Processed food is killing us…it’s the smoking of the 1950s
More YOUNG people are being diagnosed with cancer than ever before, with the number of people under 50 growing at twice the rate of older people.
Long after smoking became derelict, and we learned that 10,000 steps a day instead of sitting on our fat all day was a good thing. , why are we dying younger and faster than ever before?
I’m putting it out there: Processed foods are killing us.
Maybe a lawsuit from Kellogg’s/McVities/Mars is coming in – because unless you stuff turkey twizzlers down a baby’s throat from birth, locked in a lab cage like a beagle – there is no hard science and quick after charges. We just know that throwing up victims filled with additives, is not how we are prepared to eat.
The figures, published by Cancer Research UK, show the cancer rate among Britons aged 25 to 50 has increased by 24 per cent since the 90s.
The increasing number of colon cancer is very worrying.
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Experts blame the “big change in the Western diet in the last 30 to 40 years”, such as sweeteners in UPFs.
And, of course, UPFs high in sugar and fat are linked to obesity, another major cause of cancer.
Breakfast cereals, sweets, packaged meats, fried yogurts, crisps, store-bought white bread: They burn us faster than we can burn them. Which, like Pringle, is very fast.
This food is the smoking of the 1950s. In those days, pride was considered a very good thing. It was considered cheap, legal and socially acceptable.
Today, it’s the same for UPFs that are also tainted, legal, socially acceptable – think of all the Hollywood food and beverage companies that support our biggest television shows – and they are just as addictive.
The controversial BOGOF deals, which Boris Johnson toyed with axing before he realized he would not be an electoral winner on the cost of living crisis, only fueled the epidemic. Because this is what it is.
Dr Chris van Tulleken’s bestselling book, Ultra-Processed People, should be compulsory reading in schools.
Good health Secretary Victoria Atkins and her Labor colleague Wes Streeting should use it as a guide.
But maybe they aren’t.
Our biggest food charityThe British Nutrition Foundation, which says it “exists to provide people, educators and organizations with reliable information about nutrition”, is supported by almost every food company you know. I think, including Coca-Cola, Danone, Nestle and PepsiCo.
Last year the British Nutrition Foundation Healthy Eating Week was supported by. . . Coca Cola.
Ignore the sweet talk
For many years, McDonald’s has sponsored the Olympics.
Scientific studies have been repeatedly sponsored by these companies – there is no guessing how the results are distorted.
Currently, 60 percent of our daily calories come from UPFs. That’s a shame.
Policy makers need to listen to the science and ignore the sweet talk of the big UPF dogs.
There will be no conflict of interest when it comes to public affairs good health.
Food labels must list fat, calories, sugar and salt and breakfast cereals, marketed to children, should not come decorated with fluffy cartoon characters.
For example, Kellogg’s Froot Loops – which have Toucan Sam as their official, multi-colored mascot – contain 25% sugar.
No wonder our kids are a manic, fat E-numbered bunch.
In the words of Dr. Chris: “The financial influence that the UPF developers have on science stinks like old ash perfume.
“For public health, it has to stop.”
New statistics show that 16,000 people are diagnosed with melanoma every year. So why are we still being charged VAT on sunscreen?
Australia and several US states are exempt from SPF tax. We should be like that too.
Charley lights up golf
CHARLEY HULL is my kind of woman.
The British golfer is in the throes of controversy after lighting up a foul on the fairway midway through the US Women’s Open.
When he stops to sign autographs for players, the cigarette is dangling, it seems that he has started smoking to stop smoking.
In a world that continues to love sports, especially women’s sports, Charley is a warm welcome.
However not directly.
Risky gig? The coarse one
MADONNA wrote a book called Sexuality, which has a lot of genitalia, and imitated stroking to satisfy them on stage.
In other words, it’s not Westlife. She doesn’t sit cross-legged on a chair in a tweed skirt and good blouse and gently draw out the words in 4 Minutes.
She is about as unlike a Virgin as possible.
As a result news that a “fan” is suing the superstar — and Live Nation and four California concert venues — for exposing audiences to “disgusting pornography without warning” is a little funny.
The lawsuit, filed by frontman Justen Lipeles, says: “Imagine taking your 11-year-old brother to a pop concert when, in the middle of the concert, the women on stage take off their tops and it has become completely high.
They then begin engaging in sexual activities including cunnilingus and digital penetration* among other pornographic situations.
The real question is why anyone in their right mind would take a child to a Madonna party in the first place.
*Not a sentence I ever intended to write in this column, but hey.
KAY BURLEY might do well to stick to Tinder going forward.
Heaven News doyenne admits to “adding to” Vladimir Putin’s DMs on Instagram after the Russian dictator “liked” one of her posts.
Not v Richard Curtis, but whatever floats your boat, Kay.
[OK, OK, she was trying to land an interview but still.]
Rhino Rob is a champion of all
The painful DEATH of Rob Burrow it’s heartbreaking. What a man, what a legacy.
Most of us, given an effective death sentence at the age of 37, as he was, with severe and incurable motor neurone disease, would withdraw, spending months our last ones with friends and family. Not the former Leeds Rhino. He is devoted to all of us.
Rob’s pride and courage inspired the public, even those unfamiliar with his sporting plans.
To double his life expectancy – from two to four years – he went on to raise millions for charityraising important awareness for MND.
He will certainly be honored posthumously as Sports’ Personality of the Year, and with the establishment of an MND center in his name, his memory lives on.
In Rob’s own words, before this death “comes for your word. Then it takes your feet. It tries to rob you of your soul. But it will not discourage you”.
Indeed in the case of Rob Burrowit never did.
LAST WEEK I was scammed. The little b*****s had a great time on my Amex, doing lots of tech stuff on my Amazon account.
A call center in India has sounded the alarm about Amazon’s fraud detection team.
Obviously I’m being cautious, however I did as I was told and logged into my account to see if someone else, not me, was enjoying spending money on my credit card .
The good The man told me not to worry, he would sort it out and delete all transactions. He then repeated my correct home address and asked if the rubber earplugs were mine. (What kind of criminologist goes on to spend £5,000, complete with six £4.99 “silicone sleep plugs”?).
The now unlikable man, with lots of suspicious noises and passing trains behind him, insisted strongly that I not change my password as it was unnecessary. When I finally hung up, when I realized I was done, he freaked out and started backing up, getting more and more aggressive.
It was not a pleasant experience and, I suspect, a worrying sign of things to come in our technology-heavy world.
Thank you, Beeb
WISELY, Kemi Badenoch has vowed to define “sex” as natural in the eyes of the law if the Tories win the General Election.
Our national broadcaster seems to have no such plan for change.
Last week, Radio 2 of news The bulletin mentions an increase in the number of “people with bladder cancer”.
I don’t know about you ladies, but my prostate has been giving me gyp for weeks now.
Sigh.
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