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To be sick of the food Gestapo on here?

286 replies

MaddyHatter · 01/09/2016 18:44

Honestly, the amount of declarations about what is healthy and unhealthy.. its ridiculous.

if you listened to everyone on here we'd all have to be vegans and living off sucking water through a celery stick.

Just shut up. If you honestly think food like Sausages, Mashed Potato, Tomato Soup, bread, cheese, milk and most fruit are unhealthy, the you're teaching your kids into eating disorders.

OP posts:
bibliomania · 02/09/2016 15:34

My mother tried to forcefeed me goji berries when I was pregnant, shudder.

RavenclawRemedials · 02/09/2016 16:22

Yoko Gillian McKeith's reputation hasn't been the same since Ben Goldacre mercilessly tore her apart in his book Bad Science. It's got some chapters in it that really do take the lid off the 'nutrition' industry.

petitpois55 · 02/09/2016 16:25

I always used to think that Mc Keith was a shocking advert for her diet and nutrition advice. Who on each would want to look like her?

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 02/09/2016 16:29

I'm not defending her because she should never have called herself a Dr., but she DID achieve something with her tv show, on getting people to look at their poo. It is something that everyone really should pay attention to, as it can pick up first signs that something is wrong (e.g. bowel cancer) - and too many people ignore it.

TaraCarter · 02/09/2016 16:42

I feel a bit sorry for GMcK, even though I think she's a deluded charlatan. She gets ridiculed so much for being the same age as Nigella, often using pictures from I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here. Nigella is very beautiful, but we don't normally see her two weeks into a camping trip without make-up and stylists.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 02/09/2016 17:01

Goji berries are vile

I think BIWI is partially right we eat far too many shitty processed carbs.

Can't get het up about fruit though, or carbs in veg - it's pretty much impossible to be a low carb or Paleo vegan... Grin

Blueshoessingloose · 02/09/2016 17:02

Why are you putting vegans in there? Not eating animal products when there are healthier alternatives is an ethical choice. Choosing not to cause pain to a sentient creature to put food on your plate when you have other options isn't equal to the crazy of people who for some bizarre reason think apples and mangoes are junk food. I give my kid jelly tots and vegan chocolate. After a healthy meal. If she wants cake at someone's birthday, I'll let her on with it and keep my squirms to myself....

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 02/09/2016 17:08

Blueshoes I am a vegan Confused I never said anything about vegans being crazy....

squoosh · 02/09/2016 17:11

someone on the sausages thread said that peanut M&Ms were as good nutritionally as the sausages/mash/beans.

They said peanut M&M's were nutritionally superior to potatoes.

Obviously I've now hired that person as my personal nutrition adviser.

Blueshoessingloose · 02/09/2016 17:16

ItsAll; I wasn't replying to you!

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 02/09/2016 17:18

Oops, sorry blue

Blueshoessingloose · 02/09/2016 17:20
Wink
StillStayingClassySanDiego · 02/09/2016 17:23

I know Gillian was made to look a tit in IACGMOUH but she did talk some sense as Thumballudes to.

Lweji · 02/09/2016 17:59

GemmaWella81

Definitely not worth not eating things you like.

I doubt that 103 year old man extended his life due to not eating meat.

My own grandmother is older than him and she's eaten meat all her life.

She also seems to have exercised by being a bitch to most people in her life. Grin And taking long afternoon naps (SAHM).

hippydippybaloney · 02/09/2016 18:48

We are having sausages for dinner tonight. Been craving them since that thread. It's mumsnet, they're waitrose and have apple in them, so that makes it ok, yeah?

BuggersMuddle · 02/09/2016 18:56

If I was to take the food police on Mumsnet at face value it's a wonder my generation are all still alive.

Packed lunch was routinely: white bread sandwich, apple, packet or crisps and some kind of sugary beverage. This was a better choice than school dinners which were in fact slop and would feature such wonders as:

  • Find the mystery meat
  • That's no a pizza ffs
  • 'Spaghetti shapes' that were most definitely not Heinz, served with a baked potato Hmm

Oh and those 'juice' cartons that were so full of additives they practically glowed.

At secondary you could get a cheesy chip to go with your cherry coke though, which was probably at least as balanced as the 'meal options' at primary.

I'm not suggesting this is a good thing btw, but perhaps a reminder that it's okay to unclench about the odd treat, or indeed the fat content of miniscule portions of cheese / sugar content of grapes...

Advicepls7080 · 02/09/2016 19:28

Very few centurions have ever been vegan or vegetarian there's a lecturer that studies ageing I can't remember his name I'll try and find it and has said most people who have lived to 100+ have been meat eaters.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 02/09/2016 19:36

I am in my 50s now. It's really a wonder I've made it this far. My favourite school dinner: tinned ravioli, lovely flabby tinned green beans and roast potatoes, followed by steamed jam roll (made with suet). I had seconds of both on a few halcyon occasions.

At home, one of my mum's standby meals was pies bought from the butcher (lots of puff pastry, not much meat), chips made in the chip pan with dripping and baked beans or (if we were out of beans) spaghetti hoops. This would be followed by bread and butter, with jam available if wanted, and some sort of cake or chocolate biscuit, all washed down with tea (full-fat milk, of course).

We are a Scottish family and this solid food was ideally suited to her dad's needs - he was a gardener. Less suited to our nuclear family, given that my dad had a sedentary job. Later in the evening my brother and I might be allowed to share an apple between us (yes, half an apple - she was bothered that there might be waste if we had a whole apple each) but while we all sat watching TV there would be sweets circulating (my parents were wartime children, neither had ever got over rationing).

Fast forward to the present. My mum and dad are still doing pretty well in their 80s. I'm a few pounds overweight but not doing too badly, considering. Meanwhile, my whippet thin husband, keen and obsessive runner, never one to gorge on food, is the one with a cardiac history - you can't dodge genetics, unfortunately.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 02/09/2016 19:47

Very few centurions have ever been vegan or vegetarian there's a lecturer that studies ageing I can't remember his name I'll try and find it and has said most people who have lived to 100+ have been meat eaters

Most people in general are meat eaters...

Statelychangers · 02/09/2016 20:14

My mother smokes 30 cigarettes a day, she's 84, fit and healthy - I think she'll live past 100!....I don't know what all the fuss is about! Wink

SnugglySnerd · 02/09/2016 20:17

I actually get annoyed that because I'm veggie people tend to assume I have a very healthy diet and love salad. I don't especially enjoy chewing salad for hours on end and while I do eat a lot of fresh veg I also eat a lot of cake, slather butter onto toast or jacket potatoes and love a take away.

TaraCarter · 02/09/2016 20:20

there's a lecturer that studies ageing I can't remember his name I'll try and find it and has said most people who have lived to 100+ have been meat eaters

I would hope so. It would be a terrible indictment on eating meat if a diet followed by the majority of the global population wasn't well represented among the very tiny numbers of people who make it post 100 years old.

BIWI · 02/09/2016 21:18

MisstressDeeCee you are very deluded if you think people in the UK aren't overweight!

This is from the NHS:

In 2014, 58% of women and 65% of men were overweight or obese. Obesity prevalence has increased from 15% in 1993 to 26% in 2014.
• In 2014/15, more than 1 in 5 children in Reception, and 1 in 3 children in Year 6 were measured as obese or overweight. Children in most deprived areas are twice as likely to be obese than children in least deprived areas.