Once again, it’s only okay for the rich to buy stuff like sweets or sandwiches or cans.
Oh fuck off
Why is it always about just banning shit or hitting the wallets
It just goes to show how lazy they are to want to ban it outright.
Why not instead of banning them just ban the sale of fizzy drinks with them instead?
What the fuck is so unhealthy about a chicken and stuffing sandwich on brown bread with a bottle of water and a packet of tayto?
I commented on a similar article yesterday here. Since then, I realised how rare it is to see people make their own lunches nowadays. In my local supermarket, at lunch you’d see queues out the door of school going kids buying convenience foods like chicken rolls. The same goes for the takeaways.
There were fat people before these meal deals. If you want to encourage an alternative, you need to positively influence and incentivise people in that direction.
The head of the health service’s clinical team should not be making solo runs in the media demanding bans and taxes on anything.
The unelected elite who are intent on controlling every facet of our lives need to be put back in their lane. You don’t get to simultaneously be a civil servant and a political campaigner.
This guy has actually thought it was right to start ringing around journalists demanding that selling a sandwich, can of Fanta, and bag of Tayto be banned. What sort of sense of entitlement must be driving that mindset?
Anything else? Any other source of petty pleasure or relief from this miserable fucking place that they can still take away?
Maybe we can skip all the baby steps and go straight to the world of I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream and Also Pay Rent.
>HSE lead calls for meal deals to be scrapped amid growing obesity fears
Its not the healthiest option but a pack of crisps, a sandwich and a 0 calorie fizzy drink is about 740 cals (going by my lunch today). If you have 3 meals a day and this is one of them, youre going to be fine. I obviously dont advocate eating these things every day and everyone should be exercising a few times a week.
All my friends who are overweight or obese have little to no food education. Usually, they dont know how to cook, rely on premade meals, and weren’t exposed to many different types of food growing up.
I think if everyone tracked their calories for a few weeks and started to internalise what foods aren’t worth the calorie to convenience/pleasure ratio they’d be more conscientious. Pair that with learning how to cook 2-3 dishes and they’d be much better armed to maintain a normal weight. Maybe if the HSE had this mindset they could incentive or encourage A) calorie tracking and B) learning to cook.
This is an awfully old-fashioned, misguided, and worrying take by the HSE and is more likely to harm people than do good. Economics aside, avoiding a specific type of food and trying to maintain a big calorie deficit doesn’t work long term. You need to educate.
Why do we have a country of fat lazy fuckers?
I for one am fat and lazy and I want to know who to blame, it’s so unfair.
I don’t even eat the meal deals but I knew it had to be them, the bastards.
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Once again, it’s only okay for the rich to buy stuff like sweets or sandwiches or cans.
Oh fuck off
Why is it always about just banning shit or hitting the wallets
It just goes to show how lazy they are to want to ban it outright.
Why not instead of banning them just ban the sale of fizzy drinks with them instead?
What the fuck is so unhealthy about a chicken and stuffing sandwich on brown bread with a bottle of water and a packet of tayto?
I commented on a similar article yesterday here. Since then, I realised how rare it is to see people make their own lunches nowadays. In my local supermarket, at lunch you’d see queues out the door of school going kids buying convenience foods like chicken rolls. The same goes for the takeaways.
There were fat people before these meal deals. If you want to encourage an alternative, you need to positively influence and incentivise people in that direction.
The head of the health service’s clinical team should not be making solo runs in the media demanding bans and taxes on anything.
The unelected elite who are intent on controlling every facet of our lives need to be put back in their lane. You don’t get to simultaneously be a civil servant and a political campaigner.
This guy has actually thought it was right to start ringing around journalists demanding that selling a sandwich, can of Fanta, and bag of Tayto be banned. What sort of sense of entitlement must be driving that mindset?
Anything else? Any other source of petty pleasure or relief from this miserable fucking place that they can still take away?
Maybe we can skip all the baby steps and go straight to the world of I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream and Also Pay Rent.
>HSE lead calls for meal deals to be scrapped amid growing obesity fears
Aha, so the [MUP](https://www2.hse.ie/healthy-you/alcohol-blogs/minimum-unit-pricing-on-alcohol-what-is-it-and-what-will-it-mean-for-me-.html) on alcohol must mean there are no more drunk people about then?
It’s an absolute disgrace.
Its not the healthiest option but a pack of crisps, a sandwich and a 0 calorie fizzy drink is about 740 cals (going by my lunch today). If you have 3 meals a day and this is one of them, youre going to be fine. I obviously dont advocate eating these things every day and everyone should be exercising a few times a week.
All my friends who are overweight or obese have little to no food education. Usually, they dont know how to cook, rely on premade meals, and weren’t exposed to many different types of food growing up.
I think if everyone tracked their calories for a few weeks and started to internalise what foods aren’t worth the calorie to convenience/pleasure ratio they’d be more conscientious. Pair that with learning how to cook 2-3 dishes and they’d be much better armed to maintain a normal weight. Maybe if the HSE had this mindset they could incentive or encourage A) calorie tracking and B) learning to cook.
This is an awfully old-fashioned, misguided, and worrying take by the HSE and is more likely to harm people than do good. Economics aside, avoiding a specific type of food and trying to maintain a big calorie deficit doesn’t work long term. You need to educate.
Why do we have a country of fat lazy fuckers?
I for one am fat and lazy and I want to know who to blame, it’s so unfair.
I don’t even eat the meal deals but I knew it had to be them, the bastards.
fk the HSE