Bread and jam

Avalon · Bread and jam

Here's a fun article on a boy who only eats Bread and jam- and okay so a couple of other things. What I found most interesting were the posts in response to the article. And if there is one thing to be learnt? is that we are a complicated bunch.

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Avabread Shock

http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/east/series7/jam_sandwich_diet.shtml

SaintAngerBH · Re: Bread and jam

barb0324

Well you know, it's interesting when you consider that Germans eat mostly bread and jam for breakfast, a lot of flour products for lunch, and potatoes, rice etc with just about every meal. And so much cake and pastries...!

I don't know the latest statistics, but obesity and diabetes do not seem as rampant as in the US, but again, I could be wrong. Would be interesting to know why.

adwred

Well, for one, overeating isn't part of the culture there. And people are much more active. In North America, particularly in the US, portions are just sickly large. You are encouraged to eat ridiculous amounts. In Europe, that doesn't really exist. And people walk and bicycle everywhere.

SaintAngerBH

barb0324

The exercise part is certainly true, I usually lost weight when we spent the summer over there, although I ate and drank pretty much whatever I wanted! But we walked to the store daily, bicycled all over town, so that must be the difference.

I did notice in the past few years that since they have McD and BK etc. on every corner like we do, that there are more obese folks around. Even my daughter noticed that last year, we saw so many morbidly obese young people, it was astonishing!

Nicola

In Europe the germans are one of the obese folks; England is no better and Switzerland is not far behind! It is life style (not just sport!).

adwred

I think that Europe will eventually catch up to the US in terms of obesity because the food is moving away from the traditional diet. The US is just leading the way, but eventually, everyone else will follow, as long as American food and food chains continue to spread everywhere like a virus.

Avalon

Like Red Ants! Country to country underground! On ships, in cargo! We can't stop it I tell ya! Run, run for your lives! To the shuttle! Who's with me!
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adwred

If you like 'Ants taking over the world' themes, you should see the movie Phase IV! Freaky!! So 1970's and bleak and weird.

ReddyMcMeaty

obesity and the bad things are definitely rising in Germany...and the popularity of fat and good stuff is falling. Low fat yogurt and muesli and fruit is pushed instead of a heavy dark slice of bread with butter and cheese and salami on it, which I consider to be more traditional....along with full fat milks and yogurts. I think that noodle lunches are pretty en vogue too, rather than a meat and potato thing with a fatty sauce. Just going by what I see around here.

ReddyMcMeaty

I just read the article, and then the reader comments and OMG I am so glad that my son's first food was raw meat, followed by fatty cooked ribs and other meat. I cannot IMAGINE him refusing to eat anything but fruit or bread and jam. I wonder, because I've been there, if the parents of these kids let them eat this stuff out of desperation when the kids went through a picky phase and due to sensitivities/cravings the kids just continued to want only the bad stuff and it spiraled out of control. I know that when I am full of bread and sugar, I do not want meat, I only want more bread and sugar. If the kids were allowed to get truly hungry RIGHT FROM THE START when the pickiness started they may have been more likely to eat something healthy. However, most parents seem to despair over how to get vegetables into their kids, they're not making meat or fat the priority.

Avalon

Yes! Phase IV!!! What a classic! Do you have a poster of it on a wall? I've seen it somewhere recently... maybe in your pics.

adwred

I do indeed! In my curly hair photo.

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