(Un)Healthy Eating

[MichaelJH]

The battle the government are up against to get people to eat healthily and stop fuelling the obesity/diabetes/heart disease crisis came home to me over the last two days when I saw some meal deals.

In a supermarket there was a £5 frozen food meal deal. It consisted of pizza, garlic bread, potato wedges, chicken bites and ice lollies.

Then through the letterbox came a meal deal from a pizza company. This consisted of pizza, cheesy wedges, chicken strippers and garlic bread.

What stands out it that both deals are excessively high it carbs and fats with limited protein in the pizza topping and Rather more in the chicken bits! Very limited fibre, and vitamins and minerals.

I find this quite frightening!

But I also known that many of us hearties are not obese and have not eaten unhealthily but have bad genetics and/or luck!

[TamlaMotown]

It's quite infuriating Michael that people who abuse their body seem to get away with it 🤔

[wiltsgirl]

I know what you mean Michael, there are lots of incentives to not cook for yourself or choose heathy options. All I will say is that people have a choice of what they put in their mouths. Just wish that they then wouldn't call upon the NHS to bail them out! We need to treat the cause not the effect.

[CharlesL]

I think that the government should keep out of peoples lives. C

[wiltsgirl in reply to CharlesL]

Surely CharlesL if we are asking the Government to support our ailments then we should be listening to them about a healthy lifestyle?

[CharlesL in reply to wiltsgirl]

Okay you are right, I guess that I was a bit flippant, but I don’t think that the government always knows best, and the NHS has an interest in turning us all into dependant victims

Take care

C

[MichaelJH Heart Star]

I would love it if people would police themselves without interference but sadly many cannot. On Sundays it becomes a free for all in the local town centre as without enforcement there is considerable inconsiderate, and even dangerous, parking! At the various cardiology clinics I attended I saw many badly overweight people - one young man of around 30 looked like he had gained a stone per year. One man I spoke to was being considered for further stents and when I saw him again outside he was smoking! The NHS is stretched to capacity - many of us incurring long delays - and the situation cannot continue! End of rant!!!

[kel55 in reply to MichaelJH]

good rant but how can one person have more rights over another. durring my last rehab l met a 70 yo who will not give up working, his wife was begging him to stopwork because they had enough money, hed had two heart attacts a couple of strokes and he couldnt see that he was cutting lumps out of his life expectancy, were do we class him?

Why should l suffer because some cannot cannot understand the consept of everythink in moderation?

[pibrom]

I have a theory that all these fried chicken shops etc are being opened by the government to make sure the younger generation doesn't live long enough to collect their retirement pensions and so save the country a fortune.

[MichaelJH Heart Star in reply to pibrom]

They are a lesson in converting healthy food to unhealthy food. One person in the cardio clinic admitted he used to eat it every working day!

[gal4God]

U need to make the choices and not wait for government to force it. I cut out bad fat and salt.

[Yasyass]

I know people wh eat anything and their cholesterol and bp normAl and I was eating healthy walking had ha now hf