Has Thailand found legal recipe to beat soaring child obesity?

[webfact]

 

Thailand is drafting a law to control the advertising of unhealthy food, in a bid to combat soaring rates of obesity in children.

 

“The draft law will be presented to the Public Health Ministry later this year in the hope that it will take effect next year,” said Dr Saipin Chotivichien, director of the Nutrition Bureau in the ministry’s Health Department.

 

Obesity has doubled in Thailand over the past two decades, according to a 2020 survey by Mahidol University. During that period, the percentage of obese children in the one-to-five age group has shot up from 5.8 to 11.4 percent. The percentage of obese kids aged five to 14 has risen even further, from 5.8 to 13.9 percent. A similar upward trend was found among 15 to 18-year-olds.

 

“Based on Public Health Ministry data as of February this year, 13.2 percent of Thais aged between 15 and 18 are obese. This figure is high,” conceded Dr Sarawut Boonsuk, deputy director-general of the Health Department.

 

Thailand has the third-highest rate of obese children among ASEAN countries, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/has-thailand-found-legal-recipe-to-beat-soaring-child-obesity/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2023-08-03

 

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[keith101]

Stop them from eating fatty (take away) foods and drinking sugar water

[John Drake]

9 minutes ago, webfact said:

Thailand is drafting a law to control the advertising of unhealthy food, in a bid to combat soaring rates of obesity in children.

The guy who owns a certain pizza chain won't like that.

[hotchilli]

15 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand is drafting a law to control the advertising of unhealthy food, in a bid to combat soaring rates of obesity in children.

Try banning production of unhealthy food and drink and you might be onto something.

[steveyinasia]

15 hours ago, keith101 said:

Stop them from eating fatty (take away) foods and drinking sugar water

Absolutely, even those so called healthy fruit juices contain more sugar than fruit, also that a look at how much sugar there is in a cup of milo......healthy, no way.  Sure the occasional treat at the fast food place is OK however it is becoming the lazy way to feed children.  Cook at home the the best recipe.

[Skipalongcassidy]

So if it is not advertised then it doesn't exist and parents won't feed it to their children... good thinking

[Lucky Bones]

I visited here 1993 through to 2013 when I finally dropped anchor and stayed here.

In the tourist years I probably didn't notice too much re food. Mostly ate Western food.

Since living here, it is startling to see how much fizzy soft drink is guzzled and how many tea-spoons of sugar go into a bowl of noodles.

Kids simply follow what their parents or grandparents do.

I have seen the step-daughter shovelling 3 tea-spoons of sugar into 10 year old son's noodles.

Just shake my head now.????????

[RichardColeman]

17 hours ago, keith101 said:

Stop them from eating fatty (take away) foods and drinking sugar water

I do not think you are on to a winner there, when an adult thai breakfast is just a pick up of triple fried left over road side chicken, a lunch of a coffee and a fag, and an evening meal of som tam and a couple bottles of change.

[freedomnow]

CHANG beer ?

 

I see it works for all the retirees anyway....

[2baht]

I'm Lovin It, with a large Coke please! ????

[jacko45k]

17 hours ago, keith101 said:

Stop them from eating fatty (take away) foods and drinking sugar water

From what I see there is a lot of enabling going on too..... fat kids being spoon fed as they interact with tablet or phone. 

Kids that do not move even..... I was never still and had legs like a sparrow up to 11 years old. 

[ChipButty]

down here in Phuket i see it's a big problem the kids have to much money these days, just go to my 7/11 early mornings and see the kids all buying junk pizza slices and drinks, 

[Lucky Bones]

29 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

I do not think you are on to a winner there, when an adult thai breakfast is just a pick up of triple fried left over road side chicken, a lunch of a coffee and a fag, and an evening meal of som tam and a couple bottles of change.

Not sure where you are living.

My #1 priority has always been to provide wife & self with good tucker.

Our village market is always humming.

Good vege & meat.

We can both cook.

Coffee & fags don't seem to be popular.????????

[CecilM]

Education is one thing.
Money another.

