I stopped eating a lot of meat because good meat became too expensive and the cheap meat from Aldi was mostly 1 day from rancid.
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Trash article with no link to the study.
The UK eat like dogs, stuffing their faces with processed shit, and generally being slobbish. I’d love to know the metrics behind this. It’s probably considering baked beans and microwave sunday dinners as veges, lol.
edit: Apparently this comment is harrassment and flagged. Well done, Reddit!
There’s no way this is true. We have a poor diet in my opinion based on my experiences travelling. Lots of pre-prepared meals like frozen pizzas, fish fingers, chicken nuggets, take-aways and fast food. So many kids have extremely restrictive tastes and vegetable intake, only eating boiled carrots, peas and broccoli. Their study must have counted the tomato base on a Lidl pizza as a vegetable, or cider as a fruit.
Obviously caused by meat tax so we can’t afford to eat anything but boiled cabbage.
I find it so funny how people in the comments are generalising an entire country like this. Just because the UK has a bunch of fat families on benefits who eat nothing but chips and pie, doesn’t mean nobody in the UK eats healthy lmao. Talk about stereotypes. You must just be generalising based on the people you know…
What’s does the “world’s best at eating” mean? You chew it the correct number of times, eat with your mouth crossed, you use cutlery?
Midjourney in a big newspaper? Surely they can get actual photos?
Chips are technically a vegetable though, yeah?
I’m sure lots of us manage to eat five portions of those a day.
Not Scotland. Those people are allergic to vegetables
It’s from the OECD Health at a Glance 2023 publication.
It’s on page 93, two pages after the graph which shows the UK has the second highest cocaine use.
After reading the oecd report, there are many categories where uk has dropped since last time & the data is self reported. The best stat they could pull from the report is that people say they eat more vegetables than other places.
In a lot of countries, per capita, the population eat more vegetables than the UK. The Times title is misleading. What happens is that most people in the world don’t have money AND time to eat FIVE different types of fruit and veggies.
Just don’t read The Times or use it as a toilet paper.
Once again a positive thing and everybody just complaining or disputing. Fuck me, I’m out of here. Unsubbed.
I’m happy to see I’m keeping both of the countries up with my New Year’s resolution last year.
Actually eating them, or buying them and leaving them in the fridge until they rot and then throwing them away shamefully?
It’s simply not true, I’m sorry but if people believe things that The Times report then I don’t know what to say to you. We have terrible options and in the UK it’s recommended 5 a day, which most don’t follow and in countries like Japan, a country with a healthy population with incredibly low obesity rates, they recommend 8 a day. It’s false and frankly so irrelevant and fluffy. The average UK citizen is better at being a vegetable than eating them, the way we’ve walked ourselves in to such a dire circumstances and then we have drivel like this to “lift us up”. What a load of shit.
Surprised really, especially when you go to places in, say, SE Asia where meals contain relatively little animal protein. Yay us.
I found the only 2% of Romanians eating enough fruit and veg bears out the experience of vegetarians I know who have been there on holiday. One friend found the vegetarian option at the hotel was dry bread rolls. For the whole time he was there. Not even an apple on offer. Admittedly this was a few years ago but he’s never gone back to find out if the situation has changed.
Some of the most overweight people I know eat a ton of veggies and have an active, sporty lifestyle. Their issue is taking in excess calories on top of that.
Often in the form of big portion sizes, booze and habitual binge eating. (The binge eating generally being the result of using it as a form of emotional regulation or just not having that off switch that tells you when three biscuits is enough)
As the saying goes, can’t outrun a bad diet. Taking a salad on top of your McDonald’s order is actually just extra calories, admittedly ones that ought to help satiate people blessed with a healthy feeding drive.
I find these kinds of studies weird because what actual data are they using? It doesn’t account for the entire population because nobody asked me if I eat fruit and veg. Seems more like an assumption based on consumption of how many people buy fruit and veg.
Might this be even better if Scotland was excluded?
The UK is actually good at something? That is surprising news!
Having travelled and lived in various parts of the world I have to call bullshit on this one.
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https://news.sky.com/story/uk-ranked-fourth-for-having-most-overweight-and-obese-adults-in-europe-according-to-who-study-12604643
Must be deep fried veggies.
I stopped eating a lot of meat because good meat became too expensive and the cheap meat from Aldi was mostly 1 day from rancid.
[deleted]
Trash article with no link to the study.
