Main Coronavirus / Covid-19 Discussion Thread

[dsr-burnley]

Take on obesity by a strategy to inform and educate the population about healthy food choices and lifestyle choices. Keep it positive- promote positive options rather than criticising less healthy ones.

Possibly look at restricting the advertising unhealthy choices as they are heavily promoted / pushed on people at present.

Show some film of people in nursing homes (who tend to be thin), and say if you want to live this long, eat less.

 

[Fat Boy Fat]

Ah, so we're now into the territory of "you're a fatty, so tough"! though I'm sure that's not how it was meant.

Yes, obesity is a massive problem (excuse pun) and I'm not sure exactly how you educatepeople to make better choices. Clearly the sugar tax has made little difference, apart from presumably earning the Treasury some extra revenue!

 

[Fat Boy Fat]

Show some film of people in nursing homes (who tend to be thin), and say if you want to live this long, eat less.

Hhmmm, live like Cliff Richard or enjoy myself eating fast food and drinking beer - wonder what the choice will be?

 

[Yoda]

I would class myself as obese at the minute (luckily don't have diabetes though), yet (apart from drinking at most 2-3 cans of beer per night, and maybe one-two take-aways per month) have a healthy varied diet cooking the majority of my meals from scratch.

My issue is exercise, or rather very distinct lack of it, due to injuries (mainly back) catching up with me. Even until 5/6 years ago I used to walk or cycle the 2.5 miles to and from work regularly until it became too painful. Being stuck working from home since the pandemic started hasn't helped it further and I now sometimes struggle to walk 100-200m before I'm in agony and need to sit and rest it.

I would so much prefer the back manipulated and sorted rather than being given exercises/stretching to do every time I see someone (including physio's and chiropractors) about it. If I didn't have the pain, I would quite happily work on getting my fitness levels back myself.

 

[Notters]

Take on obesity by a strategy to inform and educate the population about healthy food choices and lifestyle choices. Keep it positive- promote positive options rather than criticising less healthy ones.

Possibly look at restricting the advertising unhealthy choices as they are heavily promoted / pushed on people at present.

Yep, and teach cooking of healthy meals from an early age in school.

 

[Notters]

Ah, so we're now into the territory of "you're a fatty, so tough"! though I'm sure that's not how it was meant.

Yes, obesity is a massive problem (excuse pun) and I'm not sure exactly how you educatepeople to make better choices. Clearly the sugar tax has made little difference, apart from presumably earning the Treasury some extra revenue!

Pretty sure no-one has said anything even approaching that, quite the opposite in fact!

 

[beorhthelm]

Very likely I would think, and people who are obese are clearly likely to have a number of other health problems too.
We (the Government?) really needs to find a way to tackle obesity with around 28% of the country obese.
The stick doesn't seem to have worked - is there a carrot approach that could?

what stick? this issue is treated very softly, for fear of offending.

 

[Notters]

what stick? this issue is treated very softly, for fear of offending.

I was referring to sugar tax, etc.

 

[Hugo Rune]

534 deaths reported today ‘with Covid’.

Does anyone care anymore?

 

[beorhthelm]

I was referring to sugar tax, etc.

ah. thats more of a small twig.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

534 deaths reported today ‘with Covid’.

Does anyone care anymore?

Yes, an inflated figure as yesterday's and the day before didn't include data they should have.

Over-all, the daily total is still reducing.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Yes, an inflated figure as yesterday's and the day before didn't include data they should have.

Over-all, the daily total is still reducing.

Aye …with the dates being spread over several days sometimes months and then as you said a couple of reporting dates being ‘out’ …it stresses the importance of rolling averages ..unfortunately the ‘headlines’ don’t normally contain such info

 

[cloud]

Yes, obesity is a massive problem (excuse pun) and I'm not sure exactly how you educatepeople to make better choices.

The same way they made smoking, drink driving (and maybe soon eating meat) socially undesirable. With powerful, hard-hitting campaigns.

 

[Fat Boy Fat]

The same way they made smoking, drink driving (and maybe soon eating meat) socially undesirable. With powerful, hard-hitting campaigns.

Yet just shy of 7 million people still smoke in the U.K. and the last time I looked McDonalds* was doing quite well.







* other fast food chains are available.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Yet just shy of 7 million people still smoke in the U.K. and the last time I looked McDonalds* was doing quite well.







* other fast food chains are available.

Mayo chicken yesterday..99p…tasty snack

 

[Fat Boy Fat]

Mayo chicken yesterday..99p…tasty snack

And more calories than a Mars Bar, apparently...!

Anyway, we’re a bit off topic now, sorry.

 

[LamieRobertson]

And more calories than a Mars Bar, apparently...!

Anyway, we’re a bit off topic now, sorry.

….I worked it off, trick is to just have a Mac as a treat and nothing more….anyway a pleasant divergence from the usual thread stuff



Ps
The Good News thread is the one to keep on track, so no need to apologise

 

[Billy the Fish]

Has anyone had a chicken big mac yet?

 

[Notters]

Mayo chicken yesterday..99p…tasty snack

Love a mayo chicken, but also run 15 miles a week. The mayo chicken isn't the problem!

 

[Wozza]

From Twitter: Two sources have said Hong Kong health authorities have determined China’s Sinovac vaccine is of no use against the Delta and Omicron variants, thus toughening control measures to minimise any chances of infection. About 40% of the inoculated population chose Sinovac.

AWKWARD.