Anyone watch this program last night?
They carved open the corpse of an obese guy who died of a heart attack.
Nasty!!! My diet starts today!!!
Jamie Oliver: Eat to Save Your Life
Hi,
yes, I saw it and I agree diet and gym. I have to say I bottled out with the disection and I felt I had sufficient information without seeing the last 10 mins of the program. At least I do not eat very often at fast food places but what is frightening is how the food industry is killing us by adding more and more suger and salt to our standard foods without us realising it.
I thought it was a very good programme and tonight there is show about how many calories there are in the food you eat when you go out. That should be enough to stop me going to restaurants.
Have fun
Martin
I kept thinking I was doing alrightish with my diet, then he went through whats in the stuff I eat and I just wanted to throw up on the spot.
Even Special K has doubled the sugar content over the past few years... is nothing sacred?
Am gonna be making that tomato sauce he whipped up... looked easy and healthy!
H
I am also very worried about my health and seeing that had quite some impact in my sleeping time yesterday night
My excuses for doing little to none exercise are the number of hours I work everyday (inlcuding a little bit of commuting, etc it goes around 11) and the fact I have two little ones (5 years and 20 months) that suck all my energy at night. Any suggestion on how to find time available to do some exercise at least three times per week?
I should take my own advice, but ... have you tried the gym at lunchtimes?
I used to do it regularly, and once you get going you realise you actually gain energy rather then loosing it.
After a spiffing night of vodka, beer and cigars at the Talacker it was almost midnight before I realised that perhaps some food was in order. As my usual vitualling stations were by this time closed, I went in McDonalds and ordered a Filet-o-Fish.
This had so much salt on it as to make it inedible. I went and remonstrated with them as they are causing real problems in me maintaining my otherwise healthy lifestyle and diet balance.
dave
Well Dave, as the saying goes "Healthy Body, Healthy Mind"...
and you're a mentalist!
Thanks hugh_abu, that could be a good starting point. I have few conference calls starting at 1pm when the Americans wake up in the other part of the world, but I guess I could arrange my schedule and leave the office around 11:30. As stupid as it might sound, I always associated doing exercises with early mornings or late nights. It is certainly time for a change, don't want to end up in that discetion table
Which channel was it on? I have an abysmal diet (mainly liquid with a few solids), but cook everything we eat from scratch. We don't have fast food nor frozen stuff. Occasionally we do get a pizza from Migros but that's about all. I comfort myself with the fact that I know what's in it all.
There is a season of food programs on Channel 4 with all the celebrity chefs getting involved. I have been watching it quite closely.
Sounds quite healthy if you are cooking everything from scratch, thats definitely the way to go.
Oh, that's a timely reminder, Hugh_Abu. Thanks. (Has Mr Oliver lost the weight he visibly gained in the past couple of years though?)
I've been cooking all our meals from scratch -- unless we were eating out seeing friends. However, lately I've been trying a couple of spinach tarts and spring rolls from the freezer of the supermarket. Guess I'd better stop while I'm ahead.
i agree with hugh about gym at lunch: regardless of how well i eat/sleep/drink i'm always ready to sleep about 2/3pm. gym at lunch (which i also never actually do) leads to energy GAINS at this time.
i feel michael pollan's advice is suitable succinct: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
(or, much, much longer: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/ma...pagewanted=all )
and Billy Connolly:" Eat Less , Move More".
Will the food-evangelists please cease and desist. As it is very dull. Get back onto the Anti-smoking-and-any-kind-of-good-time-thread.
dave
I read that article too Sam.. good stuff.
Also check this out http://blog.wellnesstips.ca/blog/index.php/?p=59
Swimming at lunchtime is great. It has you bouncing off the walls in afternoon client meetings.
dave
Did any one watch Dispatches - The truth about food with Jane Moore last week? very interesting, they had 3 families, one eating budget range ready meals from leading supermarkets, one eating premium and healthy ranges from leading supermarkets and the 3rd family eating their normal diet of freshly prepared food (I cook 95% of my meals from scratch so was interested in the result) anyway one of the biggest surprises was that some of the premium (sainsburys taste the difference etc..) had more fat, salt, sugar than the cheap budget comparable meals, the healthy ready meals were full of sugar and salt and sometimes had more fat that the non healthy options.
At the end of the experiment they calculated all the nutritional values and surprisingly the cook from scratch family consumed similar amounts as the ready meals families (really surprised me) but they didn't aim to cook healthily and still used lots of fats, salts sugars in their cooking
It took me three years to realise that I work right by lake Zurich and a Badi where you can have a shower afterwards.
Now that is what I call a good quality of life... "lake swimming at lunchtime" - didn't REM write a song about that?
his book ( http://tinyurl.com/3dodyt ) is very good. it reinforces many of the points raised in http://www.harpers.org/TheOilWeEat.html
there are (understandably, given the primary source of production) a lot of myths about the wonders of corn (including as biofuel). i'll never understand why "corn-fed X" is supposed to be a good thing.
I know it's against Jamie Oliver's "campaign" but don't you think he overreacted just a tad...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/7192519.stm
Everyone makes mistakes...
I don;t blame him for being angry after all he's trying to campaign against battery farming and then his restaurant go and use battery eggs, I know it was a mistake but the fact that lots of people seem to like to have a pop at Mr Oliver this is playing right into those persons hands and undermiming his campaign