Obese Ireland

You lads are gas… wheat is bad, but potatoes are the biz.

I’m not that dead set against wheat either, but spuds are definitely good. Heaping scoops of butter laden spuds from a carvery up on the plate is not good however.

Grass fed full fat butter is good for you pal. Don’t let the advertising on low fat spreads fool the shit out of you.

Just not fuck loads of it soaked up in your spuds. I only use real butter, but sparingly.

How do you get the butter to eat the grass?

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@Thrawneen could be used if the butter is of the female variety…

Seeds and nuts

Okra.

Meat, nuts, fish, eggs, fruit, veg and vagina.

Has anyone heard from Flano??

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/man-30-dies-after-living-on-diet-of-chocolate-wine-cocacola-and-pringles-alone-29647892.html

[SIZE=6]Man (30) dies after living on diet of chocolate, wine, Coca-Cola and Pringles alone.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=6][SIZE=5]A MAN who lived on Pringles, chocolate, wine and Coca-Cola died after his internal organs wasted away as a result of his poor diet, an inquest hear[/SIZE]
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Fionn Clarke (30) was found dead at his apartment on Melville Way in Finglas, Dublin 11, on September 11 last year. He had been dead for at least a week.

Dublin Coroner’s Court heard that he suffered from depression and alcoholism and was a near recluse who had largely cut himself off from his family.

His father Michael Clarke said that he would call to Fionn’s apartment every three or four weeks bringing him “sweets and coke” because he would not eat anything else. There was no electricity or heat in the apartment and whenever he would clean it, Fionn would allow it to get dirty again, said Mr Clarke. His son worked at the Revenue Commissioners but walked out on his job and was living off savings but these had run out, he added.

Mr Clarke said that Fionn would make sure he was not in the apartment when he called and he had not seen him since Christmas. He let himself into the apartment on September 11 and discovered his son lying naked on the couch. He could tell straight away he was dead, he said.

He told the coroner that every time the family attempted to help Fionn, they met a “dead end”. The court heard that he was not anorexic and had repeatedly said he did not want to live but did not want die by suicide.

At one stage, he was involuntarily admitted to a psychiatric hospital. However, he was released when an independent consultant said they could not find any overt features of psychosis or depression that would make him detainable under the Mental Health Act.

Garda[/URL] [URL=‘http://searchtopics.independent.ie/topic/Sean_Kelly’]Sean Kelly said that when gardaí went into the apartment they were met with an “overpowering stench” and “overwhelmed” by the amount of rubbish in the living room.

“The floor was completely covered over by empty sweet wrappers, Pringles tins and empty bottles of wine. It was so bad that gardaí were unable to see the floor and had to wade through the rubbish,” he said.

The pathologist who carried out the post-mortem Dr Eamon Leen was unable to identify a definite cause of death but found that the dead man‘s internal organs had atrophied as a result of his poor diet, especially the heart. He weighed eight and a half stone when he was found and gardaí noted that he was visibly malnourished.

Coroner Dr Brian Farrell said that this was “a case of self-neglect for psychological reasons” where the dead man had gotten into “a lifestyle of not looking after himself” and had a "lack of motivation to live toward the end of his life”. Fionn’s death was a “profound tragedy”, he said, returning a narrative verdict outlining the facts.

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[quote=“Mark Renton, post: 843829, member: 1796”]Has anyone heard from Flano??

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/man-30-dies-after-living-on-diet-of-chocolate-wine-cocacola-and-pringles-alone-29647892.html

[SIZE=6]Man (30) dies after living on diet of chocolate, wine, Coca-Cola and Pringles alone.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=6][SIZE=5]A MAN who lived on Pringles, chocolate, wine and Coca-Cola died after his internal organs wasted away as a result of his poor diet, an inquest hear[/SIZE][/SIZE]
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Fionn Clarke (30) was found dead at his apartment on Melville Way in Finglas, Dublin 11, on September 11 last year. He had been dead for at least a week.

