Another interesting opinion

[nhs2015]

An article from my Sunday paper. Maybe if you save the picture then you can enlarge it and read it clearly?

[Dave1961 25kg]

So true this article.

The idea that you can eat yourself healthy just by buying superfoods when in reality eating healthily with 3 meals and two light snacks plus some exercise is actually what we need to do.

There is no magic bullet, no amazing pill and no celebrity diet that will do any better than healthy eating and some decent exercise.

A quick fix does not exist.

I know.

I have been chasing that quick fix for almost 40 years!

[IndigoBlue61 in reply to Dave1961]

Hear hear! Totally agree 😊

[Sprout15]

Funny isn't it that all these super foods are more expensive than the stuff I used to eat as a kid! Think we are being exploited by the very powerful supermarkets who want us to choose expensive stuff to boost their profits, or am just cynical?

[nhs2015 in reply to Sprout15]

No you are not cynical. We are being exploited. It is just reality when a company can put specific misleading words on packagings to make people buy those items. Marketing is a cynical business. I think in our weight loss journey we have to be aware of Marketing techniques.

[kantara71 in reply to Sprout15]

I agree with nhs2015, you have just had your eyes opened and can see through their relentless push for profits. I grew up in the 50s and 60s where there was virtually no fast food, ready meals or takeaways. Breakfast was cereal or porridge, lunch was a sandwich or school dinner and in the evenings a cooked meal at home, normally comprising two veg and meat. Sweet treats were once a week and we went out every day and played with our friends around the streets in the park etc. There were very few obese children or adults and I was skinny as a rake There are no super foods just super toxins that the food industry seems to ADD to their products and the cycle begins !

[nhs2015 in reply to kantara71]

You are right kantara.

We used to have a cake every Sunday. Bought it from the baker on our way back home from church. We used to drool all the way home.......

[Lm1919 in reply to kantara71]

Totally agree with you there. Treats back in the day (70's & 80's for me) were exactly that a treat, we only ever had sweets on a Saturday a little bag filled from the penny tray or a 1/4 of something from the jars and because we only had them once a week we made them last!

Only exception was extra treats on holidays or ice cream in the summer but even then you had to leg it out to the van before it drive off so burnt calaries going for it

I loved playng out in all weathers, having to stop in was a punishment. I too was a skinny kid, adulthood and sedentary job has been a curse!

[nhs2015 in reply to Lm1919]

Also LM too much concealed sugar in our food, addiction to it and larger helping.

[Sprout15]

Very true.

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I found this on the NHS pages - interesting resource for anyone wanting to know a bit more of the science behind these myths nhs.uk/Livewell/superfoods/... Lots of people have already eaten tonnes of broccoli, goji berries etc to check these benefits for us

[nhs2015 in reply to Hidden]

Thank you Ruth. It gives you food for thought doesn't it? Pardon the punt 😀

[flavourfiend]

The myth that carrots help you see in the dark was created by the War Ministry during WW2, in an attempt to conceal the fact that the Allies had discovered radar!

Carrots were also one of the few foods that we had plenty of, so it encouraged people to eat more of them without complaining.

[Activity2004 Visitor]

It's worth a try! You can also enlarge the print by holding down the ctrl button and moving the ball part of the mouse!

[DartmoorDumpling Restart Feb 2024]

I was taught that a deficiency in Vitamin A leads to night blindness - and carrots are a good source of vitamin A (carotene) which is where the tale of carrots helping you to see in the dark came from. There is a little bit of truth in a lot of these old tales...

[nhs2015 in reply to DartmoorDumpling]

As a child, I used to be told that carrots were good for eyesight because rabbits eat carrots and you don't see rabbits wearing glasses. We have always eaten carrots but now both of us wear glasses! So so so disappointed

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