By asking a few people in NYC for directions you've come up with the generalization that most americans are lazy...lol good one.
While I was in your country I did more than just ask directions in NYC and I did not say "most", I said "many". Furthermore, many Americans (not most) I met said that Americans, in general, were lazy.
While I was in your country I did more than just ask directions in NYC and I did not say "most", I said "many". Furthermore, many Americans (not most) I met said that Americans, in general, were lazy.
In many ways Americans are not "lazy." We, in America put a pretty low premium on recreation time, i.e. we work a lot. The 40 hour work week here is seen as lazyness-we wear our 60 hour work weeks on our sleeves.
However, in terms of moving our body's there is some laziness in my opinion. We will drive around for ten minues looking for a parking space that will save us five minutes of walking. Over half of urban auto trips are less than one mile--how many of these could be walked. Is it laziness or an unbelievable will to do what is most convenient? Our auto dependance has grown almost comical (in some anecdotal things I have seen).
Drive throughs, seas of parking lots, suffering public transit (regardless of how much congestion there is), less than 1% of commuters biking to work (you can find that on the Census website), very few carpoolser. We are addicted to convenicne. "If it causes any discomfort, don't do it."
I cannot come up with a new sig till I get this egg off my face.
In many ways Americans are not "lazy." We, in America put a pretty low premium on recreation time, i.e. we work a lot. The 40 hour work week here is seen as lazyness-we wear our 60 hour work weeks on our sleeves.
However, in terms of moving our body's there is some laziness in my opinion. We will drive around for ten minues looking for a parking space that will save us five minutes of walking. Over half of urban auto trips are less than one mile--how many of these could be walked. Is it laziness or an unbelievable will to do what is most convenient? Our auto dependance has grown almost comical (in some anecdotal things I have seen).
Drive throughs, seas of parking lots, suffering public transit (regardless of how much congestion there is), less than 1% of commuters biking to work (you can find that on the Census website), very few carpoolser. We are addicted to convenicne. "If it causes any discomfort, don't do it."
It's definitely hard work trying to decide which drive-thru to eat at. And the actual eating itself! How can anyone call that lazy? The size of those portions requires some serious jaw action!!
I don't think that fatness is just an american problem, here in Europe it's almost the same...when I go swimming I always see kids who suffers from adipositas...man....it's insane...what are the parents waiting....is it really that difficult to teach children what they have to eat to be healthy?...the parents also do the same they don't want to spent some time in the kitchen to prepare healty food...God save there's a McDonald...fuck the clown....fuck the burger king....viva la revolution....the world seem to need a kitchen Che...why not Jamie Oliver???...I think he's able to reach children and parents....he made great job in England.....I often go to Italy and there the people cares of food it's one of their main matters what they're gonna eat next...the children knows what a tomatoe look's like...they live in the kitchen...it's the heart of the house...and the results? they eat healty...they are not gonna die with 45 years......have you seen "Supersize me"? It could be a help........
Beavis : Is this Pearl Jam?
Butt-head: This guy makes faces like Eddie Vedder.
Beavis: No, Eddie Vedder makes faces like this guy.
Butt-head: I heard these guys, like, came first and Pearl Jam ripped them off.
Beavis: No, Pearl Jam came first.
Butt-head: Well, they both suck.
I don't think that fatness is just an american problem, here in Europe it's almost the same...when I go swimming I always see kids who suffers from adipositas...man....it's insane...what are the parents waiting....is it really that difficult to teach children what they have to eat to be healthy?...the parents also do the same they don't want to spent some time in the kitchen to prepare healty food...God save there's a McDonald...fuck the clown....fuck the burger king....viva la revolution....the world seem to need a kitchen Che...why not Jamie Oliver???...I think he's able to reach children and parents....he made great job in England.....I often go to Italy and there the people cares of food it's one of their main matters what they're gonna eat next...the children knows what a tomatoe look's like...they live in the kitchen...it's the heart of the house...and the results? they eat healty...they are not gonna die with 45 years......have you seen "Supersize me"? It could be a help........
