A plan to restrict the opening hours of fast food outlets near schools has failed to curb childhood obesity, with rates instead rising.
In 2014 Medway Council put rules in place which limited takeaways if they were located within 400m (1,312ft) of a school.
Public health activists seem to love these bans of anything within x metres of a school. As I have pointed out many times these are as the crow flies, so a 400 metre radius ban zone will cover an area of 50 hectares. In most cities it would ban them basically everywhere.
Public Health England data showed that 21.9% of reception children and 32.8% of year six children measured were either overweight or obese in Medway in 2013/14 – but 10 years on the rates have risen with 22.3% of Medway’s reception children and 37.4% of year six children being overweight or obese.
I am not surprised. The answer to child obesity is almost always parenting.
Public Health England data showed that 21.9% of reception children and 32.8% of year six children measured were either overweight or obese in Medway in 2013/14 – but 10 years on the rates have risen with 22.3% of Medway’s reception children and 37.4% of year six children being overweight or obese.
I am not surprised. The answer to child obesity is almost always parenting.
Councillor Teresa Murray, the authority’s deputy leader and chairwoman of the health and wellbeing board, said the council’s decision had been “the right one” but that “no single policy” could tackle the ever-growing epidemic of childhood obesity.
This means you can claim anything you do is the right decision, on the basis that no single policy works.
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
3 comments:
Lol, this is funny. Another failed policy with stupidity, yet as always the answer is simple and right under everyone's noses. As usual 95% of the population still want to blame everyone else and far left want to ban everything they don't agree with.....yet the problem gets worse. More amusing they still won't admit that they got it wrong. Thanks for the laugh David. Keep posting these priceless pieces.
If people want less obesity they need to stop injecting their children with toxic shots. Injectables cause inflammation: they’re designed to. Epidemic obesity flows on from chronic inflammation.
Obesity is an individual choice or, if a child, the result of parental abuse (except in rare health circumstances).
Personal responsibility is needed, not banning & not taxes. Just good old-fashioned adulting.
Diets full of manufactured rubbish contribute to people’s poor health far more than any vaccination, including the scam jab. You only have to look at what the supermarkets ran out of during the plandemic - it certainly wasn’t fresh fruit and vegetables.
Simply put, we are what we eat. So if people want less obesity they need to discern food from junk and only consume the former most of the time.
It’s really not that hard.
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