And your answer to obesity is.......no better than mine i guess as you've yet to tackle the topic.

Time to move forward together.

Never mind the limits, just having to think about what ingredient you should use for what would be an education for most kids.

The problem isn't sugar or an unhealthy diet.

It is simply a case of a decline in physical activity needed to burn off the calories consumed.

When I was a kid I walked 2 miles to school and back. Played footie in the playground at every break, did gym exercise and played house and school footy in the winter and cricket/tennis/athletics in the summer. I also helped the milkman at weekends for 5 hours a day.

When I left school I played sport for all the companies I worked for in my spare time until I reached 40 (when my joint problems began).

Up to 40 years I was very slim despite drinking and eating whatever I wanted - cream doughnuts, lager, kebabs. I simply burned the calories off with a busy schedule of activity.

Now at age 61 I am racked with arthritis and parkinsons. I hardly eat anything these days (and gave up alcohol) but have put on weight due to enforced physical inactivity which has also led to me getting Diabetes type II.

Kids nowadays will not have the good starting base I had and will develop the same major problems I have faced from an earlier age because of playstations, parents taking them to school, lack of facilities etc. They are simply not getting enough exercise.

There needs to be a sea change in attitude towards the importance of physical activity for everyone and instead of taxing sugar give grants to schools and clubs to encourage young kids to take up sport.

It's not rocket salad!

I'm not sure that demonising sugars is necessarily a bad idea, certainly getting the information out about the fact that sugars are both a Central Nervous Stimulant and highly addictive is definitely a necessity.

There is also the problem of 'low fat' products which are simply high sugar content to replace the fact that fat tastes good.

The problem is amplified by soda drinks and fruit juices, which magnify the problem because they lack fibre, meaning the sugars in the drink are metabolised very rapidly rather than slowly. This results in the production of high levels of insulin which converts the sugar to body fat.

We need to be honest and frank about our food and what it does, rather than protect industries that are producing disease in our children and young people, but we also have to educate people at the same time. You can't just expect exercise to deal with the problem (you simply cannot exercise enough to burn off a junk food diet).

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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We need to also restrict advertising especially aimed at children.

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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