The cause of fatness found

[DodgyAgent]

It's a combination of cash, time and what's available. A portion of fresh cod for two costs about the same as a family bucket, and the bucket doesn't need cooking after an 8hr shift with 3hrs travel cos they can't afford to live near work.

Reap and ye shall sow. Someone needs to do their sums and work out if an economy based on full employment at minimum wage is sustainable.

Two things:

Are you going to create jobs for people that are above the minimum wage?

I think you will find that these fat people are on benefits

[mudskipper]

And many more have two working parents who are expected to spend an hour doing homework with them. There isn't time to go to the park for a couple of hours as well.

We've ****ed family life in this country.

Children now get taken to organised sport - dancing lessons, swimming lessons, footie on Saturday which puts further pressure on parents' time and finances.

When I were a lass, we'd disappear off over the woods, climb trees, jump off rocks, generally be running around most of the day. Apart from a couple of terms of swimming lessons, my parents never paid for me to 'be active'.

[The Spartan]

At the end of the day with a few exceptions if you're fat you've chosen to be that way and you can undo it if you wish to, what I hate is when you see kids that are badly overweight purely because their parents cannot be arsed to cook or provide them with proper nutrition

[BrilloPad]

At the end of the day with a few exceptions if you're fat you've chosen to be that way and you can undo it if you wish to, what I hate is when you see kids that are badly overweight purely because their parents cannot be arsed to cook or provide them with proper nutrition

But isn't the nanny state there to do everything for them?

[bobspud]

Wow one meal a day I eat at least 5 spread out through the course of the day

Yes that's what I used to do.

Bacon sandwich
Couple of chocolate bars
All bar one for a three course lunch
More chocolate for an afternoon snack

I think you get the point

I have no potion control so I limit it the easiest way that I can.

[original PM]

And many more have two working parents who are expected to spend an hour doing homework with them. There isn't time to go to the park for a couple of hours as well.

We've ****ed family life in this country.

cannot agree morwe with this - last weekend must have spent approx 8 hours with daughters - the 9 year old had a project on D-Day ffs - how do you explain to a 9 year old that thousands of people died without them getting a little upset.

the 6 year olds project was 'Why is science important?' jeez where do you begin! and on that we got onto the sibject of atomic energy and the bomb at which point the 9 year old piped up about it would be ok if you were in an Anderson shelter - impressed she knew that...

one day I will show here some vidoes of the hiroshima/nagaskai bombings but probably not till she is a touch older...

so yes in the contect of this conversation when was I supposed to get my kids out for some fresh air - making the assumption that I do not have a butler to do all the housework/cooking/ etc never mind the fact I may just want to watch half an hour of tv or something...

[The Spartan]

Yes that's what I used to do.

Bacon sandwich
Couple of chocolate bars
All bar one for a three course lunch
More chocolate for an afternoon snack

I think you get the point

I have no potion control so I limit it the easiest way that I can.

Behave I'm drooling at the thought of a bacon sarnie, it p*sses all over my all bran lol

[DodgyAgent]

And that you must eat everything on your plate (something to do with the starving kids in africa!)

One thing I have vowed with Jnr is that if he doesn't want it, I'll just take it away again. No point in force feeding the child & I hope to stick to that rule of thumb. Although he's not fussy at all and will eat everything, unless it's strawberries.

I am afraid that children use food as a means of control and sometimes it is no bad thing to make them sit at the table all day until they eat it.

[The Spartan]

But isn't the nanny state there to do everything for them?

Hahaha BP I can always rely on you, if that's the case lets open up soup kitchens for them to eat properly and take away some of their benefits just a thought

[bobspud]

Behave I'm drooling at the thought of a bacon sarnie, it p*sses all over my all bran lol

While your are at it try these links for a nice lunch...

Bodean's BBQ Restaurants in London

The best steaks in London come to Covent Garden | The Hawksmoor

Not many paupers on benefits sat in these places for lunch but loads of fatties