Jamie Oliver: Time to get 'medieval' on sugar - Newsnight
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- Should there be a sugar tax on soft drinks? Would this reduce childhood obesity? That's what Jamie Oliver argues. He made the case before the Commons Health Select Committee on Monday - and he's been speaking to Evan Davis.
Why should I be taxed on suger I'm not fat ?
+Gary Morris Its just another scam to keep more people undercarbed
+Gary Morris Exactly! I'm not an alcoholic, so why should I have to pay a tax on alcohol?
+Ol Beef I absolutely agree with you why do we British allow our government and these sxxxbags to follow there rhetoric look if I do not want coca cola I do not buy it ,and if I want to buy a massive cream cake I want to enjoy the bloody thing sugar ,fresh cream the lot the way cooking used to be tasty and nice ,our food and ingredients taste like shite nowadays, government cut backs on salt,sugar,you can't eat this you can eat that ,nearly all pubs and clubs out of business ,alcohol, smoking,meat,eggs,milk etc etc etc, look with all of these governments labour and conservative shysters that have ran our country .there is no bloody work,no industry .in Sunderland we had,loads of department stores ,industry's, glassmakers,breweries, meat industry's metal forges industry, paper mills ,catalogue company's the tailoring industry's, shops all the way down the high street of the town and surrounding areas,fish shops, butcher shops,fruit and veg shops,wet fish shops,iron mongers,toy shops etc etc etc .and with our governments and there kissy kissy bed pals all with there snout in the trough of greed, corruption and being best pals with the corrupt bed pals the big boys have it all, the tesco,asda,sainsburys,Morrison's,etc etc they dictate the market with the direction from america be it what we eat or drink, and who we should bomb in lying illegal wars,irac,Libya,Syria,etc etc absolutely destroying there country's and killing thousands upon thousands of innocents and there leaders and causing all of these mass and flood of these homeless refugees driven from there homelands .and these are dictating to you and me through there cronies what is best for you and me .look you can't tell your mother or father how to cook as everybody used to proper home made cooking and it was proper food and kids where fed thoroughly and they ran about and exercised it off proper natural living ,now with these government shysters nowt tastes good. kids are encouraged to be fed pizzas,frozen food in fact crap,government are to blame, schools can't learn children esp girls preparations to be a housewife and mother to her children and now it takes two to be in work to afford rent on your house esp on these zero hour contracts .our governments past and present are to blame for the state of our country, what our forefathers and mother's built on sweat and sheer hard back braking work and struggle ,for these government (labour and conservative ), pigs in the trough of greed and corruption and fraud that has ruined our beautiful country ,and that includes the royal family's, and the church of england ,they can all piss off to another country when the going gets tough and dangerous to the ordinary British citizen .they have made little less than a absolute doss hole and betrayed all of its English inhabitants .and are determined to control you and me in what we eat ,or drink ,and even smoke or watch on the TV
I think its the same group of control freaks who want to destroy all hobbies.
Of course and why should you pay for your insurance if you are not sick?
Why should you have sex if you don't want or already have kids?
And why the fuck should you be allowed to write youtube comments if you don't have anything useful to write anyway?
So many questions....
We know it is bad for us. It is not the government's roll to police my diet.
But what he is advocating is a tax that is designed to be punitive and change behavior. I am happy for large and clear labels saying the effect and related death as long they presented facts, so we could understand the decision we where making. We pay tax on income, NI and VAT to pay for the NHS to heal us when we have sports injuries, are giving birth and for the poor diet choices we make.
All this will do is effect the poor who drink more of these compared to the average. It is like smoking people here in Hull; people still smoke loads as they have made that decision and hurts them the most when the tax goes up due to the large amount of poverty here. The same would happen with that kind of tax on sugar.
+Jac77794 it is when the taxpayer has to pay £8 billion a year to treat obesity, £47 billion if you include all the measures aimed at preventing it. I agree with you but whilst we still have the NHS they have to do something.
But sugar is not the only cause of obesity and there is an expectation to exercise the excess calories gained from food. Without forgetting that bread, butter, meat are all highly caloric. Are we gonna have to tax all food that isn't salad? It seems a ridiculous route.
Alcohol and smoking are large direct factors for disease. Food is indirect and about overall diet and exercise.
Basically their are more causes to obesity than sugar. The rich are statistically less obese so obviously cost of sugar is not an issue.
