davegtt

only half? talking 10 times as less traffic and I aint joking.... I actually look forward to the drive to work at half time cause I get another 10 minutes in bed

Lum

No, the main issue is too knackered to cook when I finally get home. The times involved just limit my choices even further.

I can't keep milk either, which sucks. I wish they sold it in half and quarter pints, then I'd be able to have cornflakes in the morning at least.

Spring Heeled Jack

If you ate proper food you might not feel so tired all the time.

Lum

If I was allowed to drive at 100 on the motorway rather than 70, I might get home an hour and a half earlier and therefore have time to do proper food :P

Brendan Hughes

Either your maths is dodgy or you have one hell of a commute.

unclebuck

Ah - so it *is* New Labour's fault after all then!

SJ_Skyline

davegtt

By my reckoning its only a 45 mile commute which is MORE than possible, obviously thats all motorway from door to door Or is my maths cr@p aswell? (which wouldnt suprise me in the slightest)

Lum

I'm a field engineer. I'm based from either Merseyside or my GFs in Buckinghamshire. I have customers in Dundee and in Cornwall and many places in between.

I rarely see my home during the week, and a trip home from Dundee to Bucks is not that uncommon, though I usually end up staying the night at my own place in Liverpool and finishing the trip tomorrow.

Edit: There's 300 miles of M6/A74/M74 on that run, and god knows how much M5/M42/M40 (I go that way to avoid Brum and the roadworks) easilly room to gain 90 minutes if not more, I imagine.

Brendan Hughes

That's one hell of a commute

scoob_babe

we doing cook relatively quick and easy things in the week. Freeze the other portions and then do something that takes longer at the weekends

Leslie

Tiggs,

In one respect you are right about the effect of Junk food and it has a large bearing on people's general weight and health these days.

I was talking about organised competitive sport at my school such as rugby, soccer, hockey, cricket, gymnastics, swimming etc. as well as annual school sports days.

We used to run several school teams and would play other schools every week. Hell of a difference to PE as you mentioned.

That gave us all a basic fitness the effects of which have lasted all our lives. Even if we no longer play sports, our present fitness has been enhanced by what we did in our early days.

Les

Tiggs

but not all kids did that and not all kids were fat! I was never in any teams at school......but i nvere had crap food and did plenty outside of school.

i agree it may build a good "sport" attitude in kids but i cant see a direct link.

if our school had banned PE in 1985 i would not have got fatter! Nor would anyone else.

Angry

PE at school is not the issue here, its the cheapness and availability of ****e foods, be they processed or of the fast variety, especially in school.

When I was at secondary school about 10 years ago, there pretty much wasnt a healthy option on offer in the canteen, it was all burgers, chips, pizza, sausage rolls etc. All high fat low nutrition foods. Its the same(worse really) in the states.

Today, you can buy millions more processed food products than say, 30 years ago. Processed foods laden with god knows what chemicals to make it last longer, boil in the bag better, cook in your microwave faster, taste better, have more texture etc etc.

Its all this crap thats causing obesity, most of this "food" is just empty calories that get turned straight into fat.

How many parents actually make a meal from scratch these days? For that matter how many parents actually feed their kids rather than letting the kids cook for themselves.

How many kids faced with a choice of cooking a meal or microwaving something would choose cooking?

Microwave Chili Con Carne and boil in the bag rice

or

Frying up some mince and onions, adding some fresh tomatoes, tomato puree, a bit of water, spices, kidney beans, boiling up some rice etc etc.

5 minutes on high, bing its done or spend 2 hours making some decent food, Its a no brainer for them really in todays instant on quick fix society.

Who wants to get messy preparing vegetables, washing up pans etc etc kinda thing.

I was about 2 stone overweight all through my teen years, but was I unfit? No.

I played squash twice a week, cycled to school, attended PE etc, messed around outside with my mates, yet I was still overweight.

I only lost my excess fat from 2 years raving

I've only really managed to keep the weight off as my stomach now has no tolerance for crap foods, especially processed meats. Just a sniff of a McD's, or birdseye burgers sparks an acid attack of biblical proportions in my stomach.

I suppose its not so bad as it forces me to eat good food all the time.

Drunken Bungle Whore

Interesting article on Jamie Oliver in this weeks RT. He has to cook school dinners on a budget of 37p. 37p??????? FFS - what can we expect them to eat for 37p????


As he says - he deals with kids who know all about drugs, but nothing about courgettes and veg!

paulr

The reason for this is that if you are an overweight child you develop a larger capacity in your "fat cells" to store food,therefore when oyu are older it is easier to become fat.

Its like if you have a large garage,there is a tendancy to store more than if you have a smaller one,same principle.