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

Contents of Greggs sausage rolls…….

Llamedos13

A Gregg’s sausage roll is the the first thing I look for once off the flight from my home in Canada to Edinburgh😋My guilty pleasure.

Glad it's not just me! Had one yesterday after shopping at Tesco- but I'm cutting them out as from this week- wish me luck!

A Gregg’s sausage roll is the the first thing I look for once off the flight from my home in Canada to Edinburgh😋My guilty pleasure.

I had a Gregg's sausage roll for lunch today.
It's probably the first one I've eaten for about five years.

Yesterday was cheese and salad, chicken and vegetables and freshly squeezed juices, so I don't feel too guilty.

I usually cook from scratch and always did, even while I worked full-time.

When I see the number of grossly overweight young adults, I realise that many of them must be eating quite wrongly, and yes, I imagine they are laying in trouble for themselves.

However, that is their concern, not mine. They are not my relations, and even if they were, they would not want my unsolicitated advice.

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.

In my parents generation women did far more hard physical labour than today's generation whether they had employment or not.

I worked but always cooked a proper meal.

I would get up early and put something in the slow cooker.

I would be cooking supper in the late afternoon and supervising homework at the same time.

Saturday was for cleaning.

Surely the problems are already here?
When you have many, many people spending hundreds of pounds a month on a drug to stop them eating then I think you are a little late asking the question.

Yes, I remember my dad coming home with sweets and chocolate on Fridays too.
In those days you got paid every week.
My daughter takes her kids out for a treat on Fridays because she finished work early.
There's the answer- both parents are usually at work all week and so don't have time to cook and bake in the way our parents did.
Times change and habits too- I find getting cooked food delivered ridiculous especailly when there is so many time saving gadgets around, but people get lazy.
All three of my GKs eat way too much sugar so yes, maybe they are storing up problems for the future but when I was a child salt and sugar were always on the dining table- sugar went on and in everything so maybe it hasn't changed that much, it's just now we don't put the sugar or salt on the food ourselves?

They seem to be living longer now so perhaps we are wrong. They have much better teeth than we had here, no fillings, no decay. They also seem to have better complexions and less illnesses ( ok, vaccinations help )

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.

It’s not just food, it’s lack of exercise. 😱

Our parents were brought up in the 1920s 30s and wartime rationing, all when life was really hard not the easy time we have today. We worry about high calorie food, our parents families were struggling to find enough when hard labour was the order of the day.

There were very few overweight people when I was young. For us meals were cooked at home often with fruit and vegetables grown in the garden.
It was much harder work than having a take away delivered to the door but I think people were healthier then.
Most of the bought food like meat and dairy was bought from local farmers not from abroad.
We were allowed sweets on a Friday and not many of them!