I agree over consumption is an issue but all of those food you mentioned were eaten 100 years ago and there was minimal cases of type II diabetes - and virtually zero in children. Most research these days actually suggest fats are good for you. Sugar has also been found to be highly addictive giving you withdrawal symptoms etc. The fact Coke are the main sponsors of many sporting events like the olympics, rugby/ football world cup sends the wrong message. They also fund their own research to confuse consumers. At least with a chocolate you know its a treat but people are drinking 3 cokes a day regularly just because they are thirsty - which is something like 36 teaspoons of sugar and surely you must agree that is not healthy.
Not necessarily your diet but many people don't know what's bad for them. If people know what's bad for them, they should be sensible enough to not buy that many soft drinks.
I think alcohol poses a bigger problem, but sugar is also a villainous industry.
+Larry Lambo Stop being homophobic.
Larry Lambo I bet you're racist too.
Larry Lambo "AN" Islamist.
Larry Lambo Well since I happen to be Islamophobic I can't talk to you any more. It's a serious condition and I don't want to get ill.
Thanks!
Isn't this the same guy that claims bacon is a superfood?
Yep.
It is when it's unprocessed, it contain vitamin B1, B2, B6, B11, B12, D, K2, potassium, calcium, fosfate, iron, magnesium, copper and zinc.
Blah Blah Blah. Fizzy drinks have been around for at least 120 years and I don't recall seeing pix of fat kids pre the 1980's. Millions of kids grew up in my era (early 60's & late 70's) and drank gallons of the stuff but, we were not obese - we also ate tonnes of chocolate and sack loads of crisps! So what has changed? It's nothing to do with the drinks...its to do with levels of physical activity and processed/fast foods. We had no video games, no laptops, tablets or phones which kept us immobile (though they are promoted as 'mobile') - we played outside and were active. Our mum's didn't phone for a pizza, kebab, burger, curry or Chinese because we just didn't have that kind of stuff. We had the typical meat, spuds and two veg and that was fine. Sometimes on a Friday night, as a treat, we may have gotten fish & chips. I also don't buy into 'busy schedules' - my mum worked full time, cooked, cleaned and didn't have a dishwasher or an automatic washing machine (i think she had what is called a twin tub and Sundays were washing day). We didn't have carpets upstairs (had lino) and didn't have central heating (had a paraffin heater on the landing [boom boom boom boo..Esso Blue - anyone else remember that ad?] but did have frost on the inside of the windows in winter! We would have bath once a week on a Sunday night (started off in the kitchen sink as a kid and then progressed to the bath as you got older). Used to dread Songs of Praise or Coronation Street theme tunes on the telly because that was the signal for bed time. Oh, and our tellies were black and white and stood on spindly legs and you had to get off your chair to change the station (BBC1, 2 and ITV only). Our telly had a box on the back and you had to put coins in it and turn a butterfly dial to make it work (it was rented). Our fridge ran on gas, yes gas and it even had a pilot light!
Reviews what I wrote and stops before it sounds like Monty Python sketch and hears my inner voice, shudders and yup......... I have formally turned into my Dad! Wanders off mumbling 'I don't belieeeve it'.
It's not just the fizzy drinks that is causing the problem, it is also the processed foods and ready meals which contain added sugar and weren't around before the Second World War because the women didn't work so they cooked the food meaning there was no need for ready meals. There are people who were born in the 1960's 70's who are very overweight though. Fizzy drinks combined with the processed meals and sweets all add up to a worse result.
Not to mention all the other chemicals in the drinks which weren't around 120 years ago.
+Michael Seddon Exactly! I grew up in the 60's/70's too and all these fizzy drinks were available then and there were no sugar free versions either. I think there was one fat kid in our entire school. It is not sugar in drinks that are the problem. It's parents that can no longer say "NO" to their kids. Our next door neighbour buys McDonalds for his kid every single time he stays with him, which is three times a week! We can see the kid getting fatter as the weeks go by. It's parents that need to be fined for negligence if their children are fat. If you starved your child they would probably be taken away from you. If you seriously affect their health by overfeeding them meat, dairy and sugar then that's fine apparently!?
It's a combination of multiple factors.
- more sugar in general not only in beverages
- high fructose consumption by switching from sucrose to high fructose corn syrup
- less activity (kids favor their TV or Xbox over sports or playing outside, for instance)
- more spoiled kids because of antiauthoritarian upbringing
- more processed & fibreless foods (usually goes hand in hand)
- low fat propaganda from the 70s based on Ancel Keys' Seven Countries Study (which we know today was wrong and manipulated)
- hormones and other endocrine disruptors from pesticides and plastics in our food and environment which are messing with our fat metabolism
etc.
Cutting the sugar content and banning sugared beverages is by far the most effective and easiest thing to change from this list, therefore I support Jamie Oliver's campaign.
