Tim Almond

On food buying

Try to buy a remotely healthy or low-calorie meal in a station, football stadium or most pubs and restaurants and you might as well cry for the moon. It is no surprise that obesity has doubled in the past 25 years and by 2050 we will be mainly an obese society.

I didn’t start doing most of those things until about 20 years ago, but I don’t remember being served fettucine with wild mushrooms on British Rail, a caesar salad at my local Watneys pub or getting much choice but soup or pies at the County Ground.

If there’s one thing that we have improved on, it’s that there are more healthy options available when we eat out (I’m too much of a fair weather supporter to know about the Cobblers food lately).

What has changed is two things in my opinion… 1) Less middle aged people smoke. So instead of getting bored and lighting up a cigarette, they snack instead. 2) We exercise less. I don’t mean the odd game of tennis. I mean that parks don’t seem to be so full of people as they were when I was a kid.

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