LighterLife, please never thrust wasteful crap at me again
I was a little angry this morning. As I was trying to catch a train from St Albans, a smiley, bouncy young lady thrust a carrier-bag into my path. “Would you like a free lunch,” she chirrupped. It wasn’t a question. She was coercing me into her sinister game of wasting resources and fattening the nation.
I took the bag, more out of bewilderment than anything else. Lost inside it were a LighterLife chocolate bar and a couple of leaflets telling me how to lose weight.
I object to this on a number of levels, but two things particularly irked me.
Firstly, what an outrageous waste of resources. I don’t need a plastic carrier bag, especially as its contents would have fitted in my pocket. I don’t care that it’s ‘made from 100% recycled material’: presumably it’s not itself recyclable as it would have screamed that at me, and I suspect the majority of people will simply chuck it in the bin.
The other thing is that I hate people telling me that a tempting bar of confectionery is a healthy alternative to lunch. Maybe the bar in question really is better for me than a ham salad sandwich, but it’s still a chocolate bar. No wonder the nation’s health is in trouble if we’re encouraged to view munching chocolate snacks as equivalent to eating well.
Bah.
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When a ham salad sandwich from a high-street bakery is close to 500 calories, a shedload of fat, and almost zero nutritional content whatsoever, a Lighterlife bar is a MUCH better option.
I know its hard to believe that something can be healthy while looking like a chocolate bar, but it really is.
It’s low in calories, very filling, and comes with a full quarter of all the vitamins and minerals a person needs, whch is probably a bigger percentage than most people get from their entire day’s food.
The plastic bag is annoying though, and being pushed things by strangers.
Born2Hula
It may well be healthier, but my point is that instead of encouraging people to understand how to eat healthily we have companies making the most of our ignorance in order to flog products at us. They don’t care if we’re healthy or not; they’re not trying to fix a situation, but simply take advantage of it. THAT’S what made me angry.
Michael
I’d really hope that nobody is going to start thinking that snicker’s bars are the cornerstone of a healthy diet just because of LighterLife.
If you want to be angry at anybody, try being angry at high-street chains who manage to cram 40-odd grams of fat into a salad and then try and flog it as a “Healthy Option”. They aren’t helping anyone.
Born2Hula
Sorry Born2Hula, but they weren’t the ones at the station thrusting their wasteful packaging and spurious health products at me. LighterLife might not be a bad product, but I can’t believe they really have the health of the nation at heart.
Michael