Comments on: UK: Consumers Cut Spending on Food http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/uk-consumers-cut-spending-on-food.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:06:33 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/uk-consumers-cut-spending-on-food.html#comment-22961 Anonymous Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:33:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/uk-consumers-cut-spending-on-food/#comment-22961 <i>You shouldn't make fun of fat people any more than you should make fun of alcoholics.</i><br/><br/>Fat alcoholics on the other hand are fair game! You shouldn’t make fun of fat people any more than you should make fun of alcoholics.

Fat alcoholics on the other hand are fair game!

]]> By: dlr http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/uk-consumers-cut-spending-on-food.html#comment-22952 dlr Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:06:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/uk-consumers-cut-spending-on-food/#comment-22952 You guys are so self righteous. Obesity is strongly genetically linked. Most exercise and/or fewer calories and /or a lower percentage of fat and sugar in the diet all INFLUENCE the persons inborn 'set point', but people are BORN with 'fat genes' or 'skinny genes'. But someone who is born with 'fat genes' is going to struggle against it all of their lives. They aren't fat because they are lazy, or weak willed. They were BORN with a different 'set point'. And, until medical science figures out how to fix the problem, even if they eat right, and exercise, they are STILL GOING TO BE FATTER, maybe by a lot, than a person who was born with 'skinny genes'.<br/><br/>You shouldn't make fun of fat people any more than you should make fun of alcoholics. You guys are so self righteous. Obesity is strongly genetically linked. Most exercise and/or fewer calories and /or a lower percentage of fat and sugar in the diet all INFLUENCE the persons inborn ’set point’, but people are BORN with ‘fat genes’ or ’skinny genes’. But someone who is born with ‘fat genes’ is going to struggle against it all of their lives. They aren’t fat because they are lazy, or weak willed. They were BORN with a different ’set point’. And, until medical science figures out how to fix the problem, even if they eat right, and exercise, they are STILL GOING TO BE FATTER, maybe by a lot, than a person who was born with ’skinny genes’.

You shouldn’t make fun of fat people any more than you should make fun of alcoholics.

]]> By: paddy http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/uk-consumers-cut-spending-on-food.html#comment-22883 paddy Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:55:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/uk-consumers-cut-spending-on-food/#comment-22883 The UK is part of the EU and placed no restrictions on workers from the new EU countries (Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia, plus the Mediterranean islands of Malta and Cyprus) coming to work in UK. France and Germany does still restrict these workers. With the UK economy downturning, many of the estmated 600,000 workers (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/5273356.stm) are IMO choosing to go home. Hence, IMO lower food retail sales are not evidence for healthier eating or people being less wasteful. I wonder does the ONS data consdier this. The UK is part of the EU and placed no restrictions on workers from the new EU countries (Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia, plus the Mediterranean islands of Malta and Cyprus) coming to work in UK. France and Germany does still restrict these workers. With the UK economy downturning, many of the estmated 600,000 workers (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/5273356.stm) are IMO choosing to go home. Hence, IMO lower food retail sales are not evidence for healthier eating or people being less wasteful. I wonder does the ONS data consdier this.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/uk-consumers-cut-spending-on-food.html#comment-22881 Anonymous Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:49:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/uk-consumers-cut-spending-on-food/#comment-22881 Living in Australia, where the only thin people are on television and the goverment spend millions trying to get us to eat more healthily - could be a good thing Living in Australia, where the only thin people are on television and the goverment spend millions trying to get us to eat more healthily – could be a good thing

]]> By: luther http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/uk-consumers-cut-spending-on-food.html#comment-22869 luther Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:13:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/uk-consumers-cut-spending-on-food/#comment-22869 anon @ 11:53:<br/><br/>originally coming from ohio, i agree that the entire state needs to go to diet camp.<br/><br/>with that said, i personally trust their sense of judgment & character more than of coke-addled finance freaks and caffiene-fueled politicos with napoleonic complexes.<br/><br/>here's a personal health primer: better check in the mirror for any malignant eugenic lesions before they spread any further...<br/><br/>cancer (of the body &/or the mind) eats its host. anon @ 11:53:

originally coming from ohio, i agree that the entire state needs to go to diet camp.

with that said, i personally trust their sense of judgment & character more than of coke-addled finance freaks and caffiene-fueled politicos with napoleonic complexes.

here's a personal health primer: better check in the mirror for any malignant eugenic lesions before they spread any further…

cancer (of the body &/or the mind) eats its host.

]]> By: a http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/uk-consumers-cut-spending-on-food.html#comment-22868 a Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:01:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/uk-consumers-cut-spending-on-food/#comment-22868 "I joke with my friends that TVs are now in the consumer staples category."<br/><br/>They will take my computer and my Internet connection over my dead body. “I joke with my friends that TVs are now in the consumer staples category.”

They will take my computer and my Internet connection over my dead body.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/uk-consumers-cut-spending-on-food.html#comment-22858 Anonymous Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:07:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/uk-consumers-cut-spending-on-food/#comment-22858 Less wasteful? I thought they already ate every part of the cow in England. haha Less wasteful? I thought they already ate every part of the cow in England. haha

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/uk-consumers-cut-spending-on-food.html#comment-22856 Anonymous Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:01:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/uk-consumers-cut-spending-on-food/#comment-22856 I ordered a pizza in GB a couple of years back. It came with two fried eggs on top. Worst pizza I ever tried to eat. <br/><br/>Then I ordered bangers and mash at a truck stop along the A1. Never have I had sausage with less taste...as if they were filled with sawdust. How can anyone get fat eating that stuff? I ordered a pizza in GB a couple of years back. It came with two fried eggs on top. Worst pizza I ever tried to eat.

Then I ordered bangers and mash at a truck stop along the A1. Never have I had sausage with less taste…as if they were filled with sawdust. How can anyone get fat eating that stuff?

]]> By: baychev http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/uk-consumers-cut-spending-on-food.html#comment-22848 baychev Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:30:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/uk-consumers-cut-spending-on-food/#comment-22848 70% of americans are classified as overweight. the situation in australia is worse. i remember watching a hopman match and the camera showed the spectators: they looked like competitors in hot dog/sausage eating contest, with no interest to the tennis match going on.<br/>ah and yesterday i saw a couple in quite good physical shape at the grocery store in Nice (FR) forking out 382 euro on food. this is the highest i've ever seen and the cart was only half way full, most with pastry. aside from that french are not obese 70% of americans are classified as overweight. the situation in australia is worse. i remember watching a hopman match and the camera showed the spectators: they looked like competitors in hot dog/sausage eating contest, with no interest to the tennis match going on.
ah and yesterday i saw a couple in quite good physical shape at the grocery store in Nice (FR) forking out 382 euro on food. this is the highest i’ve ever seen and the cart was only half way full, most with pastry. aside from that french are not obese

]]> By: Glen http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/uk-consumers-cut-spending-on-food.html#comment-22845 Glen Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:04:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/uk-consumers-cut-spending-on-food/#comment-22845 Nothing like a good recession to fight obesity. Nothing like a good recession to fight obesity.

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