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We love to enjoy the competitions on TV where amateur bakers bake the most delicious, most beautiful and most tempting creations. Maybe a little too much. An obesity expert thinks that the British program ‘The Great British Bake Off’ should be off the tube. The tasty cake competition would make you reach for a sugared snack faster.<!– –>
British health expert Tam Fry is the chair of the National Obesity Forum, an organization committed to a healthy weight for every Briton. ‘The Great British Bake Off’ is a huge hit in England and according to the organization that is quite dangerous. Especially now that COVID-19 is lurking and since the British on average have the most inhabitants with an unhealthy weight.
Risk factor coronavirus
And obesity is exactly one of the risk factors when you get the corona virus. As far as Fry is concerned, there should at least be a health warning before the program starts. “Channel 4 should come up with a warning stating that the cakes are delicious, but the amount of sugar has absolutely no nutritional value and is absolutely not healthy,” he says, according to the Daily Mail.<!– –>
According to Fry, the channel is only about the viewing figures. “While the government has not been able to reduce the sugar in pies by twenty percent,” says Fry. “Eating too much sugar causes obesity and that is a serious risk if you become infected with the corona virus. Channel 4 should realize the damage such an ‘entertainment program’ can do, ”he argues. The show is a huge hit in the UK. The first episode of the last season even managed to break the viewing figures. Those records were from 1985.
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