One of the country’s leading health charities is calling for urgent action to reduce the “carcinogenic effects” of cheap alcohol and unhealthy food after a 40% increase in deaths from liver cancer in a decade.
That’s a big increase.
And I’m sure alcohol was way better in quality in the 1900’s… Right?
I think cheap in this case means inexpensive not poor quality. Hence they’re asking the government to tax it to deter excessive use. Also it said it increased in the last decade. What do the 1900s have to do with anything?
Considering that in the US, food and drug safety laws were passed in the early 1900s because of often toxic additives used as fillers to help stretch production. An investigator for the proposed bill who happened to be a bit of a whiskey connoisseur was presented with two whiskeys, one unmolested and the other cut with a substance assumed to contain arsenic. He was sure that the one he chose was the true whiskey but when asked if he’d bet his life on it, the drink was pushed aside and the bill was green lighted.
Meanwhile, Thomas Midgley: “hold my beer”
The trouble is that part of society glorifies alcohol abuse and believe it’s impossible to socialise without it. In some ways, it’s more damaging to society than drugs.
In the case of obesity, I started secondary school just as they phased out cooking classes and limited anything that was hands-on, so it’s not a big surprise that people don’t learn good habits. Parents also don’t seem to have done much to teach cooking skills at home since the pull of convenience food is so strong.
Stick with what works: The Tudor Meal #4 with extra wren.
Shocking./s Have never seen anyone actually order food with their drinks at a pub.Even chips or peanuts. They just drink how many pints straight up with no food and the pubs are full daily.much less the amount of alcohol/drunken stupors on the weekends seen everywhere.Alcoholism and obesity must be on the rise and im not even from the uk just an observation as someone who moved a year ago here.
