Re: God help us


"WebMonkey" <slopeyeSPAMBUStER@xxxxxxxxxxx> skrev i melding
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> Camilla Carcary wrote:
>> "Harry Keane" <Harry_Keane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> skrev i melding
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>>> Camilla Carcary wrote:
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>> Well, maybe I'm wrong here. But what I think of as chips are
>>>> usually deep fried and are not at all healthy. If we keep it to
>>>> those products, I don't think my statement is sweeping, or whatever
>>>> you called it.
>>>>
>>>> Potatoes that are boiled or baked without big amounts of fat I
>>>> wouldn't consider unhealthy.
>>>>
>>>> Camilla
>>>
>>> I's agree that the standard definition of chips would include the
>>> term "deep-fried". If they weren't deep-fried, IMHO, they would not
>>> be chips but saute potatoes or something of that ilk.
>>>
>>> Having got that out of the way, I don't see any reason to take issue
>>> with the proposition that lots of fried food is injurious to your
>>> health. Even if you only believe 10% of what you see and hear in
>>> newspapers, TV and radio, it must be clear that there are long-term
>>> health hazards in eating lots of fried food.
>>>
>>> Further, there is a reasonable amount of evidence to link poor diet
>>> in children with academic under-achievement (admittedly it is one of
>>> a number of factors, but quite an important one), behavioural
>>> problems and health and lifestyle problems in adult life.
>>
>> That is so very true... the problem is also that this type of
>> unhealthy food is not very expencive (unfortunately), so people with
>> little ressourses moneywise tend to eat this very unhealthy food, and
>> their health are poor and their children in alot af cases are
>> underachievers, have behavioural problems etc.... ofcourse the food
>> isn't the only factor here, it has to do with social factors,
>> socioeconomic factors etc etc... but good eating could help these
>> children and their parents quite a bit.
>>
>> When I lived in Halifax, I lived with this familiy who realy didn't
>> have much money. Their diet consisted of mainly, eggs and chips and
>> lots of white bread, chips and beans, chip butty, and more ore less
>> chips, white bread and beans with everything. The occanitional sunday
>> dinner with yorkshire pud's were lovely though :-D
>>
>> They bought potatoes, cut them up and deep fried them!!!!! What a
>> waste of good vitamins and food... you kill everything in the deep
>> frier, and you add a big amount of fat to your diet as well....
>>
>> Camilla
>
> I have been reliably informed that women cannot cook to save thier lives.
> What do you have to say to that Cam ?

Well, it must be true then ;-)

Camilla


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