Re: Sugar Sugar and YET MORE SUGAR!
Originally Posted by
ruthio
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Of course we all know that sugar is bad for us, that it's 'pure white and deadly', empty calories, leads to obesity and diabetes etc etc blah blah blah.
BUT despite that, how many people actually realise how ugly and corrupt our food industry really is?
Many perfectly intelligent and well informed people don't actually know to what extent they're consuming hidden sugars every day.
The raw statistics that emerge from this programme are mind blowing, that's what I'm saying.
Previous generations weren't hoodwinked by corrupt marketing and advertising.
Look at those sky high Coke boards in Mexico!
Horrific details on a scale that most ordinary people are unaware...36spoonfuls of sugar in a small jar of stir fry sauce,, and 7,000 lower limb amputations a year just in the UK alone...that mountain of plastic legs is an image that stays with you.
You say you can't stand Jamie, fair enough, but it's not about that, he has heart and he has passion!
I can't stand Jeremy Clarkson, but if he'd presented this programme I'd have signed that petition like a shot!
Ruth you are quoting me in your post, would you like to point out where I said I hate Jamie Oliver. I don't, I think he is ok.
My son is 37 years old, when
he was a child I was aware a glass of coka cola contained 8 teaspoons of sugar
that is how long people have been aware of hidden sugar. He never had coke unless it was in someone else's house.
Drinks were milk or water with a slice of orange or lemon which was eaten at the end of the drink.
Even that far back I did not feed processed food, he ate mostly what we ate without salt and sugar but in a mashed up form.
I think JO is fighting a lost cause, those parents who have a modicum of common sense will look what they are putting into their children the rest will carry on feeding them crap with or without 'government action'.
You only had to see the stupidity of some parents when JO was involved in school meals project and some parents went into riot mode when chips were removed from the menu.