Yeah, well it isn't as if we couldn't tell she was your sister!
Regards obesity. No one seemed to express the idea that obesity is an affluent disease. Aussies simply have too much money. And they are making lifestyle choices that mean they have little time to make good eating choices - like both parents working full-time so that no one has time to shop or cook healthy meals. Putting a bigger house or more stuff above the health of their kids? All upside down, I call it.
Talk about labels is just putting the blame on companies, which is pointless when people don't have time to cook healthy food. We don't have the benefit of good labelling here in Japan, yet remain healthy and not in need of stomach surgery. Nothing against your sister, Simone, she's just doing her job at the other end of the bad decisions (looks pretty healthy herself, though).
I suspect that in the great depression there was not a huge obesity problem! I agree that it's an affluent disease. Food is so cheap - we can all afford to keep on shoveling it in. And the more you eat today, the more you want tomorrow.
Special occasion foods have become everyday foods - remember dagwood dogs? A red sausage on a stick, covered in batter and deep fried? We would see people eating them at the ekka. The school I was working at last week sells them at the tuckshop and one kid had them for lunch 3 days in a row. Ew!
But also lollies, chocolate, chips, cup cakes, donuts... we eat them everyday just because we can. They are so cheap. Maybe if there were huge taxes on sugar, butter and oils, and anything that is sold in a food court...
Yeah, well it isn't as if we couldn't tell she was your sister!
ReplyDeleteRegards obesity. No one seemed to express the idea that obesity is an affluent disease. Aussies simply have too much money. And they are making lifestyle choices that mean they have little time to make good eating choices - like both parents working full-time so that no one has time to shop or cook healthy meals. Putting a bigger house or more stuff above the health of their kids? All upside down, I call it.
Talk about labels is just putting the blame on companies, which is pointless when people don't have time to cook healthy food. We don't have the benefit of good labelling here in Japan, yet remain healthy and not in need of stomach surgery. Nothing against your sister, Simone, she's just doing her job at the other end of the bad decisions (looks pretty healthy herself, though).
I suspect that in the great depression there was not a huge obesity problem! I agree that it's an affluent disease. Food is so cheap - we can all afford to keep on shoveling it in. And the more you eat today, the more you want tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteSpecial occasion foods have become everyday foods - remember dagwood dogs? A red sausage on a stick, covered in batter and deep fried? We would see people eating them at the ekka. The school I was working at last week sells them at the tuckshop and one kid had them for lunch 3 days in a row. Ew!
But also lollies, chocolate, chips, cup cakes, donuts... we eat them everyday just because we can. They are so cheap. Maybe if there were huge taxes on sugar, butter and oils, and anything that is sold in a food court...