03.25.08
When was it decided that our lives needed running for us?
Posted in Diet and fitness, Healthcare Related, News and Current Affairs (general) at 4:49 pm by Julie
I am sure if I sat eating chocolate all day long then I would be very fat indeed. But like most people, I do know this and therefore I am able to walk past a vending machine or a shop and resist, or else buy something more healthy instead. But imagine a world where we are not allowed to buy anything that is bad for us. where in order to be allowed to purchase chips or sweets or a can of coke with sugar in it we had to demonstrate that our BMI was within normal range? Far fetched? Well I am actually beginning to wonder if it is any way something of science fiction when for our own good we are constantly to be told what we can and cannot buy.
I accept that the population is becoming fatter. I accept that our sedentary lives, our over reliance on the car and our willingness to stuff our faces with food too high in fat and sugar is causing this. However, please do not tell me that vending machines in hospitals are going to contribute to this? Apparently if I can buy a mars bar in a hospital then it is giving out the message that this kind of food is ok to eat when it jolly well isn’t. Where on earth will this end? Today Sainsbury’s were selling their Easter eggs off at half price, so they can make way for barbecues, garden hoses and other summer equipment (the fact that it snowed at the weekend appears to have gone unnoticed) I am not sure this move is wise, given that there seems to be a belief within the Department of Health that fatness is caused by Chips and Chocolate alone.
This weekend we were advised that women who drink a glass of wine a day will get breast cancer (therefore we are advised to drink less), that if we can see cigarettes over the counter of a shop we are sure to buy them (therefore they should be kept from view), and now today that if we can buy chocolate and fizzy drinks in a hospital vending machine we will get fat (hospitals in Wales are already to ban them). To be honest I am getting pretty browned off with being told how to live my life, and to my mind there must be a better way of getting your message across than the way you are doing at the moment!
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