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Barbadians prefer to eat junk

We are a society that has become reliant on government for everything under the sun. While the government cannot be excused from its governance responsibilities, a civil society by definition is “considered as a community of citizens linked by common interests and collective activity“. What is wrong with as many households as possible prioritizing kitchen…

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We are a society that has become reliant on government for everything under the sun. While the government cannot be excused from its governance responsibilities, a civil society by definition is “considered as a community of citizens linked by common interests and collective activity“.

What is wrong with as many households as possible prioritizing kitchen gardens in pots, pans, replace lawns etc. Instead, we have allowed ourselves to become intoxicated with the easy lifestyle of sourcing too many food items from the shelves of a retail outlet whether local or international, Chefette, KFC and several others spring to mind.

Credit to Bentley

We are a nation with a growing reputation as being the NCD capital of the region, some suggest the world. Shouldn’t this be enough of a motivation for Barbadians to take responsibility for making the best decisions to practice healthy living? We have the situation in Barbados where outlets selling food are under no obligation to procure quality produce or communicate nutrition content to the public. More important is the fact the majority of Barbadian consumers seem to give a damn. If as individuals we are not motivated to do whatever it takes to protect our health, we deserve to suffer the consequences.

In related news the Lears Land Use Project seems to be a step in the right direction.

63 responses to “Barbadians prefer to eat junk”

  1. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    We see that comprehension is an abiding weakness as well. Which continues in you till death.

    In addition, you have either, as expected, gave answers to questions not asked or liberally indulged in mirth.

    So what if I couldn’t as you presumed. Of all the branches of knowledge would everyone need to. Yours is the conduct of an 11-plus school boy being a braggart about a teacher’s approval, getting all ticks but still an unrelenting asshole.

    For a nearly 70 years old BOY this is pathetic.

    Can you do what this writer does or what all the other specialists knowledge workers do? Then why is this your generalized attitude?

    Maybe PDR has an answer to this psychosis you prevent with.

    We specifically asked about “branches of knowledge” not branches within the medical sciences. And even then you pretended to be a jack of all trades. Well, a jack of all trades, especially within a field developing more and more specialties or sub-speçialties, is usually a georgie of none😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

    You’re an asshole undeserving of our time. Have the final words.

  2. GP Avatar
    GP

    ALL YOU CAN DO IS TRY TO INSULT ME
    BUT YOU CANT REFUTE ANYTING THAT I HAVE SAID
    NOR CAN YOU ADD ANYTHING OF REAL VALUE TO THE DISCUSSION

    SAD SAD
    THE FOLK WHO WITH WHOM I ENGAGED WITH THIS MORNING FROM ALL OVER THE ISLANDS A FAR OFF WERE NOT INSULTING , AND I WAS BOTH ABLE TO TEACH AND LEARM CONCERNINGTHE TOPICS DISCUSSED.

    NOW PROVIDE MIRTH IN YOUR ANGER AS YOU SEEK TO INSULT
    YOU AFFECT NOTHING
    GOD IS STILL ON THE THRONE
    THE WORD OF GOD STILL STANDS
    AND THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH IS MORE IMMINENT THAN IT EVER WAS.

    RE Can you do what this writer does ?
    WHY WOULD I WANT TO DO ANYTHING THAT YOU DO?
    I AM CONTENT WITH WHAT I DO—AND I DO IT WELL, AND THOSE WHO MATTER ARE WELL PLEASED..

    We specifically asked about “branches of knowledge” not branches within the medical sciences.

    I DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOU ………..OR WHAT YOU ASK
    I WILL SPEAK ABOUT WHAT I WISH AND WHAT I KNOW AND ABOUT THE TOPIC THAT IS NOW IN VOGUE.

    THE TOPIC IS NUTRITION AND BIOCHEMISTRY IS THE FOUNDATION OF THAT

    IT IS NOT MY FAULT THAT ON THIS TOPIC THAT YOUR UNDERSTANDING HAS THE DIMENSIONS OF AN ABYSS.

  3. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

    “Maybe PDR has an answer”

    Can’t believe PDR is missing all this action. Hope he is seeing or hearing about it at least….the final act…lawd…

  4. GP Avatar
    GP

    When you all were growing up were these substances seen on packaging of foodstuffs
    Pyruvate
    Acetate
    Acetoacetate
    Alpha Ketoglutarate
    Succinate
    Fumarate
    Oxaloacetate
    Glutamate
    Could these compounds possibly be harmful in the concentrations used?

    THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY WILL TELL YOU THAT THE SDA’S ARE PERHAPS THE HEALTHIEST PEOPLE ON THE PLANET

    ONE WOULD THINK THAT THE THEY ARE KETO-VEGANS LOL
    MURDAAH

  5. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    David…… remember former Q.E. Hospital Director, Dexter James, who mysteriously went ‘missing in action’ after the 2018 general elections? He is currently C.E.O of the Mellinum Heights Medical Complex (MHMC) in St. Lucia.

  6. David Avatar
    David

    Thanks Artax, nice golf courses over there.

