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Global obesity 1 billion
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The crazy thing is if you want to make easy meals just get a slow cooker. Bang the ingredients in first thing, by the time the kids get home from school you can have stews, chilli, currys. At the opposite end of the scale, a stir fry with fresh ingredients takes less than 15 mins is inexpensive and full of veg, most of the westernised Chinese sauces are dead easy to make.In truth, this is a crisis of irresponsible spending and pricing and a lack of knowledge or determination to be self sufficient, plus plain greed. We're the convenience generation, why cook a meal when you can get a pack of jelly babies and a rustlers microwaveable burger for couple of quid? So much choice, so many places you can waddle to and get crap. Brain not required, just spend, eat, repeat.
I remember seeing a mother on the news not so long ago bemoaning that the price of pizza has gone up and she can't afford to buy enough pizzas to feed her family any more. Waving around a fiver as it wasn't enough to have tea with and would probably break out in a rash is she wandered down the fresh veg aisle by mistake.
Im pretty sure most of it comes down to laziness and a couple of generations of not learning basic cooking skills. I wouldnt mind but there's thousands of videos on YouTube showing you how to do it, its not like the old days of a recipe book where you had to read and understand it.
One thing that does irritate me however is how outrageously expensive fish is in the UK. Half the problem is that unless its Haddock, Cod, Salmon or Tuna people wont buy it so it gets sold abroad.
Magicpole
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After I quit the fags, I moved seamlessly to the pies. 4 stone later, caught a sight of a fat **** in a shop window reflection, the **** had glorious hair and that triggered, oh fuck, that’s me. I had let everybody down. Especially my hair.
Getting fat is easy,
Getting fat is easy,
bluetonium
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Love our slow cooker, especially in winter, nothing better than knowing there's a nice beef stew waiting. It's not everyone though, and it's important to say that. Not every young person is a waster who can't be added, far from it. Not every parent is too busy to do things properly. But too many are and it's inevitable it's going to continue cost both NHS resources and rob years from lives. That's the cold reality. It's not an absolute, some very healthy people still get very ill, but being overweight is certainly a well known mechanism for accelerating illness.The crazy thing is if you want to make easy meals just get a slow cooker. Bang the ingredients in first thing, by the time the kids get home from school you can have stews, chilli, currys. At the opposite end of the scale, a stir fry with fresh ingredients takes less than 15 mins is inexpensive and full of veg, most of the westernised Chinese sauces are dead easy to make.
Im pretty sure most of it comes down to laziness and a couple of generations of not learning basic cooking skills. I wouldnt mind but there's thousands of videos on YouTube showing you how to do it, its not like the old days of a recipe book where you had to read and understand it.
One thing that does irritate me however is how outrageously expensive fish is in the UK. Half the problem is that unless its Haddock, Cod, Salmon or Tuna people wont buy it so it gets sold abroad.
It's also a coping mechanism too, and modern society suffers from a crisis of mental health despite the growing fact many are far too ready to take offense and find problems where none exist, we're also at a point where there so much crap and expectation on people that inevitably we cave in. That's ok, a day of binging or drinking or whatever, fine. But for many there is no balance.
We can take a look at that YouTuber BeardMeatsFood for an extreme example of discipline. Competitive eater, consumes thousands of calories for his videos, donuts, pizza as big as a table, all day breakfasts with more sausages than a Yates' wine lodge on singles night, yet relatively skinny. Because he eats minimally for days before and after, and his average calories intake vs usage is mostly balanced. Insane to think is he probably consumes less calories weekly than many average people, because one blow out on a burger with fifty patties and a kilo of chips is probably still less than day after day of bags of sweets, a McDonalds here, KFC there, twenty pints and so on.
It's far too easy to just go and buy crap too, there's a tesco or a Morrisons or something around every corner nowadays, and the cheapest things they sell will include the 800 calorie a bag crisps and sweets, plus don't forget the meal deals where you can have a sausage roll as your snack, alongside a blt and a full fat coke, consuming easily your dealing calorie intake in ten minutes. So easy, so convenient,a habit so hard to break.
Personally I do have a problem with this modern attitude of being ok and accepting everything and everyone regardless, love yourself whatever and it's ok to be overweight. Yes, respect as a person is due absolutely, regardless of appearance, but unhealthy is unhealthy and, like it or not, it will come back to bite us all at some point. Had a discussion with my wife about plus size models recently. Yes it more accurately reflects society to go down this path, and as a father of two girls I absolutely hate the idea of them seeing as the gold standard this beanpole, near skeletal, duck lipped, caked in make up image of beauty we've had in the past. But we shouldn't glorify obesity either. Its not good to be obese, it does have an effect eventually. It makes life harder for us and our loved ones, sometimes also taking them away from us early, and is ultimately a disease that we need to educate and legislate on.
It won't change unfortunately. The "powers that be" earn too much money from the businesses that profit from it and it likely acts as a convenient population control in Western countries.
It's a very easy problem to solve really - compared to some of the issues they spend billions on that have no chance of improving. But as I say, it doesn't serve the decision makers much to solve it.
There's a mega simple rule to getting to a healthier weight and that's to eat whole food for 90% of the time. Its REALLY hard to eat 2000 calories in one sitting of whole food. You can do it with a pizza in 5 minutes though. Whole food auto-regulates itself. Realistically of course keep in some wiggle room to enjoy nice stuff like one meal a week or go all out for 1 day every 2 weeks. But if you stick to 90% whole food you'll find it really hard to get fat.
It's a very easy problem to solve really - compared to some of the issues they spend billions on that have no chance of improving. But as I say, it doesn't serve the decision makers much to solve it.
There's a mega simple rule to getting to a healthier weight and that's to eat whole food for 90% of the time. Its REALLY hard to eat 2000 calories in one sitting of whole food. You can do it with a pizza in 5 minutes though. Whole food auto-regulates itself. Realistically of course keep in some wiggle room to enjoy nice stuff like one meal a week or go all out for 1 day every 2 weeks. But if you stick to 90% whole food you'll find it really hard to get fat.
I had a whole box of jaffa cakes this morning, does that count?It won't change unfortunately. The "powers that be" earn too much money from the businesses that profit from it and it likely acts as a convenient population control in Western countries.
It's a very easy problem to solve really - compared to some of the issues they spend billions on that have no chance of improving. But as I say, it doesn't serve the decision makers much to solve it.
There's a mega simple rule to getting to a healthier weight and that's to eat whole food for 90% of the time. Its REALLY hard to eat 2000 calories in one sitting of whole food. You can do it with a pizza in 5 minutes though. Whole food auto-regulates itself. Realistically of course keep in some wiggle room to enjoy nice stuff like one meal a week or go all out for 1 day every 2 weeks. But if you stick to 90% whole food you'll find it really hard to get fat.
hilts
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I still fit in jeans I had in my 20’s.
Been a 34 waist forever.
I subscribe to the eat lots of red meat, drink lots of red wine take lots of drugs diet. It’s a belter.
The gout can be a bit of a **** though…
I'd see a doctor that doesn't sound like gout.
Try telling my poor big toe that.I'd see a doctor that doesn't sound like gout.
kaz7
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They are allowed to be whatever size they want , the average size of a british woman is 16 and has been for a long time , fat shaming makes them eat more not lessBut then you get ad's on telly with fat models promoting plus sizes and you're not allowed to fat shame anyone any more.