Originally Posted by Bevm

On the government trying to police food, along with all the other problems, often the science of the day is wrong! There's plenty of debate about whether cholesterol is bad for everyone, and certainly at one point there was a spate of small children with health problems because their parents thought it would be good to feed them skim milk. Cholesterol is an important building block for the brain and nerves.

At one point eggs were evil, now they're admitting they're a good food, and as they're cheap they could be a very healthy boost for diets when money's tight.

If they'd been able to follow scientific certainty decades ago they'd have tried to force everyone to eat margarine. They certainly convinced a whole lot of people it was good for them. And then, whoops, hydrogenated fats are lethal!

Then carbohydrates were wonder food. Eat lots of bread and pasta, but just make sure to avoid fat. Might as well inject sugar into the bloodstream.

And on, and on. But every time they're so so certain they're right.

Bev

Originally Posted by Victor Meldrew

Agree to some extent: the kids in UK who get bad press deserve bad press. Like you I have worked with them too, for 30 years now, so have a pretty clear idea of the change and the extent of change.

Those who get into the press, do so because they make 'good press' for the papers and 'good media' for television news.

Kida doing well, doesnt make 'good news' for these people.

There is a greater number of 'bad kids' with a more widespread and extreme form of 'badness' than 20 or 30 years ago. They have got worse.

However, like you say there ia a large majority of great kids who are good citizens and contribute to society. Many of the kids I worked with in UK did community work including working voluntarily in hospices.

Also the comment about young people being less healthy is correct. Too much time interacting with technology in 'virtual worlds' rather than real people in the real world. This has resulted in greater obesity and an inability to relate properly to the next generation up.

and......... just dont get me on to the drinking habits of the young ....... baaaaah humbug!

Originally Posted by lilybilly101

They're obsessed with germs here in Canada too. H1N1 has made it so much bloody worse. There's asbestos in some school ceilings but they've forked up enough sanitizer for the entire bloody country.

Originally Posted by BristolUK

All of North America seems to be health obsessed; almost everyone has allergies.

To be fair about H1N1, though, there seems to be two or three times as many cases as the UK despite half the population.

Originally Posted by Neil52

Please think hard before coming back....I cannot believe what this place has become since I have been back, I love it and everything seems OK......but the bloody Goverment is doing my head in

Just listened to a Goverment minister on the radio...he said "we have got the population used to drinking skimmd milk, now our next step is to get them on to fully skimmed milk" please just **** off.

Clarkson is spot on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18F9cbIJnPM


http://www.nannystatebritain.co.uk/

Householders are to be visited by officials offering advice on cooking with leftovers, in a Government initiative to reduce the amount of food that gets thrown away. Home cooks will also be told what size portions to prepare, taught to understand “best before” dates and urged to make more use of their freezers. The door-to-door campaign, which starts tomorrow,



A Birmingham mother has been fined £75 for feeding the ducks at her local park - but her toddler son was allowed to carry on as he's too young to prosecute.

Vanessa Kelly, 26, was accosted by a council warden as she and 17-month-old Harry threw the birds scraps of bread in Smethwick, reports the Daily Telegraph.

She said: "The warden walked towards me and asked me to stop feeding the ducks because of complaints about children slipping over on their way to school on duck mess.


UK public broadcaster BBC is under fire for changing the lyrics on classics such as Humpty Dumpty and Little Miss Muffet to remove the negatives.

In the BBC version of Humpty Dumpty, the King's horses “made Humpty happy again” instead of “couldn't put Humpty together again.” In Little Miss Muffet, Miss Muffet makes friends with the spider rather than being frightened away.

Originally Posted by Mummy in the foothills

True, but some of really do suffer. I never had any problems till moving here. Today is damp, windy and cold, I'm breathing easy. But come summer with close to 40 and dry desert air and all the landscaped gardens I'm stuffed up so bad I get headaches. Worse with each passing year

I think the H1N1 was all a big rouse put about by the vaccine company

Originally Posted by Beedubya

What is H1N1? I haven't heard that term before??

Originally Posted by Lorna at Vicenza

Swine flu.

Originally Posted by Beedubya

Thank you Lorna, I wonder why they didn't call it just plain old swine flu over there??

Originally Posted by Beedubya

Thank you Lorna, I wonder why they didn't call it just plain old swine flu over there??

Originally Posted by Pollyana

Its not actually called plain old Swine Flu anywhere - thats just one of the names its acquired in day-to-day life. Pandemic H1N1 is the official name worldwide.

Originally Posted by Beedubya

Thank you Lorna, I wonder why they didn't call it just plain old swine flu over there??

Originally Posted by J.J

Avoidance of the term Swine Flu was to protect the US Pork Industry, the name association was thought to potentially drive people away from buying and eating pork products.

Originally Posted by Neil52

Please think hard before coming back....Householders are to be visited by officials offering advice on cooking with leftovers, in a Government initiative to reduce the amount of food that gets thrown away.