That’s what we dump all that money into the HSE for. Useful stuff like that.
That’ll solve it, I’m sure.
Ffs, sorry adults your not adult enough to choose what you can eat…
“Stop being poor”
I completely despise this way of thinking. This mollycoddling attitude where anything potentially harmful should be illegal or very difficult to obtain.
Is there anything else they want to take away from us? What’s next
Go away
Nanny State to the rescue!
The HSE should focus on fixing their many, many failings and leave us be.
How about more public gyms that are affordable for people – No
Community weight loss programs ran by the HSE – No
Dietary clinics so people can learn to eat better – No
Make a chicken fillet roll meal deal more expensive – Great idea, that will make all the difference.
Oh meal deals are the problem. I was thinking it might be something to do with the awful level of education we get around nutrition, exercise and health but no it’s just meal deals that need to be stamped out.
That will solve the problem.
Fat chance!
Why is the majority of Govt ideas to help us have to be to ban something thereby people wanting it more instead of increasing the education around it. Same with MUP on alcohol, you could have used tax income to raise alcohol awareness, invest in addiction recovery programmes etc. I get that there’s a need for a sugar tax but you also need to educate everyone why this is in place and not just to tick a box on HSE side
HSE pretending to know about nutrition? That’s a laugh!
They should start by creating a decent menu for hospital food.
What! They’ll wanna ban cocaine next!!!
They really are a bunch of cunts.
Hey I have to make sure I don’t live beyond retirement age to avoid homelessness and snack boxes are one of the easiest ways to do that.
Ireland isnt even a fast food haven. Japan is like the fried chicken capital of the world and they are so slim.
This definitely incentivises me to buy a €9 salad and €4 smoothie
Surely a piss take. The “30% of people to say ah go oh yeah” part had me in stitches.
HSE getting too big for its boots since covid
For the love of God. Theyve already removed all the sugar out of Lucozade and taken away my €0.75 cans of Excaliber.
If you’re going this way, make it a requirement to include fruit or something as an option instead if crisps in a meal deal.
The sugar tax was disappointing to me. I know that there is evidence behind it, but it didn’t make these drinks more expensive, it just made them less tasty (by taking out sugar, Ik). This means that when I DO want one, it’s going to be disgusting.
“The people who are in the supermarkets – the workers – and the petrol stations, they’re trained to offer that special offer.”
Where’s that happening? I have never in my life been offered any of these specials by anybody working in any deli anywhere as those workers could not give fewer fucks. If there is a deal there’s usually a big ass sign advertising it, but no deli worker will offer it, and no cashier gives a shit if you buy it or not.
“70% of people will say no the first time, but if the person behind the counter says ‘well are you sure, it’s a good offer. Another 30% will say ‘ah yeah, go on.”
Did this person *just* discover how business works?
They may take our lives, but they’ll never take…our Tesco meal deal.
Come to think of it, a Tesco deal can be an onion bhaji wrap, popcorn and a bottle of water or vitamin juice. Not bad really.
Least amount of effort, most amount of profit should be the slogan of Ireland
“70% of people will say no the first time, but if the person behind the counter says ‘well are you sure, it’s a good offer’.
“Another 30% will say ‘ah yeah, go on’.””
Is this an actual stat or just an estimation?
On the one hand, its funny that our health service appears to be blaming an army of Mrs Doyle’s for the obesity issues in Ireland.
On the other hand, talk about poorly planned nanny state bollocks. Like something Nicola Murray would pitch after sniffing markers all night.
Why don’t they subsidise healthier options instead? Default is always to ban / tax into oblivion
5 donuts for a euro a Tesco and a pint of tea
Yes please
You are responsible for your weight.
Nutritionally, what is wrong with a chicken sandwich with salad, a snack and a drink?
“since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic”. Chippers use to be healthy but that was before the pandemic.
In the future in Ireland everyone will be sober emaciated ghouls with low cholesterol because all unhealthy products will be prohibitively expensive and we’ll all subsist on a low-calorie vitamin-rich gruel. Only the wealthiest land barons will be able to afford breakfast rolls and Dutch gold and they will revel in it and live forever thanks to the anti-aging treatments afforded to them by their private healthcare plans.
They can fuck off to the other side of fuck and when they get there they can fuck off some more. I cannot stand this type of nanny state shite.
It literally won’t change anything but piss people off. If you need the government to force you to eat healthy then it won’t work.
You want people to be healthier? Teach kids in schools how to cook.
“but that should be on the parents to do that”
Most parents don’t know how to cook healthy meals, Schools need to make it mandatory for Home Ec to be taught, Primary schools need to teach kids healthy food preparation, God knows that you learn fuck all in primary school anyways.
Clown that suggested this is probably on a massive salary
Ireland, where literally the only idea is to increase prices for people
Jaysus this is a saucey one.
My two cents is that they should improve PE as a core subject in schools. Honestly I’m out of school years now but from my memory it was an hour a week where they encouraged you to run around like a gob shite.
That does fuck all for you expect create a loathing within some teens that they are forced to do it.
I left school and did a course in personal training not for the job but because I honestly didn’t know fuck all about keeping fit or eating healthy. After 3 months I was able to do charity cycles running 10k in under an hour and at a noticeable weight that people would stop me when they seen me and told me how great I looked compared to the last time they seen me.
Just a note the actual time to get my fitness up wasn’t the 3 months it took a good year of applying what I learned to achieve my goals but it really did teach me alot.
Also I’m biased because I fucking lovely a good chicken filletzer they can pry it from my cold dead hands. Fuck the HSE
A surge in obesity since the pandemic. It couldn’t be related to closing gyms 🤔
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That’s what we dump all that money into the HSE for. Useful stuff like that.
