In the UK we are going to hell in a handbasket filled with food.
Average UK male weight up 16lb in 15 years, study finds
The average British man was more than a stone heavier in 2000 than he was in 1986, an Oxford University study found.
Scientists put the average weight rise of 7.7kg (16.9lb) down to men eating more calories and taking less physical exercise than 15 years earlier.
The British Heart Foundation research in the British Journal of Nutrition analysed changes in food consumption and body weight between 1986 and 2000.
Women's average weight gain over the period was 5.4kg (11.9lb).
By studying official figures on body weight from 1986 and 2000 and calculating the food energy available during that time, researchers were able to work out the expected extra food eaten by men and women during that period.
They predicted that the average man in 2000 ate more food than the average man in 1986 - enough to make him 4.7kg (10.3lb) heavier in weight.
But the actual observed increase in average male weight turned out to be higher.
This was much more than expected, so the study concluded that a reduction in physical activity was behind the increased weight as well as the extra food.
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The food industry is thriving, feeding our addictions and providing a readily available food fix at any time of the day or night.
Its not the extra food that is the problem, and we know we cant lost weight with exercise alone.
Its our addiction to sugar, wheat and potato, with lashing of cows milk in a dozen different forms.
For food based in these ingredients there are millions of hungry, if not desperate consumers.
Food addicts get fat, ( except of course for those who starve after or instead of eating or vomit it all back.)
Lets change our diet, eliminate all this wheat, dairy potato and sugar. Lets feast daily on all the other lovely delicious ingredients now plentiful and inexpensive, and watch the pounds fall off and our energy rising.
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