lazy and greedy. So many mental health issues can lead to comfort eating and other strange relationships with food and yet look at all the people here saying that all you need to do is eat less and move more. If only it was that simple. Maybe it makes some people feel better about their own fat bodies to laugh at others, I don't know... but obese people need just as much sympathy and support as the little waif-like anorexia sufferers. Obesity and anorexia are different ends of the same scale and yet no one says to anorexia sufferers, you just need to eat something, that's all.

Sadly, people will look as a super skinny anorexia sufferer and say, oh look she's tiny, like a little waif.... or something equally as inane. At the same time they'll look at someone who's obese and say, look at that fat, lazy cow.

That's right and some people are so desperate to lose weight and get conned with all this diet stuff promising miracles, you don't see skinny people being promised a miracle cure and conning people out of huge amounts of money, then you get food adverts all the time, take outs that you can order on tap, I think we as a nation are really unfair in the way we treat bigger people we could help in so many ways.