To be fair, everyone has known about aspartame and cancer in lab rats for decades. I've been avoiding it since the 2000s because of the links - as well as the horrible taste. There are loads of other safe sweetener options now that don't cause diseases as bad as or worse than diabetes.
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Colleagues wife is a train driver, she had 2 "Jumpers" in about 8 months. She was devastated and was off work for a long long time.
He told me that they can't do a thing about it, if they are at full speed. Grim.
Yeah I’ve heard similar. Certain routes are notorious for it to the point it’s more of a when than an if.
Good news Or More nanny state?
About time for me, it's joke the impact this has on kids.
Reading is really bad. Almost every other week.,
Exactly. If you're a train driver, you put your own life at risk every day, and there's a good chance that at some point in your career you'll be at the controls when someone jumps in front of the train to end their life. It's not a job I envy them the salary for.
Agreed, they are 'learning on the job', and at times ...'not enough care taken with their homework' might be an apt comment.
However Labour has been over a decade out of power and changing from an opposition stance to the reality of wielding actual power, will take some time, especially as this country and indeed the world, is in a different position than when Labour was last in government.
I take some comfort the fact that the right wing press is lurching from one thing to another to try to destabilise Starmer, and that the left is also aiding and abetting this, although perhaps not intentionally!
I think Starmer knows exactly what he wants to achieve, but is cautious in his approach. The forthcoming budget will be his 'rocket booster' for the next couple of years at least, but I suspect he will still hold back on somethings, lets hope he gets that balance right.
Yeah, from what he was saying it sounded like a difficult and stressful job. Even with the benefits and time off it didn't sound anywhere near as cushy as the media like to portray.
Fabulous book. I found it at just the right time.
I did a year of Zoe which absolutely revolutionised my diet and was worth every penny. Zoe itself is a little bit woo but it was transformative.
Halfway in I read that book and it baked in my changed behaviour. My diet is unbelievable and has been for a long while now. It’s also so much cheaper to cut out UPF’s. My weekly food bills are tiny.
I’ll evangelise about this stuff for ages, but the really incredible stuff was how well I slept, how much better my body responded to exercise, and oddly; how rapidly my body healed after injury. I had a whopper of a bike accident and a hip to knee deep purple-black bruise was all but gone inside two weeks. I’d had similar bruising on the other leg just a year prior after falling through a ceiling while renovating. That bruise kicked around for 3 months.
I actually re-read the book as means to bake in the message with regards to how toxic the whole apparatus is. It’s shocking. If the book was on the national curriculum we’d be a healthier country.
I think there’s an element of classism involved with the way the media portray it.
Whereas Airplane Pilots are viewed as glamorous and elite and I’m guessing predominantly come from a middle class or higher background, often following retirement from the RAF, Train Drivers are viewed as predominantly working class and associated with the unions. So there’s definite snobbery involved - “what’s that sort getting paid that amount for sitting on their arse pulling levers all day?”
Amen to that! It cold be cross-curriculum as it covers so much.
Huh. Very interesting.
I don't think everyone has known, a select few have known most jist think if it is in the shop it is safe.
I have also known to avoid aspartame and saccharin as they caused migraines in my family. But the safest sweetener is arguably Stevia, which is only in a small fraction of the sugar free / reduced sugar drinks.
That's not really the issue, these already cost less, the real issues are time, education and apathy
How the turn tables
They already are. Appreciate that I’m going full on Lee Anderson, but in Central London you can get a bag of frozen vegetables (£1.25), two packs of cannellini beans (£0.45x2 =£0.90), a pack of spaghetti (£0.45) and feed a family of 4. That’s £2.60. £0.65p pp. Add in bulk oil, peanut butter, sugar, tahini, soy sauce, sesame oil, tinned tomatoes, tomato paste, garlic, onions, chilli flakes, herbs/spices. You’re at about £1 per person per meal and can create a raft of incredible sauces to switch it up.
Not suggesting that folks should have lowest price possible food choices. But the problem isn’t cost.
The problem is that we don’t regulate the daft shit. The awful foodstuffs LOOK cheap but they’re not. Folks will buy a colourfully emblazoned pizza that has 1500 calories for £2. That pizza will simply not fill up 4 people. They’re calorifically rich, nutrient absent and violently expensive compared to real food. It’s fecking tasty though.
Modern drugs don’t take away how delicious the shit is. They regulate blood sugar so you re-establish your relationship to food/hunger/satiety .
I’m half arguing against myself with regards to the drugs not working by reducing your cravings for shit food. But these drugs really will see people lose weight.
If we also taught people how damaging and comparatively costly the UPF’s are, and changed their packaging to the same degree we’ve done with cigarettes, we could have a joined up solution that helped people end to end.
Not sure of obesity levels in terms of bad enough to stop people working, but there are more than 2 million people now with long covid. There isn't a cure, and more people are suffereing from it all the time.
Now that one really is a threat to economic activity.
Now that one really is a threat to economic activity.
Good post. Thanks
When you read the story you can see Stats For Lefties is making a cynical comparison. Streeting is warning about the dangers of buying these jabs online without GP advice. He is concerned about the misuse, not the proper use, of these drugs.
If they raise the NI for business will that not impact things like NHS etc. who have set budgets? Meaning they'll have to cut costs elsewhere to pay or are they exempt?
One is talking about illegally sourced weight loss jabs with no medical screening.
The other is talking about a medically prescribed drug, only available to those that meet the criteria.
Honestly, how do you survive?
If Stats for Lefties did transfers they would be Tier 6.
The course lasts for a year. After that, research shows that those using it put back around 75% of lost weight, because all it does is inhibit cravings, not solve the underlying causes.
So, tell me. Do you think people given the drug who then see the weight return are more or less likely than people with no exposure to the drug at all, to start abusing it?
Less. Of course. It’s not suggestion, it’s the answer.
If you’re living in a world where fiftysomethings are trawling the dark web for injectables, I suggest you get back to this one.
As for your first paragraph, argue against that all you like. There’s zero suggestion that this is a jab and forget program.
Deluded.
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I don't know, I am not a doctor. I think people should ask one, like Streeting says.
RIP Paul the Wolf who would have taught us all about Brexit in reply to this post.
Do you have a link to the article?
“I sure would love the opportunity to defend it!”
Jesus fecking Christ. This is no different than the Tories saying that people who were literally starving to death were somehow “fit to work”.
Oh so you're now putting words in my mouth, fantastic (or condescending, I'll flip a coin)! I''ll never need to post again!
I'd just like to see the entire article, not just 20 or so words taken out of context.
Cheers, so it's been trialed in a few hospitals with positive results, but no longer term results found yet regarding the mental health status of those who found work via this process.
I’m just tugging your pisser mate
"It's the work-house, or no benefits for you mate, if you don't get your a*** off this bed"
Is this to be the first line in the new Job Coaches Interview Manual for seriously ill patients
It could be that job coaches are out of work and this will be a way to get them back in the game.
A lot of them could get jobs as MP's.
While the focus is on kicking those at the bottom, here's what they do for those at the top of the ladder
Premi Sikka is a Labour Lord, and one of the country's leading experts on accounting, by the way.
Premi Sikka is a Labour Lord, and one of the country's leading experts on accounting, by the way.