Isn’t Islamic jihad, or global warming climate change, or RCMP investigators infiltrating mail servers looking for photos you took of your grandson in the bathtub.
It’s the never-ending quest by bureaucrats and university academics to devise new means to justify their own continued employment;
Oversize clothes should have obesity helpline numbers sewn on them to try and reduce Britain’s fat crisis, a leading professor said today.
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Prof Sattar is calling for more political intervention.
He and his colleagues say food manufacturers should also display energy content of all meals and snacks at retail and catering outlets.
The saturated fat content of all ready meals and snacks should also be clearly labelled.
New urban roads should only be built if they have safe cycle lanes and new housing complexes should be constructed only if they have sports facilities and green park areas, he says.
He also wants to see adviceline numbers attached to all clothes sold with waists above 102 cm for men, 94 cm for boys, 88 cm or size 16 for women and 80 cm for girls.
Such measures would affect comedian Dawn French who runs her own clothes shop Sixteen 47, catering for women up to a size 47.
Prof Sattar also wants ads for slimming services without independent evaluation banned, TV ads for sweets and snacks stopped before 9 pm, higher tax on high fat and high sugar foods and tax breaks for genuine corporate social responsibility.
In this week’s British Medical Journal, Prof Sattar says education should be provided at all levels to change behaviour towards diet and physical activity, and obesity made a core part of all medical training.
“People clearly have some responsibility for their health, but society and government have a responsibility to make the preferred, easy choices healthier ones,” he said.
It’s a crisis, they tell us.
Or is it? (link fixed)
One thing is certain – now that the Great War On Smoking is drawing to a close, the day that retailers will be legislated into hiding candy behind shower curtains may be closer than you think.
Or is it?
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The good professor is probably just returning from his 2 year study of toe jam in Bolivia and found his wife had gotten a little plump while he was away and he panicked a little….
Thay’ll hav ta comm an git mae!!!
Or is it?
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just an extra ” l ” at the end
Don’t Wanna Work On Maggie’s Farm No More
Or we could all just be legally obligated to chant “Fatty, fatty two by four,”…at every person out in public we think is size 16 or over
The prof is another of his ilk who preach the “protect me from myself” philosophy.
That’s all society needs is another Big Brother…;)
How’s anybody going to read the good professor’s labels/warnings/signs when the public education system produces illiterates?
Besides, I think big & bold women will prefer to continue with today’s labeling, where outfits formerly known as size 16 are now labeled as size 2. Who’s going to want to try on a dress with a label that says “hey fatty, I’m the dress for you, and while we’re at it, you think you could cut down on the fries, hmmmm?”
Fascinating. We seem to be, all on our own, without the heavy hand of a dictatorial government, moving into an authoritarian communist-style governance. We are doing this to ourselves – insisting that individuals don’t have the ability or right to make decisions and must be both guided and prevented from such illicit activities.
Over at the Shotgun, there is a regular blogger who posts diatribes against the ‘social engineering’ of communism, in particular, that of China. When we inform him that China is moving the opposite way – towards privatization, individual freedoms (including the right to own private property in their constitution – something lacking in Canada) – he insists we are wrong. Meanwhile, back on our own Farm, we are moving into what the socialist/communist countries are moving away from. Fascinating.
Animal Farm, Animal Farm, never through me shalt thou come to harm!
Here’s an idea:
Shut down half the universities and the humanity departments of those that remain.
There are too many universities and this has effected quality. Humanities have been polluted by idiocy and do nothing but contribute to global warming through an excess of hot air and verbal flatulance.
Hey in the mid 90’s it was the virus then came global warming and now TA DA obesity. Somewhere in there we were supposed to get whacked by a comet too.
Just read a article from the Scientific community (USA) that ‘hates’ to admit the fact that smoking tobaccoincreases testosterone production in men. Smoking mariwana and eating soy increases estrogen. What is promoted and what is encouraged by the Rocket scientists in the hard left (and some conservatives too!). End result: Girlie men and fat females. The leftys love to make ‘others’ like them. Girlie men are easy to rule.
Why government is evil.
One day a small demon ran into the throne room of His Satanic Majesty.
“Your Majesty! Some people on Earth just discovered a piece of the truth!”
Lucifer yawned and continued with his manicure.
“Your Majesty!” the little demon said with some alarm, “perhaps you didn’t hear me. Some people on Earth just discovered a piece of the truth!”
Lucifer paused a moment from his manicure and turned his wise and cynical and malevolent face to the small demon, and said,
“Well today, let them enjoy it. Tomorrow I will go up and help them organize it.”
