Eine Viertelmillion 11-Jährige sind übergewichtig – darunter fast die Hälfte der ärmsten Kinder
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/overweight-children-budget-poverty-5HjdNH5_2/
Von tylerthe-theatre
Eine Viertelmillion 11-Jährige sind übergewichtig – darunter fast die Hälfte der ärmsten Kinder
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/overweight-children-budget-poverty-5HjdNH5_2/
Von tylerthe-theatre
11 Kommentare
Wasn’t the sugar tax, ban on fast food advertising and other measures frustratingly introduced meant to solve this?
Supermarkets need to do more to limit the sale of UPF or else we should start to tax and label it like tobacco.
I appreciate the need for personal responsibility, but as it stands we’re creating generations of addicts whose brains are being wired to depend on junk food.
Honestly shocking that we allow companies to make insane profits from ultra processed junk that is intentionally designed to be addictive. It’s destroying the health of our population just so shareholders can line their pockets.
But let them trick you into thinking that an entire generation of humans spontaneously became lazier and greedier than all the generations that came before, so we can keep blaming the individuals who are miserable and struggling instead of regulating the industry that is destroying our economy and poisoning our children for profit.
It’s all part of cost of living unfortunately. It’s £1.50 for a full pizza on offer or £4 for a meals worth of chicken for a family if you shop reduced before you even add the other ingredients if you’re not willing to eat the dark meat.
Let alone the added power requirements to cook a large meal vs 10 mins per pizza.
Food tech needs to focus on healthy affordable meals over baking a crumble or cupcakes imo.
I honestly find it so weird seeing overweight kids. I *almost* understand overweight adults but when you’re a child all you do is run about and play. basically like a fusion reactor at that age.
We’re very conscious of instilling physical activity into our daughter. Don’t get me wrong, she loves a happy meal like any other kid but she also loves going on walks with the dog, riding her scooter, going to trampoline parks, swimming and generally anything active.
I always think it’s just lazy parents not being active that’s the real problem
This sub truly is an enigma, banning and taxation „doesn’t work“ when it comes to social media, vapes etc. but is the only solution for upf and fizzy drinks.
Yeah because sadly the poorest are the least educated about dietary health, least likely to have time and resources to cook, prep meals and take part in healthy activities.
Isn’t it funny that all the clued up perfect parents with perfect children, who spend hours boiling bones for a week’s worth of soup who home cook from scratch who can see the obvious easy answer so processed food all happen to be on Reddit and able to post in this thread.
The truth in the past is that there was a limit to the amount of processed food you could buy. So it forced people to cook. But people cooked much simpler meals. Chicken breast and veg does not take long.
The problem is part of the cause is the increase in single parent households and that both parents now need to work full time. Good food isn’t actually that expensive, massive bags of carrots are pennies for example. But there isn’t a “mum” at home to make those home cook meals. Given that it’s the mothers that need time off following child birth. How do you solve for this without regressing on decades of societal change in women working and their rights?
Being overweight is not inherently unhealthy. In some cases, yes, but there’s a lot of nuance. I sincerely hope we move past body shaming as a society.