The UK eat like dogs, stuffing their faces with processed shit, and generally being slobbish. I’d love to know the metrics behind this. It’s probably considering baked beans and microwave sunday dinners as veges, lol.
edit: Apparently this comment is harrassment and flagged. Well done, Reddit!
There’s no way this is true. We have a poor diet in my opinion based on my experiences travelling. Lots of pre-prepared meals like frozen pizzas, fish fingers, chicken nuggets, take-aways and fast food. So many kids have extremely restrictive tastes and vegetable intake, only eating boiled carrots, peas and broccoli. Their study must have counted the tomato base on a Lidl pizza as a vegetable, or cider as a fruit.
Obviously caused by meat tax so we can’t afford to eat anything but boiled cabbage.
I find it so funny how people in the comments are generalising an entire country like this. Just because the UK has a bunch of fat families on benefits who eat nothing but chips and pie, doesn’t mean nobody in the UK eats healthy lmao. Talk about stereotypes. You must just be generalising based on the people you know…
What’s does the “world’s best at eating” mean? You chew it the correct number of times, eat with your mouth crossed, you use cutlery?
Midjourney in a big newspaper? Surely they can get actual photos?
Chips are technically a vegetable though, yeah?
I’m sure lots of us manage to eat five portions of those a day.
Not Scotland. Those people are allergic to vegetables
It’s from the OECD Health at a Glance 2023 publication.
Here is the full report: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/7a7afb35-en.pdf?expires=1704118083&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=95F1EAF20955F6409781ECFA2756C9E9
It’s on page 93, two pages after the graph which shows the UK has the second highest cocaine use.
After reading the oecd report, there are many categories where uk has dropped since last time & the data is self reported. The best stat they could pull from the report is that people say they eat more vegetables than other places.
Bull shite
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/vegetable-consumption-per-capita-country-203707653.html
In a lot of countries, per capita, the population eat more vegetables than the UK. The Times title is misleading. What happens is that most people in the world don’t have money AND time to eat FIVE different types of fruit and veggies.
Just don’t read The Times or use it as a toilet paper.
A study that comprised 30 OECD countries does not mean anything in global terms. OECD countries eat way more meat than the global average ([source](https://data.oecd.org/agroutput/meat-consumption.htm)) so there’s no way the UK is at the top of any truly international ranking. This study doesn’t even count India, which is 39% vegetarian ([source](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/07/08/eight-in-ten-indians-limit-meat-in-their-diets-and-four-in-ten-consider-themselves-vegetarian/)).
Once again a positive thing and everybody just complaining or disputing. Fuck me, I’m out of here. Unsubbed.
I’m happy to see I’m keeping both of the countries up with my New Year’s resolution last year.
Actually eating them, or buying them and leaving them in the fridge until they rot and then throwing them away shamefully?
It’s simply not true, I’m sorry but if people believe things that The Times report then I don’t know what to say to you. We have terrible options and in the UK it’s recommended 5 a day, which most don’t follow and in countries like Japan, a country with a healthy population with incredibly low obesity rates, they recommend 8 a day. It’s false and frankly so irrelevant and fluffy. The average UK citizen is better at being a vegetable than eating them, the way we’ve walked ourselves in to such a dire circumstances and then we have drivel like this to “lift us up”. What a load of shit.
Surprised really, especially when you go to places in, say, SE Asia where meals contain relatively little animal protein. Yay us.
I found the only 2% of Romanians eating enough fruit and veg bears out the experience of vegetarians I know who have been there on holiday. One friend found the vegetarian option at the hotel was dry bread rolls. For the whole time he was there. Not even an apple on offer. Admittedly this was a few years ago but he’s never gone back to find out if the situation has changed.
Some of the most overweight people I know eat a ton of veggies and have an active, sporty lifestyle. Their issue is taking in excess calories on top of that.
Often in the form of big portion sizes, booze and habitual binge eating. (The binge eating generally being the result of using it as a form of emotional regulation or just not having that off switch that tells you when three biscuits is enough)
As the saying goes, can’t outrun a bad diet. Taking a salad on top of your McDonald’s order is actually just extra calories, admittedly ones that ought to help satiate people blessed with a healthy feeding drive.
I find these kinds of studies weird because what actual data are they using? It doesn’t account for the entire population because nobody asked me if I eat fruit and veg. Seems more like an assumption based on consumption of how many people buy fruit and veg.
Might this be even better if Scotland was excluded?
The UK is actually good at something? That is surprising news!
Having travelled and lived in various parts of the world I have to call bullshit on this one.