Should unhealthy food be required to be labeled with graphic health warnings?
Apr 19th 2013, 12:00 am
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Re: Should unhealthy food be required to be labeled with graphic health warnings?
I have eaten roo meat once.
Didnt enjoy it so gave mine to the dogs.
Shortly after the dog had worms
Had to worm dogs, kids, us. Very expensive roo meat.
Bought packaged from Coles, not roadkill.
Didnt enjoy it so gave mine to the dogs.
Shortly after the dog had worms
Had to worm dogs, kids, us. Very expensive roo meat.
Bought packaged from Coles, not roadkill.
Apr 19th 2013, 1:42 am
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Re: Should unhealthy food be required to be labeled with graphic health warnings?
If your aim is to stop people eating the junk food, then no, because it doesn't work, as we have seen with the smoking. The only way to reduce its consumption is to price it out of everyone's reach. The difficulty with this is that so much of the economy is based on the consumption of beef and wheat I can't see a government acting against it.
Apr 19th 2013, 10:01 am
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Re: Should unhealthy food be required to be labeled with graphic health warnings?
How about "This will make you fat" or "Waste of money" in large letters across the packaging?
Apr 19th 2013, 10:25 pm
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Re: Should unhealthy food be required to be labeled with graphic health warnings?
Apr 21st 2013, 12:25 am
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Re: Should unhealthy food be required to be labeled with graphic health warnings?
yes 
Apr 21st 2013, 12:44 am
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Re: Should unhealthy food be required to be labeled with graphic health warnings?
Overweight people actually live longer than Normal Weight people...
http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/0...-of-mortality/
Apr 21st 2013, 12:53 am
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Re: Should unhealthy food be required to be labeled with graphic health warnings?
umm slightly overweight is ok but obese is bad.
Apr 21st 2013, 12:59 am
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Re: Should unhealthy food be required to be labeled with graphic health warnings?
How about confusing the issue with the latest findings out of America...
Overweight people actually live longer than Normal Weight people...
http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/0...-of-mortality/
Overweight people actually live longer than Normal Weight people...
http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/0...-of-mortality/
Apr 21st 2013, 1:01 am
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Re: Should unhealthy food be required to be labeled with graphic health warnings?
Yehp exactly.... There aren't that many people that fall into the obese category though, One has to have a BMI of 30 to be definied as Obese. A BMI of 25 to 29 is definined as overweight, according to these latest studies at least.
Apr 21st 2013, 1:06 am
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Re: Should unhealthy food be required to be labeled with graphic health warnings?
There are also many people who fall into the severe and morbidly obese categories.
More than 5 million Australians are classified as obese and above. (Ok, it uses BMI which can be controversial but I'm sure not many of them are world class athletes or body builders)
Obesity in Australia
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Apr 21st 2013, 1:17 am
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Re: Should unhealthy food be required to be labeled with graphic health warnings?
Um, unfortunately there are many people who fall into the obese category.
There are also many people who fall into the severe and morbidly obese categories.
More than 5 million Australians are classified as obese and above. (Ok, it uses BMI which can be controversial but I'm sure not many of them are world class athletes or body builders)
Obesity in Australia
There are also many people who fall into the severe and morbidly obese categories.
More than 5 million Australians are classified as obese and above. (Ok, it uses BMI which can be controversial but I'm sure not many of them are world class athletes or body builders)
Obesity in Australia
?My BMI is 27... which isn't great, I'm not that worried about it. I've recently given up bread up butter which is a huge sacrifice for a bread lover like myself. Can cut back on the beer now the A league season is finished.
Stuffed if I'm going hell for leather on a government inspired weight loss program. Both my parents are close to obese and they are in their late 80's.... everyone skinny in our family seems to die young. Which is why I went looking for the above information re longevity and weight.
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Apr 21st 2013, 1:49 am
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Re: Should unhealthy food be required to be labeled with graphic health warnings?
This is where the BMI is IMO ludicrous as it takes a 'one size fits all' approach.
Accoriding to the BMI, I am morbidly obese
At my fittest, and healthiest, aged around 21-25, I would have been classed as overweight (12 stone) even though I swam 2-3 times a week, rode daily as well as other horsey stuff, cycled regularly and was generally very active.
According to the BMI, in order to be a 'healthy' weight, I need to be, and this is at the top end of healthy, 10.5 stone. I was a young teen the last time I weighed that. I would be quite literally skeletal
It does not take into account body type, shape, genetics etc. All the men in my family are all very tall with big bones structure. I inherited the big bones, but my mother's lack of height
But I suspect if I had a boob reduction, I could come back into the overweight category overnight
Accoriding to the BMI, I am morbidly obese
At my fittest, and healthiest, aged around 21-25, I would have been classed as overweight (12 stone) even though I swam 2-3 times a week, rode daily as well as other horsey stuff, cycled regularly and was generally very active.
According to the BMI, in order to be a 'healthy' weight, I need to be, and this is at the top end of healthy, 10.5 stone. I was a young teen the last time I weighed that. I would be quite literally skeletal
It does not take into account body type, shape, genetics etc. All the men in my family are all very tall with big bones structure. I inherited the big bones, but my mother's lack of height
But I suspect if I had a boob reduction, I could come back into the overweight category overnight
Apr 21st 2013, 2:27 am
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Re: Should unhealthy food be required to be labeled with graphic health warnings?
This is where the BMI is IMO ludicrous as it takes a 'one size fits all' approach.
Accoriding to the BMI, I am morbidly obese
At my fittest, and healthiest, aged around 21-25, I would have been classed as overweight (12 stone) even though I swam 2-3 times a week, rode daily as well as other horsey stuff, cycled regularly and was generally very active.
According to the BMI, in order to be a 'healthy' weight, I need to be, and this is at the top end of healthy, 10.5 stone. I was a young teen the last time I weighed that. I would be quite literally skeletal
It does not take into account body type, shape, genetics etc. All the men in my family are all very tall with big bones structure. I inherited the big bones, but my mother's lack of height
But I suspect if I had a boob reduction, I could come back into the overweight category overnight
Accoriding to the BMI, I am morbidly obese
At my fittest, and healthiest, aged around 21-25, I would have been classed as overweight (12 stone) even though I swam 2-3 times a week, rode daily as well as other horsey stuff, cycled regularly and was generally very active.
According to the BMI, in order to be a 'healthy' weight, I need to be, and this is at the top end of healthy, 10.5 stone. I was a young teen the last time I weighed that. I would be quite literally skeletal
It does not take into account body type, shape, genetics etc. All the men in my family are all very tall with big bones structure. I inherited the big bones, but my mother's lack of height
But I suspect if I had a boob reduction, I could come back into the overweight category overnight
I was always fit and sporty as a teenager - swimming, sailing, basketball, netball, squash - yet because of my bust and hips I was a comfortable size 14-16 - plugging my stats then into a BMI calculator I would have been classed as overweight. On my wedding day, I was goddam gorgeous and didn't look overweight (well, I don't think so) yet I was a 16-18 dress size because of my bust.
Now... I'm still fit (although I'm definitely fat now) - I go to Curves three times a week, I walk at least 30 minutes a day (so far this month I've walked 53.2km) and I can swim for hours. I eat a healthy diet... I just find it very difficult to lose weight.