Soft drinks and lemonades are the only items containing sugar which don't contribute in any way to our daily nutrition, unless you put artificial vitamins in there (which are doing you no good), therefore he is completely right about sugared beverages earning the right to be focused on primarily.
Heart disease did not exist untill the early 20th century, soft drinks, chocolate and crisps are processed foods...
I agree and kids will get what they want anyway its a perants duty to say no but they get it for them then they get hooked perants seem to like therr obese kids too but Pepsi I'm proof im skinny and I've drunk Pepsi only Pepsi nothing else for years until recently and it wake my mouth up first thing I'm on lattes as well now is he gonna ban them next ountil only water near drown drink water might drown or a rumor I heard never tested but to much water can get you drunk or to much ice cream can freeze you to death ice creams been confirmed though apparently I think he's on a power trip be only drink and eat his crap likely illness will increase needs balance I think like if a child lives life no meet later there string beans could snap into if they do a sports day at school bully love em fun targets they can hurt make cry so they can get over there home beatings I could go on but my eyes are tyerd last finding this till late then found this comment that I wanted to agree with and rant about that fool failed chef
I don't think there should be a sugar tax, we pay enough taxes as it is, it just another scam for them to get more money.
Why? Nobody forces you to buy sugared products
@@FeuerblutRM Is somebody forcing you to be stupid?
@@FeuerblutRM are you a fucking moron?
@@FeuerblutRM exactly so why tax?
No one forces fatties to stuff their gobs with a whole KFC bucket and 2litres of Coca Cola but people do.
It's not the food companies, it's not the food, it's you, it's your own actions
Why are we taking advice from a chief who clearly has no health or fitness and promotes the consumption of meat and dairy, food that is responsible for obesity, heart disease, osteoporosis. Hypertension, cancer etc. He looks unhealthy and deprived for nutrition. I think he's upset because the sugar industry are paying him like the meat and dairy industry are.
+High Carb Rider One issue at a time. Sugary drinks are a far greater health risk than a glass of milk.
+Mandragara I don't know about that. Milk has been linked to cancer as well, besides just heart disease.
+High Carb Rider Why on earth would the 'sugar industry' pay him to campaign for a taxation on their product ? He's not a Chief - he's a Chef btw.
+justletmesigninokthx typo, meant "aren't"
High Carb Rider Yeh, but why would a 'sugar industry' pay somebody to campaign against their product ? that makes zero sense.
Evan really ought to have asked,
Jamie, which do you think would be more effective in alleviating the obesity crisis.
A) Putting a tax on surgery drinks.
B) Cutting the number of cooking programmes on TV by 50%.
dont eat fat boy olivers food that would be a start
A tax wont stop people from buying it
When I buy a drink I expect the FULL sugar inside not half!
Yeah buy what paying for don't wanna get half
Thank you Jamie, all our kids will be drinking the same labelled drinks as before, but now full of harmful artificial sweeteners instead of plain old sugar. Ribena is a good example, they basically have two versions of Ribena Light, with only one of them being labelled as such. Not everyone's body can handle all the artificial crap these chemists put in drinks. Personally, they taste like crap as well. I'll be sticking with good old Pepsi and if they ever screw that recipe up, I'll start making my own drinks and put as much sugar in as I fucking want to.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/209651 also i had pepsi recently it tastes like the took a lot of caramel out.
Well Pepsi is now messed up…
@@paulb1311 Yep! Fuck Pepsi too. I have some old stock left but once that's gone, Cherry Coke is the replacement for me.
Im thin a working class so why should i have to pay more for Fizzy drinks because of Obesity?!
Because obesity is not the actual problem. Metabolic syndrom is. You can be relatively "thin" and still be ill. That's the point.
Because ure thin n poor
You wont because companies are replacing sugar with sweeteners one by one, so you wont even get the choice. Ribena have removed most of the sugar from their original recipe along with many other companies, so now your choice is a range of drinks that taste like toilet cleaner
@@Super1venom
How does that work out ?.
I bet if they never mentioned working class you would add the poor comment, which is a bit of an oxymoron comment.
Someone who works >must be poor, where's the logic ?.
Because thin people often have the same diseases as obese people but they store fat inside their bodies. It's called a Tofi, Thin on the outside, fat on the inside.
