We are taking action to get the British nation's health back on track
We are taking action to get the British nation's health back on track
If everyone who is overweight lost five pounds it could save the NHS over £100 million over the next five years, the Health Secretary writes https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politic...lth-back-track/ Quote:
New Obesity Strategy unveiled as country urged to lose weight to beat coronavirus (COVID-19) and protect the NHS New package of measures and "Better Health" campaign announced to help people lose weight. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/...protect-the-nhs Quote:
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Fighting obesity isn’t nannying, it’s about social justice
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Major new campaign encourages millions to lose weight and cut COVID-19 risk
A new national campaign is under way to encourage millions of adults to kick start their health and reduce their risk of serious illness, including COVID-19. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/...t-covid-19-risk Quote:
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It is a good idea for people to realize that there is a relationship between obesity and comorbidity.
But just how well informed is the government on what causes obesity? And are their proposals going to produce results? If the UK follows the same dietary standards as Americans are told to follow, based upon faulty evidence, there will be no change in the % of obese. |
This sounds good, right?
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So primarily calories in/calories out. Again. :mad: Still. :mad: Assuming this tactic results in any weight loss at all (for some people, it really doesn't), in the vast majority of cases, it will only result in hunger, frustration, a return to "normal" eating patterns, which most often ends in gaining back all lost weight, plus a few extra pounds. I'm so sick of them barking up the wrong tree on absolutely every official recommendation related to diet. At least they mentioned sugar this time, and yes, many people are consuming way too many sweet sauces, desserts, and sugary drinks. But that completely ignores the fact that the dozen servings of starches they want you to eat each day converts to glucose and raise blood sugar faster than table sugar does, and that fruit and juices are just more sugar. I'm sure those are considered to be perfectly fine though, especially when blessed by the glowing aura of a gram or two of fiber per serving. :bash::bash::bash: |
ITS A GOOD START.
Hopefully this leads to more changes. Getting craps food off the plate is a good start. A push toward real food is important. As long as the " not low carb" mantra gets promoted, this is real change. Including calories in meals can really wake up the ignorant to the 1000 calorie burger. However Im not fir burdening the restaurant business. IT shifts the responsibility from government to teach healthy options. |
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Agreed. Simply more of the same with no recognition of the real root cause. Sometimes taking the wrong actions can leave one with the sensation that something is being accomplished, so we quickly comply with taking actions that are ineffective and can actually make things worse. Let's dispense with this behavior, as this is how we got the food pyramid in the first place. Remember, politicians didn't have the luxury of time to test whether going low fat was sound science, people were dying. So, taking action resulted in an increasing obesity, T2D, CVD, and cancer epidemics that today are bankrupting governments and killing massive numbers of people. There is a better way, but with people looking to elected officials to lead them out of the wilderness, it will be a long wait. |
Dr Aseem Malhotra speaking on BBC News this morning, I'm hoping the link will work here:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?st...JCZxVp&d=n&vh=i |
And it truly helps to have the Prime Minister lead by example.
'I was too fat,' Boris Johnson says in UK launch to tackle obesity Boris Johnson, the UK Prime Minister, has said in a video posted to his official Twitter account that he was "way overweight" when he was admitted to intensive care earlier this year after becoming infected with Covid-19. https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/27/uk/b...intl/index.html |
If everyone lost five pounds it would save millions in health costs? NOT.
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I suspect it will just be the usual garbage guidelines and as a "normal" BMI person who works to be that way I will be paying tax unfairly on my butter, bacon and lamb chops.
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Dr Aseem Malhotra Explains How The New Obesity Strategy Needs To Tackle The Root Cause
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgK...eature=youtu.be |
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Great to have a top leader who has personal experience with a low carb diet leading the charge!! |
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Certainly not a message that an anorexic needs to hear, that's for sure. But really - 5 lbs? And what if that's not enough to improve EVERYONE's health enough to save that 100 million. That's what they project the savings would be over 5 years. So let's do the math... That means they expect to save 20 million/year, which still sounds somewhat impressive. But hold on - England has a population of around 53.5 million people. So a savings of 20 million divided by the population of 53.5 million amounts to an annual savings for the NHS of... TA-DA! approximately 37 pence per person, per year. Well! I must say, I'm certainly impressed with how much that 5 lb weight loss will save in each person's health care costs, as long as EVERYONE loses 5 lbs. Sarcasm aside... I genuinely hope that they heed Dr Maholtra's common sense recommendations. The food industry guy - I sympathize with him. He's right that the food production industry has been expected (and applauded) for continuing to put themselves in harm's way to keep the nation fed during the pandemic. He's also right that BOGO deals work best with items that have a long shelf life, and if you switch BOGO deals to perishable foods, are you really going to be able to eat all that before it goes bad? I understand him doing whatever he can to defend the processed food industry too - he's trying to preserve the livelihoods of a tremendous number of employees in that industry. The time has come for a huge change in the processed food industry though, mostly starting with asking the question - what can they produce that still has a reasonably long shelf life, uses an absolute minimum number of ingredients (preferably 5 or less). He's understandably confused about what else they can do, because the recommendations in the article focused on cutting back on fats and calories (and oh yes, sugar and salt), mentioning the fact that those recommendations would inherently exclude olive oil and bacon. I suspect that if he works with Dr Maholtra (and others who truly understand nutritional and metabolic issues), together they could come up with quite a few foods that would have a relatively long shelf life, some that are even shelf stable, which would be much better for the national waistline and health, and could greatly improve national health, while revolutionizing the processed food industry. Somewhere along the line though, they need to get the national recommendations straightened out, stop demonizing fats (especially saturated animal fats and cholesterol) and salt, and put the blame where it really belongs - excess starches and sugars. |
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