They certainly enjoy sounding off and feeling righteous, as well as plugging their books or TV series. But there's deep joy among such people in being allowed to order the lives of others, usually to their detriment.
Strange, isn’t it, when information about nutrition is probably the best and most available it’s ever been, that so many people eat themselves sick and fat? You can’t legislate against stupidity.
We have evolved to scoff every sugary fatty thing we can get our hands on. Now that availability is almost unlimited it surprises me is how we aren't all obese.
I am familiar with it. Essentially, people with addictive traits are hooked on food designed by corporations to be addictive, and actively marketed to them, just like the tobacco industry did. It’s unscrupulous, ignoble behaviour, certainly. But do a whole 40% of Americans (the obese) really have addictive personalities, or are there other factors? Maybe herd behaviour, maybe misplaced trust in corporations and the State or, as I suggest, plain stupidity. I could scoff burgers and sausages and cakes all day but I don’t, because I know they’re bad for me. State intervention won’t work. In my experience of managing large numbers of people, the more responsibility you take away, the less they will take for themselves. The converse is also true.
Yes, everyone has “addictive personalities”. Your brain is wired to realise dopamine and serotonin when you eat what are referred to as “highly palatable foods” - Foods with a mix of carbohydrates, fat, salt, sugar or artificial sweeteners. If this process is repeated your brain will rewire itself and you will crave these foods and your body will want more and more of them. It has nothing to do with intelligence.
You lobby for tobacco but call these people dangerous? You might be right that these interventions have little or no effect but at least these people are honest.
The point of these taxes is not for the benefit of the poor, it is their impoverishment and immiseration. For Dimblebut it is also the age old practice of talking down to the poor - Orwell pointed this out in "The Road to Wigan Pier" :
"I have heard a Communist speaker on the platform grow very angry about it. In London, he said, parties of Society dames now have the cheek to walk into East End houses and give shopping-
lessons to the wives of the unemployed. He gave this as an instance of the mentality of the English governing class. First you condemn a family to live on thirty shillings a week, and then you have the damned impertinence to tell them how they are to spend their money. " - Chapter 6
It's not the public that needs dealing with though is it CS? It's the food processing companies and their tailoring their of foods to make them addictive.
They certainly enjoy sounding off and feeling righteous, as well as plugging their books or TV series. But there's deep joy among such people in being allowed to order the lives of others, usually to their detriment.
"Henry Dimbleby"
Already laughing.
Strange, isn’t it, when information about nutrition is probably the best and most available it’s ever been, that so many people eat themselves sick and fat? You can’t legislate against stupidity.
We have evolved to scoff every sugary fatty thing we can get our hands on. Now that availability is almost unlimited it surprises me is how we aren't all obese.
I suggest you do some reading before you judge - Try "Hooked" by Michael Moss, which won the Pullitzer Prize..
I am familiar with it. Essentially, people with addictive traits are hooked on food designed by corporations to be addictive, and actively marketed to them, just like the tobacco industry did. It’s unscrupulous, ignoble behaviour, certainly. But do a whole 40% of Americans (the obese) really have addictive personalities, or are there other factors? Maybe herd behaviour, maybe misplaced trust in corporations and the State or, as I suggest, plain stupidity. I could scoff burgers and sausages and cakes all day but I don’t, because I know they’re bad for me. State intervention won’t work. In my experience of managing large numbers of people, the more responsibility you take away, the less they will take for themselves. The converse is also true.
Yes, everyone has “addictive personalities”. Your brain is wired to realise dopamine and serotonin when you eat what are referred to as “highly palatable foods” - Foods with a mix of carbohydrates, fat, salt, sugar or artificial sweeteners. If this process is repeated your brain will rewire itself and you will crave these foods and your body will want more and more of them. It has nothing to do with intelligence.
You lobby for tobacco but call these people dangerous? You might be right that these interventions have little or no effect but at least these people are honest.
The point of these taxes is not for the benefit of the poor, it is their impoverishment and immiseration. For Dimblebut it is also the age old practice of talking down to the poor - Orwell pointed this out in "The Road to Wigan Pier" :
"I have heard a Communist speaker on the platform grow very angry about it. In London, he said, parties of Society dames now have the cheek to walk into East End houses and give shopping-
lessons to the wives of the unemployed. He gave this as an instance of the mentality of the English governing class. First you condemn a family to live on thirty shillings a week, and then you have the damned impertinence to tell them how they are to spend their money. " - Chapter 6
I care about how many fat people there are. More hypertension, diabetes and sleep apnoea burdening the NHS. Surely that’s worth trying to address?
The net cost of obesity to the public services is actually very small: https://iea.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Obesity-and-the-Public-Purse-PDF.pdf
In any case, there are better ways of making Britain's healthcare service more efficient that don't involve regulating the public.
It's not the public that needs dealing with though is it CS? It's the food processing companies and their tailoring their of foods to make them addictive.
That would involve politicians cracking down on ultra-processed food, so will never happen