They say Ronald McDonald is the cousin of Joe Camel

[purplerabbits]

I couldn't agree with this more if I tried with both hands for a fortnight. It is absurd to try to learn about trends in child obesity from the story of one extremely fat boy Also - "The Today programme has a sodding cheek hectoring McKeown about her nutritional know-how, when this is their McNugget version of current affairs." Well, quite.

I feel very uncomfortable with the coverage of both obesity and binge drinking in the meeja - and not, I suspect, just because I'm morbidly obese and like a tipple. But one thing that bugs me is that I feel I can't comment (at least to normal people) because it feels like I'm defending my own feckless burger and alcopop guzzling ways (I don't consume either burgers or alcopops, but that's not the point.)

Is it even possible to have a civilized debate about these things?

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[purplerabbits.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed. I sometimes think I should unsub from TLL because reading threads on certain topics is like reading the BBC comment pages - and just as likely to give me an apoplexy (weight related, naturally...)