Thursday 31 May 2012

I'll have two small Cokes and two small popcorns please...

... actually, sod it, make it four of each, please:

Supersize fizzy drinks should be banned from cinemas, restaurants and sports grounds in London to curb obesity, health experts say. Anti-obesity campaigner Tam Fry today called on Mayor Boris Johnson to copy New York, which has imposed a 16oz limit on the sale of sugary drinks...

Mr Fry, from the National Obesity Forum,(1) said the move by New York mayor Michael Bloomberg was the way forward to tackle the capital’s obesity epidemic. In an interview with the Standard, he said: “London should take a leaf out of New York’s book. Everything Michael Bloomberg does is backed up with perfectly good science.(2) If England were to follow more what America was doing then we would be in a much better situation.”

Bucket-sized portions of popcorn are also to blame for fuelling the country’s obesity epidemic and should be banned, according to Mr Fry. He said: “People go to cinemas, buy popcorn and just shovel it in, then they go home and flop on the couch.”(3)


1) The section of their website headed Our Partners is most illuminating. The NOF is not a fakecharity in the traditional sense, it is a food-industry lobbying front.

2) O rly?

3) How the f- does he know what people do after they've left the cinema and why is it any of his f-ing business? Is this the sort of scientifically established finding upon which Bloomberg bases his decisions?

3 comments:

James Higham said...

I have Vimto fizzy cherry but it's diet. Does that count?

Mark Wadsworth said...

JH, oooh, good choice!! That one gets a special mention on page 7 of the Bansturbator's Handbook.

Bayard said...

"Bucket-sized portions of popcorn are also to blame for fuelling the country’s obesity epidemic and should be banned, according to Mr Fry"

How about a ban on peddling unsubstantiated lies in the meeja? Actually, why not make it a capital offence while we're at it?