Shrinking Chocolate

UTmaniac said:
As a young whipper snapper in the 70s and 80s, my free time was mostly spent outside playing football; tennis etc. burning off lots of calories. The amount of time spent in front of a Spectrum/Commodore/MSX was relatively moderate and balanced. I could get away with lots of sugar loaded snacks very easily.

As a 40-something these days, unsurprisingly less of my free time is spent doing such energetic things, with my zimmer frame on order. However, I imagine youngsters of today do far less exercise and proportionally, an awful lot more computer gaming... They simply are not doing enough to burn up the calories, even in these reduced size Mars bars and alike.

If humans are going to "evolve" into spending more of their lives on sofas and at computer desks, diets need to change a lot more than these ~10% weight reductions of chocolate bars!
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When are normal cars going to get bigger so fat bast can get in them, 1 taxi driver in my area is so fat his gut sits on the steering wheel.


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Osprey said:
Just to be clear, you don't feel that cutting portion sizes of junk food will have an impact on obesity levels?
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Absolutely not. A fatty person doesn't have any awareness or consideration of "portions". When their new healthier smaller portion is depleted they will simply grab another one.

Any sane individual doesn't need to be given portions to control their weight. Give me a metre long portion of a Mars bar and I'll savor it over a month. Give a fat person 10*10cm bars and they'll finish it all in 3 minutes.
 
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asim18 said:
Absolutely not. A fatty person doesn't have any awareness or consideration of "portions". When their new healthier smaller portion is depleted they will simply grab another one.
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It's the same with alcoholic drinks.

Stella got nerfed from 5.2% to 5.0%.
Guiness got nerfed from 5.0% to 4.1%
Alcopops got nerfed from 5.0% to 4.0%
 
troops said:
Yup, just a rip off nowadays.
Just another way of controlling what you eat.
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I'm mostly against the government telling people what it can and can't do, but it's been well proven that people either don't know how to eat well or don't care, and its now becoming a huge burden on us all through taxes, so what choice do they have?
 
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