Has Thailand found legal recipe to beat soaring child obesity?

[bignok]

Just now, Ralf001 said:

Has that got like 1 single strawberry in it ?

I normally get watermelon but its real not fake

[transam]

Just now, bignok said:

And look how fat peoole are

It's called, freedom..........

 

Now, I would guess the mass introduction of the smartphone is a major contributor to obesity in LOS, kids not playing outside, no swinging in trees, just sitting conversing with a phone, munching chips and swigging Fanta, all paid for by mum & dad...........

[bignok]

Just now, transam said:

It's called, freedom..........

 

Now, I would guess the mass introduction of the smartphone is a major contributor to obesity in LOS, kids not playing outside, no swinging in trees, just sitting conversing with a phone, munching chips and swigging Fanta, all paid for by mum & dad...........

So why isnt cocaine and heroin legal? How about casinos?

[transam]

3 minutes ago, bignok said:

So why isnt cocaine and heroin legal? How about casinos?

So funny, what on earth are you talking about............????

 

Thread is about food and kids in LOS...........????...............????

[Jingthing]

Overtax unhealthy food.

Subsidize healthy food. 

[Cake Monster]

I really dont know how its possible to regulate all the Street Food Vendors that rely on Grease and Fat to cook / flavout their food

[transam]

1 minute ago, Jingthing said:

Overtax unhealthy food.

Subsidize healthy food. 

On a zillion street stalls...........????

[MajorTom]

I am wondering if Thai food has changed? I have never liked sweet food. When I first came here 20 years ago I used to love all kinds of Thai food. Today, in most restaurants I find the food too sugary.

[Jingthing]

15 minutes ago, transam said:

On a zillion street stalls...........????

True but the foods that can be taxed could still be taxed. Nobody has a 100 percent solution. That doesn't mean do nothing.

[transam]

1 minute ago, Jingthing said:

True but the foods that can be taxed could still be taxed. Nobody has a 100 percent solution. That doesn't mean do nothing.

Is that happening in your home country.......?

[still kicking]

40 minutes 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..........................????

That was different I guess, today they have it every day 

[transam]

2 minutes ago, still kicking said:

That was different I guess, today they have it every day 

Then that is down to the parents, as kids will be kids, I was one once.....????

[SoilSpoil]

53 minutes ago, transam said:

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

Who cares? We live here.

[ChipButty]

25 minutes ago, MajorTom said:

I am wondering if Thai food has changed? I have never liked sweet food. When I first came here 20 years ago I used to love all kinds of Thai food. Today, in most restaurants I find the food too sugary.

what I always found strange was putting sugar in their food, 

[Jingthing]

20 minutes ago, transam said:

Is that happening in your home country.......?

Irrelevant.

Some countries have had some success with such taxation.

Doing something that helps even a little is better than nothing.

 

Mexico’s Sugary Drink Tax is Working, Study Suggests | Time

[transam]

10 minutes ago, SoilSpoil said:

Who cares? We live here.

And....? ????

 

[Jingthing]

1 minute ago, transam said:

And....? ????

 

Huh?

[transam]

1 minute ago, Jingthing said:

Irrelevant.

Some countries have had some success with such taxation.

Doing something that helps even a little is better than nothing.

 

Mexico’s Sugary Drink Tax is Working, Study Suggests | Time

Thailand is on a very low income, and you want to tax them more over what you think is not good.

Your country is relevant, regarding your taxation ploy, does your country, who are better off, tax their kids stuff...? 

[CecilM]

1 hour ago, Ralf001 said:

I thought that was MSG, not sugar.

I’ve never seen/noticed MSG as a condiment (like sugar, fish sauce, vinegar, chili, etc). Will keep an eye out for that now I’m curious. 

[transam]

1 minute ago, Jingthing said:

Huh?

Not your question, stand down....????

[blackshadow]

GET them to do more exercise......running, swimming, rowing...burn the fat off themselves.....EASY to make em slim !!!!