And this is how the devil got into the details.
Incidentally, this principle has been recognized for centuries. In the QBL (the Hebrew Qaballa) the “organizing principle of the universe” is called the “administrative intelligence.” And it so happens that there is a particular demon attached to this intelligence that goes around trying to screw up the organization.
so can I expect to see fotos of fat people on high caloric food packaging?
kinda like fotos of smokers lips and assorted other parts on cigerette packages…
Why don’t they just get it over with and assign a government nanny to each home? That way, the cradle-to-gravers can find full employment at the taxpayers’ expense and really live the dream.
While I’m at it, they can shove it about smoking as far as I’m concerned. Is it a legal product? Yes. Is it controlled and marketed by the government? Yes. Is second-hand smoke a proven health risk? No.
Maybe when Gar Mahoud and his band of Harpies get their wish, they can apply for those nanny jobs. So can the SOWs. I could actually use someone to clean up around here and hold the fort while I’m railing at the government and the media between pursuing my interests.
Health Canada advises that eating 10 quarter pounder meals at once makes you impotent.
As well it should.
him: Or we could all just be legally obligated to chant “Fatty, fatty two by four,”…at every person out in public we think is size 16 or over”
Hate speech! Thoughtcrime! Into the memory hole with you…
Dawn French was a comedic genius. nothing sacred, as it should be.
her ‘partner in crime’ passed away a couple years ago so she left the business.
british comedians specialize in farce, canadian comics go for the political jugular.
americans obsess about body function and toilet humour and steinfeld jokes about the homeless.
take your pick.
“Prof Sattar also wants….TV ads for sweets and snacks stopped before 9 pm”
This is so rich in lameness on so many levels. What journalist, and granted I’ve set the bar pretty low, could have ended that interview after copiously taking notes and not said to them self this is so stupid I can’t go to print with it.
I’m stuck on this stupid 9pm deadline for the rest of the day. In this collision of the vacuous interviewing the vacuous, the only follow-up question that I would have loved an answer to was why the Professor picked 9pm.
“While I’m at it, they can shove it about smoking as far as I’m concerned. Is it a legal product? Yes. Is it controlled and marketed by the government? Yes. Is second-hand smoke a proven health risk? No.”
I agree 100% caveat. The height of hypocrisy when our government not only sells and profits from the sale of cigarettes, but puts unproven (and in some cases, blatently false) ‘warnings’ on the packaging.
I pointed this out to a bar owner here in Montreal, who is slowly watching his business evaporate because of the no smoking bylaw and he just about blew a gasket. Nothing like losing your livelihood over a pack of lies propagated by the loony left.
I can just see it now…a label attached to an article of clothing:
“Thank you for choosing our plus-size line of fashions. Please call the obesity hot-line at 1-800-FAT-CITY to make sure you need not purchase our clothing in the future”.
I can remember when the US government told everybody to stop eating meat and animal fats and switch to grains, pasta. Everyone got fat and diabetes soared. This is the same government that forced people to stop smoking, so they got fat. Now they are squeezing the balloon, so to speak, in a different place.
Government killed the cities, people fled and large city welfare/crime industries took over,
…and around and around it goes.
how about gubmint inspectors running around with an axe handle, if youre over the width you get a wide load sticker, a bungee cord belt, slapped with one tonne challenge video tape and automatically get registered as a green house gas source with trade credits payable to Mo Tse Strong.
Roadside BMI spot checks and blood sugar/choleterol tests, especially at Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.
During my trip in Australia last month I noticed the absence of “large” people. In fact a heck of a lot less of them than down here in fat city. I also noticed that everywhere I looked I saw people walking, jogging, bicycle riding and doing all sorts of other physical activity. I wonder if there is something to it? Perhaps I could get a government grant…
BTW, it might be the beer there. after three weeks of checking out their beer I came back lighter. Okay, only 2 pounds or so but hey, I can handle that diet.
What’s next? Having a class review of last night dinner so Teach can rat to the CAS about child abuse?
(“They had fries two nights in a row! Something needs to be done!”)
Dont tell the NDP, now smoking is out the way as you say their next target will be junk food, donuts, and drink is not far off.
They hate the working class to have any bit of fun.
as my chinese(who went back to china) doctor once said…”it is not the smoking, it is the lifestyle of most smokers”…same can be said about the ‘obesity’ epidemic…i smoke 30 cigs a day and eat like a pig, but i run 4 miles, 3 times a week, and do circuit weight training…i can outrun, outplay, out whatever most men half my age(i am 47)….my bp is solid as a rock, and i have fully passed my latest medical…PMSH has it right…encourage parents with tax breaks to get kids off their asses….
