It seems healthy living has taken a nutritious grip on the nation, which in fairness, is a good thing for everyone, there’s no arguments there.
Organic foods, Low fat dairy products, Lean Meats, all these things are now more available than ever before and if you make a decision to change your eating habits, there has never been a better time.
Of course we have the crash dieters and the quick fixes, the GI diets (recently proven to be a load of my arse), The fAtkins (developed by a guy who died clinically obese) and my personal favourite (for hilarity) this De-tox diet that Carol fucking Vorderman endorses, now, fair enough, it won’t do you any harm eating green cabbage soup and quail eggs for a month, your farts will hum and your breath will smell like a dead mans thong but, you won’t put on weight (until you stop doing it), The worst thing about this one is that Scientists have said that De-toxing your system should take nothing more than a good nights rest, plenty of water and your body (spleen pancreas etc..) will do the rest.
What really grinds my gears though, is the way certain companies have seen the upsurge in healthy eating and have plopped themselves on the skinny bandwagon, We have to endure these awful campaigns for the various foodstuffs we would have either never heard of or would have avoided altogether and their morally offensive adverts.
Recently I’ve been growing ever tired of the “Actimel” type products that lower your cholesterol, fair enough, it might be “good bacteria” and a brand new type of science, but I’m not doubting the ability of these products, what freaks me out is the “Danone-Test” and lets face it, every single one of these products have come up with these.
Basically, they get you to consume a bottle a day and then ask you to “feel the difference”, translated from marketing speak this is what they want “Buy our product enough times to eat one a day and make us rich and then hopefully you’ll feel better in yourself, if you don’t fuck it – try it again, but yer not getting your money back”
It sickens me to think that people are dumb enough to get swallowed up by such a blatant marketing ploy. Imagine if Burger King did this?
“Try a whopper a day, and hopefully by the end of the week you’ll be an average of 45% more satisfied”
What did people do before this to lower their cholesterol? Were people walking around like ticking time bombs before the invention of these little watery yoghurts? (Cheers Johnny) According to a friend of mine, who is a nutritionalist, If you want to drastically cut down on your cholesterol, don’t even bother with these drinks, just drink plenty of water, stop eating fatty foods, eat more grains and non oily nuts, and for fucks sake EXERCISE A BIT!
It bugs the shit out of me when people moan about being overweight and then just sit on their arses eating nutri-grain bars in tracksuits. Get out to the frigging sunshine and take a walk with the dog!
The problem with national obesity begins at your doorstep, and hopefully once you get to your doorstep, you’ll look outside on this fantastic country of ours and take advantage of it.
