Sweet theft
The first day of May and a new “sin tax” hits the lowest paid. Yes, today is the first day of the sugar tax, or the soda tax or whatever you want to call it. Leastwise the powers that be … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Obesity
The sins of the few
It baffles me that society is so tolerant of the Bully State. They spin us this line that we are heading for an “obesity crisis” [which by the evidence of my own eyes is a load of crap] and slap … Continue reading →
The rise in obesity
Obesity is climbing at alarming levels. Or rather, the mention of obesity is climbing irrespective of the actual weight of the population. What I find interesting about this is the timeline. Things remained fairly static from1900 to around the … Continue reading →
The Unifying Theory
Researchers have finally discovered the truth. We have know for years that smoking causes all the cancers known to man, along with just about every other ailment. Likewise obesity causes much the same diseases and premature deaths. If you eat, … Continue reading →
World Obesity Day
Yes Folks – today is World Obesity Day. My first thought was that this is a day when we celebrate the porkers amongst us and stuff ourselves silly with as much food as we can tolerate. A sort of “Hug … Continue reading →
The unintended consequences of bullshit
when is this crap ever going to end? Every day there seems to be another epidemic of something that, if it were eradicated we would live forever. We all know about the smoking “epidemic” that kills half the world’s population … Continue reading →
Sugar and spice and all things nice
I read an opinion piece in the Irish Times today. Ignore lunatic lifestyle gurus. Sugar’s not the new heroin. I was a little surprised that it got past the editor’s desk, to be honest, seeing as it is contrary to … Continue reading →
Made round to go around
Don’t they just love telling us how much things cost? Here they spout about smoking costing Ireland several billion a year. Obesity is up there as well, probably with another few billion. The WHO of course have to be king … Continue reading →
Experts in bullshit
What exactly is an expert? Legiron got me thinking on this topic this morning so I decided to look up the definition of the word. The definition as given by Google is “a person who is very knowledgeable about, or … Continue reading →
Smoking Drunks and Couch Potatoes
They are fond of doing surveys here in Ireland to discover how “healthy” we all are. They did one a while ago and for some reason that eludes me, they called it Wave 1. Now they have produced another report … Continue reading →
