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Thread ID: 134704 2013-07-30 21:19:00 Food Police pctek (84) PC World Chat
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1350211 2013-07-30 21:19:00 www.stuff.co.nz

A fat tax is being suggested as a possible way to improve the health of New Zealanders by encouraging people to replace some saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats.
Some butter could be replaced with grapeseed or safflower oil, meat with omega-3 rich fish, and potato chips with nuts or seeds, while the tax could add $1 to a pack of butter.

While the meta-analyses used in the study found benefits from replacing saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats, they did not find any significant association between saturated fat intake alone and cardiovascular disease. Replacing saturated fat with carbohydrates also did not reduce the risk of coronary events.

...replacing two tablespoons of butter with two tablespoons of grapeseed or safflower oil, or 65g of cheddar cheese with 30 to 60g of walnuts or sunflower seeds.


So why bang on about it?
And that would work, why didn't I think of that? (sarcasm)

Onion and walnut toasted sandwich
Cauliflower with walnut sauce.
Grated walnut on my Spaghetti Bolognese.
Walnut souffles.
Cheesecake with walnut instead of the cheese.
Ham and walnut quiche. 		pctek (84)
1350212 2013-07-30 21:37:00 Why is it that the do gooders in NZ are always proposing new taxes to make us all poorer and to conform to their life style.. paulw (1826)
1350213 2013-07-30 21:55:00 We really need to ban bread .
Thats whats making me fat (unfortunately true)

But no , lets all blame sugar & fat because they are the ONLY thing causing the obesity problem in NZ?? 		1101 (13337)
1350214 2013-07-31 01:10:00 But no , lets all blame sugar & fat because they are the ONLY thing causing the obesity problem in NZ?? + booze? :thumbs: Greg (193)
1350215 2013-07-31 01:45:00 + booze? :thumbs:

Nah. That's already got loads of tax.. 		paulw (1826)
1350216 2013-07-31 02:09:00 The trouble with it is really there is no proven consensus as to what is actually bad for you and in what quantities. The only thing they can all agree on is too much of anything is bad.
Some say carbohydrates are the problem, others say it's saturated fats and/or sugar etc etc. If you read every theory about what not to eat and take it seriously you'd end up starving to death.

For every person that's proven to themselves something like bread is making them Fat (sorry 1101, not claiming to know you're wrong just making an example) there's someone else like the Gerard guy who lost more than half his body weight on a diet including a lot of subway sandwiches. The real point is people are not all the same and food intake needs to be tailored individually and no blanket tax or guideline is ever going to work for all of us.

Plus I reserve the right to die Fat and happy a few years early rather than skinny and miserable at the arse end of my life. 		dugimodo (138)
1350217 2013-07-31 03:16:00 Plus I reserve the right to die Fat and happy a few years early rather than skinny and miserable at the arse end of my life.

Doc tells me I am well nourished (blood tests not my fatness....LOL). And says I never come in for anything.
Well, not yet anyway, apart from the arthritis.

Grandparents lived on salt, dripping on toast, roasts in dripping, butter and so on.
Neither died of heart disease.
Neither were young either when they died.

Ancient Egyptians died of heart disease, artery disease and so on too.

I just eat food, in variety - meat, veges, fruit, FAT, cheese, etc....
Eating less if you get fat works.....

Just avoid stupid diets, either for weight loss or because of food police twits.

Cheese....mm.......sorry, like my cheese, no wlanut and onion sandwiches for me I'm afraid.
Besides next week, walnuts will be on the hit list no doubt.... 		pctek (84)
1350218 2013-07-31 03:53:00 Instead of making unhealthy things expensive, they should take GST off healthy things.

Idiots are still going to eat crap no matter if it's a rip-off or not. 		Agent_24 (57)
1350219 2013-07-31 04:32:00 Yes it is stupid how healthy food costs more than junk food, and yeah putting up the price of the bad stuff is barse ackwards.

The consumer is partly at fault too though. People who do things like pay more for a bottle of water than petrol or coke are part of the problem.
They do that because they can, I refuse to buy bottled water with it's stupidity tax. 		dugimodo (138)
1350220 2013-07-31 04:38:00 I stopped using all forms of magerine and gone back to butter, for one it tastes better and two I know what the ingredients are plod (107)
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