what a load of old cobblers.....

MP trying to make a name for himself. That's it.

[fizzwheel]

Everything in moderation and another example of how our current government like to think for us rather than letting us make our own minds up about things.

No doubt next week chocolate will be good for us and something else will be bad.

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

Everything in moderation and another example of how our current government like to think for us rather than letting us make our own minds up about things.

No doubt next week chocolate will be good for us and something else will be bad.

already happened of course

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/413099.stm

If people want to be fat, get diabetes and die on the sofa. Let the fat f*ckers. Likewise, if people want to smoke or drink themselves to death, it's their business.

[ophic]

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

already happened of course

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/413099.stm

If people want to be fat, get diabetes and die on the sofa. Let the fat f*ckers. Likewise, if people want to smoke or drink themselves to death, it's their business.

No cos we all have to pay for their healthcare to keep they dying on the sofa for even longer.

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by hovis

no?

well lets replace healthy school dinners with mars bars then.

chocolate tax is good, althought it should include crisps etc

come on Hovis, you chopped the rest of the sentence off, of course if you feed your child nothing but cack for its life, its going to get fat, coupled with a diet of Xbox and TV. If you give your child a good diet, a variety of stuff to do, other than Xbox and TV then you can give em chocolate and it won't do anything to them.
I'm not telling anyone to replace healthy school dinners with crap food, I'm dead against it, I'm just fed up of the powers that be, telling us all what to do, eat, sh!t, sleep...etc etc.
I ain't fat, my kid is far from fat, I bring him up the old fashioned way, the way my mum did, dicipline, manners, family food, treats as a reward, an abundance of fruit, exercise, xbox and cartoons as a reward, and not on tap, go out and play instead of siting indoors moaning. Its about time this whole society of mollycoddlers got a backbone and got back to doing things right, and not living by being told what to do constantly.

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

come on Hovis, you chopped the rest of the sentence off,

i did, and your right about the exercise, if they play sports etc, they can probaly get away with the odd bar, but alot of kids dont, as fizz said everything in moderation,

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

I ain't fat,

Originally Posted by ophic

No cos we all have to pay for their healthcare to keep they dying on the sofa for even longer.

They die 20 years earlier, saving a fortune in pensions and other health ailments.

[ophic]

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

They die 20 years earlier, saving a fortune in pensions and other health ailments.

But they've probably never worked for long enough to earn enough to pay enough tax to cover the cost of their healthcare.

Anyway, nothing is gonna change. No-one is gonna take away someone's right not to look after themselves, at the taxpayer's expense. And they probably shouldn't either, as its the genuinely ill people who would ultimately lose out.

[gruntygiggles]

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

already happened of course

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/413099.stm

If people want to be fat, get diabetes and die on the sofa. Let the fat f*ckers. Likewise, if people want to smoke or drink themselves to death, it's their business.

Yeah, but I pay 40% tax to pay the massive NHS bill for these people. Obesity related illnessess account for an enourmous chunk of the NHS bill every year. I'm no skinny bones, I love my curves too much but they're in the right places and I'm healthy.

I don't think we can tax all unhealthy foods and even if we could, there are far worse foods out there than chocolate. I just hope that if they do tax anything, they put the money towards the health care.

I remember reading about a scheme where local councils were thinking about actually giving obese people incentive cash payments for losing weight. For goodness sake. People are going to have to learn to do things for themselves again. It's simple, eat less, exercise more.

The more the government wants to dictate what we do and how we do it, the more the lazy people take advantage and make it worse for the rest of us!

[anna]

nanny state