22-11-2016, 04:57 PM
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Re: Just who do they think they are!!
Originally Posted by Abbey
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Since obesity levels are rising so alarmingly then clearly some people do need to take advice about their diet .I have no idea how people think it's expensive to eat 5 a day . 3 of the 5 are supposed to be vegetables which are just about the cheapest foods you can buy .
I am a vegetarian and my food bill is so much less when my meat eating OH is away .
I also feel better less 'sluggish' and pleasantly full after meals .
Just worked out by the end of today I will have had 9 fruits and vegetables ..
22-11-2016, 05:05 PM
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Re: Just who do they think they are!!
Originally Posted by Meg
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But why buy a Mcdonalds in the first place instead of making your own food.The sad excuse for 'vegetables' a few pieces of salad served on some awful ersatz bread roll hardly qualifies as 5 a day.
Better to have a bowl of home made soup which really does contain 5 a day and a home made wholemeal roll
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Tried that, but it all went in my lap whilst I was driving.
22-11-2016, 05:06 PM
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Re: Just who do they think they are!!
Originally Posted by Meg
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But why buy a Mcdonalds in the first place instead of making your own food.The sad excuse for 'vegetables' a few pieces of salad served on some awful ersatz bread roll hardly qualifies as 5 a day.
Better to have a bowl of home made soup which really does contain 5 a day and a home made wholemeal roll
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Truthfully, my annoyance is really about the 5-a day figure only. I just don't like being preached to by people who make it up as they go along to justify their jobs.
Genuine, reseached data followed by guidance for the public? yes and yes again.
Pinched jingle from a supermarket and pretending it was all their findings?
lying, deceitful, condescending nonsense.
22-11-2016, 06:41 PM
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Re: Just who do they think they are!!
These "Experts" usually get paid Megabucks . So why not contradict what all the others have said.Just a joke really.
I carry on in my own sweet way eating what I know is healthy and always adhere to the old adage "A little of what you fancy , does you good ".
stuff them TBH
23-11-2016, 05:08 AM
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Re: Just who do they think they are!!
Originally Posted by Rehab44
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5 a day..bacon and sausage for breakfast, ginsters steak and kidney pie for brunch, Big Mac for lunch, chicken curry for dinner, pork pie for supper, proper grub 
23-11-2016, 11:06 AM
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Re: Just who do they think they are!!
I tend to ignore the preachings of these so-called experts sermons on the obvious rights and wrongs of what and when we should eat.Over the years they have spouted their scare stories telling us to stop eating this and that but I have never taken any notice of them.
Take for instance the huge effect they had on people who ate dairy products such as butter!
Many years ago they decreed that eating saturated fats was a sure-fire way towards a coronary risk, so the vast majority heeded their “expert” advice and switched to unsaturated brands.
Now we find out that the above “expert advice” was a myth! According to the latest scientific research, the people who eat butter and other saturated fats don’t get any sicker and the millions of people who reduced their intake of butter don’t get any better!! There is simply no connection between butter and heart disease.
The same result - that butter is completely harmless - has been scientifically proven recently, again, and again and again!.
As I say, I never listened to them all those years ago and happily continued to slather my lovely Kerrygold onto my toast.
23-11-2016, 11:38 AM
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Re: Just who do they think they are!!
HiWe have an a growing epidemic of obesity and diabetes, it is costing the NHS a fortune.
It makes no sense to allow this to continue unchecked, who we do this, I am not sure.
The problem with sugar and saturated fats is that they are very high in calories, so very easy to put on weight
The simple solution to the obesity epidemic is to encourage people to eat less and exercise more, unfortunately it is proving very difficult to get this message across.
The big food companies have a lot to answer for, sugary, fatty foods make big profits.
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