Dublin Coroner’s Court heard that he suffered from depression and alcoholism and was a near recluse who had largely cut himself off from his family.

His father Michael Clarke said that he would call to Fionn’s apartment every three or four weeks bringing him “sweets and coke” because he would not eat anything else. There was no electricity or heat in the apartment and whenever he would clean it, Fionn would allow it to get dirty again, said Mr Clarke. His son worked at the Revenue Commissioners but walked out on his job and was living off savings but these had run out, he added.

Mr Clarke said that Fionn would make sure he was not in the apartment when he called and he had not seen him since Christmas. He let himself into the apartment on September 11 and discovered his son lying naked on the couch. He could tell straight away he was dead, he said.

He told the coroner that every time the family attempted to help Fionn, they met a “dead end”. The court heard that he was not anorexic and had repeatedly said he did not want to live but did not want die by suicide.

At one stage, he was involuntarily admitted to a psychiatric hospital. However, he was released when an independent consultant said they could not find any overt features of psychosis or depression that would make him detainable under the Mental Health Act.

Garda[/URL] [URL=‘http://searchtopics.independent.ie/topic/Sean_Kelly’]Sean Kelly said that when gardaí went into the apartment they were met with an “overpowering stench” and “overwhelmed” by the amount of rubbish in the living room.

“The floor was completely covered over by empty sweet wrappers, Pringles tins and empty bottles of wine. It was so bad that gardaí were unable to see the floor and had to wade through the rubbish,” he said.

The pathologist who carried out the post-mortem Dr Eamon Leen was unable to identify a definite cause of death but found that the dead man‘s internal organs had atrophied as a result of his poor diet, especially the heart. He weighed eight and a half stone when he was found and gardaí noted that he was visibly malnourished.

Coroner Dr Brian Farrell said that this was “a case of self-neglect for psychological reasons” where the dead man had gotten into “a lifestyle of not looking after himself” and had a "lack of motivation to live toward the end of his life”. Fionn’s death was a “profound tragedy”, he said, returning a narrative verdict outlining the facts.

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Not obese

http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/food-drink/mum-blended-mcdonalds-meal-for-her-baby-conference-told-29670307.html

[SIZE=6]Mum blended McDonald’s meal for her baby - conference told[/SIZE]

[SIZE=6][SIZE=5]PARENTS are blending McDonalds meals into babyfood and feeding small children massive portions of food.[/SIZE]…
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Research for a major new campaign being launched next week to tackle childhood obesity had highlighted the poor choices being made, said Orlaith Blaney, chief executive of McCann Blue advertising agency.
Together with healthy eating body Safefood she had interviewed parents around the country to discuss what children were eating and why, in order to come up with an ad campaign that would help people make healthier choices.

“We questioned mothers in inner city Dublin going to get McDonalds, and blending it and giving it to her young child,” she told the FSAI conference.

Breakfast for a four-year-old boy in Northern Ireland meanwhile had been three bowls of cheerios, two yoghurts, a banana, an apple and three slices of toast.

The mother had told them he was a “great wee eater”.

“These are really serious issues that are happening. That’s the sharp end of the spectrum but there’s all kinds of variations in between,” said Ms Blaney.

Research had shown that two out three Irish consumers said parents were largely responsible for obesity, with 38pc blaming the fast food industry and others blaming fizzy drinks and sweet makers.

Ms Blaney said advertising also played a part as kids saw 5,000 ads a year and the point of these was to make food look delicious and drive sales.

New restrictions on advertising to kids could help but the food industry, government and society all had to play their part, she added

A great wee eater? You fucking enabling cunt you should have the child taken from you.

I agree, but half the children in the state would be taken away then.

We could create a fine wee army…

“A great wee eater”! :smiley:

One mother said that she blended McDonalds meals for her baby. The Indo has to present it as if it’s a nationwide problem.

who hasn’t read that report and gone “a blended Big Mac, I’d say that tastes lovely”

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I can’t help thinking that this little tidbit is a made up piece of bullshit.