Those dots between sentences man! What's your name? Louis Ferdinand Celine?
I don't think that fatness is just an american problem, here in Europe it's almost the same...when I go swimming I always see kids who suffers from adipositas...man....it's insane...what are the parents waiting....is it really that difficult to teach children what they have to eat to be healthy?...the parents also do the same they don't want to spent some time in the kitchen to prepare healty food...God save there's a McDonald...fuck the clown....fuck the burger king....viva la revolution....the world seem to need a kitchen Che...why not Jamie Oliver???...I think he's able to reach children and parents....he made great job in England.....I often go to Italy and there the people cares of food it's one of their main matters what they're gonna eat next...the children knows what a tomatoe look's like...they live in the kitchen...it's the heart of the house...and the results? they eat healty...they are not gonna die with 45 years......have you seen "Supersize me"? It could be a help........
Those dots between sentences man! What's your name? Louis Ferdinand Celine?
it hides my bad english!!!!! But you're wright the only think what's missing is a stop at the end of the sentences....:)
But my real name is almost like those you named before, it has french origins
Beavis : Is this Pearl Jam?
Butt-head: This guy makes faces like Eddie Vedder.
Beavis: No, Eddie Vedder makes faces like this guy.
Butt-head: I heard these guys, like, came first and Pearl Jam ripped them off.
Beavis: No, Pearl Jam came first.
Butt-head: Well, they both suck.
No, should I? Do you want to tell me that it is really that bad ?
But thanks to the U.S. to bring the fast food to the old continent. It's like a nutritional terrorist act. (don't want to hurt someone!!)
Beavis : Is this Pearl Jam?
Butt-head: This guy makes faces like Eddie Vedder.
Beavis: No, Eddie Vedder makes faces like this guy.
Butt-head: I heard these guys, like, came first and Pearl Jam ripped them off.
Beavis: No, Pearl Jam came first.
Butt-head: Well, they both suck.
I there are a tremendous amount of overweight people in Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennesse, and other Southern states...I assume it is the same way in other states as well.
Funny thing is....the vast majority of overweight people I see are poor.....an indication that poor people live off of junk food. It is unbeleivable to me...the other day I was at the Courthouse, and the number of vastly overweight people outnumbered the regular or slightly overweight people.
Juvenile diabetes is on a dramatic rise due to being overweight and eating too much sugar.
When are we going to wake up as a society and remove junk food and soda machines from schools, stop feeding the kids junk food for lunch, and get serious about teaching kids proper nutrition. No cost is too small to do so...think of the strain this is putting on the health care industry.
No, should I? Do you want to tell me that it is really that bad ?
But thanks to the U.S. to bring the fast food to the old continent. It's like a nutritional terrorist act. (don't want to hurt someone!!)
Well, it's a beautiful country and it's definitely worth the trip...
Americans have a whole new level of fatness... a fat person in America is not like a fat person in Europe...
totally agree obesity is out of control here in the states i recently took a cruise with my family and the buffets were all over the place and i'm not kidding the fat people just love to eat at buffets just pile on the food it really made me realize how out of control this epidemic is it was hard for me or my family to really enjoy the food most of the time i would wait till a lot of the big people would eat first before we took our turn it's sad it can really turn you off when you see someone who is very big sit down to eat and you think about how many people in the world are starving ............
Another thread discussing how people should live their own lives.
If someone wants to be fat and die of heart disease, then by all means, let them.
I loved the one post about everyone in America feels they have a sense of entitlement. What that has to do with being fat I'm not sure. Maybe just trying to sound intelligent? But, by all means, don't let me jump in the way of another good 'Bash America' thread. Carry on...
"Sarcasm: intellect on the offensive"
"What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact."
Very funny...
We have social securance in Europe because we don't spent all our money for guns and wanna-be "democratic" wars...Here in Luxemburg the government spent the most of the money in education,social care and as help for third-world Countries!! I don't want to say that we are perfect we also have to do a better job...
Beavis : Is this Pearl Jam?
Butt-head: This guy makes faces like Eddie Vedder.
