Sweet treats, including chocolate, cakes, and biscuits, could face the same cigarette-style warnings in Labour’s latest ‘nanny state’ crackdown.
According to reports, ministers are trying to make food packaging messaging more powerful to combat childhood obesity.
It comes amid fears that the government could target cartoon characters, as one source told The Sun that Kellogg’s Frosties’ Tony the Tiger may need ‘re-educating’.
Sir Keir Starmer is already looking to ban junk food advertisements from television before the 9 pm watershed, while online ads high in fat, salt, and sugar could be prohibited altogether.
Now, a source has told The Sun: ‘We want to give parents better information so they can make informed choices. Our children are getting shorter, fatter and sicker.’
But Maxwell Marlow, of the Adam Smith Institute think tank, said Brits were ‘perfectly capable’ of making their own choices by reading the ingredient lists on labels.
He said the measures would instead be ‘another burden on businesses’.
Earlier this week, public health minister Andrew Gwynne announced that the government is considering plans to overhaul licencing laws in Britain to ‘boost the nation’s health and tackle anti-social behaviour’.
He indicated that the measures being considered include tougher action against irresponsible landlords and—far more controversially—”tightening up on some of the hours of operation’.
His words triggered alarm among hospitality experts, with Kate Nicholls, chief executive of UKHospitality, warning the ‘half-baked plans’ would be detrimental to the trade, with 50 pubs already closing each month.
Back in August, it was revealed that Labour planned to ban smoking from outdoor places—the first sign of Labour’s ‘nanny drive’.
The seemingly unenforceable plans would make it illegal to smoke in pub gardens as well as outside football grounds and children’s parks.
Under shocking new ideas, Keir Starmer’s Labour administration may abolish the freedom to smoke in nightclubs, restaurants, and even shisha establishments.
Smoking in parks or at home would be permitted, but there would be no smoking on university and hospital property.
Beaches and enclosed public parks are among the other places that are allegedly grey zones and are still up for debate.
Vape-free zones are also mentioned in the paper, although it’s unclear if e-cigarettes would be prohibited as well.
Defending the unpopular policy, the Prime Minister argued that ‘over 80,000 people lose their lives every year because of smoking’ which is a ‘preventable death’.
‘This is a preventable series of deaths’, continued the PM, ‘and we’ve got to take action to reduce the burden on the NHS and the taxpayer.’
Both the public and the hotel sector harshly criticised the planned measure.
When we were youngsters, there were huge amounts of sweet foods, cereals made with real sugar, larger chocolate bars, and generally slimmer individuals. They keep us in the dark about what they put in our meals, such as food additives and other ingredients that increase appetite. Items such as monosodium glutamate (MSG), a taste enhancer that increases appetite by stimulating the pancreas to produce more insulin; while the FDA views MSG as generally safe, several studies have connected it to obesity and diabetes.
Refined flour can also raise blood sugar, which can result in insulin surges and crashes.
Leptin, the hormone that indicates fullness, can be released more slowly when high fructose corn syrup is consumed, and artificial sweeteners can signal to the gut that calories are coming, but when they don’t, the brain may try to compensate by making people eat more.
There are many more; these are only a handful. Although processed meals are the worst, most people nevertheless consume them as they occasionally offer a more affordable option than purchasing fresh meat daily.
The way our prime minister is approaching the issue is incorrect. He needs to ban food producers from adding harmful chemicals to extend product shelf life, as this leads to product addiction and the subsequent development of obesity, diabetes, and cancer. Ultimately, though, it’s all about the money.
Children used to play and exercise back then. These days, everything revolves around a plethora of TV channels, video games, and the internet.
I can remember running about outside from dusk till dawn, but this is just the reality of how things are now because I would never let my children out on the streets, not now, not in this day and age; it’s too dangerous.
Kids these days, if you ask them what they want to do, they would want to watch everything that the TV has to offer or play video games all afternoon. Outdoors really isn’t attractive these days because it’s not safe to be out there, but back in the day, we played out, we had fun, and health and safety weren’t an issue, but now parents won’t let their children out because of all the stabbings et cetera, so now they’re just glued to their playstations or iPads.
I would spend all day on my bike, in the park with my friends, and I ate what I liked. These days kids can’t even go for a day out without a mobile phone glued to their hands, but to be honest, if you went to the park these days, there would probably be no one there to play with anyway because communication is non-existent these days unless it’s via a mobile phone, iPhone or some form of tablet.
Perhaps they should be putting health warnings out about Keir Starmer. Let’s face it, he is especially dangerous to our health, especially if you’re old, live on your own and the only income you have is your pension!
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