Now I'm ready to admit I'm a fat git and unhealthy and under exercised.
That out of the way, I'm tired of the constant nonsense both printed on packets by manufacturers, and printed in the press by the newspapers and reported on TV.
I feel almost every health issue can be covered under one line 'Too much x is a bad thing'.
The most recent thing was that after years of trying to tell us that we all do better for eating breakfast, and kids especially do better at school for not skipping it, now cereals are fatal and make you fat and give you cancer of the face.
Ok, maybe over the top, but the reports stated that a bowl of cereal has more salt than a bag of potato chips (translated for our US friends), and more sugar than, I don't remember , a bowl of sugar probably.
Essentially they've found a dumb statistic that stands out and used it to make a stupid point which actually damages a good idea. Persuading parents that taking away a slow burn release of carbohydrates in the morning before school is downright breakfast skippingly dumb.
Kellogg's came back with 'a regular serving of even Coco Pops (the chocolate flavoured sugary puffed rice cereal) contains less sugar than an orange.' which if they weren't battling idiocy in the first place I'd have criticised too, I'm hoping what they're saying is 'ok, if you want to bring it, we'll use your methods to prove that sugary cereal is more healthy than a salad!'
The facts are, you can't base everything on one ingredient, whether it's salt, sugar, fat, vitamins, or whatever, and I wish they'd quit it.
Same goes for all 'healthy' foods advertised as '95% fat free', as you can guarantee that if it's been made lower fat, they've cranked up the salt and sugar to make up for it, and if they say ' now no artificial colours or flavours ' you know the preservatives, emulsifiers and thickening agents are all straight from Chernobyl.
Except of course they're not, a vast number of 'E number' additives are natural ingredients, forced to be given a code name instead of just being called 'Vitamin B' or whatever.
In summary, 99% of us already know roughly what's good and bad for us, and we'll make our choices and live with them, and a Big Mac, a Pizza, a candy bar or some ice cream ISN'T a bad thing. Those things every day is a bad thing.
Note: if this is a wall'o'text, then I'm firing the peon who built it, as there's gaps all over the damn thing!
That out of the way, I'm tired of the constant nonsense both printed on packets by manufacturers, and printed in the press by the newspapers and reported on TV.
I feel almost every health issue can be covered under one line 'Too much x is a bad thing'.
The most recent thing was that after years of trying to tell us that we all do better for eating breakfast, and kids especially do better at school for not skipping it, now cereals are fatal and make you fat and give you cancer of the face.
Ok, maybe over the top, but the reports stated that a bowl of cereal has more salt than a bag of potato chips (translated for our US friends), and more sugar than, I don't remember , a bowl of sugar probably.
Essentially they've found a dumb statistic that stands out and used it to make a stupid point which actually damages a good idea. Persuading parents that taking away a slow burn release of carbohydrates in the morning before school is downright breakfast skippingly dumb.
Kellogg's came back with 'a regular serving of even Coco Pops (the chocolate flavoured sugary puffed rice cereal) contains less sugar than an orange.' which if they weren't battling idiocy in the first place I'd have criticised too, I'm hoping what they're saying is 'ok, if you want to bring it, we'll use your methods to prove that sugary cereal is more healthy than a salad!'
The facts are, you can't base everything on one ingredient, whether it's salt, sugar, fat, vitamins, or whatever, and I wish they'd quit it.
Same goes for all 'healthy' foods advertised as '95% fat free', as you can guarantee that if it's been made lower fat, they've cranked up the salt and sugar to make up for it, and if they say ' now no artificial colours or flavours ' you know the preservatives, emulsifiers and thickening agents are all straight from Chernobyl.
Except of course they're not, a vast number of 'E number' additives are natural ingredients, forced to be given a code name instead of just being called 'Vitamin B' or whatever.
In summary, 99% of us already know roughly what's good and bad for us, and we'll make our choices and live with them, and a Big Mac, a Pizza, a candy bar or some ice cream ISN'T a bad thing. Those things every day is a bad thing.
Note: if this is a wall'o'text, then I'm firing the peon who built it, as there's gaps all over the damn thing!
