Jamie's sugar rush

[lastqueenofscotland]

Anyone be watching tonight?
I'm really looking forwards :)

In fact if you buy products without an ingredients list you cannot go far wrong - carrots are 100% carrot, a piece of real fish is 100% fish etc etc.

Helenadove Congratulations on the weightloss, that is really impressive. But how did you quit Diet Coke? I have a real problem with it and drink far too much of it.

head overnight oats are lush. Takes a couple of days to get just the right amount of milk, after that it's a doddle. I add linseed, banana or raspberries and a 1/2 tsp of sugar. Far less crap than a process cereal.

Isnt milk full of sugar too? Isn't that why new moms are told not to allow their babies to fall asleep with a bottle in their mouth?

I disagree about SW encouraging short term weight loss to ensure continued membership but I do think they need of drop the fat free agenda now, it's out of date, anyone with access to the internet understands that muller lights & artificial sweeteners are not going to be good for you.

Janet - I agree that is the ideal way to go but it's not always practical and nobody is perfect

People have just got so used to having sweet and/or convenience foods.

When I was growing up a treat was a couple of biscuits or a piece of cake and a glass of squash, nowadays what were once treats, are considered normal snacks & drinks for a lot of families, so are consumed several times a day, and every meal has to be followed by a pudding, and sweets, crisps and pop are separate again.... and that's without going into the meals themselves.

Haven't watched it but re cereal I really get the point of giving your kids sugar-free cereal. Surely you have to then put sugar on it yourself to make it palatable. Personally I can't imagine eating shredded wheat without sugar - gross. In which case how is it any better than having cereal with sugar in and NOT adding your own sugar to it?

Again, I haven't watched this but I think people stress way too much about what they and their kids eat. My kids eat plenty of sugary stuff (eg a couple of sweets a day, sugary cereal, biscuits etc) and plenty of healthy stuff too and I don't stress about it. None of them has yet had a filling or a toothache (they are age 9,7 and 5). I didn't have a filling until I was 15 and I ate loads of sugary stuff as a kid, just in moderation not as in bags and bags of sweets all the time.

I think in the modern world we have lost our way. Why do we need some gurning idiot telling us what to eat?

I'm surprised that people are surprised there is sugar in cereals, baked beans , yoghurt etc. I thought it was obvious!

What would be best for everyone is to learn moderation (in everything, not just food.) The odd soft drink doesn't hurt, as does the odd plate of chips, the odd glass of wine. The problem is with our society is we want everything to excess, food, gadgets etc.

I think we have lost sight of what moderation is - it doesn't mean eating something sweet three times a day.
Tooth decay is the short term damage of eating too much sugar but the long term damage ie diabeties doesn't make it's presense felt for quite a few years and the impact of diabeties is horrendous. We're not great at considering long term effects of unhealthy habits, we stick our heads in the sand and hope it will never happen.

Vicki my family eat Weetabix, Shredded Wheat and Porage without sugar. Maybe a bit of fruit sometimes to jazz it up. I'm sure plenty of people do it, it doesn't taste "gross".

What does taste nasty to me is over sweetened stuff like beans and tinned spaghetti. I really don't know how anyone can eat it.

My Chinese friends say that almost everything here tastes sweet - we have got so used to it we now can't taste the sugar as much.

Remember the first time I visited America mid 90's we couldn't eat their standard bread because it was so sweet and their coleslaw was full of sugar too. I bet our bread is just like theirs now.
Heinz beans are really very sweet, haven't had tinned spaghetti in over 20years.

American bread still has more sugar added than English. Weetabix has sugar added and is basically a form of cardboard in terms of how I feel about it anyway . Real food is nicer.

I just stopped drinking it (diet coke) back in April 2013 I noticed an improvement in my IBS straight away. I still get the odd flare up but nowhere near as often.

