My grand father died of diet related cancer when I was a kid. I loved him very much as a child and I still miss him deeply but he died because he was fat as fuck.
So every time I hear some fat fucking "activist" tell me the doctors are lying and science is lying, I just feel so much rage. It's like they're spitting in the face of everyone who has lost someone to obesity, lost a mother, a father and now we are losing children. We are wasting 6 billion pounds a year on obesity in the UK, when there are people struggling to convince doctors to pay for an expensive, experimental procedure to keep their sick 3 year old alive. I know what I'd rather my taxes went to.
At 8 years old I had to try and understand why a man I looked up to wasn't going to be there anymore, I watched him cry in fear, I watched him slip into a coma and I watched my mother struggle to keep a brave face as her father died.
So you are not a fat activist, you are not body positive. You are encouraging the deaths of people, for what?? So you can feel better about that 5th big mac? Well fucking enjoy it, you fat fucks.
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[–] HarpoonTheFatty 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
To be fair the obesity autopsy was on BBC 3 which is all online now. My town has posters everywhere on the buses to say people should get off the bus one stop earlier and walk that extra distance. We do have the traffic light stuff on foods to raise awareness of what we're eating and in general it has worked to an extent. The five a day campaign was good too, although it changed to 7 at which point we all just got fed up. There's definitely not zero impact, it's just slow change.
[–] journalistsarelazy 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I'd be interested to see what viewing figures that post mortem had. It should have been on 1 or 2 though.
Granted there are different local efforts like your town but the overall stats aren't improving or reversing this. There's inadequate policy, considering what steps could have been taken but were ignored by May.
It's quite tricky to judge but I'd say the 'slow change' you might see is not nearly enough unfortunately. Probably not even enough to counteract the 980,000 that already have type 2 diabetes but don't even know it. All speculation obviously but if the data hasn't changed then the initiatives aren't going far enough. Anecdotally, I use the packaging info more than other shoppers, and that's way more than I see fats doing.