Beavis: No, Eddie Vedder makes faces like this guy.
Butt-head: I heard these guys, like, came first and Pearl Jam ripped them off.
Beavis: No, Pearl Jam came first.
Butt-head: Well, they both suck.
Very funny...
We have social securance in Europe because we don't spent all our money for guns and wanna-be "democratic" wars...Here in Luxemburg the government spent the most of the money in education,social care and as help for third-world Countries!! I don't want to say that we are perfect we also have to do a better job...
I got some advice for you dude. If you take everything Miller says as a joke and treat it as sarcasm...you'll live a life filled with less stress. Oh yea, you won't have to keeping to a wall either.
Well, it's a beautiful country and it's definitely worth the trip...
Americans have a whole new level of fatness... a fat person in America is not like a fat person in Europe...
The land of the extrems!!! I'm sure that the U.S.A. are a beautiful country. I planned to go to Hawaii in two-three years. I'm sure that I won't find as many "fat" people there as in other staates.
Beavis : Is this Pearl Jam?
Butt-head: This guy makes faces like Eddie Vedder.
Beavis: No, Eddie Vedder makes faces like this guy.
Butt-head: I heard these guys, like, came first and Pearl Jam ripped them off.
Beavis: No, Pearl Jam came first.
Butt-head: Well, they both suck.
I got some advice for you dude. If you take everything Miller says as a joke and treat it as sarcasm...you'll live a life filled with less stress. Oh yea, you won't have to keeping to a wall either.
That's the proof that Internet is not the best way to communicate sometimes I don't recognize sarcasm (or maybe I have to refresh my English) Don't get me wrong I was not stress at all before but I think that it were better if your governement will spent more money for health, education and social securance and less for wars..but I'm surely not the only one with this point of view. You have to know that I work in a psychiatry and I'm seeing a lot of people who are poor and normaly could'nt paid the therapies if the would not have social securance...
I think we should stop because this is something else as the thread we are in
Beavis : Is this Pearl Jam?
Butt-head: This guy makes faces like Eddie Vedder.
Beavis: No, Eddie Vedder makes faces like this guy.
Butt-head: I heard these guys, like, came first and Pearl Jam ripped them off.
Beavis: No, Pearl Jam came first.
Butt-head: Well, they both suck.
That's the proof that Internet is not the best way to communicate sometimes I don't recognize sarcasm (or maybe I have to refresh my English) Don't get me wrong I was not stress at all before but I think that it were better if your governement will spent more money for health, education and social securance and less for wars..but I'm surely not the only one with this point of view. You have to know that I work in a psychiatry and I'm seeing a lot of people who are poor and normaly could'nt paid the therapies if the would not have social securance...
I think we should stop because this is something else as the thread we are in
No, it's not your fault for not realizing it's sarcasm. It's not, but if you think it is, you can laugh instead of cry.
No, it's not your fault for not realizing it's sarcasm. It's not, but if you think it is, you can laugh instead of cry.
It's should be better because I'm running out of handkerchiefs....
Beavis : Is this Pearl Jam?
Butt-head: This guy makes faces like Eddie Vedder.
Beavis: No, Eddie Vedder makes faces like this guy.
Butt-head: I heard these guys, like, came first and Pearl Jam ripped them off.
Beavis: No, Pearl Jam came first.
Butt-head: Well, they both suck.
The land of the extrems!!! I'm sure that the U.S.A. are a beautiful country. I planned to go to Hawaii in two-three years. I'm sure that I won't find as many "fat" people there as in other staates.
I'm sure there are a few lard buckets in Hawaii, although if they allowed too many blubber-bellies to live there then they would run the risk of the island sinking. :eek:
I'm sure there are a few lard buckets in Hawaii, although if they allowed too many blubber-bellies to live there then they would run the risk of the island sinking. :eek:
Man, even if I used the term "FAT" I threath the persons with respect, think you should do the same!!!
Beavis : Is this Pearl Jam?
Butt-head: This guy makes faces like Eddie Vedder.
