levoleurdefruits Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 Chard looks the healthiest all they require is a bit more of it, some more fresh fruit and veg, dairy, meat or fish.....What stands out the most in the other pictures is the amount of convenience branded products the developed world eat.....cut out the expensive stuff and learn to cook from basic, seasonal, fresh, local ingredients, that is the best way going into the future. Please, It's CHAD not Chard. While similar in some ways, Chard is in Somerset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 Life expectancy, Chad: 48.9 years. Life expectancy, UK: 80.1 years. I'm off to get some Mars Bars. ...Chard doesn't have the NHS on tap.....high blood pressure tabs and insulin for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
levoleurdefruits Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 ...Chard doesn't have the NHS on tap.....high blood pressure tabs and insulin for example. No, really! Chard even has the NHS I'm led to believe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 Please, It's CHAD not Chard. While similar in some ways, Chard is in Somerset. Sorry about that, Chard is a very nice place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Tulip Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 Sorry about that, Chard is a very nice place. Name of that engineer bloke... You know the one, the one who only came to build a bridge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Executive Sadman Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 At least the German has a few beers! The americans have some budweiser in the back. Thats a kind of beer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dervis Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 On the morning of my very first day in the United States, I went to a diner. Sitting opposite me was a man and his wife. They were truly enormous. It was the first time I'd seen people that size, so I really couldn't help staring. Then the man's breakfast arrived. Approx 8 pancakes, could have been more as they were piled, on top of which he poured syrup. Then topped that with about 2 TABLESPOONS of sugar. Next to the pancakes were about 4 fried eggs and four waffles. I've been back a few times since and I never cease to be amazed at the crap Americans eat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son of Taeper Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 What strikes me is not the food, but the packaging. What a waste. And do people really eat so much ? I don't reckon I eat 1/8th of that. Yeah.I noticed a huge bag of Bakers in the uk picture. Sad when a nation lives off dog food. Come on guys, I spent a good amount of time in various countries, and lived off a packet of peanuts and a slice of licorice in one, but the doggy bites never were a staple part of my diet. I say unless I see a member of the uk family eat the doggy stuff, the survey is pig swill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorkins Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 It probably does have the healthiest, in that it is free from pesticides, radiation, subclinical antibiotics, persistent organic pollutants, genetic tampering, recombinant growth hormones, preservatives... I don't think so, much of the grain eaten in Africa is imported from other continents and is covered in as many chemicals as the stuff you buy in Tesco. Edit: For example, the staple diet in Guinea Bissau (like elsewhere in West Africa) is rice with a bit of vegetable sauce. The rice comes from Thailand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son of Taeper Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 The americans have some budweiser in the back. Thats a kind of beer. German beer is regulated as is its wine. Lager is a different animal. Lager Bier is a joke to pacify those with no taste buds imo. Belgium is a good place to try it all out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinker Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 Chard looks the healthiest all they require is a bit more of it, some more fresh fruit and veg, dairy, meat or fish.....What stands out the most in the other pictures is the amount of convenience branded products the developed world eat.....cut out the expensive stuff and learn to cook from basic, seasonal, fresh, local ingredients, that is the best way going into the future. Lifespan in Chad: 50 years Lifespan in the UK: 80 years http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richc Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 The photos are entertaining, but they're completely baseless. So the average American consumes one tomato slice per day and eats no other vegetables? Who's eating all those vegetables in American supermarkets, then? And the average Italian eats one persimmon per day? Is that even humanly possible? This is all just some middle-class, coastal American food snob trying to establish how superior they are because they shop at Whole Foods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ascii Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 The packaging will have more nutritional content than the contents. FACT! Come on then, back it up. IIRC correctly it was true in one case and isn't likely to be any more. I agree with the sentiment though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigantic Purple Slug Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 Lifespan in Chad: 50 years Lifespan in the UK: 80 years http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy It's fairly obvious that the Chad diet isn't "healthy" at all. Eating too little and of not enough variety is just as bad as eating too much fat/sugar rich foods. And at least eating the fat/sugar laden stuff is fun. Everything in moderation is the key. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 Lifespan in Chad: 50 years Lifespan in the UK: 80 years http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy This should add a few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 Yeah.I noticed a huge bag of Bakers in the uk picture. Sad when a nation lives off dog food. Come on guys, I spent a good amount of time in various countries, and lived off a packet of peanuts and a slice of licorice in one, but the doggy bites never were a staple part of my diet. I say unless I see a member of the uk family eat the doggy stuff, the survey is pig swill. It is the cat food I am more concerned about...they had a dog to eat the dog food. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son of Taeper Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 Could it be that people tend to eat on the run today....they don't plan their weekly meals in advance, they no longer shop with a shopping list and stick to it (unless they see an outstanding offer for something they would normally use), they shop when hungry, they buy snacks, fillers and fizzy drinks....they fail to plan ahead, they no longer sit down as a family to eat, they ring for a take away and eat it on the sofa watching HD flat screen. Easy tiger. I note you have a cat as an Av, and the British family have Go Cat on the table. They have a packet of Bakers for the dog , and we can see the dog in the picture. Question is, what happened to the cat? Would that have been a midday snack? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
200p Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 Germany: Awesome, even the Germans show efficiency in the layout of the food! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigantic Purple Slug Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 Easy tiger. I note you have a cat as an Av, and the British family have Go Cat on the table. They have a packet of Bakers for the dog , and we can see the dog in the picture. Question is, what happened to the cat? Would that have been a midday snack? I've eaten go-kat. It's not that bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliver Sutton Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 Life expectancy, Chad: 48.9 years. Life expectancy, UK: 80.1 years. I'm off to get some Mars Bars. Glasgow East End male life expectancy 54 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jammo Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 Awesome, even the Germans show efficiency in the layout of the food! One of the grapefruit fell off the pyramid. Someone's in for a beating when dad notices in the photo later. Anyway, the hell they eat 10 grapefruit, they'll have permanently numb lips. Where's the UK's alcohol, we are not being represented as the binge drinking nation we are proud of. US can keep that Budweiser filth. That's my 2 cents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
200p Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 One of the grapefruit fell off the pyramid. Someone's in for a beating when dad notices in the photo later. Anyway, the hell they eat 10 grapefruit, they'll have permanently numb lips. Where's the UK's alcohol, we are not being represented as the binge drinking nation we are proud of. US can keep that Budweiser filth. That's my 2 cents. hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEATH Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 The only westerners not eating pizza...... the italians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Executive Sadman Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 Glasgow East End male life expectancy 54 years. High badly dieting Chad-nese immigrant population? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Take Me Back To London! Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 The UK picture doesn't look all that representative of what British people really eat... not a single bit of meat or Yogurt as far as I can tell, and they've managed to squeeze in two boxes of animal food! I agree. I knew things were bad in the U.K., but I never thought it had got to the Mad Max level where people are resorting to eating Go-Cat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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