  7. David Avatar
    David

    Give nutrition policy a chance
    WHILE ONE UNDERSTANDS the vision of the National School Nutrition Policy in targeting the youngest among us so that healthy eating as a habit will accompany their growth, the criticisms that have attended this Ministry of Education policy give truth to the view that you’re “damned if you do” and otherwise.
    Had a nutrition policy been implemented across the board for all citizens, as was discussed by several iterations of the Ministry of Health, people would berate it as well and heatedly debate how it could be monitored since, as adults, we have the right and autonomy to buy and prepare whatever we wish for our families; and if we choose not to cook, the thriving fast-food outlets are an option.
    The current criticisms that have been ventilated include, primarily, the disadvantage to some vendors whose sole means of income is providing snacks, pastries and beverages outside schools’ premises. Particularly at this time in a recovering economy ravaged by COVID-19, the demise of this area of vending would be a crippling blow to the grass roots entrepreneurship which Barbados encourages.
    Meeting with stakeholders
    Government can therefore
    look at meeting with wholesalers with a view to subsidising the more expensive healthy snacks, while reducing importation of the unhealthy ones that are laden with sugar, salt and unwholesome fats. Secondly, incentives can be given to those vendors who choose to sell the healthy food items instead of causing them to feel penalised for doing otherwise.
    While this will entail further Government spending, it will also be an essential investment and sacrifice for Barbados’ future. To do otherwise will be to consign Barbadians to an increase in the mortality and morbidity rate from non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which accounted for 83 per cent of all deaths here seven years ago.
    Not only will a public health burden ensue but a major threat loom like a veritable monster over our beloved children, who will make up the future productive population of Barbados in ten to 15 years. While the Ministry of Health and Wellness has prioritised NCD prevention and control, it does so against the backdrop of a 2020 Global Nutrition Report where Barbados showed a malnutrition burden among its under-five population, and a 2018 Barbadian sample of a regional survey which showed 32 per cent of the population as overweight and half of that percentage as obese.
    This is clearly an uphill battle which, contrary
    to some views, did not cause the authorities to rush the school nutrition policy but to canvass wide consultation with relevant stakeholders.
    No policy that changes the status quo will please everybody. For example, today the School Meals Service is an established, lauded entity that has fed primary school children for generations.
    Yet it has had its fair share of criticism as Barbados developed from an agrarian society to a more sophisticated services-based one where the need for such provision decreased.
    However, by July 1995, based on Ministry of Education records, 93 schools were participating in that programme with an average of 24 000 meals being served daily.
    If the National School Nutrition Policy is given a chance to work and the kinks ironed out, perhaps when the incidence of NCDs has been drastically reduced and the country is no longer referred to, derisively and horrifically, as the amputation capital of the world, someone will reflect and commend the vision of starting this life-saving quest among our youngest citizens.
    No policy that changes the status quo will please everybody

    Nation Editorial

  8. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    Yes, David, especially at Pigeon Point.

  9. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Leff de wrasse whole Hot Pot alone.

  10. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Looks like Bajan will be outsmarted again. Creative scams.

    Hot pot => cold pot => no pot
    Watch it.

  11. GP Avatar
    GP

    HOT POT IS A VERY USEFUL INEXPENSIVE THERAPEUTIC MODALITY
    SERIOUSLY
    I HAVE SENT MANY FOLK THERE FOR RELIEF
    I MY SELF BENEFITED ONCE WHEN I HAD SOME SPINAL STENOSIS

  12. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Hot pot => cold pot => no pot => tourist (s)pot

    Surely a way can be found to increase safety. I can assure you that when the locals are driven out, Hot Pot will be marketed to tourist as a bathing spot with medicinal properties.

    Don’t be blind. This is an opportunity to see a scam grow

  13. GP Avatar
    GP

    AT THE POT, IF YOU HOLD ON TO THE WALL AND STRETCH OUT USING THE WEIGHT OF YOUR BODY AS TRACTION AGAINST THE FORCE OF THE WATER GUSHING FROM THOSE PIPES, THIS HELPS TO RELIEVE THE SPASM OF THE MUSCLES THAT MIGHT BE CAUSING BACK PAIN, FOR EXAMPLE.
    THIS IS SERIOUS AQUA PHYSIO THERAPY FOR FREE

    RE Surely a way can be found to increase safety.
    SOME BARRIER CAN BE MADE TO CONVERT A REASONABLY SIZED SAFE AREA FOR USERS AS A PUBLIC SERVICE

    RE I can assure you that when the locals are driven out, Hot Pot will be marketed to tourist as a bathing spot with medicinal properties.
    THAT ST LUCY BOY TALKING LIKE IF HE SITTING AROUND THE OLD SANDBOX TREE

    THEY WILL NO DOUBT SET UP SOMETHING LIKE THERE HAVE IN ST LUCIA NEAR THE PITONS WHERE YOU CAN GO AND BATHE IN A SMALL POOL. THE WATER IS HOT AND CONTAINS LOTS OF SULPHUR.

    I CAN NOT REMEMBER IF ONE PAID A FEE FOR ENTRY

    SOMETHING SIMILAR CAN BE DEVELOPED AS A SERVICE FOR THE PUBLIC OF BARBADOS

    WE CAN NOT DISMANTLE EVERYTHING IN BIMSHIRE AS WE GRADUALLY DISMANTLED THE BUS SERVICE STARTING IN JANUARY 69 UNTIL IT AS DEVOLVED INTO THE CONTEMPORARY CORRUPT CHAOS

    WE ALSO DISMANTLED THE LITTLE VILLAGE SHOP WHERE MUCH CREDIT WAS GIVEN. TO THE POOR.

    ‘OFTEN FOLK DID NOT RETURN TO PAY BUT THE SHOP KEEPERS WERE STILL ABLE TO KEEP THEIR HEADS ABOVE WATER

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