Chomper Higgot

The idea that exercise alone is going to tackle the society wide obesity problem is patent nonsense, and incidentally is rooted in fast food industry misinformation campaigns. Exercise does burn calories, but it also makes you hungry, and cannot be sustained without consuming and replenishing calories. Nobody will lose weight without reducing calorie intake. Here’s an example: A BigMac meal contains 1080 calories. Searching my cycle trading data, collected from my cycle training computer, I have a result for 1060 calories. It took me 1hour and 46 minutes at an average heart rate of 138 beats/minute riding 50Kms over 320meters of climbs to burn 1060 calories. That’s simply not a practical level of exercise for most people. And of course when I finished I was hungry and needed to eat. Exercise obviously helps burn calories, but it is not the cure for obesity, that’s cured by reducing calorie intake. Exercise does have many other benefits to cardio vascular health, strength, balance, and not least of all well being, but it’s a poor cure for obesity. The answer to the society wide obesity problem is for Government to regulate the fast food, process food and sugar industries which are the root cause of the problem.

How do explain the sudden rise in obesity that first occurred in the US, then showed up in the UK and is now appearing in Thailand. Is it a virus that is spreading that causes bad parenting or is it something else that is spreading causing changes to diet? If a disease like obesity is society wide, look for a society wide cause. If that disease spreads globally, look for a globally wide cause.

Can you point out some tangible benefits?

First thing to do is check your National Insurance Record to make sure you have made enough contributions to get the full pension. As others have suggested but have not clearly stated, if the UK Pension Office know you are living in Thailand you will not receive annual cost of living increases. Hence the suggestion you don’t tell any Government organization where you are living. There are lots of other things to consider too. My recommendation is spend a lot of time researching about visa options, places to live, cost of living, health insurance, banking etc. First off make sure you have two bank accounts in the UK, one to receive your UK pension and another spare incase you have a problem with the first. If you don’t have a UK credit card get one, preferably two and manage your usage to ensure you have use of a credit card when here. Leave the UK with a clean slate, no debts, no in finished business. After age 60 it is extremely difficult to get health insurance in Thailand, keep this in mind.

The money borrowed was to pay for the damage caused by Truss’ lunatic budget. I’m not in the least bit surprised you avoid talking about Brexit, romping around in the ‘sunny uplands’ leaves little energy for anything else.

There was a time when she was the Tory’s best hope.

So where are the promised ‘sunny uplands’?

It’ll be interesting to see what policy platforms the candidates opt for. Everything Truss came up with, the post Brexit opportunities and tax giveaways has been demonstrated not acceptable to the financial markets. So what are they going to come up with? Tory Austerity 2? Culture wars? Scapegoating migrants? WW2 and World Cup 66? They need something to distract the public, I wonder what it’ll be?

Let us know when you reach the ‘sunny uplands’.

So historical presence of a self declared Communist as a Guardian Columnists - You want to accept that as relevant. Historical support of Fascism by leading UK rightwing newspapers - You want to ignore that as relevant. Your arguments on this forum might be more persuasive if you didn’t keep going back to your ‘Hate The Guardian thing’. It’s clearly a fixation that distracts you from seeing the truth. And the on topic truth is, The Guardian’s reporting on Truss and her failings was spot on.

You fail to mention the subject article was a report on the front page stories of the British Press. Your ‘hate the Guardian thing’ got in the way of the facts being reported.

Erm no. But nice try.

The Guardian is an international newspaper, what has to say exists within ‘what the world says’ just as much as the CNN report at the top of this thread exists with ‘What the world says’. Oddly you’ve taken offense to what the Guardian has to say but not a squeak on what CNN have to say. Perhaps because The Guardian got Truss right from the get go.

Well yes, I personally want the Tories to go full term and stew in the mess of their own making.

Back to topic. The Guardian’s coverage of Truss and her obvious failings was spot on.

When did I say ‘I’m 2022’? Refer my comment ‘Historical facts’.

The have supported fascism in the past. Hence my comment ‘Historical facts’.

One self declared columnist does not make the Guardian a communist newspaper. The political direction of the paper is determined by the owners and the editor in chief. The Guardian is left of center, it cannot reasonably be called ‘extreme’ anything or ‘hard left’. The Guardian does rather well at winning journalism awards and has been the first publisher of many of the most important news stories of the past three decades. Getting you back on topic, The Guardian’s coverage of Truss, her leadership and her failings was spot on. Unlike the rightwing Press that supported Truss, The Guardian isn’t busy doing an about face right now.

It’s an accusation that can be justifiably laid against the Daily Mail, The Express and the Times. Historical facts.

I’m not in the least bit even worried.

Gove has stated he is not running, so has Hunt.

What history is that? Elections are fought on the issues of the day.

The challenge the Tories face is finding someone who is acceptable to both the moderate rightwing of the Party and the extremists in the ERG. Clearly the chosen candidate will have two jobs, get the Party back on an even keel and address the cost of living crisis ordinary people are facing, they need to achieve these objectives while reassuring the financial markets the UK is being Governed rationally. Common sense suggests that must be an experienced moderate, but is there any common sense left in the Tory Party? The results of dogmatic rightwing lunacy have already been demonstrated, don’t put too much faith in the idea that the Tories have somehow learned any lessons from the past few weeks.

Encouraging your voter base to believe the process is rigged against your party seems like a very good way to reduce their participation. Now all we need is the idea ‘I can vote simply by thinking about it’. Flippancy aside, deliberately undermining confidence in the electoral system is an attack on the very foundations of democracy.

The fast food and processed food industries spend $ tens of billions on advertising directly targeting children and young families, in the US fast food industry alone spends $5billion. And yet here we are blaming schools and young people. https://consumer.healthday.com/b-6-17-fast-food-companies-spending-more-money-on-ads-aimed-at-youth-2653321351.html https://www.fastfoodmarketing.org/fast_food_facts_in_brief.aspx