Cancer Council wants to kill Paddle Pop lion and Coco Pops monkey

Posted to Adelaide Now (10/9/2011) on 12/9/2011 at 5:42 AM
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Where is free speech? WikiLeaks is banned then comes plain cigarette packaging. What's wrong with the Food Acts?

Obesity is a lifestyle choice, no difference from people who take up extreme sports, or practise as snake catcher.

If we are fair dinkum about teaching those who can't help themselves, then let those people who consume excess fatty foods, sugar, alcohol or anything that are classified as health hazard pay their related medical treatment out of their own pockets. The public health system and Medicare WILL not be responsible. If they can't pay, they will have to suffer due to their own stupidity.

As a marketer, I protest strongly about plain packaging. Being different is fundamental to brand / product differentiation. Do we expect more generic brand foods in every food outlet?

I don't like to see Australia to become one of those Communist countries where freedom of speech and expression are premium.

Are we going to see banning of Google? Will there be forced closure of McDonalds, Hungry Jacks or KFC unless their products are fat-reduced? Is this the end of Australian sugar and butter industries?

Please publish this comment - just to show that free speech is NOT dead!

Children becoming overweight on high calorie fizzy drinks

Posted to Adelaide Now (2/6/2011) on 2/6/2011 at 11:14 PM
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Health warming messages and ghastly pictures are put on cigarette packs to deter smokers from smoking. This technique can be used on packaging for high calorie fizzy drinks, or sweetened breakfast cereals to deter children from consuming excess sugar.

MasterChef egos all in one basket at series three launch

Posted to Herald Sun (15/4/2011) on 15/4/2011 at 12:08 PM
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Two out of three regular judges are overweight or at least above the optimal BMI weight. In fact, one of these two may be considered beyond the overweight category. Unfortunately some of the previous contestants were bad examples, too.

The images of these people and excessively rich food cooked and presented are indirect endorsement of unhealthy eating and lifestyle. Weight related problems cost Australia dearly, but help weight loss companies and health studios making megabucks.

Since the program is not broadcast live, an analysis of nutritional facts and data of each winning dish should be displayed on screen as a mandatory condition for the program to go to air. In additon, a warning should also be issued for high fat and high sugar dish.

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300 million Chinese in China are obese

Posted to blog.people.com.cn on 23/2/2010
中国三万万人民是过重的!

看过安徽电视上的一段有关”胖胖艺术团节”目后驱使我写此博客.若要参加这艺术团体重必须超过 250斤.

除非过重者是疾病受害者或遗传故障,他们永远不应承认和接受自己是一个生理正常的人.
这社会是充满矛盾的.我们可以把一个漂亮的女人与名人,明星,仙女或东西相比,举例来说淑美肯尼迪,索菲娅罗兰,姮娥或者是花.但不可把一个过重者与肥猪相比.

不管取笑过重者这些坏蛋是小孩或成人,我不同意过重者使用不理采或者屈服方式于那些人.这只可能克服过重者心理的污点,但体重问题的根仍然存在.

过重的受难者不应被认为懒惰,也不应该误解是一团活泼的人.无任是何种形状和大小的人, 他们也有可能是懒惰或活泼.

我们必须尊重这些过重者为个别人士,并给他们动机和鼓励来克有体重问题,

体重不是一夜之间增加或减轻的;它需要花费几周或几个月.千万不能指望一夜之间或在很短的时间内发生的奇迹.当我感到我的裤子紧时,我知道是减食时候.

我情愿牺牲一些食物,比没命享受食物较好!

300 million Chinese are obese.

I am prompted to write this blog after watching a segment of an Anhui TV program on Pangpang (Fat) Troupe 胖胖艺术团. To join the troupe, one has to be over 125 kg.
Unless overweight people are victims of diseases or genetic malfunction, they should never consider and accept themselves as normal physiologically.

Our society is full of contradiction. While it is alright to compare a beautiful woman with a famous person, movie star, fairy or object, such as Jackie Kennedy, Sophia Loren, Cháng'é or flower, it is not acceptable to compare an overweight person to a fat pig.

I do not agree with the view that overweight people have to ignore or give in to other people calling them names, whether the culprit is a child or an adult. This may overcome their psychological stigma, but the root of the weight problem still exists.

Neither overweight “sufferers” be branded particularly as lazy, nor have the misconception that they are a happy bunch. Many people of any shape and size can be lazy or jovial, too.

We must respect these people as individuals having weight problem, and give them the motivation and encouragement to overcome it.

Weight is not put on or reduced overnight; it takes weeks or months. One cannot expect miracle to happen overnight or within a short time. When I feel my trousers getting tighter, I know I have to reduce my food intake.

I prefer to sacrifice some food, rather than not having a life to enjoy food at all!

Take responsibility about your fat children

This article was posted to ABC 7.30 Report at www.abc.net.au/7.30 on Posted on 5/05/2006

I'm a tax payer who is getting sick of fixing problems of people who keep blaming the society, the mass media, everyone except themselves about making their children taking drugs, speeding on the roads and killing innocent people, making them fat, etc.

In most cases, parents do have more contact hours with their children than outsiders. Why can't they look after the well being of their children better? Don't they know how to use the switch on the power point? Its a matter of turning off the TV if the parents of the fat children don't want the children to know about the Golden Arch, or the old man trying to entice the kids to eat the chook?

Probably there are a lot of readers or audience out there, just like me, would like to spend their money on themselves rather than fixing problems of irresponsible people who keep blaming others for their misbehaviour and arrogance.If they do not fix their own problems, don't expect others to fix the problems for them - well, definitely from not me!