People need to educate themselves on some facts here. It is not sugary soft drinks that are cusing this obesity crisis. I am not suggesting sugary soft drinks are good for u but the fact is, it's diet soft drinks that are cusing this crisis. When u drink a diet soft drink u are tricking ur body into believing its getting carbs which it is not. This causes a crash in ur system and ur body starts wanting the carbs it believes it should have, this will cause u to become overly hungry and over eat, this is whats causing obesity. e.g if u buy a large take away meal and drink it with a diet coke u will eat far more than if u drunk a regular coke. Do not believe this, then put it to the test, u will see in a short period of time that drinking diet soft drinks is causing u to eat more. There are also many dangers to one's health in consuming artificial sweetners. The government is using people like Jamie Oliver, who is payed huge amounts of money to front this nonsense campaign in ordet to create a new form of tax, thus taking more from the general public than they already do. Its nothing more and nothing less.
At last the BBC admits that 'Bake Off' & the other dozen cookery programs has led to an increase in unhealthy food consumption
He's a chef. Not an economist, politician, scientist or doctor. Why not focus on red meat? Dairy?
+Yemi2009 Because its kids consuming their own body weight in refined sugar at the age of 5. Its not taxing fruit juices / diary or natural sources of sugar. What's the problem ? this tax worked in Mexico.
+justletmesigninokthx Not the sole cause - he has a financial agenda. Wake up
+Yemi2009 He's loaded, can you explain how he is going to make money from this please ? I honestly don't understand.
+justletmesigninokthx it's publicity! Mind you this is only my opinion, but I strongly believe he doesn't give a shit about public health. If so his restaurants wouldn't sell high fat high salt food and he certainly wouldn't include foods such as bacon in his 'superfoods' recipe books
+Yemi2009 He doesn't need publicity, wtf ? he's got enough money. Of course he cares about public health - that's what this tax is about. This is not the whole solution to the obesity crisis, its 1 step of many and I think its a good move.
Regarding his restaurants; his food is probably no worse than any others of a similar kind (in terms of nutrition its probably better). - Also, people don't 'live' from the food in his restaurants, its OK to have sugar or fat in sensible proportions.
You really think this is just somebody (him) with extraordinary wealth just trying to get attention for business ? That's a pretty dismal way of looking at it.
I've seen loads of vegan YT channels complaining about this and they don't even know the details of the tax !
like that worked on tobacco and alcohol sales
For tobacco it definitely worked. I think in Europe smoking decreased by more than 70% since the 1950s based on ever rising tobacco taxes, elucidation and ban of advertisement.
They want us to keep buying sugar products, that's why they're taxing us for it. They want to steal more money off of us. The last thing they want now is for us to stop having sugar.
It is Alright for Jamie Oliver!, He is Well off and has no sympathy for the Poor People/Families already Struggling to Make Ends Meet!, There should be a price reduction on the Low Sugar/Non-Sugar Products instead of Hitting the Less Well off in the Pockets!, This will Make no Difference to the Well off who Like Sugar!.
So do cigarette and alcohol taxes. They could also buy whole milk which is about the same price, has more calories and nutrients than soda so is actually cheaper than soda. When you drink 1L of of soda and 1L of water a day you can also do 0.5L of whole milk and 1.5L of water which is cheaper and more nutritious.
The meals he sells in his restaurants and promotes in his TV shows are FULL of saturated fats and processed meats. This guy is a total hypocrite!
Having a 'sugar tax' is a ridiculous suggestion. People are entitled to make their own choices regarding what they eat and drink, regardless of their body shape and size, and shouldn't be made to pay more to enjoy sugar in their diet simply because other people are unable to moderate their own behaviours and apply common sense and responsibility when purchasing.
well it's not really. It's the same principle as having a tax on alcohol or cigarettes, which along with sugar, are responsible for so much of our health mess.
He looks a lot older all of a sudden.
a lot fatter too
Although there is a need to combat obesity sugar tax is a dumb idea. It is typically the poorer people that are obese due to junk food. They buy it because it is cheaper - adding tax makes them poorer still and ends up lowering the quality of their life. Level out the price of good food and educate is a better solution. Take tax off eating healthy food and sitting down to eat and I bet people would rather sit in a cafe on their lunch break than buy a multipack of crisps and a pasty from a supermarket.
If they are so poor, how can they afford enough of the junk food to make them fat. If they spend slightly more money on healthy food they get more nutrition resulting in them not having to buy as much as they did before because the junk food didn't contain much nutrition. Overall it would be cheaper to eat healthy and be average weight than not to eat healthy and be fat.
