The Chipper - Irish institution or Death Machine?

Since when do only overweight people get cancer? Utterly ridiculous idea, that would have no impact, and lacks any consideration of diet overall.

Sugar drink are a tiny part of overall intake.

A bag of chips is expensive enough these days, so I hate it when (some chippers) dish out a bag of white sloppy undercooked mush 😕

I like my chips slightly brown, and not soggy.

Define overweight? BMI is basically considered nonsense these days. Ian Thorpe who's an olympic swimmer as fit as you can get did BMI test and was considered overweight.

Genetics play a far bigger role in health that chippers but unfortunately there is noway of making of money out of talking about genetics as opposed to ultra processes food.

Also the number of people who don't understand the difference between may increases the risk of XYX and something directly causes XYZ.

Apparently those who eat healthy exercise ect, are often doubly upset if they get cancer because they have picked up the message they healthy eating and exercise can prevent cancer which is nonsense.

When living with my ex I did all the cooking, and on that odd night when I was working late, I'd text her and say "can you sort out dinner tonight", I could stake money on it being an Indian. She hated to cook.

Time pressure is 100% a factor. Nowadays when cooking just for myself, the chipper is last on my list because by the time it arrives the chips are soggy, so I have to put them in the air fryer to crisp them up, and if I'm going to have to do that anyway, I might as well do my own chips and something with it myself.

I find it a little sad that so many chippers are run by Italian families, but finding real Italian takeaways is so hard to come by. It'd be nice to order a lasanga now and again, instead of a battered sausage and soggy chips.

Years ago the doctor was on at my uncle to give up smoking. Back at the doctor a few weeks later the doctor asked him about it and he said he'd cut down a good bit. When pressured on the number, he was down to 60 a day.

I smoked 20 a day for about 5 years, and I remember waking up in the morning with the scratchy throat. I can't imagine what 60 or 80 a day must be like. Then the cost of it. When I was smoking they were about 5 euros a pack. Over the course of a month that was 150 euro's literally going up in smoke. For him, multiply that by 3 or 4(or more!).

Andy McNab is an ex-SAS soldier turned author, and I read his memoir a few years ago. He was doing SAS selection, and was drinking various sports drinks high in electrolytes. A more experienced soldier was looking at his collection and said "You can drink them I suppose, but the only thing I have to keep my electrolytes up is 2 pints of guiness and a bag of chips on the way home". This was about the fittest guy you could meet, who would think nothing of getting up in the morning and running to the top of Pen y Fan(highest peak in South Wales where they train), and then running down to the bottom of it again. So maybe there's not much inherently wrong in the bag of chips, just be sure you work it off regularly. Working in an office, bag of chips on the way home, and NetFlix for the evening, it's maybe not the chips thats causing the damage.

When I go to the chipper, I usually don't get chips as I find I can barely finish them and feel like a bloated pig afterwards. So I usually get a battered sausage and a burger and hope that they throw in a small scoop of chips with it. At least I'm getting a decent amount of protein.

There are some "less unhealthy" options in McDonalds and KFC these days. Wrap of the day and rice bowls.

Although the cooking fat/oil used by these might be worse than that used by Italian chippers if the chippers still use tallow which I'm not sure if they do.

We need people to die younger. This pension bomb as they call it isn't too far away. People not looking after themselves is a burden on the health system but the budget the HSE have and the tax that's paid on the stuff which is bad for us is massive and will offset the cost. It sounds a bit morbid but it's true. 70 will do me if I get that far and it's off to Switzerland with me.

Yeah, no it does sound sanctimonious.

That not really accurate. BMI is for assessing how over/under weight a population is. It's perfectly suitable for that and still used all the time. It's not absolute for an individual. But exceptions where people are Athletic but Obese by BMI are possible obviously, but not as common as people like to pretend.
If you stopped 10 random people on the street, who were "obese" by BMI. How are many are actually obese. 9? Maybe even 10?

Ian Thorpe is 1.95m tall. He was around 90kg as an Olympian. That's a BMI of about 23. Not sure where you got the idea that he was obese by BMI. He'd need to be much bigger.
Caelan Doris is 1.93m/111kg. That's not even obese by BMI.