Latest Moan From You and Me 2024

I use BT and micro soft edge, it seems if I change page it takes a while to go to the next page, first contact with the site is ok

 

I use Chrome. Anytime I get directed to a site on Edge I leave it as it is always slow.

I have been using artificial sweeteners in tea and coffee for 50 years and have recently started making cakes with Stevia and the like when it's for patchwork as we have a type 1 diabetic member. I also now replace flour with ground almonds for the gluten intolerant.

We eat a healthy diet with proteins, fruits and veggies and some carbs, usually wholemeal, so lots of fibre. Meals are cooked from fresh every day with no highly processed industrial stuff. No digestive or cardiac problems here.

 

Can someone suggest a foodstuff that isn't harmful if eaten excessively?

I dont think the problems lie around the substance its more about the quantity.

Remember, milk is bad for you, butter is bad for you, red meat is bad, fresh fruit rots your teeth I'm sure there are loads of others.

Its just not safe.

 

Ideally, yes, but we are primed by evolution to be drawn to calorie-dense food, which makes today's supermarkets a danger zone for most people.

I would like to see changes made to portion size perception. When fizzy drinks first came on the market, 200 mls was the norm, and even at that amount, Coca Cola had to add Phosphoric Acid, an anti-emetic, to the recipe because people found the direct hit of so much sugar in one go brought on nausea. We have become habituated to huge portions of junk food. To change that, you have to change what is on offer. If Coke cans shrank to 200 mls (maybe in several steps), people would start to see that as a portion size. The pleasure hit from sugar (or sweetened food) peaks in the first two bites/sips/spoonfuls and then decreases rapidly. People would adjust pretty quickly. Of course, the big food manufacturers would be aghast and start media campaigns about the nanny-state, etc. It might be a fight no gov could hope to win, even though it would be in the best interests of public health.

 

I can't eat celery. It has to be marked in bold on packaging as it is considered an allergen.

 

I suspect they would just have more 200 ml cans.

 

You mean I'll stop gardening at some point?