Anyone done a study on how many of those obese people were former smokers. Seems the average gain is about 10 lbs per year. For years I wore a size 6 dress, I have not gained or lost much over the last 50 yrs. Now that same size 6 dress is what a size 16 used to be. My size now, 002. Try to find it. When the no smoking crap started, many said, just wait, they will come for something you like. Its funny, abortion and smoking hit the courts about the same time. Pro abortionist citied No pope will tell me what I can do, and it became a religious issue, rather than a health. At the same time, the Surgeorn General of the US, (hey, thought canada didn’t follow the US) come out with his second hand smoke crap. The fact that he was the equivalent of the Pope in the Mormon Church was overlooked. That became a health issue rather than a religious one. Fact is the mormon church mandated their belief that smoking is bad and the public bought it. A 1998 UN study, (not publicized) states that second hand smoke is not the evil it has been made out to be. Now, some 30 yrs later, the facts are coming out about the dangers of abortion (depression, breast cancer) and the industries that thrive on aborted fetuses)thousands are losing jobs and profits by the
smoking cops. The loss of tax dollars from cigarettes is enormous. Do the math, at one time there were 11 million smokers (stats can) in Canada, each paying at least 2.00/day taxes. We were told these taxes were used for health care for smokers. Big joke, what do aids patients pay for their care. And, what diseases have increased due to anal sex. I will continue to eat what I want, and just hope I get my chocolates for Christmas. Pay attention to the masterpieces in museums, most of those women are faaaaaaat.
Smoking in your own residence is now on the block here in Onscario.
Fat self help labels? Hilarious. Don’t these people have mirrors?
This all as laughable as Neil MacDonald saying today on CBC Newsworld that, “we at the CBC do not cite polls in our reporting”. The Lie-beral’s, Bloq and the Dhimmi’s are !#**#! in the head, it’s a freakin’ brain disorder.
There’s a much easier solution: Stop with the PC nonsense of suspending kids from school for the horrible crime of teasing a classmate. I was a chubby little bastard back in grade 6-7. I got made fun of, took up martial arts, and by the time I hit highschool not only was I not getting made fun of any more, but I felt great, looked good, had more confidence, and had girls hanging off me 24/7. Nowdays, the kids who made fun of me would have been suspended, and I would have stayed fat. I like the old way better.
We should put warning labels on tenured professors at universities: “Warning. This person likely has no ideas of how the real world works; unfortunately, this moron is influencing our children.”
Really OT but I can’t resist. Wonder what the people in Vancouver think of wind power now. Also, as Vancouver is so green conscience, we should thank those 200,000 people for their reduction in emmissions from not using power. 3rd time in very short time. Maybe they alone will meet the kyoto target for all of Canada. Then again, there is the possibility they might wake up and realize what life would be like if Kyoto is implemented aka Dion.
I think that Dawn French’s husband would be surprised to know that he has “passed away” though not quite as devastating as bombing on stage. That might make the comedy tour that Lenny Henry has scheduled for next month a bit awkward. Plus Dawn has a new tv show, High Table, set for airing in 2007.
Breaking news!!!
CBCpravda has just announced that Mssr.Stephane Dion (Called future PM or PM in waiting) has a new program to by run by Rick Mercier called the one metre challenge. All Canadians now called ‘Cellulate comrades’ will be asked to reduce their a$$es to less than 1 metre wide before St. Jean Baptiste day 2010, a 6% reduction
to be shared by all comrades. Canadians will be allowed to share the fat cells by injection or liposuction. Fatter provinces through a series of payments to thinner provinces will be able to ease the burden by keeping fitter workers in none productive states of lethargy to equalize the load.
In return Rick will not run a plebisite to have Stephanes name officially changed to Celine Dion
If governments can sue tobacco companies for damages caused by a product that the government lets them sell, and collects huge amounts of tax dollars from, can’t someone sue the governement for allowing tobacco to be legal, and profiting from a product that they say is dangerou? This should be a no-brainer. It makes way more sense than the government suing tobacco companies.
a couple of decades ago kids aspired to be an NHL superstar. now in the age of the “LOOK AT ME-ME-ME GENERATION!” people know they have a better chance getting themselves on TV without putting any physical effort into it if they play poker or become the world’s best video gamer, not to mention making a spectacle of themselves on American Idol. maybe now with the resurgence of MMA kids will strive to become the next Georges St. Pierre rather than the next clay aitken. but I doubt it will happen in this wussified liberal society that we live in.
This is satire, right?
Only the crooks hide behind civil liberties.