As long as unhealthy food is cheaper than healthy food, nothing will change. Like, for price of three sticks of BBQ chicken butts (which are delicious but pure fat) one can only buy one stick of BBQ meat.

And isn’t there also some kind of Asian/Chinese(?) belief that fat=rich?

[zyphodb]

1 hour ago, ChipButty said:

down here in Phuket i see it's a big problem the kids have to much money these days, just go to my 7/11 early mornings and see the kids all buying junk pizza slices and drinks, 

Not just Phuket, it's the same here in Isaan...

[SoilSpoil]

Sugar is highly addictive. Try to eliminate sugar from your diet and you will have headaches and feel lethargic for a couple of days. As long as governments are subsidizing the sugar industry, the obisity problem will get worse with some very serious long term health issues. Not rocket science.

[ChipButty]

5 minutes ago, SoilSpoil said:

Sugar is highly addictive. Try to eliminate sugar from your diet and you will have headaches and feel lethargic for a couple of days. As long as governments are subsidizing the sugar industry, the obisity problem will get worse with some very serious long term health issues. Not rocket science.

for Thai's everything has to be sweat, 

[Troy Tempest]

Kids will always want Sweets/Candy so they need to be educated to make the right choices.

 

When I was a kid we always got TV Ads for Maltesers ......"With the Less Fattening Centre".

Or why not try Polo Mints.....With the even less "Fattening Centre"?

 

 

Edited August 4, 2023 by Troy Tempest

[stoner]

i just snorted 2 lines of cane sugar for breakfast. 

[bignok]

Went to food court. Asked for strawberry shake. She put 3 strawberries in then loads of syrup. I said no thanks I want a real shake no sugar. She looked stunned.

 

Street shakes have real fruit mostly.

 

 

[bignok]

34 minutes ago, SoilSpoil said:

Sugar is highly addictive. Try to eliminate sugar from your diet and you will have headaches and feel lethargic for a couple of days. As long as governments are subsidizing the sugar industry, the obisity problem will get worse with some very serious long term health issues. Not rocket science.

Well yes. Kills 184k a year.

[ignore it]

With the support of Thailand's fast food and convenience store owners, the Nutrition Bureau of the ministry’s Health Department has decided to redefine obesity weight standards upwards and to eliminate childhood obesity

[transam]

21 hours ago, keith101 said:

Stop them from eating fatty (take away) foods and drinking sugar water

What about your own country.................????

[transam]

1 hour ago, bignok said:

Went to food court. Asked for strawberry shake. She put 3 strawberries in then loads of syrup. I said no thanks I want a real shake no sugar. She looked stunned.

 

Street shakes have real fruit mostly.

 

 

Yeh, I bet................????

[Ralf001]

4 hours ago, Lucky Bones said:

 

and how many tea-spoons of sugar go into a bowl of noodles.

 

I thought that was MSG, not sugar.

[Ralf001]

1 hour ago, bignok said:

Went to food court. Asked for strawberry shake. She put 3 strawberries in then loads of syrup. I said no thanks I want a real shake no sugar. She looked stunned.

 

Street shakes have real fruit mostly.

 

 

How much is a street shake containing mostly only real strawberries... No added sugar or syrup ?

Edited August 4, 2023 by Ralf001

[bignok]

Just now, Ralf001 said:

How much is a street shake containing mostly only real strawberries... No added sugar or syrup ?

It varies. Often 40 baht. Sometimes 25 baht.

[transam]

So you lot want LOS to be different from your own country, so funny.......????

 

Even back in the 50's where I come from, if mum had some money, we had sweets, lemonade, sticks of rock, and so did you..........................????

[bignok]

1 minute ago, transam said:

So you lot want LOS to be different from your own country, so funny.......????

 

Even back in the 50's where I come from, if mum had some money, we had sweets, lemonade, sticks of rock, and so did you..........................????

And look how fat peoole are

[Ralf001]

2 minutes ago, bignok said:

It varies. Often 40 baht. Sometimes 25 baht.

Has that got like 1 single strawberry in it ?