Quote Originally Posted by Dedworth View Post
Not obese (give it a couple of years) but you have repulsive trollops like this being given unnecessary taxpayer funded surgery. It's no surprise that those in charge of spending other peoples money in the NHS throw some of it at basket case bloaters

[LIST][*]Model who had £5,000 breast implants on NHS is now having £2,500 dentistry work done for FREE because she's PREGNANT
I have two holes in my teeth now that weren't there before I got pregnant, so I guess I understand the logic of giving free dental care to pregnant women whose calcium levels may be spread a little thin. However, I don't understand why that woman's breast enlargement surgery was paid for by the public. In the article, that woman states that she charged someone £1,000 for sex. Even if it were argued that breast enlargement should be free for people who couldn't afford it, she clearly could.

Quote Originally Posted by Longweekend View Post
Junk food seems to be the main problem, very few families cook fresh healthy food nowadays ...
I'm guilty of feeding my husband junk food too. I've always had a thing for the added salt and sugar in processed food, but back home, that stuff was an occasional treat. However, once I moved here and saw how used to processed food my husband was, I decided to serve it to him a couple times a week. I do have my reasons though. One, he's a very picky eater because he was raised that way, and two, I don't want to shock him with the huge switch from Southern Fried Chicken (glorified chicken nuggets), prepackaged pies, jarred pasta sauces, and instant gravy/custard/whatever to home-cooked everything. Hopefully, given a year, he'll have a more healthful and varied diet.

Quote Originally Posted by Michael Parnham View Post
A lot of people for one reason or another have no idea how to cook a proper meal, when I was young both mums and dads used to take it in turns to cook dinner and us kids were also taught at the same time, just doesn't seem to happen these days!
Is it more common here to serve plated meals in family homes? Maybe the kids don't know how to cook because they only enter the kitchen to pick up or drop off their plates. I think having family-style meals eaten at the table promote interaction in the kitchen, and make people more aware of their portion sizes and what they put in their mouths. I've never met any Filipinos who served plated meals at home, but my husband can't even tell me how much he'll eat because mealtimes at his parents' house only require him to get a pre-loaded plate from the kitchen and take it to his spot on the sofa, then shovel the food in his mouth as the family watches TV. Everyone's mentally uninvolved, and I think it makes people unwittingly eat more than they would've wanted.