Re: Mediterranean Diet
Originally Posted by
Sandi
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Yes, I think there is no one thing that contributes but a combination of things.
It has to be doesn't it; it doesn't make sense for so much emphasis to be placed on one thing.
BV even the hospitals here have a glass of wine on their menus for their main meal at night as they say it aids digestion.
I've been fortunate enough (in the past) to have private medical treatment and they also offer wine with a meal (wasted on me as I don't drink).
What horrifies me though is when in the supermarkets you see women with children and their shopping trollies are loaded with convenience meals very little fresh fruit and vegetables. Cereals that are loaded with sugar. Children learn their eating habits from the home and usually that's what they carry on with throughout their life and when you hear parent's say "Oh, my kids will only eat junk food." Well they only have themselves to blame for not teaching them in the first place.
There is a lot of truth in that. I'm not wholly sold on the sugar thing though. I ate lots of sugar as a child (sweets, my mum's home made pop, puddings were also very sugary - even the mint sauce she made had sugar in it!) and I think of all the old-fashined puddings: jam roly-poly, spotted dick with syrup, treacle tart, every fruit pie had a liberal sprinkling of sugar on top of the pastry and yet we have an abundance of healthy pensioners who didn't die early. I know a lot of that can be put down to medical intervention but if sugar was the main culprit, wouldn't that have been acknowledged before now? I think they just think up new bogeymen to throw at us and then sit back to wait and see what happens!