Beavis: No, Eddie Vedder makes faces like this guy.
Butt-head: I heard these guys, like, came first and Pearl Jam ripped them off.
Beavis: No, Pearl Jam came first.
Butt-head: Well, they both suck.
Well, it's a beautiful country and it's definitely worth the trip...
Americans have a whole new level of fatness... a fat person in America is not like a fat person in Europe...
I agree. America is a fascinating place to visit, with lots of amazing landscapes, and an overwhelmingly rich and diverse culture.
. . . .and the fat people are incredible. I remember seeing THE fattest woman I've ever seen, accompanied by one of the fattest men I've ever seen gorging themselves on huge plates full of nachos covered in disgusting orange cheese, and thinking 'what the hell are they doing to themselves?' We have plenty of fat people in Australia (I think we're about the fifth fattest nation in the world these days), but this kind of fatness was something that I'd never seen before.
It doesn't matter if you're male, female, or confused; black, white, brown, red, green, yellow; gay, lesbian; redneck cop, stoned; ugly; military style, doggy style; fat, rich or poor; vegetarian or cannibal; bum, hippie, virgin; famous or drunk-you're either an asshole or you're not!
I agree. America is a fascinating place to visit, with lots of amazing landscapes, and an overwhelmingly rich and diverse culture.
. . . .and the fat people are incredible. I remember seeing THE fattest woman I've ever seen, accompanied by one of the fattest men I've ever seen gorging themselves on huge plates full of nachos covered in disgusting orange cheese, and thinking 'what the hell are they doing to themselves?' We have plenty of fat people in Australia (I think we're about the fifth fattest nation in the world these days), but this kind of fatness was something that I'd never seen before.
That post is funnier than I suspect you intended it to be!
Junk food adverts ban during children's programmes
Adverts for junk food and sugary drinks will be banned from broadcast during television programmes aimed at children under 16 and on dedicated children's channels, under proposals put forward by Ofcom today.
Regulators also recommended that new rules on the content of adverts aimed at children of a primary school age, banning celebrities and children's characters from appearing, should be introduced.
Ofcom, the broadcasting regulator, conducted research into the eating and viewing habits of 11,000 people which found that television advertising has a direct effect on what children prefer to eat.
This is modest compared to factors including parental influence, school policy, food labelling and exercise, the regulator found, but it was felt that restrictions were justified as part of wider measures to be used by the Government to tackle childhood obesity.
Ed Richards, Ofcom chief executive said today: "Based on the evidence and analysis we believe the case for intervention is clear. We will introduce significant but proportionate measures to protect children under 16."
The ban on adverts for foods or drinks high in fat, salt and sugar would apply to all broadcasters licensed by Ofcom based in the UK, including international broadcasters transmitting to Britain from overseas.
Ofcom estimates that this would cost broadcasters up to £39 million a year in lost revenues, falling to about £23 million as broadcasters find other advertisers over time.
It would include all children's programmes and on dedicated children's channels as well as adult programmes which attract a significantly higher than average proportion of viewers under the age of 16.
Restrictions on the content of advertisements would include banning celebrities, characters from third parties, free gifts and health or nutritional claims. The restrictions would apply equally to product sponsorship.
The regulator estimated the loss for commercial public service broadcasters, ITV, GMTV, Channel 4 and five, by imposing the ban could be up to 0.7 per cent of their total revenues.
Children's and youth orientated cable and satellite channels could lose up to 8.8 per cent of their total revenues, which dedicated children's channels could lose up to 15 per cent of total revenues.
The proposals are subject to a short consultation which is due to close before Christmas and the final determination to be given in January 2007.
Changes to rules governing the content of advertisements would take effect before the end of January, but new advertising campaigns would be allowed to broadcast until the end of June 2007.
The changes to scheduling rules preventing children under 16 from seeing adverts for junk foods and drinks would come into effect from the end of March 2007, in time for Easter.
The restrictions will be based on the Food Standards Agency's (FSA) nutrient profiling scheme. All food and drink products rated as high in fat, salt or sugar will be affected, while those below FSA threshold will be allowed to advertise.
