[QUOTE=âKinvaraâs Passion, post: 924456, member: 686â]Somewhere along the way the line will have to be drawnâŚ
Galway players posing for photos with young fans yesterday⌠most of the kids consumed more sugar in 30 minutes than their counterparts in generations past would consume in a week.
Will we look back at photos like these in 20 years time and bow our heads in shame.
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So, itâs not really alcohol sponsorshipship we should be looking at, but food?
Well, in fairness to McDonagh he has always pumped in the money to Galway hurling so they wont be doing the âethicalâ thing anytime soon but careful consideration should be given to the example that is being set for kids.
Ultimately though, education about food and example on how food is treated in the home is the only way of tackling it properly.
In my day you only got burgers and chips if you either won the league or made it to a cup final and were treated either way⌠It seems these kids today are being rewarded for merely taking part, which is of a far greater concern. The little fucks should earn their treats, not handed to them as a given.
Ah sure, the whole Lucozade thing is an even bigger crime⌠Young lads going around swamling litres of the stuff thinking its going to help them perform better. :mad:
Fizzy drinks are far worse than fast food. Parents think they are doing well cos they only bring little Timmy to McDonaldâs for the odd treat but little Timmy is slugging on Coke all day every day and ingesting a kilo of sugar a week this way. Little Timmy is then sitting in playing Xbox all day instead of out climbing trees and playing soccer for 16 hours straight during the summer. Little Timmy will have diabetes soon enough the little prick.
No different to protein shakes or vitamin supplements when you think of it
The deli roll phenomenon is far bigger in Ireland than England it seems to me. When did this take off in a big way? Was no such thing really when I was in school in the 80s and 90s anyway.
Weâd sometimes get a sausage roll in the Spar down the road by the time I was in 5th year,98-99. Never saw anyone get a roll or sandwich made up though. I think by 2002 or so the breakfast roll was a thing though and from there you got the full on deli counter. Kev would know.
Vitamins ya but not protein shakes. They themselves are fine(the simple, high quality ones like USN and ON) but the marketing and perceived effects are misleading. Some lads even equate protein to steroids.
Itâs not necessary though if thatâs your point.
[URL=âhttp://www.irishtimes.com/search/search-7.1213540?tag_location=Ireland&article=trueâ][SIZE=6]âObese, sedentaryâ Irish population worst for diabetes [/SIZE]
Ireland[/URL] has the worst standard of diabetes care in western Europe, according to a new international comparison.
The Euro Diabetes Index 2014 ranks Ireland twentieth out of 30 countries, ahead only of countries in eastern and southern Europe.
Despite shadowing the UK in many health indices, in this survey Ireland is âfar behindâ our British neighbour, according to index director Dr Beatriz Ceboll
âIreland has major public health problem, with an obese and sedentary population,â she says. Diabetes care here suffers from a âharmful paradoxâ: there is good deployment of modern devices for patient disease management, such as test strips for insulin measurement, continuous blood-sugar monitoring and patient education.
At the same time, Dr Cebolla says, there is no reliable data âwhatsoeverâ from monitoring of diabetes complications, such as blood-sugar, eye, foot and renal conditions.
âWhy on earth do you deliver excellent services but refrain from keeping a record of the outcomes,â she asks, describing Ireland as a âsad exceptionâ in northwestern Europe. The Irish approach is âa blueprint for inefficient diabetes careâ.
The index makes a number of recommendations for improving diabetes care in Ireland:
â Start monitoring and publishing data about diabetes care procedures such as blood-sugar levels and foot, eye and renal complications
â Improve public health by addressing obesity, nutrition and physical exercise in schools
â Upgrade the Irish diabetes registry to register and publish data on care procedures
â Subsidise special footwear to improve access.
More than 32 million people in Europe have been diagnosed with diabetes, with many more undiagnosed. The index estimates the cost of treatment last year at âŹ100-150 billion and says this is set to rise further.
It says management of the disease in most countries is weak. Diabetes is still a major cause for kidney failure, blindness, foot and leg amputation and heart disease.
However, diabetes care is making slow progress, according to the findings of the index launched today at an international medical congress in Vienna. Since 2006, a combination of healthier lifestyles, better patient education, better trained doctors and improve access to treatment and device has reduced the number of deaths in Europe from diabetes by 10,000 a year.
@ChocolateMice, did you hear about this morningâs WHO report? Nearly all Irish adults are likely to be overweight by 2030. Another report yesterday concluded that Ireland is the most obese country in Europe. What can be done about it, pal?
I warned you cunts⌠Myboyblue scoffed at me, but I warned yee. Time for culling some pups, like the Cannocks do with seals, club em to death.
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boot cut jeans, salmon shirt, carvery for lunch
Weâre fucked⌠Itâs the peasant mentality and genes⌠After generations of living off snails and spuds their body is telling them to gorge themselves as it thinks itâs only a matter of time before it starves again, itâs a simple learned survival instinct from the body but it doesnât know that food is now aplenty⌠Thatâs where these peasants need to show restraint mentally but they cant, read any of @Sean stack[/USER]'s or [USER=553]@Kid Chocolateâs posts, how can we expect peasants like that to use logic? The only way for Ireland to survive this is to wipe 70â of the population out, the lower the IQ, the first up against the wall.
little timmy?
Horsebox always refers to himself in the third person.
[QUOTE=âChocolateMice, post: 1135240, member: 168â]Weâre fucked⌠Itâs the peasant mentality and genes⌠After generations of living off snails and spuds their body is telling them to gorge themselves as it thinks itâs only a matter of time before it starves again, itâs a simple learned survival instinct from the body but it doesnât know that food is now aplentyâŚ
100 percent agree with this first bit. Always said that to myself[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=âChocolateMice, post: 1135240, member: 168â]Weâre fucked⌠Itâs the peasant mentality and genes⌠After generations of living off snails and spuds their body is telling them to gorge themselves as it thinks itâs only a matter of time before it starves again, itâs a simple learned survival instinct from the body but it doesnât know that food is now aplenty⌠Thatâs where these peasants need to show restraint mentally but they cant, read any of @Sean stack[/USER]'s or [USER=553]@Kid Chocolateâs posts, how can we expect peasants like that to use logic? The only way for Ireland to survive this is to wipe 70â of the population out, the lower the IQ, the first up against the wall.[/QUOTE]there seems to be a lot more roasters around now than there was 15 or 20 years ago, I could not get over the size of most lads when I was home last week, what the fuck do they be ateing and drinking?
I just read that 10 minutes ago and asked myself the same question.