+Astrid "Enough of the junk food" is inexpensive in comparison to healthier foods. The best example I can think of is of school children I worked with - They could buy a sandwich, apple and bottle of water for £3 in a meal deal or get a multipack of Monster Munch for a pound, a large can of Monster for the same and a bag of haribo to boot. pound for pound, to an uneducated person, that is far better value as it lasts longer and therefore fill you up more. Increasing the price on the above will make these people pay more - not switch. We need to educate them that 6bags of crisps, an energy during and enough sweets for a couple of adults on a Saturday nights is not a good idea for daily lunch. If the price of healthy food drops, even better as it will become a choice of value so even if education doesn't reach every mind the choice will. I see no need to combat this, even you would be edit from lower priced healthy food and better educated children!
Many people are educated, poor people too, however they still buy it because it is cheaper. What the taxation is trying to do is balance out the price of the unhealthy and the healthy so the people who know what is healthy will stop buying as many fizzy drinks etc. the children who are not educated need to be educated buy their parents as it is their responsibility.
+Astrid +Astrid You make valid points but in regards to your first response and your statement about nutrition and not having to buy as much is exactly the kind of thing I was referring. People are not that well educated about nutrition and therefore won't save money by buying less in the faith they are having better nutrition. To those that I speak of its about quantity not quality. On paper raising the price looks like a good idea but in reality a price hike will just cost them more - not change their attitude (except make them angry at the taxation). Take a look at drinking alcohol - no one has stopped just because tax has gone up. They just drink at home instead of pubs. Pubs go out of business, kids can see parents inebriated and people who would normally be refused drink by the bar staff for being too drunk have no one at home to tell them that and all the time the Government just get more cash from the people. Its not an identical scenario, but the result will be the same...the only thing that will happen is the gov gets more revenue, the poor get poorer and the fat stay the same.
Oh, yes, taxation always fixes things! Can't wait for this country to be less prosperous and less free as this solution comes to other issues!
***** No, it didn't. What worked against smoking was the many uncontroversial medical researches liking it to lung cancer and other health issues.
***** It wasn't a strategy. It was reality. People began to see that it's bad for them. That is what will work against sugar. Taxation will not help, it will only be another step on this deleterious slippery slope..
***** Look at your own contradiction: if taxing it lowers the demand, we will be at an economic standstill, so where will the extra money come from to subsidy healthier options? For extra money to be created you would need to tax it without lowering the demand, which would defeat the purpose of having fewer people consuming sugar. By the way, the economic principle is that demand should dictate the price, not the other way around. What I'm saying is that is not that taxing something doesn't make it less commercial, but that this practice doesn't pay off in the end, it's a really bad idea.
You could create a 100000 pound fine for speeding. Would it make fewer people speed? Yes, but it's still a crap idea.
So how about we tax salt instead including restaurants, considering heart disease is the biggest killer in the UK.
Ludicrous we don't need more taxes...
sugar is a much bigger factor in causing heart disease.
Sugar, smoking and high omega 6 oils such as hydrogenated seed oils are the main cause of heart disease.
Because the government and the BBC etc are so concerned with the nations health, I now expect all of these overweight MP's, managers, media people etc to get up, go on diets and exercise until they all have healthy BMI's.
Will we see this ever happen?
Nope
if your poor and have nothing to look forward to in life and as well as poor pay and the cutting of your tax credits you have to pay higher taxes on sugar which for many is a small luxury, how would you feel?
Why should we listen to this guy telling us what to eat and drink when he couldn't keep 13 of his restaurants open, focus on your own problems.
There is a need for A FAT TAX. NO SUGAR TAX. SUGAR DOES NOT MAKE YOU FAT
+TheCrispy196 Excess sugar can make you fat.
+Peter Rabitt correct, the body will only burn fat when it has insufficient glycogen (sugar) in the blood stream. if you are active and eat fat, it will never get burned as you're likely to have enough sugar intake. and then they'll blame the sugar.
I think he's full or rubbish if children are drinking this stuff and eating too many sweets then as per usual its down to bad parenting I'm a farther of two and I monitor what they eat and drink so to tax sugary drinks is disgusting what's next taxing mc Donalds he needs to stop pushing his oppinon on us and let us live your lives the way we want people like him are too controlling
Don't tax us on sugar we're not fat
I go gym and am fit and everyone i see or meet supporting this is a fatass.
The UK is the fattest country in Europe.
@@HammerheadGuitar no it isn't that's Turkey.
he got rid of the turkey twizzler! :(
MummytoLogan I loved the turkey twizler
He got rid of my fav tasteing cokes they taste like a viod now it was one of the few vices i had left video games movis comics alot of is is badly made nowadays i also eat much less sweets and go to the gym consistently so im healthy i guess im just not allowed anything out side of suffering in silance in a corner somwhere with no cartharsis i also don't drink alchahol.
