Thursday 19th June 2025

We went to the beach hut at 6am, before the heat and before too many people were on the beach. Mal carried Ellie all the way down there again. This time he continued down the steps on to the beach so she could have a little paddle.

It was a very short time she was on the beach but she started limping again after her paddle. Mal carried her back to her bed in the beach hut where she lay. After about an hour we decided we had enough of the beach hut, cleared all our things out and handed the keys back at Viking Bay. I kept thinking it was far too risky Mal doing all that carrying in case he slipped.  Just bad timing!

In the afternoon I went to the second “Oneyou Maintaining a healthy weight” session. The guy who knew it all was not in attendance, what a surprise!! Today was a young guy called Sam and talked about mobility and keeping fit and gave us extra ways to keep our body moving. He said no one needed a gym and told us plenty of ways to keep our bodies moving , even while gardening and doing housework. But he discussed BMI and said it was stupid way to keep track of peoples fitness and compared two very different boxers with the same BMI. My tip for today, always keep water with you and drink little and often, not a lot at one time, far better for your body. It really is a good course to attend and FREE! OK, I know a lot of it already, we don’t eat junk food ever but it does make you aware of lots of other things. Mal looked this gem up years ago, the ways they try and manipulate the consumer to eat junk. ……

Major tobacco companies moved into the food industry about 20 years ago—and even earlier. In the 1980s, tobacco giants Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds acquired leading food companies: Philip Morris bought General Foods in 1985 and Kraft in 1988, while R.J. Reynolds acquired Nabisco in 1985[1][3][5][6]. This allowed tobacco companies to dominate the U.S. processed food market from the late 1980s through the early 2000s[1][3][6].
During this period, tobacco companies applied their expertise in marketing and product engineering—developed for cigarettes—to processed foods, creating and promoting “hyper-palatable” products high in sugar, fat, and salt to maximize consumption and profits[1][5][6]. Although the tobacco companies largely exited the food business by the early 2000s, their influence on food formulation and marketing remains evident in today’s processed food landscape[1][5].
Citations:
[1] Did Big Tobacco Create the Processed Food Industry? https://chirowithpt.com/2024/09/17/tobacco-and-processed-food/
[3] Many of today’s unhealthy foods were brought to you by Big Tobacco https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/09/19/addiction-foods-hyperpalatable-tobacco/
[4] US tobacco companies selectively disseminated hyper-palatable … https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/16eooi6/us_tobacco_companies_selectively_disseminated/
[6] Tobacco Industry’s Move Into Food & How Addiction Fueled the … https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tobacco-industrys-move-food-how-addiction-fuels-business-eziah-syed-dsrbe
[7] Why did Big Tobacco buy up food companies? It wasn’t … – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI-HoFSxVPM
[8] Did Big Tobacco make food addictive? – The Snowdon Substack https://snowdon.substack.com/p/did-big-tobacco-make-food-addictive