Ofcom considered a broad range of options during the public consultation including a total ban on food and drink advertising before 9pm, which it rejected due to the high cost of lost revenues for broadcasters that could have been as high as £250 million a year.
The Government today welcomed the proposals by Ofcom with Tessa Jowell, Culture Secretary, saying they "sought to strike a balance which promotes the health of our children, but also considers the impact on our broadcasting industries, while taking a proportionate view based on the evidence of the likely impact on the range and quality of TV programmes for children."
Patricia Hewitt, Health Secretary, said: "It is not the role of government to tell people how to live their lives but the public expect government to help them make healthier choices. We want to help parents to give their children healthier food and reduce 'pester power' in shops."
However, Philip Cullum, chief executive of the National Consumer Council, said the restrictions should have gone further to include programmes like Coronation Street. He said: "This doesn't really get to the heart of the issue. They say they have taken a focus on children, but the proposals actually don't deliver that."
The prevalence of obesity in children has trebled since the 1980s, helped along by diets high fat and sugar and more sedentary lifestyles, raising fears over the future of the nation's health.
According to the Department of Health more than half of all adults in the UK are either overweight or obese - almost 24 million adults - and this figure is on the increase.
You can't beat those Vegas buffets,but my God are their some huge people who really don't know when to stop eating but each to their own. Even tho everyone drives in LA,you go down to the beaches and you'll see the best bodies ever, one extreme to the other i guess!
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While I was in your country I did more than just ask directions in NYC and I did not say "most", I said "many". Furthermore, many Americans (not most) I met said that Americans, in general, were lazy.
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shit like that doesnt help , what was he thinking !!!
sorry spellings really up the wall today
Astoria,Dublin,Reading 06,Wembley 07,Sheapards Bush & o2 09 thats multiple Jamgasms!
In many ways Americans are not "lazy." We, in America put a pretty low premium on recreation time, i.e. we work a lot. The 40 hour work week here is seen as lazyness-we wear our 60 hour work weeks on our sleeves.
However, in terms of moving our body's there is some laziness in my opinion. We will drive around for ten minues looking for a parking space that will save us five minutes of walking. Over half of urban auto trips are less than one mile--how many of these could be walked. Is it laziness or an unbelievable will to do what is most convenient? Our auto dependance has grown almost comical (in some anecdotal things I have seen).
Drive throughs, seas of parking lots, suffering public transit (regardless of how much congestion there is), less than 1% of commuters biking to work (you can find that on the Census website), very few carpoolser. We are addicted to convenicne. "If it causes any discomfort, don't do it."
It's definitely hard work trying to decide which drive-thru to eat at. And the actual eating itself! How can anyone call that lazy? The size of those portions requires some serious jaw action!!
Butt-head: This guy makes faces like Eddie Vedder.
Beavis: No, Eddie Vedder makes faces like this guy.
Butt-head: I heard these guys, like, came first and Pearl Jam ripped them off.
Beavis: No, Pearl Jam came first.
Butt-head: Well, they both suck.
Those dots between sentences man! What's your name? Louis Ferdinand Celine?
Have you ever been to the US?
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But my real name is almost like those you named before, it has french origins
Butt-head: This guy makes faces like Eddie Vedder.
Beavis: No, Eddie Vedder makes faces like this guy.
Butt-head: I heard these guys, like, came first and Pearl Jam ripped them off.
Beavis: No, Pearl Jam came first.
Butt-head: Well, they both suck.
But thanks to the U.S. to bring the fast food to the old continent. It's like a nutritional terrorist act. (don't want to hurt someone!!)
Butt-head: This guy makes faces like Eddie Vedder.
Beavis: No, Eddie Vedder makes faces like this guy.
Butt-head: I heard these guys, like, came first and Pearl Jam ripped them off.
Beavis: No, Pearl Jam came first.
Butt-head: Well, they both suck.
Funny thing is....the vast majority of overweight people I see are poor.....an indication that poor people live off of junk food. It is unbeleivable to me...the other day I was at the Courthouse, and the number of vastly overweight people outnumbered the regular or slightly overweight people.