To clarify i lost 10 stone between 2002 and 2004. I slowly regained 4 stone after giving up smoking in 2005 and my husband becoming ill in 2006 (i became his carer and we were living on £40 a week for a good while and hospital parking and his prescriptions had to come out of that so it became impossible to eat healthily) Its in the last 2 years ive lost the 4 stone regain (DH is 23 yrs my senior and is now pension age) so i did actually keep a lot of the weight off and now ive lost the regain anyway. im not the most popular person at my SW group though for doing it my way.

Ive been there on the health inequality front and its health inequality that causes the problems. Which is why Jamies attitude to poorer people is wrong and i agree with the PP upthread. Tax the food companies who are loading their products with sugar.

For what it's worth, I had a very restricted diet in terms of sugar as a child & had no control at all when let loose as I grew older so struggled with an eating disorder from my teens to my 20s. Seems to me that kids these days need more than ever to learn moderation with sugar which means eating it & knowing when to stop. You can't learn moderation if you've never had it.

It's a rare child who doesn't get sugar - my kids were introduced to most sugary junk through primary school. Sweets for rewards, sweets for birthdays, sweets for Christmas, Easter, end of half term, because it's Friday, they concentrated hard....sweets were a big feature of primary school.

I got plenty of sweets as a kid but I had a sweet tooth and there was never enough and I still went a bit excessive when I had my own cash - who do I blame for my obsession with sugar?

It's certanily very difficult. One thing those with not much money could try is eating nothing until lunch time (there are huge benefits with intermittent fasts_ and only ever drinking water and walking rather than taking the bus whenever you can. Those changes alone would make a huge difference to the health of the nation and do not cost a penny, in fact they svae people money.

For what it's worth, I had a very restricted diet in terms of sugar as a child & had no control at all when let loose as I grew older so struggled with an eating disorder from my teens to my 20s.

Exactly the same with me.

Janet i did that while unemployed in the late 90s and i gained weight. It always cracks me up when someone who hasnt been there thinks they know better than someone who has.

Which is what im talking about when i say health inequality.

I'm just watching it now. I know we eat too much sugar, I know my kids do. Not sure what to do about it though.

I've just watched it and to me two things stood out. Taking the typical day they did which people thought was healthy, I'd be really surprised if people didn't realise that cereals like bran flakes are full of sugar, that low fat yogurt on top of it is full of sugar, that stir fry sauce is full of sugars, that flavoured water is full of sugar. People know, don't they, that anything processed is full of salt and sugar, the problem surely is that people don't have the time, knowledge or desire to cook from scratch. I was also really shocked by Cola in Mexio, I don't know why really but it seemed to me such obviously and shockingly immoral exploitation. Horrendous.

I'm just catching up on this. The hold Coke has on the population of Mexico is staggering.

I feel I battle the sugar every day. DD1 loves sweet things, always on at me for sweets, ice cream, biscuits. I mainly resist. But it is exhausting. One thing she is happy to have is water. If the Dcs ever had squash I'd have always waterered it down so much that if they get a carton on Ribena somewhere it was so sweet, they couldn't drink it and now they prefer water.

I'm often surprised at the puddings at school. Yes, we had puddings at school in the 70s but the rest of our diet consisted of no processed food at all. They don't need pudding at school.

I haven't seen it but I'm assuming that as I haven't had a new filling for 36 years, I'm not overweight, and I exercise regularly that I don't have to worry or am I wrong?! I thought I was quite healthy in spite of my penchant for fizzy drinks and shortcake. I've had fizzy drinks every day for about 30 years.

"It's certanily very difficult. One thing those with not much money could try is eating nothing until lunch time (there are huge benefits with intermittent fasts_ and only ever drinking water and walking rather than taking the bus whenever you can. Those changes alone would make a huge difference to the health of the nation and do not cost a penny, in fact they svae people money."

Janet blyton- we're not talking about poor people eating sugar. We're talking about everyone eating sugar. It's not about poor people necessarily