The BIG weight issue facing the planet

Communikarma Crowd Discusses…

The Crowd discusses the prospect of more than half the world being overweight or obese by 2035. As always, a personal take. This time we talk about issues including:

• Emotional Eating
• Love/hate relationships with food
• Eating Disorders
• The Food Industry
• Body Positivity
• Nudge or Nanny State?
• Food Addiction and Psychological help

Yet another deeply problematic and complex issue that affects us all. Whose to blame – the food industry, society or us?

This is on the COMMUNIKARMA SPOTIFY PODCAST.

Transcript of first few minutes (complete with weird incorrect stuff)

“Well, hi everyone, and welcome to another episode of community karma. I’m Nyla and I’ve got with me, Tom and Kat. So welcome everyone. Hello. Hey, you and tonight, we’re going to be talking about The issue of obesity being overweight however you want to term it because apparently by 2035 We are on the trend for half the population of the planet to be obese or overweight with all of the repercussions that hold.

So, it’s a serious business in terms of money, in terms of health, and so on. So what do we what do we make of this? Tom um, I know that you’ve got An interest in, this topic not much much of you. Yes. So I mean for a start I will be classed as overweight or maybe even a beast.

I’ve been going to Slimming World for last three years because Uh, potatoes are a result of lockdown. I got very heavy, and it really affects him ability, and you kind of affect any digestion and all sorts of all stuff and generally you, you quality of life. Um, I mean, there is so much Temptation out there in terms.

I mean, for example, today, I’m drinking beer, which is probably not good. We are in a pump, but yeah, yeah, we are and, you know, there’s so much kind of good nice food out there that’s unfortunately quite unhealthy. You know, takeaways. Chocolate Christmas ice cream, you know, the list goes on.

I’m sure everybody’s got like a particular fake cheese biscuits, whatever. Yeah, I mean I think one of the sort of things as I said, joint Slimming World, uh, three years ago because I need to do something about my way. And I I am kind of in the point where I I need to go further with that due to varies.

So the medical procedures It’s quite an interesting, he’s quite a shocking, really? Like, you know, so many people are arrested, being overweight Obese, especially in in the full. I think, in the full article you’re includes like countries the, you know, regions. We were previously sort of think, actually, you know, a lot of the problems are being actually never mind.

Going being overweight, being being starving. So, It’s a bit, it’s a bit sort of weird to me. I, I think they’re sort of Food’s kind of one of these things if it was like sort of like Facebook, a smell like that, I have a complicated relationship with it and I think a lot of people do because we we sort of turn to food and drink for all sorts of emotions.

If we’re happy, we eat and drink, if we’re unhappy, be eating drink. If you know, if you get stressed, a lot of people don’t to food. And either the property, it can be very sort of Yeah, it can be very deadly. Add a reminder. There’s a couple of weeks ago….