Britain's Fat Fight (HFW)

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First of all, I love Hugh, we've watched him from the start of River Cottage. Second I think a programme on obesity & raising awareness etc is a good thing.

However AIBU to feel like we've seen it all before? I'm sure I've watched almost exactly that programme with Jamie & Tom Kerridge & probably someone else too?

Maybe it isn’t as common knowledge as I thought. I’ve just remembered when I was younger, early 20s, I used to drink half a litre of Dr Pepper a day and sometimes a can of coke too. One day I stopped, very quickly I lost quite a bit of weight, over a stone and no one believed all I’d done was stop drinking fizzy drinks they were adamant I was furiously working out at the gym. I had made no other changes to my diet and wasn’t exercising so I suppose I just assume everyone is aware of it because I’ve had that experience.

I do agree on higher VAT or a restriction on the offers on junk food and dropping the tax on fresh food.

crumbs It's so funny when others think they know better than us what WE are doing!

It was the same when I gave up just ONE cup of ground coffee a day. No sugar in it! I dropped a stone in weight , I didn't want to be addicted to anything, I wasn't trying to lose weight! Maybe it's the caffeine !

Frouby with regard to your Mum's cooker element, ours went recently too. Try having a look at youtube at how to replace this on the appropriate model.

The replacement element cost about £12 and replacement was a screwdriver, 'unplugging' the old element and replacing with new one, then screwing the plate on.

Hope that's helpful xx

Thank you Whitney, will have a look next time I go.

So I watched the recording yesterday and thought that poor bus driver man was going to keel over on the 'fun run'?

Good old Ross Noble actually managed to lose weight, I think that HFW needs to do some classes in how to cook veg easily for the Newcastle people not JUST for Ross!! Although I'm not mad on Kale and I eat and cook plenty of veg!!.

Id like to see HFW etc go into a home reliant on Universal Credit and see if he can work something out.

Because when families are going weeks ................sometimes months without money they can only be reliant on the non perishable non fresh food that a food bank provides.

Its not just obesity that ppl should be worried about The erratic eating and not eating at all that is being caused by UC is going to have a tremendously bad effect on public health and put pressure on the NHS.

Jack Monroe was tweeting about this inconvienient truth and saying how she never gets asked to be involved in programmes like this despite doing a bloody sight more than Jamie and not deriding poorer people while doing it either.

Its because she will bring up the inconvinient truth.

And i bet if anyone did bring up UC or poverty on Britains Fat Fight it would be edited out.

Although that may not work these days because it usually gets out on Twitter if something has been edited out or someone has been misrepresented.

"Jamie gets some stick" Yes Hugh he does. But that is due to his denigration of poorer people which was totally not needed especially as his 2013 book wasnt even aimed at them anyway.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5695135/HUGH-FEARNLEY-WHITTINGSTALL-disappearance-veg.html

Helena Of course there are lots of reasons for obesity, it's not just being poor, it's also cultural, how our parents eat, or ate, emotional, the weather (it's much more tempting to eat salad and fruit when it's warm outside). It's a damn sight colder in the North!

Didn't Jackie Monroe have a telly programme?

anyone watching tonight?

Yes, and recording it. I'm going to bed in a minute because it's an hour later here! That bloke's feet were horrible .

Lazy TV. I could put a better show together. Nothing ground-breaking at all

Pretty lady, but I didn't think she was a size 16

Not suprised the DofH can't be bothered to be interviewed.

They must've seen the first episode.

i think the first episode was probably the best that julie would have been a better presenter. the idea of weighing patients inthe waiting room though i was just stop going as many others i suspect.

Ive really enjoyed the series. Agree
Nothing new but the slant that’s its
Big business problem was different. I liked way it makes it obvious that small changes can make a difference. Not just fat coke to diet but things like beans or kechtup andhow much sugar in fruit juices. As well as a bottle of take away organge juice you may et on a healthy meal deal is 3-4 times size of a portion you should be having.

The only new thing I learnt was that coke paid for the fridges and dictated drinks content and position. It did remind me a lot of the breastfeeding/ formula marketing debate.

My parents owned a shop years ago so I knew about the come fridges. I did find it interesting. I was glad he was badgering government and big business all the way through. Julie was good at putting her point across but every time they showed her, she had one of those massive milkshakes in her hand. Where I live, they cost about £4, never mind the calories. I'd never buy one due to the cost! I liked that he demonstrated little things like putting the steps in the tube station and the scales in the doctors surgery.

I question the ethics of sending ppl to Slimming World or Weight Watchers though. They rely on repeat custom

To be fair where else could they send them?

Not yet seen episode 3. Was shocked by statistic of number of takeaways people are eating in an earlier episode.
I think it’s good he is focusing a lot on the environment we live in and how that encourages excess consumption.

To the PP who asked who pays 60p for a chocolate bar when they are 4 for £1 in the supermarket - I do. It is a conscious decision not to have chocolate in the house (except very dark for cooking) as I know it will get eaten. I can and still do buy bars from the vending machine at work or when I’m in WHSmith buying something else but it’s a conscious decision rather than just eating what’s lying around and is maybe once a week / fortnight.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3243700-6-and-7-year-olds-being-kep-in-at-lunch-time-for-forgetting-homework?pg=1

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3244635-Is-non-completion-of-homework-a-red-flag?pg=1

I can't see the problem with buying a fourpack of mars bars. I just did today. Does not mean I have to eat them all.

I like having them in the house for when the kids or I DO want one.

Who the flip eats 4 mars bars in one sitting? Don't think I know anyone who would. Not even my teenage boys....

The real problem with things like Mars Bars ( and all high sugar\ chemically sweetened drinks and foods) is the amount of sugar they contain which, once your body gets used to it, means you're more likely to become addicted to those foods, therefore you're on the slippery path to obesity and diabetes type 2. There was an interesting programme about sugar and fat , it said that the foods containing 50% of each are the most addictive of all!

Mars bars are bloody rank.