That’ll solve it, I’m sure.
Ffs, sorry adults your not adult enough to choose what you can eat…
“Stop being poor”
I completely despise this way of thinking. This mollycoddling attitude where anything potentially harmful should be illegal or very difficult to obtain.
Is there anything else they want to take away from us? What’s next
Go away
Nanny State to the rescue!
The HSE should focus on fixing their many, many failings and leave us be.
How about more public gyms that are affordable for people – No
Community weight loss programs ran by the HSE – No
Dietary clinics so people can learn to eat better – No
Make a chicken fillet roll meal deal more expensive – Great idea, that will make all the difference.
Oh meal deals are the problem. I was thinking it might be something to do with the awful level of education we get around nutrition, exercise and health but no it’s just meal deals that need to be stamped out.
That will solve the problem.
Fat chance!
Why is the majority of Govt ideas to help us have to be to ban something thereby people wanting it more instead of increasing the education around it. Same with MUP on alcohol, you could have used tax income to raise alcohol awareness, invest in addiction recovery programmes etc. I get that there’s a need for a sugar tax but you also need to educate everyone why this is in place and not just to tick a box on HSE side
HSE pretending to know about nutrition? That’s a laugh!
They should start by creating a decent menu for hospital food.
What! They’ll wanna ban cocaine next!!!
They really are a bunch of cunts.
Hey I have to make sure I don’t live beyond retirement age to avoid homelessness and snack boxes are one of the easiest ways to do that.
Ireland isnt even a fast food haven. Japan is like the fried chicken capital of the world and they are so slim.
This definitely incentivises me to buy a €9 salad and €4 smoothie
Surely a piss take. The “30% of people to say ah go oh yeah” part had me in stitches.
HSE getting too big for its boots since covid
For the love of God. Theyve already removed all the sugar out of Lucozade and taken away my €0.75 cans of Excaliber.
If you’re going this way, make it a requirement to include fruit or something as an option instead if crisps in a meal deal.
The sugar tax was disappointing to me. I know that there is evidence behind it, but it didn’t make these drinks more expensive, it just made them less tasty (by taking out sugar, Ik). This means that when I DO want one, it’s going to be disgusting.
“The people who are in the supermarkets – the workers – and the petrol stations, they’re trained to offer that special offer.”
Where’s that happening? I have never in my life been offered any of these specials by anybody working in any deli anywhere as those workers could not give fewer fucks. If there is a deal there’s usually a big ass sign advertising it, but no deli worker will offer it, and no cashier gives a shit if you buy it or not.
“70% of people will say no the first time, but if the person behind the counter says ‘well are you sure, it’s a good offer. Another 30% will say ‘ah yeah, go on.”
Did this person *just* discover how business works?
They may take our lives, but they’ll never take…our Tesco meal deal.
Come to think of it, a Tesco deal can be an onion bhaji wrap, popcorn and a bottle of water or vitamin juice. Not bad really.
Least amount of effort, most amount of profit should be the slogan of Ireland
“70% of people will say no the first time, but if the person behind the counter says ‘well are you sure, it’s a good offer’.
“Another 30% will say ‘ah yeah, go on’.””
Is this an actual stat or just an estimation?
On the one hand, its funny that our health service appears to be blaming an army of Mrs Doyle’s for the obesity issues in Ireland.
On the other hand, talk about poorly planned nanny state bollocks. Like something Nicola Murray would pitch after sniffing markers all night.
Why don’t they subsidise healthier options instead? Default is always to ban / tax into oblivion
5 donuts for a euro a Tesco and a pint of tea
Yes please
You are responsible for your weight.
Nutritionally, what is wrong with a chicken sandwich with salad, a snack and a drink?
“since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic”. Chippers use to be healthy but that was before the pandemic.
In the future in Ireland everyone will be sober emaciated ghouls with low cholesterol because all unhealthy products will be prohibitively expensive and we’ll all subsist on a low-calorie vitamin-rich gruel. Only the wealthiest land barons will be able to afford breakfast rolls and Dutch gold and they will revel in it and live forever thanks to the anti-aging treatments afforded to them by their private healthcare plans.
They can fuck off to the other side of fuck and when they get there they can fuck off some more. I cannot stand this type of nanny state shite.
It literally won’t change anything but piss people off. If you need the government to force you to eat healthy then it won’t work.
You want people to be healthier? Teach kids in schools how to cook.
“but that should be on the parents to do that”
Most parents don’t know how to cook healthy meals, Schools need to make it mandatory for Home Ec to be taught, Primary schools need to teach kids healthy food preparation, God knows that you learn fuck all in primary school anyways.
Clown that suggested this is probably on a massive salary
Ireland, where literally the only idea is to increase prices for people
Jaysus this is a saucey one.
My two cents is that they should improve PE as a core subject in schools. Honestly I’m out of school years now but from my memory it was an hour a week where they encouraged you to run around like a gob shite.
That does fuck all for you expect create a loathing within some teens that they are forced to do it.
I left school and did a course in personal training not for the job but because I honestly didn’t know fuck all about keeping fit or eating healthy. After 3 months I was able to do charity cycles running 10k in under an hour and at a noticeable weight that people would stop me when they seen me and told me how great I looked compared to the last time they seen me.
Just a note the actual time to get my fitness up wasn’t the 3 months it took a good year of applying what I learned to achieve my goals but it really did teach me alot.
Also I’m biased because I fucking lovely a good chicken filletzer they can pry it from my cold dead hands. Fuck the HSE
A surge in obesity since the pandemic. It couldn’t be related to closing gyms 🤔