Most of us blokes know bog all about healthy eating, partly
because of the tosh peddled in glossy magazines less clued-up than ourselves,
and partly because doctors and nurses receive next to no training in nutrition.
(Actually, most of the doctors I know survive on a finely-tuned diet of caffeine
and coke - that’s the soft drink, natch. Mmm…and the nurses are
more Vanessa Feltz than svelte.) The only safe port-of-call for sound food
advice is a qualified dietician, but that’s a load of time, dosh and
faff, plus they’re pretty hard to find. So to test whether you need to
bone up on your digestive diligence, let’s take the Gospel/Bollocks?
exam. Quiet at the back, please. Turn your papers over. Begin…
1. If I eat more than one egg a week I will die.
2. Wholemeal bread and brown bread contain the same amount of fibre.
3. Polyunsaturated spreads contain less fat and fewer calories than butter.
4. If I want to lose weight, I should cut out bread, pasta and tatties.
5. Cutting out red meat is a good way to reduce fat intake.
6. Brown sugar is better for me than white.
7. If my cholesterol level was zero, I’d be much healthier.
8. Skimmed milk is watered down and contains less calcium than the neat stuff.
9. I can live in a world without fat.
10. Reading health surveys will make me better informed.
Read the full article in the current issue of RedHanded.
Once food was about fuel and fun, now it’s a stewing-pot of health scares. Jason Jones sorts fat from fiction
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
