Fighting Obesity - Thoughts?
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@MajorRage said in Fighting Obesity - Thoughts?:
@Nepia Don't stress about the cholesterol pills ... I've been on them since I was 25. Genetic thing, nothing I Can do about it.
Tropical fruit is a proper marmite thing. Pineapples, mangoes, melons, lychees etc are the absolute nuts. Super sweet. Yet, you then get dragonfruit (fucking cardboard), durian (gas leak anywhere) and jackfruit (known as a duck substitute).
UK fruit, (like most (non Asian) city fruit, to be honest) is bland.
Agree. The thing is it gets force grown out of season or imported from thousands of miles away in refrigerated conditions. No wonder it tastes of fuck all. If you eat locally produced fruit in season it is a different story but then you’ve got fuck all to eat for half the year. The thing that really shits me though is that even in the middle of the English strawberry season, most of our supermarket stuff comes from Spain or Morocco . Why?
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@Catogrande we get Kiwifruit from Italy...
I planted another plum tree (luisa, have an established billington) this year, hoping I get a decent crop of golden queen peaches too, also hoping for a better crop of feijoa this summer, last year was very disappointing...I have stewed peaches, feijoas and plums still in the freezer
Just finished juicing some limes and lemons, and in one of the lemons a larve of something was wriggling about...fucker
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@taniwharugby said in Fighting Obesity - Thoughts?:
@Catogrande we get Kiwifruit from Italy...
I planted another plum tree (luisa, have an established billington) this year, hoping I get a decent crop of golden queen peaches too, also hoping for a better crop of feijoa this summer, last year was very disappointing...I have stewed peaches, feijoas and plums still in the freezer
Just finished juicing some limes and lemons, and in one of the lemons a larve of something was wriggling about...fucker
Protein bonus
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@Catogrande bring on Brexit!
The flip side of shit fruit is that the vegetables are superb.
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@MajorRage said in Fighting Obesity - Thoughts?:
@Catogrande bring on Brexit!
The flip side of shit fruit is that the vegetables are superb.
It took me many years to appreciate that, as my dear old Mum had just the one method for cooking all vegetables. Boil the bollocks off them. They all ended up soggy and tasting of dirty water with the occasional aroma of sulphur. Once I found that you could actually add flavour rather than leech it all out, I became a big fan. Even Brussels sprouts now and again.
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@MN5 said in Fighting Obesity - Thoughts?:
Didn’t we already have a thread for favourite foods?
.....and another one before that ?
We are talking nutrition here, Jock. Take your deep-fried <insert unhealthy already food here> national culinary traits elsewhere ...
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@MajorRage said in Fighting Obesity - Thoughts?:
@MN5 said in Fighting Obesity - Thoughts?:
Didn’t we already have a thread for favourite foods?
.....and another one before that ?
We are talking nutrition here, Jock. Take your deep-fried <insert unhealthy already food here> national culinary traits elsewhere ...
I’m the first to admit Scotland’s culinary delights are about as appealing as as an intimate evening with Ursula Carlson.
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@MN5 said in Fighting Obesity - Thoughts?:
@MajorRage said in Fighting Obesity - Thoughts?:
@MN5 said in Fighting Obesity - Thoughts?:
Didn’t we already have a thread for favourite foods?
.....and another one before that ?
We are talking nutrition here, Jock. Take your deep-fried <insert unhealthy already food here> national culinary traits elsewhere ...
I’m the first to admit Scotland’s culinary delights are about as appealing as as an intimate evening with Ursula Carlson.
Fuck you now. I had to go and google the truffle-hunter. <shudder>
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@Catogrande said in Fighting Obesity - Thoughts?:
@MN5 said in Fighting Obesity - Thoughts?:
@MajorRage said in Fighting Obesity - Thoughts?:
@MN5 said in Fighting Obesity - Thoughts?:
Didn’t we already have a thread for favourite foods?
.....and another one before that ?
We are talking nutrition here, Jock. Take your deep-fried <insert unhealthy already food here> national culinary traits elsewhere ...
I’m the first to admit Scotland’s culinary delights are about as appealing as as an intimate evening with Ursula Carlson.
Fuck you now. I had to go and google the truffle-hunter. <shudder>
@Catogrande said in Fighting Obesity - Thoughts?:
@MN5 said in Fighting Obesity - Thoughts?:
@MajorRage said in Fighting Obesity - Thoughts?:
@MN5 said in Fighting Obesity - Thoughts?:
Didn’t we already have a thread for favourite foods?
.....and another one before that ?
We are talking nutrition here, Jock. Take your deep-fried <insert unhealthy already food here> national culinary traits elsewhere ...
I’m the first to admit Scotland’s culinary delights are about as appealing as as an intimate evening with Ursula Carlson.
Fuck you now. I had to go and google the truffle-hunter. <shudder>
Images of that will make you shrink faster than a skinny dip in Antarctica
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Forgot to say the biggest change has been the anti-fat stance in favour of the low-fat but sugar substituted products.
Professor Yudkin the first guy to go head to head with the Sugar Daddies (primarily Corn producers) was ridiculed and run out of town.
He was right all along.
Low fat products have made the population fatter, with a side of diabetes.
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@MiketheSnow said in Fighting Obesity - Thoughts?:
Forgot to say the biggest change has been the anti-fat stance in favour of the low-fat but sugar substituted products.
Professor Yudkin the first guy to go head to head with the Sugar Daddies (primarily Corn producers) was ridiculed and run out of town.
He was right all along.
Low fat products have made the population fatter, with a side of diabetes.
Yep, very well known fact that. When something is not at it's natural level of fat it's replaced with something worse for your body.
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@Kirwan said in Fighting Obesity - Thoughts?:
@Godder said in Fighting Obesity - Thoughts?:
Excise tax on sugar and fat, spend the money susidising decent food and meals.
Related, families work and commute a lot more than 60 years ago, so have less time to prepare veges etc. That's a macroeconomic issue, but would be something I would personally work on (says the resident leftie).
Have Labour ever seen a problem they couldn't solve by tax?
A tax on sugar is just going to make people poorer, it won't change behaviour. IMO, the better approach is to remove GST on the foods you want to promote (eg Fruit and Vegetables) and educate kids in school (which has been happening in my kid's school)
I got the idea from noted Labour Party supporter, Gareth Morgan. Neither Labour nor National actually listen to economists on this type of thing - if they did, there would more taxes on externalities than there are.
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I cannot abide sweet foods. Natural or processed.
I actually cannot fathom why people crave such a one dimensional sickly, sticky taste. As a component to give depth of flavour yes but as the overriding flavour for me its akin to eating a cup of salt. Great as a flavour enhancer but fuck off on its own.
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@MajorRage said in Fighting Obesity - Thoughts?:
Tropical fruit is a proper marmite thing. Pineapples, mangoes, melons, lychees etc are the absolute nuts. Super sweet. Yet, you then get dragonfruit (fucking cardboard), durian (gas leak anywhere) and jackfruit (known as a duck substitute).
funnily enough i am not a massive fan of tropical fruit
Cold mango is amazing, pineapple is fucking great, the rest can fuck off. I have two high producing Paw Paw trees in my yard, but i can't stand the stuff. Too sweet, don't like the texture. I just give it all away.
What i have noticed as i have got older (or changed diet, not sure which) is my tolerance for deep fried foods has fallen right away. Too much of it and i feel like shit straight away.