Juvenile diabetes is on a dramatic rise due to being overweight and eating too much sugar.
When are we going to wake up as a society and remove junk food and soda machines from schools, stop feeding the kids junk food for lunch, and get serious about teaching kids proper nutrition. No cost is too small to do so...think of the strain this is putting on the health care industry.
Well, it's a beautiful country and it's definitely worth the trip...
Americans have a whole new level of fatness... a fat person in America is not like a fat person in Europe...
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Yea but we have better dental care.
Another thread discussing how people should live their own lives.
If someone wants to be fat and die of heart disease, then by all means, let them.
I loved the one post about everyone in America feels they have a sense of entitlement. What that has to do with being fat I'm not sure. Maybe just trying to sound intelligent? But, by all means, don't let me jump in the way of another good 'Bash America' thread. Carry on...
"What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact."
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We have social securance in Europe because we don't spent all our money for guns and wanna-be "democratic" wars...Here in Luxemburg the government spent the most of the money in education,social care and as help for third-world Countries!! I don't want to say that we are perfect we also have to do a better job...
Butt-head: This guy makes faces like Eddie Vedder.
Beavis: No, Eddie Vedder makes faces like this guy.
Butt-head: I heard these guys, like, came first and Pearl Jam ripped them off.
Beavis: No, Pearl Jam came first.
Butt-head: Well, they both suck.
I got some advice for you dude. If you take everything Miller says as a joke and treat it as sarcasm...you'll live a life filled with less stress. Oh yea, you won't have to keeping to a wall either.
The land of the extrems!!! I'm sure that the U.S.A. are a beautiful country. I planned to go to Hawaii in two-three years. I'm sure that I won't find as many "fat" people there as in other staates.
Butt-head: This guy makes faces like Eddie Vedder.
Beavis: No, Eddie Vedder makes faces like this guy.
Butt-head: I heard these guys, like, came first and Pearl Jam ripped them off.
Beavis: No, Pearl Jam came first.
Butt-head: Well, they both suck.
That's the proof that Internet is not the best way to communicate sometimes I don't recognize sarcasm (or maybe I have to refresh my English)
I think we should stop because this is something else as the thread we are in
Butt-head: This guy makes faces like Eddie Vedder.
Beavis: No, Eddie Vedder makes faces like this guy.
Butt-head: I heard these guys, like, came first and Pearl Jam ripped them off.
Beavis: No, Pearl Jam came first.
Butt-head: Well, they both suck.
No, it's not your fault for not realizing it's sarcasm. It's not, but if you think it is, you can laugh instead of cry.
Butt-head: This guy makes faces like Eddie Vedder.
Beavis: No, Eddie Vedder makes faces like this guy.
Butt-head: I heard these guys, like, came first and Pearl Jam ripped them off.
Beavis: No, Pearl Jam came first.
Butt-head: Well, they both suck.
I suspected that Michael Moore posted here. Now I know!
I'm sure there are a few lard buckets in Hawaii, although if they allowed too many blubber-bellies to live there then they would run the risk of the island sinking. :eek:
Man, even if I used the term "FAT" I threath the persons with respect, think you should do the same!!!
Butt-head: This guy makes faces like Eddie Vedder.
Beavis: No, Eddie Vedder makes faces like this guy.
Butt-head: I heard these guys, like, came first and Pearl Jam ripped them off.
Beavis: No, Pearl Jam came first.
Butt-head: Well, they both suck.
Have you been to Europe?
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I agree. America is a fascinating place to visit, with lots of amazing landscapes, and an overwhelmingly rich and diverse culture.
. . . .and the fat people are incredible. I remember seeing THE fattest woman I've ever seen, accompanied by one of the fattest men I've ever seen gorging themselves on huge plates full of nachos covered in disgusting orange cheese, and thinking 'what the hell are they doing to themselves?' We have plenty of fat people in Australia (I think we're about the fifth fattest nation in the world these days), but this kind of fatness was something that I'd never seen before.
