Nutrition
David Penberthy’s health sandwich is laden with a generous helping of cynicism and a pinch of exaggeration.
By calling for a reduction of the harmful fats in our food, Bob Carr is not seeking to ban fast food outlets. Instead, he is highlighting how easy it would be to make our takeaway foods substantially healthier.
Australians love to eat out - nearly one in three of us do so almost every day, which adds up to a massive 3.8 billion meals eaten out every year.
Our supposedly classless society is showing signs of being divided into two camps where people’s private choices as individuals and their behaviour as families are regulated on the basis of their affluence.
And it’s in the area of nutrition, preventative health and exercise where the working class, for want of a better term, is increasingly being treated like a bunch of babies, while the more affluent members of society continue to live as they please.
It’s only a small thing but it’s a signifier for the times, a demonstration of a mindset which holds that working class people are unable to modify their behaviour, while the gentry can be trusted to keep its conduct in check. But get along to the SCG, that great people’s arena, where our knockabout, egalitarian society lets the members drink as much full-strength beer as they want and limits the great unwashed to light beer.
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Sir Lolsworthy says:
Yes, E, that’s exactly what I said. Thank god someone was able to work it out. In case you can’t tell, I’m being sarcastic. Get your hands on copies of ‘Fast Food Nation’ and ‘Don’t Eat This Book’ if you want to learn about the realities of the situation Read more »
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Sophie says:
I blame the baby boomers. Aspirational… apathetic and about to become a massive burden on the healthcare system. Read more »
I have always had a fair deal of respect for nutritionist Rosemary Stanton but realised yesterday that this is only because I haven’t been paying attention.
Not sure if the rest of you caught it, but Mrs Stanton has launched a pretty out-there tirade against Bindy Irwin’s new commercial deal as the public face of a particularly sinister company.
Not Union Carbide or Exxon or British Aerospace but the baking products conglomerate Greens General Foods, one of the shadiest players in the evil cake trade.
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carson p says:
As I mentioned earlier. This cake mix contains a chemical compound used to substitute caramel, called brown ht 155. It is BANNED in a lot of countries including the US. You lot don’t seem to be bothered though. Rosemary, why not mention that? I don’t get it. mmmm, Disodium 4,4’-(2,4-dihydroxy-5-hydroxymethyl-1,3-phenylene… Read more »
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Helen says:
K. Dickinson, your “Caps Lock” key is located at the far left hand side of your keyboard, under the Tab key. Clicking Caps Lock to “Off” prevents the Chris and Maree-Hello-Hello shouty effect in your comments. This has been a public service announcement. Read more »
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