Movies
Jaime's heart is in the right place, but he's confused; the fat you eat is the fat you wear. Sugar itself is not the enemy of health, it's the fat in our processed foods and other chemicals they put in these drinks in particular.
+Ash D it's both
Fat… makes you fat. The problem is people are already over weight, their resting insulin level is screwed, they consume processed sugary foods that spike their insulin forcing their body to get fatter. If they happen to be consuming food where the majority of calories in it are coming from fat and the insulin level is spiked then the body stores that fat. If sugar makes you fat (as a cause), find me a long term, fat fruitarian.
+Ash D I'd say the majority of people's calories come from carbs of all varieties
+Brian McNamara Sugar and carbs are not the enemy. The optimum diet for a human is high carb, low fat. Eat whole food, roots, fruit, as much sugar and carbs as you can stuff in and I guarantee you'll be a lean, long term. A sedentary life, calories from fat, processed carbs + hidden sugar and sugary drinks = obesity.
+Ash D fats are too important and they full you up...unlike carbs
Why are Vegans opposed to this ? Its nothing to do with vegans.
*Natural sugars are good for you, provided you get the proportions correct in terms of calories consumed vs calories burned.*
*Refined sugars are fucking bad for you, because you can consume disproportionately large amounts of them in a relatively small drink / sweet, and its often children that consume them; given their body weight / refined sugar consumed in a fizzy drink; that is alot of calories for a small body - let alone an adult*
All the calories that kids and obese adults are consuming from refined sugars are contributing towards the obesity crisis.
*Sugar is not the singular cause of the crisis and nobody said it was - its a complex problem, but it certainly effects kids*
Given that the tax in Mexico worked I think this is a good move. Now they can look at Meat and Dairy - even Jamie himself has been quoted saying how good the data looks for veggies and vegans which is great. I stopped eating meat when I was about 5 years of age.
Tax on meat and dairy products so Jamie is going to tax me on every flapjack and energy gel i consume? Energy gels got as high as much sugar in it as a fizzy drink. Carbs have got sugar in them meat and dairy products are the ones that cause obesity and diet related diseases not sugar.
Lisp game is strong.
+zack19192 Childish game is strong.
Thavage
i just wish there was a sugar free alternative that isn't just bottled water(for the same bloody price). why hasn't someone tried to market unsweetened ice tea for the British market they're popular in america and japan
how a about a alternative that does not cause cancer aspartame is cancer I stay away and drink coffee instead lol if they mess around with fake cancer sugar Ile stop eating chocolate again because it destroys the taste
Whole milk, sure it contains lactose but lactose is made from glucose and galactose while sugar is glucose and fructose, the fructose is the main issue with sugar.
He's just taking the fun of a child away
Yeah take out glucose and put in artificial sweetners - what can go wrong???
Sugar is only 50% glucose, the other 50% is fructose which has the same metabolic effects on the body as alcohol.
Why does it say 'chef' when he's a cook.
*crook
Anteater23
He's not a cook either he's a wanker
Ariana Grande is laughing at us now with 'Sweetener.'
I remember when breakfast cereals contain 50% or higher amounts of sugar in the 80's
Why can't we have sugary cereals like that again?
TOSSER
He stutters lies
YOU ARE NOT GOD even if you want be or think you are you can't control us we should be allowed to make are own decisions we ain't your puppets sort your own life before you try controlling others lifes
Lispy Jimmy here needs to go away
Rather than adding a tax on things. Look at one of the countries with the least amount of obese people, such as Korea and Japan. See what they are doing differently there and maybe take a few of their policies and see if that helps. Instead of just punishing the poor because someone cant control themselves.
GREED!!! A tax on sugar just means governments of RICH countries with fat populations get more money, whilst the poor countries that grow sugar cane stay POOR. Like OPEC with oil, sugar producing countries need to set a higher price for sugar. Like cigarettes, if a Mars bar is 10 quid, you are definitely gonna eat less. Help the poor, NOT the rich 。
Reducing or increasing tax on stuff we do or don't like (alcohol and cigarettes) has helped control consumption, what's the problem with taxing sugar?
+Howard Selby Because where does it stop if the motivation behind it is to protect people from themselves and to reduce NHS costs from the associated consequences:Perhaps:Stop or tax people who play RugbyStop or tax people who practice Martial ArtsIn fact, why not stop or tax anyone who chooses to engage in anything the State then decides as "risky and dangerous"This is yet another step along the road of a nanny state.Note: tax on Alcohol and Cigarettes has nothing to do with encouraging people to stop using them nor has it made any appreciable impact. It's all about revenue for the Government coffers.Proper education and parenting is the key.
