Fat food

Posted by Vicki on 21.01.05

Assorted governments are currently on a health kick. But as people who generate red tape for a living they are not going the sensible route to subsidise sports and health food; instead they are going on a witch hunt against specific foods which are full of the 'wrong sort' of stuff.

This is perhaps a little rash because a number of the products that have branded themselves as being healthy eating aren't exactly good for you, for example the nice lady who has handing out samples of Slim Fast's cash in new low calorie and low carbohydrate range of snack bars warned that eating more than 3 of these fine wares a day would act as a laxative.

You would have thought that from a public safety point of view the government would be more concerned about the grossly obese soiling themselves in public given their measures aimed at preventing people getting fat in the first place have resoundingly backfired.

Equally the health benefits of the free yoghurt covered cereal that a representative of Kellogg's thrust into my hand on a crowded high street was not exactly healthy; although at the time it was more amusing that 10 yards down the street the greasy slabs of cardboard that are marketed as Atkins products were being forced upon all passers by regardless of weight, age, gender or the fact that some of the lucky recipients were clearly homeless.

Upon my younger brother's arrival back at university he was presented with technicoloured e-number packed sweets by the Student Representatives who apparently felt that overindulging was for life not just for Christmas and must view high concentrations of enumbers as being a miracle worker when it comes to revising for law exams.

But all of these pale into insignificant when compared to the Chinese restaurant that proudly served "non-nuclear waste infected" Polish water alongside rice that resembled the vampire induced hallucinations in 'The Lost Boys'.