Help choosing a snack...

[Kezzieboy]

No it's not http://www.nhs.uk/change4life/Pages/five-a-day.aspx Seems people are always trying to cause an argument on this website.

I'm sorry, but NHS changeforlife isn't a valid resource for information on nutrition. The 5-a-day programme was chosen as an attainable goal that most people might actually try to acheive. If you tell the populus they should be eating 5 portions of veg and 2 of fruit each day they'll tell you to f*ck off and continue eating the shite that they were already eating. Tell them to eat some combination of 5 fruit and veg and they might just try.

Recent research has shown that increasing that to 7 is a far better prospect, and many other countries already recommend this (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26818377)

The fructose issue has been covered a LOT by nutritionists, at the end of the day fruit is VERY high in sugar (hence why it tastes so good) and the stuff people say about it being fine because it's 'natural sugar' is nonsense.

Glucose, as in the stuff in actual sugar, is also natural and in reality easier for the body to process, and yet we all know not to eat chocolate all day. Fruit is no different except that in small quantities the positive effects of the the vitamins present in fruit outweigh the negative effects of the fructose. It's also worth mentioning there that these vitamins are also present in abundant quantities in veg, without and Fructose, for example a potato has as much vitamin C in it as an orange.


I'll shut up now, but I'm really into nutrition, and my brother studied it at uni, so I've absorbed quite a lot of information about it over the years