Fastdags Governments use taxes to manipulate supply and demand, the great democracies rant about the free market, yet they use import and export duty to protect/control markets/competition, VAT exemption or fuel duty all amount to manipulation of the market for someone's benefit. Tobacco carries a massive tax burden and raises billion more than the NHS treatment cost - plus, has smoking increased?
Yes, education is the answer - it also needs money from somewhere to pay for it though.
Howard Selby I didn't say otherwise. My point was that Tax on Alcohol and Cigarettes has nothing to do with the Government wanting to reduce their use (despite what they might say for PR reasons) or that in actual fact it has had any appreciable impact on usage. After all why would they since, as you correctly state, they raise huge sums of money for the Government coffers and only a fraction of it actually goes on the NHS. In reality, smoking has been impacted/reduced purely because of changes in social attitudes from increasing awareness of the associated dangers, helped massively by the ban on smoking in public places. Smokers are now treated as those sad bastards who have to stand outside the pub in the pouring rain just to suck on a cancer stick, whilst the rest of us are inside in the warmth enjoying a laugh and pint in a smoke free pub. Nothing works better than a social stigma.
Now, if they could somehow create a social stigma wrt sugar then they'll have more success than using taxation. However, how are you going to do that when Jamie's books contain delicious recipes for home made Apple Crumble and Custard which contains 298 Calories per portion (over twice what's in a 330ml can of Coke) or programmes like Great British Bake Off, have you any idea how much sugar is used in fondant icing?
But in any case, you haven't answered my underlying point about where this leads. Why should sugar be singled out when there are so many other things that people choose to do (or not do) that either puts them in harms way, causes ill health or even death in many cases. Why for example, not tax people for not getting enough exercise which most experts agree is the biggest single cause of ill health in our society?
As time goes on i hate where i live more and more.
🖕Jamie Oliver
I' m 10 % bodyfat . i need my sugars, fats, and salts to stay strong and lean. Do not take my carbs away too.
then eat starches if you need carbs.
He eats sugar foods in secret he's in deniel on his sugar fix. Chubby tummy wearing a corset under his shirt.
People keep saying a sugar tax on soft drinks worked in Mexico. It reduced sales of those drinks but are all kids in Mexico now slim and healthy? If they aren't then it is a total failure surely?
If you do just 10 minutes research you will find it is meat and dairy that are the main cause of obesity and other health issues. It is not sugar. I know for myself because I've reversed all my health issues by not consuming those foods. Read books like 'The China Study' 'Proteinaholic' and watch the film 'Forks Over Knives' or look for video's on UA-cam by Dr John McDougall, Dr T Colin Campbell, Dr Michael Gregor etc. Look at all the health studies on NutritionFacts.org. The evidence is overwhelming.
Even the BBC produced an episode of Horizon with two twins, one who ate a high fat diet for a month and the other high carb/sugar. At the conclusion it was the one who ate high fat who was close to being diabetic, had low energy and was generally in a lot worse health than the one who ate the high carb/sugar diet.
If you did 10 minutes of research you would find that full fat meat and dairy prevent obesity, most of my diet is meat and dairy and I struggle to keep myself from becoming underweight.
It will make no difference stop making us spend more money
He's the face of Woolworth in Australia and promotes
gmo fruit and veg.
only a 20 $ tax... that's all, .99 can of soda but a tax of 20$ oh don't forget the recycle fee of .15... too funny but it is and may happen. Maybe not 20$ but anything is toooooooo much. Aren't we taxed enough? Isn't it our body? Free choice? Government trying control what you intake into YOUR body. To me it should be an insurance thing. If you go to the Doctor for being overweight and have too much body mass then that is when you might have to pay more. If you are doing it right maybe you pay less. Right now you have very healthy people paying for unhealthy people. I know so many people that don't even go to the doctors but they pay that insurance every month or year. Enough with any type of tax. Want to help kids put a bigger focus on physical education in schools and make it a requirement that all kids play a sport. rant over...
we need to get rid of meat and dairy to get rid of obesity.
+Mahalakshmi Balasubramanian Its aimed at children drinking coke, pepsi etc, not natural products. It doesn't effect vegans etc.
+Mahalakshmi Balasubramanian That's not the problem for the obesity crisis - which is why this tax has been brought into effect. You are voicing a Vegan opinion, which has nothing to do with this.
Children are consuming vast amounts of *refined* sugar in fizzy drinks. The tax *is not applied to fruit juices and dairy/milk drinks*. Some 5 year old children are shown to be consuming their own body weight in *refined* sugar *annually* - if you research *refined sugar* - it can almost be classified as a drug and it *certainly causes obesity*.
