Posts by Lilith __
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I wish there were a tax on talking complete nonsense.
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Speaker: Are there opportunities within…, in reply to Danielle,
I’m still allowed to hate gardening more than anything, right? :)
If you buy the teatowel, no one will ever know. ;-)
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This seems a lovely initiative: Garden To Table: working with schools to teach kids how to grow, harvest, and prepare vegetables.
Why not buy a cute teatowel to support them? Perfect for Xmas.
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Speaker: Are there opportunities within…, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
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Speaker: Are there opportunities within…, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
Let’s. Do. Nothing.
I have made constructive suggestions. Perhaps you'd like to be constructive also.
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For anyone with time to spare, there are many charities who collect and distribute food to those in need. There are also charitable organisations who help people learn to cook: one of these is SuperGrans. They are always looking for volunteers as well as donations.
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Other people's problems are so easy to solve.
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One of the key causes of poor nutrition and poor general health is poverty.
Recently, there was a study about how eating healthily now costs three times as much as it would have done 10 years ago, but food prices are far from the only issue. For the purposes of this article, let’s boil it down to money, more specifically, disposable income. Just for a change, let’s stop obsessing about impoverished obese people and their alleged heaving KFC buckets and look at some of the expensive lengths better-off people go to in the pursuit of “slim”.
Personal trainers, gym memberships, exercise classes, slimming clubs, home gym equipment, running gear, yoga gear, gym gear, (whatever the gear!), dieticians, nutritionists, diet food delivery services, electronic wristbands, books, DVDs, downloads, vitamins supplements. The list is endless before you even get to the food, because what says healthy more than a “simple peasant stew” made from an organic seasonal veg box, which is far beyond the reach of an ordinary family’s food budget?
There will always be some tedious blow-hard insisting that all they do to keep fit is run up and down on the spot, wearing their old school plimsolls – these people really should shut up. Most would concede that fitness, or regaining fitness, is an expensive and complicated business. Despite this, your average middle-class professional would probably argue that they need all this help to keep in shape. Fair enough, but then why criticise overweight people who couldn’t dream of affording it?
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People who want to improve the health of Kiwi children can support KidsCan, which provides healthy food and other basics to kids who will otherwise go without.
You can make a one-off donation of any amount or provide ongoing support for a child for $15/month.
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As well as being nasty, fat-shaming leads to weight-gain. Think about that, any reasonable people left on here.
“Previous studies have found that people who experience discrimination report comfort eating. Stress responses to discrimination can increase appetite, particularly for unhealthy, energy-dense food. Weight discrimination has also been shown to make people feel less confident about taking part in physical activity, so they tend to avoid it.”