51 Replies to “Boris Johnson’s Britain”

  1. The “obesity epidemic” correlates exactly with introduction of government “Canada Food Guide” (pushed by the grain and sugar lobbies) that replaced fat and protein from meat with sugar filled “low fat” options and high carb diets … same people are telling you mRNA vacs are safe…

    1. MW, too much of anything is bad for ya. Too much of nuthin is even worse. And none of the not-vaccines are safe.

    2. True. Almost no one advocates a lower carb, reasonably normal fats (olive oil, butter), high really lean (now not so affordable) protein, real veggie and fruit diet. It takes the body many calories to process lean protein. Spagetti dishes, chips, chicken nuggets with sugary sauces and north american take-out is now terrible, very easily digested and served in quantities that are too large, so they go straight to fat storage.

      Planning and serving healthy meals takes time and money, too, so having both parents at work (or one absent) makes this challenging. As well, children are taught to not have good meals and are served junk “kid’s” food.

      Manufacturers have increasingly added salt and sugar to normal foods that do not need them, based on focus groups. An example is canned tomatoes. I only buy the unsalted ones. Bread also has added sugar.

    3. It also correlates pretty well with the invention of the internet and video games. So now, most people work sitting at desks behind computers and kids leisure time went from being spent riding bikes and playing street hockey to sitting in the basement playing video games. It has bugger all to do with the food guide. Do you plan your meals around the food guide? I know I certainly don’t. I have no idea what’s on the food guide and I bet no one else does either.

  2. oh please, drop the charade……go on and control everything and get it over with

    1. Especially the veggie law that Cucumbers and Bananas have to be firmer, and the croix can not be bent but so far.
      Is that a Transgender parliamentary victory?

  3. Take a look at the US government Food Pyramid, with carbs making up the bottom of the Pyramid. Then make up your own mind what to eat.

      1. I’m skeptical of the Food Pyramid. I’m a bit more positive on the Food Lighthouse and the Food Hanging Gardens. But I’m definitely off the Food Mausoleum…

    2. Since the invention of agriculture, the main source of calories for humans has been grain. In the west this has been supplemented with potatoes since the discovery of he new world. Until a generation ago the average western European ate bread and potatoes at every meal. The obesity “crisis” is caused by sedentary people eating like they’re medieval labourers, when they sit at desks all day. If you’re fat, count your calories so you ingest less of them, and try to use your feet for more than the odd trip between the couch and the fridge.

  4. This from governments which closed gyms and canceled chidrens’ team sports worldwide. Pro sports were ok though.

    1. Lorenzo, exactly, and quit putting porkers on TV and social media, and then tell us we should not criticize them for being porkers. On a down side, many blacks won’t have as BIG of a supply of trophy white welfare queens!

  6. How about a ban on all messaging from do-gooders, nanny statists, public health officials, crony lobbyists, politicians, public employees, media, academics, ENGOs, rent seekers, and all other pompous assholes. They have all been responsible for turning Canadians into Eloi. But hey, everyone else in the declining west is making the world a perfect habitat for helpless morons so why not us?

    1. John Chittick, thank you for taking the time to personalize that comment for me!

      Call me childish but I’m always inclined go opposite to do-gooder advice. Though I have done much due diligence on the issue, my C-19 gene therapy rejection is in no small measure a reaction to these busy bodies you list.

  7. At the same time, they’re pushing their bulls*t “body positivity” propaganda. Which is it? Is it unhealthy to be fat, or not? Clearly, the answer is yes, being fat is unhealthy. But they won’t just say that. Instead they’re going to ban ads for junk foods, introduce new taxes, remove vending machines, and all sorts of other nonsense instead of just coming out and speaking the truth.

    1. This.

      I thought the current mantra was that obesity is to be celebrated. Certainly it is not a health issue to be avoided. Alberta won’t even admit that obesity is a comorbidity for COVID for Pete’s sake.

  8. The (heartless) conservative case for this:

    1. In a publicly funded healthcare system you’re going to pay higher taxes to fund healthcare expenditures if you have a more obese population given the significant increase in morbidity and mortality associated with obesity. Strategies to lower obesity rates are therefore actually tax lowering strategies.

    2. A healthier population is a more productive and successful population leading to a wealthier nation and better performing economy.

    And if that doesn’t convince you:

    3. Do you really enjoy trying to get around obese people in mobility carts at Walmart when they’re in your way?

    I rest my case.

    1. Dante

      lowering fat rates, just get them off their lazy ass’ and do something, and quit telling ME how to eat, and that I should praise a porker every time they do something. It’s called psychological molding, IE brain washing, now git over yerself.

    3. Your “conservative” rationalization for socialized health care can be extended to force, at gunpoint, all manner of “common good” choices on individuals which is consistent with the socialist view of humans in the capacity of ants. The Covid Stalinism we now enjoy should be ample proof. I thank you for demonstrating my thesis that most conservatives are fatally compromised libertarians, mixing and accepting tyranny with liberty and thinking some good will come from it. I’m sure O’Toole agrees with your points.

    4. How about getting rid of the publicly funded healthcare system either totally or partially, thereby giving people the incentive to look after their own health, because not looking after their health will cost them?
      We’re not livestock. If the cost of a “free” healthcare system is that we get to be treated like livestock, it’s not a price I’m willing to pay.

    5. Dante, you have everything ass-backwards. It is not the role of the citizens to accommodate the health-care system, it is the role of the health-care system to accommodate the citizens, be they smokers, drug addicts, alcoholics, motorcycle racers or junk-food eaters.

  9. Why not just introduce a proof of healthy bmi card. It could be tied to your vaccine passport. If you want to go in somewhere the store clerk/restaurant worker can check your vaccination status and your bmi status. If your bmi status isn’t “healthy” you can only order certain things off the menu, or buy certain things at the grocery store. If you aren’t vaccinated and are also over a healthy bmi, I guess you are worthless and can starve.