Children are not consuming proportionately enormous quantities of meat / dairy when you weigh it up against the amount of sugar they are consuming - which is mind-blowing.
I understand that vegans want rid of meat / dairy - but I don't understand how this conflicts with that lifestyle/diet - its absolutely nothing to do with it.
Now that sugar has been addressed, there is room to look at other factors that could indeed be meat, dairy, exercise etc.
+justletmesigninokthx
Sugar is not the cause of obesity, if you knew anything about sugar then you would know it is stored as glycogen in the muscles and liver. Fat is the cause of gaining fat, as fat is stored in fatty tissue. pretty simple really, even that is too hard to grasp for you and the morons that take their children to eat fast food. Fruit, rice and bread for example are foods that make it practically impossible for you to become overweight from, eating them in abundance. These are the same macronutrients found in sugary drinks.
***** man you're so stupid, this has nothing to do with thermodynamics, you don't eat energy you eat chemicals that are stored either as fat or glycogen, then are metabolised Intl energy.
hyperbolic fuckboi Excess calories from refined sugar is stored as fat; www.theguardian.com/society/2013/mar/20/sugar-deadly-obesity-epidemic
Evan Davis must have some sweet tooth..!
oh no no
Lunch tongue
Go Go Go Jamie, come on gives us more good alternatives for our kids that have that sweet tooth
+lorraine o callaghan Fruit?
+B_Ξ_Ξ_C_H Kids don't find fruit sweet these days
He is a hypocrite because many of his own recipes rival and even exceed the sugar content of their counterparts. The primary reason for obesity in the Britain is lack of exercise and diets that are high in fat; especially saturated fatty acids and cholesterol. I am more qualified to speak on nutrition than Oliver because I actually have college credit in the subject even though I dropped out due to economic and emotional problems. I am trying to major in nutrition as well as theology.
He ruined irn bru, he'll get what's coming to him, the smug prick he is!
@@stevencross8877 he ruined dr pepper for me had to switch to pepsi after they got it normal again dam npc's.
Well said Jamie...
We need Gary Yourofsky (vegan activist, Dr Neal Barnard and Dr Micheal Greger. Those 3 can explain why meat is bad, provides veganism and proof of what a plant based diet can do to our health.
meat and dairy we've been eating for years and obesity has only increased since sugar has replaced fat!
Arse
Sugar is a serious problem and something has to be done nationally and/or personally. Should kids get type 2 diabetes and thousands of adults have limbs amputated because of sugar(fructose with glucose ie cola) Watch "The Sugar Film" It really shows what happens. Good on you Jaimie
The issues is not sugar it's you you you and your fucking kids lol might aswel ban all food that we like crisps chock sweets alcohol imagine a life like that years ago sugar was rare expensive now it's cheap and it's everywhere because we can mass produce it it's now used to make handmade candy and stuff
Hear hear.
+HitMeQuick Neither, Hippisley-Cox is an old Family name. Goes way back.
stevia. stevia powder
i really admire jamie to stand up against it! its not going to be easy.
Thank you Jamie Oliver
Fair do's indeed.Hero Jamie!
jamie is no hero, he is blatantly lying to the general public about the real cause of the obesity crisis. He does this while being payed huge amounts of money in order for our government to create a new form of tax. Anyone who is dumb enough to fall for this should educate themselves on the facts. it is diet soft drinks that are causing the obesity crisis, in my other comments I explain exactly why this is. Jamei is a scumbag.
Always thought Jamie was a bit bolshie. But it takes that attitude sometimes to get heard. He is in a good place to press for change as a chef and not some health freak trying to push his principles onto others. He knows the facts and has ideas for change. The sugar tax has now been introduced. It will have more effect on peoples consideration on sugar intake not just from drinks. KFC Krushems have more sugar than their regular coke.So people need to however read the labels on other products they might change to.Why not just tax sugar and salt at sauce. That way manufactures will look at ways to use less sugar or salt throughout the food chain?
Andrew Titcombe there where always diet vershions also they just started using cancer inducing sweetners instead in the main drinks and they are not as nice anymore you know its funny i did everything i was suppost to don't drink i got healthy/fit go to the gym consistently had very few vices coke was one all the midia i enjoyed has gone to heck and despite all the work and good behavoir i do on a day to day basis i get punished by having another one of the few things left that i like ripped from me thanks for that.
Big thumb up for Jamie :)
Just keep on going Jamie
I ken he ruined irn bru
@@callummcgalliard1554 and moray cup :(