I blame the parents

I’m more concerned about the increased obesity of preschool children. Seen a child that couldn’t be more then 18 months old yesterday and it more then baby fat the child was carrying about, shockingly obese the poor kid was. I was disturbed as to how that could happen in the first 18months of a childs life until I seen the stash of goodies (chocolate, sweets, etc) on the shelf in the push chair not a sign of a liga or fruit. I’m not going to play the blame game here just wanted to share my story.

”Children eating too much salt: Study”

And not one child uses a salt seller?

All this salt is contained in the rubbish foods that the multinationals slop out through their supermarket and fast food chains.

That’s right Government
Pasteurise, homgenise, freeze and sterilise the nutrients out of healthy foods and allow vested interests to feed your people on poisonous byproducts and leftovers, so then they can pump your kids full of their expensive pharmaceutical ”cures”.

Not exactly surprising news!

As a cannibal I think this is a good thing. Kids are the human equivalent to veal. Yum yum

Don’t do this Don’t do that, Ban this Ban that. Sugar tax, Alcohol fixed pricing, Hide cigarettes from view. Tax them to the hills, increase in illegals. Just get the kids off the game console and out into the Park it is free…….

My granny ate 5 pounds of salt a day and lived to 100.

“Unless we tackle … fatness our chances are slim”

Ha.

Seriously though, the effect of salt is less that clear cut. While there is evidence that reducing can reduce blood pressure a little, there is also evidence that it increases cholesterol, but then the effect of increased cholesterol is also a matter of debate in medical circles. A study last year found that “these results do not support that sodium reduction may have net beneficial effects” http://www.nature.com/ajh/journal/v25/n1/full/ajh2011210a.html

And this study was on people who already have high blood pressure, as are most studies of the kind. There is really no good evidence to show that reducing salt in a population with no heart issues matters a whit – it’s never been proven or even seriously suggested as a cause of heart disease. Just because something is good when you’re sick (if that even was proven) doesn’t mean it is in any way relevant when you are not.

Basically unless kids are emptying the salt cellar onto their dinner, or are eating a crap diet anyway which is a whole ‘nother story, this is a big nothing.

It need an advertising campaign paid for by the manufacturing industry and supermarkets. To much salt in kids food could end up as a lifetime problem. The salt makes the junk food more tasty and addictive which makes the kids easy targets. Once the kids get a taste of these foods they are hooked for life. That’s why they are targeted by these companies.

@ chaz- Johnathan Swift had similar ideas. Any recipes?.

Hah.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xge3fzPKV6I