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eating healthily in the UK (Score:2)
Drink fresh fruit juice instead of fizzy drinks, avoid places like macdonalds and instead go to places like Beetroot in soho or any Felafel restaurant. Even the average pub grub in london is fairly well balanced, just so long as you have carbs in the day and protein in the evening. The hotel you stayed in would have provided continental breakfast so thats the day sorted.
Also avoid s
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Re:eating healthily in the UK (Score:2)
Re:eating healthily in the UK (Score:2)
And in whose footsteps did we follow this trend..? The home of fast food, the United States.
Fortunately the government acknowledges the problem and is doing something (although, as always, just a token effort rather than really making a difference).
It isn't hard to eat healthily though, most of the obesity isn't because there isn't access of healthy food (very very few people, and certainly a tiny minority of the overweight are more than a mile from the nearest affordable source of fresh vegetables and other balanced food).
In Truro we have farmers markets, a Tesco's, Marks and Spencers, Sainsburies, Co-op, and somerfield all within a short walk of both car parks and bus stations. All of those supermarkets sell a wide range of healthy food. Then we have indian, chinese, and even japanese restaurants, deli's etc including vegetarian and organic restuarants.
Wherever I have lived in london has always been a short walk to at least 2 decent supermarkets and a proper market (with stalls and much cheaper better food).
No excuses, only laziness.
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Re:eating healthily in the UK (Score:2)
Unhappily so.
Supermarkets aren't quite so prevalent here (at least in Pittsburgh) because they tend to be larger and most people drive instead of walk for their groceries. (Boo!) But it's actually much easier to eat healthier almost everywhere you go now -- even many fast food places have one or two items that, while you might not want it for every meal, will do in a pinch. (Salads and such.) I don't think it's a coincidence that it's also much easier to get at least decent bee
Re:eating healthily in the UK (Score:2)
It's similiar to being in a restaurent when somebody chooses the "healthier" fish option without realising that the sauce contains more fat content than the rest of the menu combined.
-Dom
Re:eating healthily in the UK (Score:2)
Well, then as lazy programmers, we are all doomed!
Seriously, this is really the bottom line - we have grown too comfortable with ignoring the nutritional value (or lack thereof) of what we eat. We've also "outsourced" our decisions to companies who really don't care about us, but about their profits. Put 'em together and it's a bad situation where we're creating a demand for Bad Food and it will only get worse.
The South Beach Diet may be a fad, but at least it's creating awar
Re:eating healthily in the UK (Score:2)
You can get low-carb food in any health food shop or pharmacy along with the usual snake oil and trendy gimmicks.
The brits are on the whole aware of what we consume, its just that many of us consume too much and have a drinking culture that adds even more weight.
oh and laziness, the information and the decent food (even organic, lo
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