Health ****s at it again

Stuff reports:

Lollies, chippies and high sugar products should have to come in plain packs like cigarettes, the Northland District Health Board says.

It made the call in a position statement aimed at influencing policy in Northland and the rest of the country.

It was trying to fight an “obesegenic environment,” a society that makes it easier for people to make bad health decisions, it said.

DHB chief executive Nick Chamberlain said healthy foods were at an unfair disadvantage compared with foods in bright packaging aimed at influencing children and families.

These people really are demented. They think anything they disapprove of, should not allow to be advertised, or even packaged. God forbid they ever win with their visions for a joyless society.

So what are high sugar products they they want in plain packaging. It would include:

• Yoghurt
• Tomato sauce
• Fruit Juice
• Pasta sauce
• Honey
• Chocolate
• Coffee
• Breakfast Cereals
• Salad dressings
• Bread
• Soups

Next step will be for them to have an approved list of foods, and you can’t buy any non approved food item.