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nicebloke1 | 11:07 Wed 26th Feb 2025 | Body & Soul
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Why do we keep inventing health problems. A topic on tv this morning was...

How to improve the conversation around eating disorders.

Answer. Stop being bone idle and get in the kitchen and cook something instead of ordering takeaway crap. :0)

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I'm sure takeaways are linked to obesity and round the clock delivery service doesn't help.  My neighbour cooks proper meals every day around 6pm.  Friday nights they have a few drinks at home and 11pm there is a hot food delivery - usually a curry of some sort.   (I know because the delivery people always seem to ring my doorbell - no idea why, my house number is...
13:53 Wed 26th Feb 2025

That is not how you phrased your question Nicebloke.  I completely get that poor food and lifestyle choices make some people obese and lead to health issues.  This is NOT the same as an eating disorder.  They are quite different.

There was a fad, unfortunately spread from the USA aimed at teachers, which taught mad exercises which involved weird things including gulping huge amounts of water. Glad it seems to have faded out.

In the early days before the habit of carrying a cup of coffee in the streets really caught on, I remember seeing a young girl standing with a cup, talking to her friend. A man walks past and reaching out he drops a coin in her coffee, he thought she was begging.

Just an aside. I love word origins, and poppycock is simply the British version of the original pappy cack or loose poo.

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