Is Impenetrable Packaging On Confectionery Products Good For Your Health?

[BilSuth]

Especially in this era of stay-at-home deprivation, to open a packet of biscuits or sweets seems a fair reward for getting on belatedly with the neglected household chores. But it's not as simple as that.
The cellophane wrapping seems to be glued or sprayed on to the packed of goodies. A knife or fork prong may get you a suspicion of a pin-prick hole to give you a start on peeling off at least a strip of the wrapping, even though it stubbornly clings to you rather than drop into the waste-bin below. It is a force that defies gravity. More mess to pick up of the floor but you ain't seen nothin' yet.
Assume it's biscuits. The next battle is the cardboard packaging, inside of which is another plastic-type wrapping round the actual product. The biscuit at the end is usually slightly broken so that will mean a spillage of more crumbs, and the whole assembly is designed so that some biscuits cascade over the floor once you release the superhuman pressure needed to prise the accursed thing open.
Once you have swept up that mess, in addition to all the other energy expended, you will find that you have burnt off a lot more calories that you are about to consume. Enjoy.

[marval]

I have RA Ummmm, and I often struggle to open things.

I have been known to get my husband to open things for me.

[Buenchico]

There are aid to help those with arthritis (and simply those who struggle anyway) to open things in the kitchen:
http://www.upl.co/uploads/151637Aids1587682018.jpg

Graphic derived from here (which has more useful tips for arthritis sufferers):
http://www.upl.co/uploads/151637Aids1587682018.jpg

[Buenchico]

Oop!

Wrong second link!

Let's try again:
https://www.versusarthritis.org/about-arthritis/living-with-arthritis/your-home/