Denmark introduces fat tax

[mashman]

They do. If they can be convinced the recipient won't compromise the success of the operation by continuing to eat for six.

Hmmm, that's probably gonna take some convincing when confronted with a large person, and kinda goes against the idea that they're unhappy being large... hmmm

[LBD]

basket doctors, next to lawyers ........ never give you any good news .....

And we have that funding backwards....Doctors should get paid when we are well and we should stop paying them when we are sick.....and then see how quick they heal us!!!!!

[p.dath]

All true. But it has been known for quite some time that certain things are bad for us, yet advertising standards have only ever removed 1 thing from the advertising/sponsorship space, and that's smoking... something that Education has had a massive affect on (not so much taxation imho), so saying that Education doesn't work, really isn't true. Perhaps the how or when or by whom we are educated is more important than actually having the knowledge? As you say, tis our choice...

The huge flaw in your argument, ok huge flaw may be considered an exaggeration, but... why hasn't advertising/marketing been banned in it's entirity, if it's such a killer?

No amount of tobacco smoking is good for you. By comparison eating fast food every now and then with a balanced diet is not going to hurt you.

All they're doing is making food more expensive.

They are mostly making unhealthy food more expensive ...

[kiwifruit]

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[Scuba_Steve]

They are mostly making unhealthy food more expensive ...

your joking right??? You did see what they're planing on taxing, didn't you??? .

Hint it wasn't the unhealthy & potentially toxic shit like "diet products" (in fact I wouldn't be surprised to find these companies as the lobby groups behind it)

[p.dath]

your joking right??? You did see what they're planing on taxing, didn't you??? .

Hint it wasn't the unhealthy & potentially toxic shit like "diet products" (in fact I wouldn't be surprised to find these companies as the lobby groups behind it)

They were only taxing foods with saturated fats.

[Scuba_Steve]

They were only taxing foods with saturated fats.

like the healthier spread, butter. or that white stuff you put with cereal & tea/coffee, milk. That source of Iron, Beef & Lamb. Cheese. Eggs.

Effectively if you are not a Vegan, you will be taxed!!! & even they're not safe coconut oil, palm oil, vegetable oil, Chocolate.

Maybee take a look at a couple of gens back too. Their diet was lard, dripping, meat, eggs, milk etc & they weren't fat. It's only since we've moved away from the "fatty foods" that the "obesity epidemic" has come about
So a decrease in natural "fatty foods" from when people were thin, to an increase in man-made artificial crap where people are fat... Which is bad again???

[idb]

Does this mean that fatty foods are going to be treated like smoking is now?
In time you might see groups of people huddled outside their workplaces in the cold eating pies, when they come back in their non-fat-eating colleagues will complain that they smell like gravy?

[Coolz]

Fat tax from the country that gave us Danish pastries...bit of irony there!

[p.dath]

like the healthier spread, butter. or that white stuff you put with cereal & tea/coffee, milk. That source of Iron, Beef & Lamb. Cheese. Eggs.

I don't know about your "healthier spread", but mine has almost no saturated fats. That's why it is healthier. I stopped using butter long ago, but they do offer lite butter. I already use low fat milk.
Lean meat should have most of the fat removed.

Effectively if you are not a Vegan, you will be taxed!!! & even they're not safe coconut oil, palm oil, vegetable oil, Chocolate.

A little bit of an exaggeration. But yes, a lot of food has some proportion of saturated fat, so yes, lots of food will have a small amount of tax added.

Maybee take a look at a couple of gens back too. Their diet was lard, dripping, meat, eggs, milk etc & they weren't fat. It's only since we've moved away from the "fatty foods" that the "obesity epidemic" has come about
So a decrease in natural "fatty foods" from when people were thin, to an increase in man-made artificial crap where people are fat... Which is bad again???

High quantities of saturated fat are bad for your health. Doesn't matter which decade it came from or how you stick it in your mouth.

[Boob Johnson]

where is an example of Taxation solving societies issues/ problems/behaviours ?
I dont know the answer but does it?

Smokers still smoke

It's heavily taxed and nothing has changed.

Education changes things however, i.e Smoking is reducing ?

I'd say there is a big shift away from smoking due to both education AND (increased) taxation. Hell we are down to 1 in 5 smoking now so not sure I agree with your statement.

[Deano]

High quantities of saturated fat are bad for your health. Doesn't matter which decade it came from or how you stick it in your mouth.

Tell that to the eskimos !

http://www.biblelife.org/stefansson1.htm

Yes I appreciate there are lifestyle/climate differences but.....

[SPman]

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High quantities of saturated fat are bad for your health. Doesn't matter which decade it came from or how you stick it in your mouth.

From a Dr who has performed over 5000 heart operations...on patients of whom more than 50%, he considered, shouldn't be there - not obese, "normal" cholestorol levels,etc etc.

The idea that saturated fats cause coronary disease is completely incorrect . The avoidance of animal fats and their replacement with vegetable fats plays a huge part in causing heart disease. Why? Because it encourages the pro-inflammatory metabolism of excess Omega-6— it throws the ratio off kilter. These vegetable oils should be replaced in our diets with lard,coconut oil or olive oil.

Having had an acute Myocardial Infarction in the right descending coronary artery, last year, with "safe" cholesterol levels and a, "what I thought" reasonably healthy diet - I've been taking a closer than normal look at what we eat and how it affects us - I take nothing at it's supposed face value.
Consistent high levels of saturated fats aren't good for you, but as long as you are eating other foods, a moderate amount won't do any serious harm. Replacing them with the likes of corn, soyabean, safflower, cottonseed and sunflower oils, gives rise to excessive levels of Omega 6, which is good for you in small doses, but needs to be balanced by far greater intakes of Omega 3 than most people get - even with supplements.

[Usarka]

Does butter count as a animal fat? Nothing better for panfrying mushrooms, bread, omeletes, onions, fish etc.

[Smifffy]

If it looks like crap etc, then it's probably crap.

Then txt 'Dung' to 244.