Santa's too fat

Mackman

Do these "experts" have nothing better to do? Like cure cancer or something?

Santa is a public health hazard - promoting obesity and drink-driving, experts have claimed.
Images of a fat, jolly and somewhat tipsy Father Christmas send out the wrong message and could damage millions of lives, they said.
Instead of sitting back in his sleigh and breaking the speed limit, Santa should get off and walk or jog.
Obese Santa also needs to swap the brandy and mince pies left out by hopeful children for carrots and celery sticks stolen from Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
Dr Nathan Grills and illustrator Brendan Halyday, from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, said the current image of Santa promotes obesity, drink-driving, speeding and a general unhealthy lifestyle.
Santa's universal fame means he is used by companies around the globe to sell all kinds of products, including unhealthy foods, they went on. For example, there is very high awareness of Santa among young children - higher than the McDonald's fictional character, Ronald McDonald.
Writing in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), the authors said Santa used to also sell cigarettes but that has now been banned.
They went on to provide a full list of Santa's unhealthy behaviours, including encouraging fathers to step in and eat leftover mince pies, thereby expanding their own waistlines. With billions of homes to visit, Santa is also soon over the drink-driving limit due to too many brandies and sherries.
The authors conclude there is a need for Santa to undergo an image overhaul - one that promotes healthy living.
"We need to be aware that Santa has an ability to influence people, and especially children, towards unhealthy behaviour," they said. "Given Santa's universal appeal, and reasoning from a population health perspective, Santa needs to affect health by only 0.1% to damage millions of lives. We propose a new image for Santa to ensure that his influence on public health is a positive one."

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20091217/tuk-overweight-santa-needs-a-makeover-6323e80.html

:rolleyes:

SugarHigh

If this awareness campaign wasn't carried out then cancer would definitely be cured by now.

Doop

He aint fat enough if you ask me..

and drink driving psssshhh... everyones at that ...

(awaits onslaught from posters in the Drink Driving thread)

Mackman

SugarHigh wrote: »

If this awareness campaign wasn't carried out then cancer would definitely be cured by now.

:rolleyes:
Well maybe if they all stopped researching rediculous things like this and concentrated more on important things, maybe it would

Doc

He doesn’t drive he’s a passenger. Rudolph dose all the real driving. Rudolph is the one who guides the sleigh. And Santa’s weight is no ones business but his own is not like he is a drain on the health service living in the North Pole. Besides obviously his lifestyle cant be that bad since he has lived for so long.

These people don’t know what there talking about!

KungPao

Yeah and The Tooth Fairy promotes the sale of body parts on the black market.:rolleyes:

These idiots wreck my head.

davyjose

PC idiots can say what they want. Has anyone noticed that? Everything on earth gets scrutinised if it seems a little against the grain, but if you accuse, accuse, accuse you can get away with what you want.

On a completely different note, those witch hunts of the 1400's were great, weren't they?

pwd

i like this bit:

there is very high awareness of Santa among young children

phasers

Hurt by these comments, Santa seems to have turned anorexic

Link to shocking image

Wazdakka

Ha!

Wait.. No.. not Ha..
The other one..
WTF??

I'm sure they do have a point somewhere in there.. But come on...

It's like a teacher wearing a condom while working..
Technically it's safer, But....

overexcitedaj

I read the first line and couldnt stop laughing.
WTF?
Today has been full of really strange news. Keep em coming :P

R0ot

Oh man I read this earlier today and just laughed.

When I think of these scientists why do I get an image of Rob Riener from that South Park episode 'Butt Out' .

The damn PC crowd need a serious purging by fire, first the nativity scene now health concerns over santa. What next, the tooth fairy - the silent intruder mouth rapist?

Captain Havoc

It is clear to see that this article is a load of cöck and hasn't been researched properly if at all, Santa doesn't speed, his sleigh flies so the rules of the road are none applicable to him.

cyberwolf77

Santa's too fat and the Easter Bunny encourages high cholesterol. The next person who does a study like this should be booted off the planet. We has serious problems to solve.

Schism

What a load of bollocks.

ScumLord

Their right, santa too fat, he should be hunted down and beaten with a wet monkey to teach him a lesson.

jokettle

Wasn't there an episode of Ally McBeal where Traditional Fat Santa got fired from a department store in favour of Young Buff Healthy Santa?

And wasn't Robert Downey Junior just delicious in that show? :pac:

cyberwolf77

Healthy Santa tries coming in my house I'm whupping his toned ass before I call the cops

dan1895

Has anyone published research on how much money is wasted by scientists carrying out research on the unhealthy habits of fictional characters?

Wazdakka

dan1895 wrote: »

Has anyone published research on how much money is wasted by scientists carrying out research on the unhealthy habits of fictional characters?

Anybody need a dissertation topic?

jokettle

Wazdakka wrote: »

Anybody need a dissertation topic?

Now this is why I got into research

cyberwolf77

Wazdakka wrote: »

Anybody need a dissertation topic?

Or a reason to lose all faith in humanity

Redzer7

What a load of utter sh/té.

themadchef

The day they force a jolly old bearded man in a red suit to go on a diet will be a very, very sad day for society.

Win win win for Slim fast though.

Gummy Panda

themadchef wrote: »

The day they force a jolly old bearded man in a red suit to go on a diet will be a very, very sad day for society.

Win win win for Slim fast though.

You're only saying that cause you like cuddly men.

Imagine if the researchers seen bad Santa

SoWatchaWant

This is the funniest thing I've read in ages, even moreso now that it's all true:D

But, these researchers and experts can warn all they like, but who's going to listen to them? Think Coca Cola's gonna change its image? Not likely!

GLaDOS

Mackman wrote: »

:rolleyes:
Well maybe if they all stopped researching rediculous things like this and concentrated more on important things, maybe it would

Yeah because the scientists who figured out santa is fat are the ones working on curing cancer

Palmerstown_guy

Next up is why the Tooth Fairy is too slutty :D:D:D

Wazdakka

Palmerstown_guy wrote: »

Next up is why the Tooth Fairy is too slutty

I know both of those words,
but being used together in a sentence like that...

I.. don't.... understand.

funk-you

To these "experts" in the article; Go **** yourselves and get a real job. Saps.

-Funk

Borneo Fnctn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdB_CM2LxCw

I heard he's looking great now.