Just Another David Gregory Blog
Normally when you donate £1 to Oxfam to help the charity’s ongoing efforts to fight poverty and suffering around the world some of the money is used to cover essential running costs.
During February, if you donate to Oxfam GB using Paypal they will cover these costs! So 100% of your donation will go straight to fighting poverty. See the video.
Once you understand this your diet will improve.
Pretty simple, isn’t it?
If everybody grasped this succinct truth, the Diet Industry would go out business overnight.
Although some argue that it isn’t a case of just eat less. It should be eat differently. It is quality, not quantity which matters. If you eat decent quality food, then you will automatically gradually reduce the quantity because the quality will make up for the quantity. More nourishing food is generally more filling and forms a healthy diet.
The problem is that in our society we are constantly being surrounded by food which essentially tastes good, but is very poor in nutrients. It is basically just a sugar rush. But as long as the demand from the masses is there for this junk food, the companies making it will keep on supplying it.
It is simple economics. In this case it is demand and supply.
What do you know, I’ve been on loads of diets and you’ve never been on one
It’s not rocket science. We know what we need to do to lose weight… It’s the willpower that is the problem ! Oh and also the choc addiction…
Reading around I discovered various suggestions for the secret of weight loss for the fat and lazy – just don’t have the calorific stuff in the house and when the munchies hit – invariably you’ll be too lazy to do anything about it – certainly not get off the sofa and walk to the shops – well it works for some.
To lose weight, eat fewer calories than your body uses. There wouldn’t be a dieting industry if people just understood that. The women in my family seem to think there’s a magic formula in diets that allows them to cheat this rule and they laugh when I tell them it’s as simple as that. “What do you know, I’ve been on loads of diets and you’ve never been on one”
One commenter in The Times went further suggesting that “It may sound drastic but the only way we’ll lose weight as a nation is to be put on rations. There is too much food available. Supermarkets, petrol stations, cafes like Starbucks and Cafe Nero, and Greggs which produce very low nutritional-high fat/sugary pastries etc.”
Happy New Year – and EAT LESS
It is interesting that there are many arguments banded about that seems to suggest that because scientists cannot prove beyond doubt that there is man made climate change – then there is definitely not.
I find it difficult to believe that the number of humans on the planet does not have a detrimental effect on our climate and/or eco-system.
I come at this from a slightly different angle. Reading reports aboout the devastating effects of climate change from non profit organisations such as Oxfam I find it difficult to believe that the number of humans on the planet does not have a detrimental effect on our climate and/or eco-system.
I think about these facts: near tripling of population since 1950, an estimated doubling of power use in the last 30 years, a 25% increase in food production per head of global population (despite the population explosion) since 1960, increased air travel and 600 million cars on the plant. Have we really achieved all of this without impacting on both the climate and the eco-system?
Perhaps we have but the common sense part of me doubts it. I am not an eco-warrior by any stretch of the imagination but neither am I an ostrich with my head in the sand.
The trouble is that society is driven (in the majority) by the dual goals of living longer and consuming more of bigger and better things. Governments have encouraged this as it drives productivity, gives the proles something to aspire towards. Even now the government does not have the courage of its green convictions: fraudulent eco-taxes on motorists whilst commissioning coal fired power stations. Really messed up, contradictory policies that only serve to disenfranchise people rather than encourage them to consider resource use.
We are lucky in the west. We’ve outsourced pollution on a massive scale. We can live in ignorant bliss of the pollution from cities such as Chongqing in China and the devastation of the Yangtze River eco-system. Perhaps however we will reap the ill effects of this pollution.
I am not convinced in the slightest that we can reverse any of these trends. Most people believe we can multiply and consume to infinity without impacting global climate change.
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Action on Salt and Health aims to combat the
problems of salt and recently I optimised their web site for added
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Too much salt is bad for your heart. |
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Charities supporting blood pressure and cardiac research |
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More recipes and miscellaneous stuff at the blog Top Banana |
Eat, drink and be merry. |
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On the home brewing front the National Home Brewed Beer Festival competition has been and gone for another year. As Richard quoted "And gentlemen in England now abed, shall think themselves accursed they were not there"
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Dave and Jan headed off to Lustleigh in Dartmoor National Park, Devon. A tremendous change from the past few years in London and we hope to be able to put our diverse skills to good use and earn a crust in between gardening, basking in the sun, surfing. eating cream teas and munching pasties with the Pasty Muncher - not necessarily in order. Latest news - the south west now has antique chinese furniture available at Honiton and Lustleigh and coming soon will be a fantastic fabric warehouse outlet that will offer curtains, blinds and bedding for your home. |
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