Are todays eating habits storing up health problems for the future?

When I was a child my Dad grew vegetables in our garden. he also had chickens.
When they got too old to lay eggs, gave them to a neighbour as he could not kill them.

The quality of the enamel on children's teeth is not just to do with diet.
Just saying.

Genes, Fluoride, Dentistry...

mabon2

Yes indeed all this oven/microwave/airfryer preprepared food is bad for people who eat it. It is full a various e's fat and sugar often hidden.

Air fryer food in my house is fresh food cooked from scratch. An Air fryer is an oven..... works like any oven, but smaller and quicker.

Jaxjacky

Because most women didn’t work, their role was primarily domestic and child rearing, I’d rather not have women return to that pigeon holing. It also meant one wage and in the 50’s there were still food shortages in some areas, the poorest of society were unhealthy and died early.
There were many disadvantages in those rose tinted days, particularly for women.

Exactly!

As an aside, and something to cheer those of us who are a tad (or more) a bit overweight, - there is an article today that shows that people who are overweight or slightly obese live just as long as those at what is considered a healthy weight, which seems slightly more than first thought.

Those who are less than 18 on the BMI scale are most at risk of early death and it doesn’t get too much better until about 24. Of course those obese people at 40 or above are at the same risk as those at 18.:

I feel quite happy after reading that😄

I’ve read similar. Apparently it is better to be slightly overweight than slightly underweight past the age of 60. Encouraging. Slightly,though. 😀

Did we really eat so much healthier in the past. Yes, less obese people, but that was because a shortage of food and far more physical type work which worked off calories.

Sunday brekkie when I was a child (40's and 50's), was often white bread soaked in egg and fried in fat, then covered in white sugar. Loved it.....Also my Mum for a treat would make me a sugar sandwich, white break, butter and sugar!!!

My Mum worked part-time, but always cooked a meal for us in the evening, always contained meat, potatoes and one vegetable. Tinned (very sugary) fruit for dessert and things like Angel Delight ,etc.

Life was very much harder back then, My Mum would ensure that I had one piece of fruit each day, but would keep these in a bag that only she had access to. No fruit bowls left out on dining tables back then. I think there are far too many rose-tinted specs around when we talk about our own past.

I was told in hospital this week that older people are much more vulnerable if they are slimmer and that they are more prone to breaks.
Some weight bearing is thought to be better for us. Obviously not being excessively heavy!

This was new to me.
Of course I was in an orthopedic department.

Not just breaks.
Being too thin also means they are vulnerable when they are ill.
I know someone like this who eventually took the advice on board. Thankfully.
It took some doing, and a few years before she could see that.

Did we really eat so much healthier in the past.
I would say yes. Or what pases for healthier.
Not all the people who eat "healthy", escape from illness.
I sometimes wonder if their diet is too narrow. That they are missing out on a more varied diet.

Apparently during the war people ate more healthily than previously. 🙄 I guess lack of sugar and fats? Vegetables were is reasonable supply.

But……I recall the thrill of these foods in the beginning. We were allowed to try, Vesta chow mien and another one can’t remember if it was a risotto? Also there was the Frey Bentos steak and kidney pie. I loved it if they appeared at our house as we had so much fish otherwise. Certainly wouldn’t be for me now though and fish is probably my first choice, how times change.

We visited a National Trust property where we were given a talk about the Victorian kitchens. Apparently the staff consumed a huge amount of calories every day but they did not put on weight because of the hard work they had to do. If you consume more calories than you expend you’ll put on weight. It’s very simple.

I was taught to cook from scratch and still do. Yes I was obese but lost 7st over 5 years counting calories and when I reached 15st,7lbs went to Age UK community fit club.
I was size 32 now 16 still trying to lost the last stone 4th year but 1 day I will get there.
I was born disabled so 7 exercises and 500 rotations on my static pedals a day . Got to sit fit class ,move it or lose it class , recently joined singing and exercise class and health and mindfulness class.

You choose what you eat but you can also choice to not eat rubbish packed full of chemicals . Plus you can exercise you don't need a gym . Plenty of classes for all ages and abilities you just have to look.

If you want to be healthy it takes hard work there are no short cuts . Plus never giving up .

Teaching your children to cook healthy meals from a young age is a must . My parents taught my brother and me plus using up leftovers . My children they have taught their sons .

nanna8

I’ve read similar. Apparently it is better to be slightly overweight than slightly underweight past the age of 60. Encouraging. Slightly,though. 😀

Yes, l saw this some time ago. I think many of us have always instinctively thought this as it means that there are reserves of fat in case of illness. I should have no problem.