Biscuits to buy or not.

Should we buy biscuits

Unless you can afford top dollar, almost all biscuits on the shelves are laced with glucose-fructose syrup and palm oil both of which the world seems to be awash in and which the food industry is pumping into all sorts of things in which they have no place.

Neither are good for your health or your waistline.
If only food additives got as much scrutiny from our law makers as vaping...

Developments in medical science over the ages would push any philosophy of health and nutritional balance far from Aristotle's schema of 'moderate means' to a holistic approach whereby one moves entirely away from unhealthy consumption practices and so enters into an entirely novel phase of eating and drinking which then facilitates more exercise and attainment of further physical targets - possibly this is due (quite in contrast to Aristotle's day) to the subjection of most people to add cynical Big Food industry and common consumption of dangerous and at least partially addictive substances like tobacco and alcohol (the same can be said for salt and sugat).

Just as we see criticism of crash diets like Atkins that intervene in extremis in eating regimes that are already veering towards the extremes,

today's concept of moderation is now found in moves away from entire food groups, rejection of manufactured salt or sugar-based products and elimination of caffeine, nicotine and alcohol - weight loss and the recovery of the liver are thus facilitated rather than forced 'diet events'

Daily intake of calories

Energy: 8,400kJ/2,000kcal
Total fat: less than 70g
Saturates: less than 20g
Carbohydrate: at least 260g
Total sugars: 90g
Protein: 50g
Salt: less than 6g
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Healthy sources of carbohydrate — fruits, vegetables, legumes/pulses/beans and whole-grains — are just that: healthy.

Healthy sources of protein — legumes, nuts and seeds, and oily fish — are... healthy.

Healthy sources of fat (sources of monounsaturated and Omega-3 fatty acids), such as extra virgin olive oil, canola oil, avocados, nuts, seeds and oily fish are... healthy.

The inexorable rise of obesity and type II diabetes across so many countries tells us that something is going badly wrong, not least because without change the cost of treating type II diabetes will bankrupt most health care systems.

For a long time patients were told type II diabetes was a chronic, irreversible disease.
Patients were first given a tablet (usually metformin) then a second tablet, then insulin, then higher doses of insulin while all the time the disease was progressing.

Reducing carb intake even within weeks can result in perfectly normal glycaemic indices and no further role for anti-diabetic medication - why this should be the case is the question the Lancet study really needs to address.