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"Growing Up in Scotland: Overweight, obesity and activity
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That's just hopeless.
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That should just about cover enough infrastructure to reduce the problem in one primary school.
The real problem is that whoever allocated the money thinks it is a health rather than social/food/transport issue.
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Complete lack of joined up thinking from so many people.
I saw a local Tory councillor complaining that the council is cutting funding for a school breakfast club (a justified complaint) but she did the usual “but they can fund cycling projects!”. When called out on this she tried to dissemble that cycling projects were different from making it safe for kids to cycle to school. Yeah, I don’t understand either.
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Poor kid - that kind of "picky eating" is an eating disorder though, it's much more than just a preference. Have a friend with something like it and it took her years as an adult to teach herself to tolerate a few kinds of veg. (And it was pretty clear to her that the whole dietary stuff was set off by some pretty awful family situations as a kid - meal times are often the time stuff comes to a head - and the times when she was repeatedly forced to eat things that made her gag and vomit. Then when she was vegetarian they used to hide meat in her food so she became suspicious of anything with an "unexpected" texture...)
Short version: I would not be surprised if there's more to this story, and I hope the young man gets the support he needs.
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I actually was telling Mr Bill the other day that I remember how I visited Scotland for the first time 7 years ago and was amazed how cheap biscuits were. I am big fan of chocolate digestives and at the time in Australia MacVitie's (they didn't do homebrands) cost about 3.5 dolaridoos (~£1.75). I bought a pack of Tesco homebrand chocolate digestives for 50p and ate half of it right away. Very dangerous, I thought!
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“It is a class issue – when it’s working-class communities that have the lowest life expectancy, the highest levels of pollution, the least efficient homes and the highest energy bills – whereas the wealthier middle-classes have cleaner air, longer lives, and much better insulated homes. And it’s the poorest children who eat the worst food, and have the greatest problems of obesity as a result of it,” he said.
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/03/obey-brexit-jeremy-corbyn-warns-cabinet-dissenters
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Unsafe roads mean cycling or walking to school or a friend's house is not an option.
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Type 2 diabetes cases in Scotland 'up by 40% in 10 years'
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Today I saw bananas in Morrison's going for 1.20 for six--20p each. pretty good, i thought!
directly in front of them was a little table with packets of jam donuts, 5 for 50p.
I really wish I'd shouted at the manager.Posted 4 years ago # -
Strawberry jam? Might be one of the five a day?
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strawberry jam--could be!
eons ago, an american school district ruled that ketchup had enough tomatoes to be considered a serving of veggies, so 'hamburger with ketchup' on the schol menu was providing kids a serving--no fresh tomatoes required.Posted 4 years ago # -
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The prime minister’s experience of Covid-19 has persuaded him of the urgent need to tackle Britain’s obesity epidemic
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-johnson-launches-a-new-battle-of-the-bulge-sz2kxs69p
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Don’t know if this will automatically include Scotland -
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A government subsidy to offer people 50% off meals in fast food restaurants risks undermining a fledgling anti-obesity campaign, experts have warned, amid growing evidence overweight people would be among those most at risk if coronavirus resurges.
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Well yes...
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He turned vegetarian last year and underwent a cut in sugar. But like so many other brands of sweets, say obesity campaigners, the hype hides the truth that too many Percys will make you fat (and rot your teeth).
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They are quite more-ish, tho aficionados prefer the earlier gelatinous ones. I do not like them (see also full fat Irn Bru)
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Policy makers should expedite improvements in air quality, particularly in areas with high air pollution.
We recommend keeping cognitively, physically, and socially active in midlife and later life although little evidence exists for any single specific activity protecting against dementia. Using hearing aids appears to reduce the excess risk from hearing loss. Sustained exercise in midlife, and possibly later life, protects from dementia, perhaps through decreasing obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular risk. Depression might be a risk for dementia
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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30367-6/fulltext
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The Irish Supreme court has ruled that the bread served at Subway – a US sandwich food chain with branches in more than 100 countries – cannot be defined as bread.
Under Ireland’s Value-Added Tax Act of 1972 it cannot even be defined as a staple food, according to the Irish Independent, because it contains too much sugar.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/01/irish-court-rules-subway-bread-is-not-bread
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