Kids apparently now shouldn't eat packet processed meat such as ham sandwiches in pack lunches as will cause a hightened risk of cancer in later life. Havent we had all this with salmon etc, honestly if we took on board all of these supposed risks all we would eat is salad and soya beans.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8202188.stm

Your not allowed to eat salad unless it's orgasmic.......
And don't mention soya beans.

Is it orgasmic if you happen to see the salad dressing

apparenty bacon is on their hit list as well.

That's me fooked - I just had 2 bacon butties with hp sauce, luvverley.

Every week now, we have the health obsessives and their partners in self flagellation, the Lentil Fundamentalists (with the emphasis on 'mentalist') lecturing us via the telly and papers that just about every mildly enjoyable little treat in life is gonna bring us down with some horrendous disease. With this nagging global religion continually wagging their collective fingers at us and looking with ill disguised contempt at us for failing to follow their masochistic diktats, I have to ask the question, will the life these frothing control freaks rejoice in be even worth living .....?
Another thought, if, we follow all their austere rules for a healthy but tediously boring life, what happens if they're proved wrong? ...also, if we aren't dying of those bogey man diseases, what are we gonna die of, nobody ever died of nothing, although boring to death and losing the will to live could become the most common causes by a mile.

Have a walk down St Hildas on the Headland and see what the average age of people who lived in the 1800's was when they checked out. Most were lucky to see thier mid-forties. We must be doing something right, diet wise.

It's still bollox what they're saying though. It's obvious that if you eat fresh food, it's going to be better than something that has been loaded with preservatives and coated in chemicals, but pre-packed scran wasn't about in the 1800's yet the average lifespan of folk was a lot lower. (I realise that there were other reasons for this other than poor diet)

The 5-a-day thing, I reckon is a scam by supermarkets to sell more perishables.
The salt intake thing is also pap. Every person is different.

I was trying a touch of sarcasm.

Surely your not as old as that joke.

Now you can't drink or you will get cancer. We should eat we want,drink what we want, smoke what we want and die happy.

I was not sure if it was a freudian slip like that one of the girl on blockbusters

A couple of years ago, I read a report that in the 1930's, the healthiest, fittest, workers, due to the nature of their job were dockers. It also stated that despite that, they had one of the lowest life expectancies, in their mid 40's, due to the fact that they basically worked themselves to death.
To take the advice of the health industry to it's logical conclusion, we should all be constantly exercising and eating only meagre meals .... lycra and lentils, what a f****** prospect.

I completely agree with you Snowy. It's like they're trying to force an embargo on enjoyment sometimes!

Don't forget that all over the country there's thousands of people employed in offices scaring the shiit out of people with their doom-mongering. It's an industry that has to keep coming out with health scare bollox to justify it's own comfortable existence.
The fact that these arrogant clowns have a degree in some PC related subject doesn't mean we have to take them seriously.

And, moving sideways slightly, I hope you've all spotted in the press over the last few days that you've on no account to take Tamiflu. It's useless, has nasty side effects and was only ever recommended because the Government had bought lots and lots of the stuff by mistake, and now wants to get rid of it quickish.

The 5-a-day thing, I reckon is a scam by supermarkets to sell more perishables.
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surely you can see that a scheme such as the 5 a day is a good thing! if its only led to a quarter of the population of this nation eating more fruit and veg then its been a winner, no one can doubt the benefits of eating more fruit and veg, and 5 was just given as a bench mark, people need some kind of targets so 5 will have been given as this. Maybe people dont always achieve 5 but atleast more people now are trying to increase their fruit and veg intake as a result of this campagain, got to be a good thing. Judging by the size of a lot of the youngsters and teenagers and 20 somethings in this town/region/nation, I would say a whole lot more needs to be done, and any campaign aimed at improving the health of the population is to be welcomed

I've just heard this morning that my 38 year old nephew has died of a heart attack.

Live every day as if it's your last, one day it will be.

Sorry to hear that mate.

Thats awful news Billingham Poolie. Certainly makes you think about things.




I didn't say it was a bad thing. I probably have 5 a day but I certainly don't count the fruit and veg that I eat or aim to hit that target. The point I was trying to make is that every individual person is different.

It always baffles me how you see old women who have smoked 60 bines a day for 60 years and are still going strong, or people who religiously have a skinful on 3 or 4 nights a week, take on a fried breakfast on Saturday and Sunday and never have a hangover or suffer from health problems.

surely you can see that a scheme such as the 5 a day is a good thing! if its only led to a quarter of the population of this nation eating more fruit and veg then its been a winner, no one can doubt the benefits of eating more fruit and veg, and 5 was just given as a bench mark, people need some kind of targets so 5 will have been given as this. Maybe people dont always achieve 5 but atleast more people now are trying to increase their fruit and veg intake as a result of this campagain, got to be a good thing. Judging by the size of a lot of the youngsters and teenagers and 20 somethings in this town/region/nation, I would say a whole lot more needs to be done, and any campaign aimed at improving the health of the population is to be welcomed[/quote]
Most people are fully aware that fruit and veg are good for you, that's not the problem. The problem is this new legion of professional health naggers on good salaries going on and on and on stating the bleedin obvious.
Just give people the facts and let them decide, if they're too thick to act on the advice, that's their tough luck.

There are a lot of lucky sods out there.

I walked past an old couple at the war memorial today, smoking like chimneys they we're, i said to the wife, how can some people smoke everyday for 60 years and have no problems, yet some smoke for 20 years and get lung cancer.

I know a lot of people who like you said go out a lot, and have nothing on em.

Everybody is different and there body stores fat in different ways.

John Hartson once said he'd put on a stone if he ate one cheese burger, he could work his arse off for 5-6 hours a day in training and never lose weight.

Could the beans ,tomatoes ,mushrooms and hash browns that i have with my fry up , be included in the five veg a day plan ..

the tomatoes yes but nothing else,i was thinking of having extra salad with a kebab

baked beans are a very healthy option for breakfast, have them on toast with a poached egg and you'll be in the olympic squad in 2012, with a bit of training of course ;)

Just before I left England there was the TV doctor on the morning programme talking about what to eat at Christmas and how good or bad the traditional Christmas grub is. The Christmas cake came up and the fact that lots of people give the bowl to the kids to scrape out when they're making it. 'Oh no' she said, 'you can't do that. It's got raw egg in it.'

Does anyone know anyone that's ever been ill through scraping out the Christmas cake bowl??

We did it for years but it was still eating seven selection boxes in a morning that made us sick.

LOL, my mum always used to let me do that and the raw egg thing never occured to me.

Hasn't a prairie oyster got a raw egg in it.
Shit I'll just have to have a hangover then.

I know three lads who died of heart attacks in their thirties, all skinny, fit sportsmen. I saw a pattern developing then.

The pattern being that they probably all had congenital heart defects, that probably would have killed them in their 20's, if they hadn't been skinny fit sportsmen.

I prefer the stress option, all angry over achievers who were going to the top.