So I went into M& S for a chicken, since I am reliably informed their chickens are very nice, and I wanted some of their very organic lets save the poor farmers and the world coffee. In the basket paying queue I found myself following a woman who was rather wobbly of butt, but not a total weeble yet – then I saw her son who was, I guess, about 10 years old. Well, he was well on the way to weebledom. Poor lad. Then I saw The Shopping. Out of an unladen basket was poking 2 packets of Jammy dodgers. Good Grief. What on earth is going on?? Can she not see her son is fat? Soon she will have to also buy him a bigger mirror so he can see the full magnitude of himself. Why can people not connect eating sugary things with wobbliness around the middle bottom? Since you are all convinced a Balanced Diet works – which set of scales are you using?? Those of an elephant?
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So let’s examine her Jammy Dodger. White flour, lots and lots of white sugar, poor quality fat (this is M&S, so presumably not transfats), more sugar cos there is the Jam. The deluded you thinks that because Jam is made with fruit, it is in someway a Good Thing. So you eat a biscuit (or 3 or 10). It is sweet, blood sugar rises – this is dangerous for the brain, so the body produces insulin to lower blood sugar. Insulin, incidentally, is the fat storage hormone. Weeble weeble weeble. So immediately on eating the biscuit, you get a high. This is why you eat sugary things. Then you get the most dreadful low because insulin is efficient and lowers your blood sugar – it lowers it too much, which is also dangerous for the brain. So your brain makes you feel really really really hungry – and you need your next sugar fix. Don’t blame your brain for this – you do have to stay conscious. So you have a nice fruit juice – or you raid the fruit bowl. Good good, you think. No FAT in this – and not a Jammy Dodger. But hey, it is still nice and sugary. Insulin, that Fat Storage, hormone rises, etc etc etc.
And sooner or later you have to buy that bigger mirror. And guess what? Children’s bodies work in the same way as ours. Yes, there will be a BLOG on packed lunches.... In the meanwhilst, no doubt you are well stocked on those nice fruit yoghurts. Low Fat, of course. Must keep that insulin up. Weeble weeble weeble.
