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Intersesting paper by Prof Mike Gibney of UCD
Fast food accounts for ‘minority of calories’ but gets all the focus
Fast food accounts for ‘minority of calories’ but gets all the focus
Fast-food and soft drinks account for “a minority” of calories we consume but we focus on those items while ignoring foods such as potatoes, chicken and meat which account for most of our calorie intake, Prof [broken link removed], head of UCD’s centre for food and health, said yesterday.
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He said this “tsunami of lard” tended to come in waves throughout centuries and by blaming one thing we were ignoring the complexity of the problem. Hippocrates [who was born in 460 BC] wrote in his essay on the Scythians that the girls were “amazingly flabby and podgy” while obesity was common in ancient Rome.
I get two of my "five a day fruit and vegetables" from crisps and Jaffa Cakes.
In the US pizza is officially classified as a vegetable.
I read an article that said people are now putting McDonalds food into a blender to give to babies. I suppose there's nothing wrong with that really. McD no doubt have acres of verified scientific data on how good their food is for you.
I get two of my "five a day fruit and vegetables" from crisps
I hope they're not salt and vinegar flavour because the salt would be bad for ya
Another contributing factor and the type of mentality that exists around it could be chronic inbreeding.
Obesity comes solely from too many calories anyway and not the type of food eaten
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/
I would be worried about the long-term effects of such a diet though
Plus there is this from a few months ago where on average we actually eat less calories than our parents and grandparents did, but we are fatter.
http://m.thegrocer.co.uk/Article/344282
Were they in better shape though because there was more manual labour, cars weren't as freely accessible as now, so more walking was done, there was no couch potato lifestyle etc? Basically, they weren't as lazy as some of the newer generations have become?
I think there's got to be some of that (or a lot of that), given my Nan cooked everything with in lard or with suet, you can hardly say the food was "healthier".
lol You won't go too far wrong if you stick with what your granny ate. There are many people, including me, who don't like putting industrialised, inflammatory vegetable oils in to our bodies. I only cook in lard , dripping, butter, ghee or coconut oil.
What amazes me is that we have never had more of the low fat propaganda thrown at us and yet obesity and diabetes are on the increase! Advertising is powerful - you only have to look at the the statin manufacturers to see that . You won't hear too many drug companies going on about lipoprotein A, C reactive protein, fibrinogen levels, homosysteine levels etc. in the blood. Now why is that I wonder ?
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