The Dangers of Fruit Juice

I see that Nanny's chums from an anti sugar lobby group Action on Sugar (akin to the anti salt lobby group CASH) have got their knickers in a twist over the amount of sugar in fruit juice.

Maybe CASH and AoS could combine and, akin to the laws of physics wrt matter/anti matter, cancel each other out?

Just out of curiosity I am still bemused that some people become so fixated on a single issue (eg salt, sugar) that they set up charities and lobby groups that solely focus on that one single issue, and do their utmost to prevent others from consuming that product.

Why?

Why are these people so obsessed, and so determined to stop others living their lives as they wish to?

Nothing to do with the money that these groups rake in from sponsors and governments surely?

Anyhoo according to research carried out by the Telegraph some fruit juices and smoothies contain four times the amount of sugar the World Health Organisation recommends an average person should consume in a day.

A survey of 50 products from supermarkets, coffee shops and food outlets found that more than half contained at least six teaspoons of sugar, which is the recommended daily limit.

This is all very well and "horrifying" but, if you observe the table below that lists the 50 products, many are huge portions. In other words of course they contain large amounts of sugar, because the portion sizes themselves are stonking!


Maybe a simple solution would be to consume less fruit juice and smoothies...oh, wait a minute, wasn't Nanny the other day telling us to up our 5 a day to 7 a day?

I have of course a simple solution for those of you who wish to drink gallons of sugary fruit juices, simply add salt.

Problem solved!

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Real Fags Safer Than E Fags

Breaking news everyone, it appears that real fags are safer than e fags.

That at least is the inference to be drawn from a report on NBC that states that calls to U.S. poison control centres about people sickened by e-cigarettes containing liquid nicotine have soared in the past four years, climbing from just one a month in 2010 to at least 215 per month this year, federal health officials said Thursday.

More than half of the poisoning reports involved children younger than 5, including many kids drawn to the nicotine-laced liquids flavoured like fruit, bubble gum and soda pop, which come in containers ranging from small vials to multi-gallon jugs that are not required to be childproof.

Even adults are reporting harm from the e-cigarette liquid, experts said. Some mistook nicotine in small vials for eye drops and put them in their eyes. Others got the fluid in their mouths when the vials broke or intentionally ingested the liquid nicotine. Others spilled the fluid on their hands and didn’t wash it off, becoming ill when the nicotine was absorbed into their skin.

I suggest that Nanny bans e fags, and proactively advises people who use e fags to revert to real fags!

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Which Country In The World Has The Least Nanny State?

 

A Twitter chum of mine has asked the Twitterverse "which country in the world has the least Nanny state?"

Any ideas folks?

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Too Old To Drink

My thanks to a loyal reader who recently pointed me to an absurd piece of Nanny nonsense that is devoid of any shred of commonsense.

Philips Lewis is 58, he has grey hair and a moustache.

With me so far?

He went to his local Esso petrol station (Norton Service Station in Midsomer Norton) to buy some petrol and four cans of Fosters.

Can you guess what happened next children?

Yes, that's right, he was banned from buying the booze because he didn't have any ID with him to prove that he was over 18.

He is quoted by the Bath Chronicle:

“I could understand it if I was nearer 25 and looked that way but I will be 59 in June. I don’t carry my driving licence with me.

There was a queue behind me and I felt really humiliated and demoralised. I reckon I spend about £2,000 in there on petrol and magazines over a year – and I was made to feel like that at my age.

It was very over the top and I feel it was completely unnecessary. I have written to the service station manager but I will be withdrawing my custom and going elsewhere.”

A spokesman for Esso said:

“We apologise to Mr Lewis for any offence or inconvenience caused during his visit to the service station. 

While we have strict rules concerning the sale of alcohol, it is clear they were applied with a little too much zeal on this occasion. We have advised the sales assistant accordingly, and will contact Mr Lewis to offer him a small gift as a goodwill gesture.” 

No, the rules were not applied with "too much zeal" the rules were INCORRECTLY ENFORCED without any commonsense!

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Welsh Nanny Bans E Fags

I see that Welsh Nanny wants to ban e cigarettes being used in enclosed public places.

For why?

It seems that, in Nanny's view, they normalise smoking and undermine the smoking ban.

The proposal, along with one to introduce a 50p minimum price on alcohol, has been put forward in a white paper "Listening to you – Your health matters" (this is open to consultation until 24 June).

Given that e fags are sold on the basis of trying to help people who are trying to give up fags (something that Nanny wants them to do), what are the hapless people who are trying to give up fags meant to do?

Those of you who live in Wales, who think that this proposal is bollocks should make your views known before 24 June.

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Nanny Offers Immortality

I see that despite the fact that Nanny's 5 a day propaganda has been shown to be bollocks, Nanny's chums from University College London have conducted a study that claims to show that we will live longer if we ate 7 portions of fruit and veg a day.

Oddly enough, Nanny herself insists that 5 a day is still adequate.

The study of 65,226 men and women indicated the more fruit and vegetables people ate, the less likely they were to die - at any given age.

Read that again, in effect Nanny's chums are saying if you eat 7 a day you won't die!

Shurely shome mishtake!

Irrespective of that rather ludicrous claim, the research itself appears to be massively flawed.

For why?

Other lifestyle factors, such as not smoking or drinking excessively, may have accounted for the drop in mortality, not just fruit and veg consumption.

More to the point, as Prof Tom Sanders, at the School of Medicine, King's College London, said it was "already known" that people who said they ate lots of fruit and vegetables were health conscious, educated and better-off. He is quoted by the BBC:

"You cannot extrapolate from this kind of information to make sensible pronouncements about what people should eat."

In other words the conclusions are bollocks!

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