"Remember when it used to be at least affordable to speedrun yourself into an untimely grave through poor nutritional choices and/or prohibitive socioeconomic status?
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Why only for certain foods? This practice is misleading at best.
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"Buy 2 get a 50% discount"
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buy it's still okay to sell unhealthy food? so this is the shit we're living in?
Scanned that, not seeing the definition of "unhealthy". Anyway, I'm in on about any measure to cut obesity. It's a monster problem, certainly in the US.
Look around your doctor's office. Seems almost every person is fat. Look at people wearing leg casts, except for skinny teens who are probably in sports, all fat. No matter the state's medical system, fat people are a huge drain. I cannot take anyone seriously who disagrees.
Anyway, I was a kid in the 70s and 80s, young adult in the 90s. It was a very different world. Daily I see people in public that hardly existed in the day.
Walked 1.25 miles home in the summer heat from my mechanic's shop today. Wife thought I was nuts. Took my kids hiking the trails to the creek. "How faaaar daddy?" "Little over a mile." "DAAAD!" We started gym class with a mile jog, from 6-yo to 12-yo.
I'd argue obesity is a climate change driver. Anyone who disagrees likely doesn't get out in the country and/or understand farming and ranching. Yet few have an issue stating that eating meat is a problem contributing to all of the above. What about all the energy we put into producing and shipping all our food?
For what it's worth, I'm skinny as hell, and despite abusing the hell out of myself, no real problems, even into middle age. Started a job working my ass off, dropped 3 minor health issues in a month. Now that I quit, 2 are back with another coming. My skinny wife has minor heart issues. Cannot convince her that sitting around her office and bed is making it worse.
Humans did not evolve to be fat or lazy. We have to eat simply and we have to move.
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For me, someone who has struggled with stress eating (often with junk food), the price increases with the junk food items alongside less and less multi buy promotions for them have been encouraging me to eat better, make my own food etc.
I am not blaming the availability of these unhealthy items as the biggest issue, and I acknowledge it's an internal situation more than anything, yet these initiatives have been a welcomed push to get me in the right direction.
It's just a good influence.
No fizzy pop meal deals, no porn, digital ID and you can't even burn a migrant hotel any more.
We used to be a proper country.
Can't they just make healthy food cheaper
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...and replaced with more BOGOF for healthier items?
Oh, nothing? Oh, okay
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FFS the problem is the price disparity between standard prices and "loyalty card" prices. It's anti-competitive.
How is that not obvious to politicians?
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That always bugged me. How about half-price?
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This think of the children phase the government has got going in is just making everything more shit.. Don’t ruin everything just because some people can’t control themselves.
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I am crazy but I haven’t seen a bogof in years?
Is this not a good change or am i missing something?
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More nanny state shite, so glad I can say I did not vote for this Tory wanker.
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