{"id":1194,"date":"2010-04-24T11:22:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T10:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2010-04-24T11:45:10","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T10:45:10","slug":"sweets-for-life-how-oxymoronic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/24\/sweets-for-life-how-oxymoronic\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sweets For Life&#8221; &#8211; How Oxymoronic!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s such a shame that such a worthy cause (Great Ormond Street Children&#8217;s Hospital) uses such an inappropriate technique to raise money: selling unhealthy sweets to kids.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/l_2048_1536_50DE290A-E37C-494E-87B0-38BB891997D5.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/l_2048_1536_50DE290A-E37C-494E-87B0-38BB891997D5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=400 height=300 \/><\/a>\n<p>Apart from the well documented negative health issues of sweets that are high in sugar, glucose syrup and E numbers, I also found hydrogenated vegetable oil (a source of cancer inducing trans fats) and palm oil (at least they admitted it) which is the cause a massive environmental damage across the world. Palm oil is becoming a bigger and bigger issue at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>IMO as a children&#8217;s charity, Great Ormond Street Hospital should seriously re-evaluate their fund raising strategy to one that promotes health not disease in kids, and one that is more environmently reasponsible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s such a shame that such a worthy cause (Great Ormond Street Children&#8217;s Hospital) uses such an inappropriate technique to raise money: selling unhealthy sweets to kids. Apart from the well documented negative health issues of sweets that are high in sugar, glucose syrup and E numbers, I also found hydrogenated vegetable oil (a source [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[127],"class_list":{"0":"post-1194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-the-zone-diet","8":"tag-zone-diet"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}