-C Addison
That's the beauty of abusing fat people. I mean, if they get violent with you, then you can just run away.
(Or just point over their shoulders and shout "Big mac!!")
That post is funnier than I suspect you intended it to be!
Junk food adverts ban during children's programmes
Adverts for junk food and sugary drinks will be banned from broadcast during television programmes aimed at children under 16 and on dedicated children's channels, under proposals put forward by Ofcom today.
Regulators also recommended that new rules on the content of adverts aimed at children of a primary school age, banning celebrities and children's characters from appearing, should be introduced.
Ofcom, the broadcasting regulator, conducted research into the eating and viewing habits of 11,000 people which found that television advertising has a direct effect on what children prefer to eat.
This is modest compared to factors including parental influence, school policy, food labelling and exercise, the regulator found, but it was felt that restrictions were justified as part of wider measures to be used by the Government to tackle childhood obesity.
Ed Richards, Ofcom chief executive said today: "Based on the evidence and analysis we believe the case for intervention is clear. We will introduce significant but proportionate measures to protect children under 16."
The ban on adverts for foods or drinks high in fat, salt and sugar would apply to all broadcasters licensed by Ofcom based in the UK, including international broadcasters transmitting to Britain from overseas.
Ofcom estimates that this would cost broadcasters up to £39 million a year in lost revenues, falling to about £23 million as broadcasters find other advertisers over time.
It would include all children's programmes and on dedicated children's channels as well as adult programmes which attract a significantly higher than average proportion of viewers under the age of 16.
Restrictions on the content of advertisements would include banning celebrities, characters from third parties, free gifts and health or nutritional claims. The restrictions would apply equally to product sponsorship.
The regulator estimated the loss for commercial public service broadcasters, ITV, GMTV, Channel 4 and five, by imposing the ban could be up to 0.7 per cent of their total revenues.
Children's and youth orientated cable and satellite channels could lose up to 8.8 per cent of their total revenues, which dedicated children's channels could lose up to 15 per cent of total revenues.
The proposals are subject to a short consultation which is due to close before Christmas and the final determination to be given in January 2007.
Changes to rules governing the content of advertisements would take effect before the end of January, but new advertising campaigns would be allowed to broadcast until the end of June 2007.
The changes to scheduling rules preventing children under 16 from seeing adverts for junk foods and drinks would come into effect from the end of March 2007, in time for Easter.
The restrictions will be based on the Food Standards Agency's (FSA) nutrient profiling scheme. All food and drink products rated as high in fat, salt or sugar will be affected, while those below FSA threshold will be allowed to advertise.
Ofcom considered a broad range of options during the public consultation including a total ban on food and drink advertising before 9pm, which it rejected due to the high cost of lost revenues for broadcasters that could have been as high as £250 million a year.
The Government today welcomed the proposals by Ofcom with Tessa Jowell, Culture Secretary, saying they "sought to strike a balance which promotes the health of our children, but also considers the impact on our broadcasting industries, while taking a proportionate view based on the evidence of the likely impact on the range and quality of TV programmes for children."
Patricia Hewitt, Health Secretary, said: "It is not the role of government to tell people how to live their lives but the public expect government to help them make healthier choices. We want to help parents to give their children healthier food and reduce 'pester power' in shops."
However, Philip Cullum, chief executive of the National Consumer Council, said the restrictions should have gone further to include programmes like Coronation Street. He said: "This doesn't really get to the heart of the issue. They say they have taken a focus on children, but the proposals actually don't deliver that."
The prevalence of obesity in children has trebled since the 1980s, helped along by diets high fat and sugar and more sedentary lifestyles, raising fears over the future of the nation's health.
According to the Department of Health more than half of all adults in the UK are either overweight or obese - almost 24 million adults - and this figure is on the increase.
American's like good food.an we're proud of it.i sure could go for some homestyle cajun chicken right now!
to be livin here today.
‘Cause the flag still stands for freedom,
and they can’t take that away.
And I’m proud to be an American,
where at least I know I’m free.
And I wont forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.