[fredwiggy]

Sugar is addictive, and the companies that sell it of course have known this for years. Not advertising junk food might stop impulse buying for some, at least for awhile, but it won't get to the root of the problem, which is parents teaching their kids nutrition. This is a problem everywhere, including where I'm from in the US. My parents always cooked healthy food, although some of it was ethnic and has a lot of fat.  We got ice cream and snacks after we ate, until we were teens and had our own money. We played everyday, riding bikes, sports etc, so we burned off many more calories than the kids do today.                        Here, the problem isn't only parents not teaching nutrition, which they know little about anyway, but the daily, every meal use of white rice. This is a main reason diabetes runs rampant here. Farmers, which comprise the majority of people living here, work many hours daily, and burn that food off, but when they retire (so to speak) they start gaining weight. Part of this is the introduction of sugar drinks, sugared coffee, snacks, high fat cooking and rice.                                                                                     The obesity level in the US has been high for ages, and in Thailand, the introduction of junk food and drinks has seen the obesity level rising yearly, and it won't stop. No education by parents, who don't know nutrition, advertising of junk, which brings impulse buying, easier lifestyles out from the farm, which means less calories burned, parents who want their kids to "shut up" (so to speak) and give them snacks, along with giving young toddlers junk for the same reason, schools allowing kids to leave to buy snacks at recess, children haven been given money for snacks by their parents, who don't know better. and store selling junk because, it sells, will let this problem just increase until the obesity level matches other countries. Only a matter of time.                 Junk sells, and no one is going to stop it, because people like eating junk. Putting sugar, unnecessarily, in noodle soup, is something someone started one day and others copied it, just like all other addictions.                                                                     White rice is a staple here, and rice itself isn't a big problem, but having it every meal is. It's cheap, which is why it's always used, and it keeps the energy level up, but it isn't meant to be eaten every day, every meal, and in the quantities Thais eat it.           Basically, this is a problem not easily solved, as other countries have shown. It's up to the parents to teach children much about life and living, and this doesn't happen a lot everywhere, as most of the world's problems are started at home, with the breakdown of the family unit. My ex wife here gave (gives) our daughter snacks all the time, until I recently put my foot down. Shes living with me for the last few months as her mom has gone to Pattaya to work, and had her mom bring over snacks a lot until I had to tell her that she needs to learn what healthy eating is (she's 6) so she can take that into her adult life. My ex, her mom, and others in her and my family have diabetes. She's lean so didn't understand why she got diabetes, until I told her about genetics and rice eating. Hopefully it stays.

[digger70]

22 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

Unhealthy food is Fine , The problem is How Much one eats and How Often .

Pretty stupid to try to make a Law so that the shops & venders can't sell their not so healthy food .

Its the People that are the problem Not the food .

How about Bashing  (teaching) some common sense into the kids and the Fat people that too much off something isn't good for ya. Not only food. Many other things as well.

[Jingthing]

1 minute ago, digger70 said:

Unhealthy food is Fine , The problem is How Much one eats and How Often .

Pretty stupid to try to make a Law so that the shops & venders can't sell their not so healthy food .

Its the People that are the problem Not the food .

How about Bashing  (teaching) some common sense into the kids and the Fat people that too much off something isn't good for ya. Not only food. Many other things as well.

Probably because that doesn't work. 

[Ralf001]

1 hour ago, bignok said:

I normally get watermelon but its real not fake

Ohhh ok. So why you whinging about strawberries then ?

[bignok]

3 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

Ohhh ok. So why you whinging about strawberries then ?

All the shakes were mostly syrup in the mall not real shakes!

[digger70]

3 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Probably because that doesn't work. 

Possible ,but banning certain foods won't either. people have to eat they will make there own Unhealthy food.

[bignok]

Call it a syrup shake not a fruit shake if you gunna sell rubbish

[FrequentStops]

Or maybe an end run? There is an article in Nature Biotechnology July 2023 about a recently discovered protein compound which is 3000 times as sweet as sugar and 'super-tasters' can't distinguish it from sugar.  See the attached pdf.

supersweet.pdf

[Jingthing]

7 minutes ago, digger70 said:

Possible ,but banning certain foods won't either. people have to eat they will make there own Unhealthy food.

I didn't suggest banning but certain ingredients should be regulated such as trans fats.