How ridiculous to have a thread that bashes JO for trying to make this country more healthy. For some reason people can’t take personal responsibility.
When we have 27% of the nation clinically obese and 36% on top of that overweight, we can’t rely on people to make good decisions for their children. People with unhealthy diets rarely encourage their children into healthy eating. I can’t believe people are moaning because they can’t give their children more sugar.
Obesity is the single biggest factor after smoking implicated in many cancers, and that’s not someone telling me down the bus stop, that’s on the Cancer Research website. Obesity raises blood pressure and increases the risk of strokes and heart attacks and type 2 diabetes.
Sometimes you have to take action to ban things for everyone’s health and well-being because people make bad choices. Hospital admissions for heart problems, for instance, have reduced by over 40% since the smoking ban. This would not have happened if people were just told to smoke less or not smoke in public.
People in this country take less and less responsibility for their health and well-being. Minor issue, don’t try and sort it yourself, go to doctors, or worse, A&E. Overweight and causing high blood pressure, don’t go on a diet and start exercising, no, much better to take expensive drugs to manage the horrible symptoms.
But none of you JO bashers care about facts. Demonstrated by someone saying he voted for Brexit, when a quick google shows a copy of his Instagram account encouraging us to vote Remain.
I could just weep with the half truths and ‘nanny state’ tropes in this thread. Please at least do some proper research and understand that excess sugar leads to excess weight which results in health issues.
As a pp explained earlier, it was the trick in the US by food manufacturers that sugar was better than fat in processed food that has contributed to the massive obesity crisis there. We are sadly going in the same direction.