  10. Sorry, but the food companies in North America are worse than the drug firms who pushed the opioids. You go in France or Italy, most of the women are skinny. You go on a beach in the US, it’s like all the ocean’s whales came there to die.
    Also, immigrants arrive here with normal weight and they are obese within a decade. The food in North America is poisoned. I don’t know what they put in it, but they kill too many people. These companies should be held accountable and their products banned, unless drastically changed.

  11. Fix the core problem:

    * Mother not having to work for the family to enjoy a reasonable middle-class lifestyle, and time to cook.
    * Affordable good food. Decent quality meat is beyond the reach of many families.

    Ads don’t make people eat junk food. They just influence which junk food people eat.
    They eat it because no-one in the family has the time (or knowledge) to cook good family meals.
    In a lot of cases, it’s junk food or nothing.

  12. Let’s be honest, most everything referred to as “junk food” is both tasty … and actually delivers densely packed calories that the human body naturally craves. It’s built into our dna (and tastebuds). If we’re honest, junk food itself isn’t the problem. The core problem is our soft, pampered, cushy, sedentary lifestyles.

    I doubt that junk food is a problem for your average farmer who works his/her ass off in the field everyday. Snacking on tasty “junk” food isn’t a problem for active adults or children. But your average kid who sits around playing video games all day … or bullying unfortunates on social media … will blow-up into porky little fatties eating crisps all day. Can or should anyone eat nothing but junk food? Of course not. Everyone should home cook their meals with a variety of fresh ingredients … heavy on veggies.

    But more than anything else … kids need mommies at home to push them outdoors for some physical exercise … in nature. Burn some calories.

    But still … government should NEVER use its power to coerce citizens into ANY particular behavior … Good or Bad.

  13. Maybe we should just close everything and make everyone stay home for a couple of years. That should help.

  15. Socialism will cure obesity, at least it always has. People will look back and cry when they have to eat their children . Stalin asked Ukrainians not to.

    1. Well … mass starvation is always a good way to lower everyone’s BMI. Thanks Communists!

  16. What is this “FREEDOM” of which you speak. ‘Tis gone with the setting of the sun

  18. When are they going to ban fat greasy corrupted infected lying assed politicians?
    That would increase our life expectency probably by 20 years.

  20. Food for Thought dept.
    From the CTV piece:
    According to Obesity Canada, the prevalence of adult obesity has increased at least three-fold in the last 30 years.
    From wikipedia :
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_Canada
    Obesity Canada has created a number of tools and resources.[8] Those intended for health care providers include:
    Perfect at Any Size Image Bank, a collection of royalty-free images of non-stereotypical, positive representations of people living with obesity

    There’s your perfect example of the phrase ‘non-profit organization’.

  21. After 25 years of working in the Canadian elementary school system I have seen a gradual increase in the amount of time children are given for “snack”. Schools try to set rules regarding healthy choices, but invariably a child will bring a fruit roll-up (sticky candy made with a drop of fruit juice) and count it as a fruit serving, or granola bars which are really the equivalent of candy bars. Some teachers allow students to eat a snack whenever they are feeling “tired or hungry” to enhance their learning. Parents drive their children to and from school, then they go home and have more “snacks”. At the risk of sounding like an old geezer… back in my day, we never had “snack time” at school. We walked to and from school as well as home for lunch. We had Wonder Bread sandwiches for lunch and usually a dinner that was high in starches and/or carbs. Fruits available to us in Canada during the winter were apples, oranges and sometimes bananas. Vegetables were whatever had been preserved the summer before. We would get our hands smacked if we dug in the cupboard for a snack. We had to “save our room for dinner!” My siblings and I were not heavily involved in organized sports, but many games happened after school in the street. We were all as thin as sticks, and all have become contributing members of society, in spite of our poor diet. Children today have more food options and opportunities for sports activities than ever before, but they are not better off. It’s not because of TV ads… it’s because we have become lazy and complacent.

    1. Yep. I wasn’t in any organized sports till HS … but I ran the hills, explored creeks, and played all manner of street games. Our closeted kids are little doughboys … regardless of what they eat

  22. Your unhealthy by who’s standards? Live free and stop being a bunch of busy bodies. And Karen’s. I fear for this country and others as nobody can keep their frigging face out of other people’s business. Now where’s my double cheese burger and fries, sorry that’s Chilli cheese fries with extra cheese.

  23. Kate, I usually compliment you on your thread titles.
    This time, however, I must cite your LINK WORDS — off the chart brilliant.
    Any reader who merely clicked on the link should go back and read her link words!

    BTW, I see you sometimes giggling mischievously as you wonder who’ll pick up on your witticisms.

    Oh, for sure: fat vs. sugar is the nutritional debate of the ages.

  24. Michelle Obama made a name for herself telling all schools to enjoy the food pyramid and eat more raw carrots and broccoli.
    You care to know why she didn’t run for president?
    About 20 million children X parents would have sunk her.
    Pass the Salt & Vinegar Potato Chips.

  25. Got it.
    The childrens are super intelligent and super wise and can decide chop off their junk and change genders and the voting age should be lowered to twelve but they can’t be exposed to advertising for Stove Top Stuffing or Pizza Pops because they too impressionable.

  26. Of course, the irony is that as the British (and most Western governments) tax everything in sight and raise “carbon taxes” to try and pay off the obscene money they’ve thrown at COVID, and every other issue that was more readily handled by virtue signalling and palm greasing, and in the face of what appears to be shaping up as yet another bad harvest worldwide, the only foods that the burgeoning poor will be able to afford are junk food.

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