Eat, Drink and ? | the courier newspaper

September 07, 2012 ? Zoe ?

I HAVE just been reading about how certain things are now suddenly bad for you and am wondering what, if anything I can eat, drink, look at, smell, touch or listen to.
How many of us actually take note of what these experts tell us? I for one don?t. If I like something I eat it, if I don?t want to look at something I won?t. I am an adult and it is hard to take all this advice seriously, well it is for me at least. Don?t get me wrong, I know for example that smoking is bad for you, which is why I gave up 14 years ago. There is medical evidence that it does damage to the body, so ignoring smoking and illegal drugs, what evidence is there that how we live our lives is good or bad? Of course I am talking about the usual suspects here, although too much fruit can rot your teeth and milk can make you fat so let?s not ignore those healthy options!
For example let?s take wine, red for me, chilled in the summer and room temperature in winter, but is it as simple as red wine is good and white wine bad? How much should we be drinking? Apparently wine consumption has fallen dramatically over the years due to a drop in the number of female wine drinkers, I must say I?m doing my bit, come on ladies keep up! Then there is chocolate, I could write the rest of my article on the virtues of the sweet stuff but I?ll try and keep it short. Dark chocolate good, milk chocolate yummy ? white chocolate? Sometimes depending on how I?m feeling and if I?ve bought some for my son and he doesn?t feel like finishing it, as far as being good or bad, no idea.
Cheese is great melted on toast or over spaghetti, eggs are favoured scrambled because it reminds me of my youth or added to make a pancake when all I could afford was flour, eggs and milk; white bread is best for sandwiches but brown for toast.
This is how I see what I eat, I try not to fry everything because I have reached the age now where fat seems to sit on my thighs and I am aware grease is not a good look, but I eat a bit of everything in moderation. As I?ve mentioned before I am a vegetarian so I don?t eat any meat or fish; however some fish are very good for you and some say others can kill you. I?ll let you fish eaters figure that one out.
It seems that every week I am reading that certain foods are good, then bad, then good again. Our grandparents did not count the calories or worry about saturated fats, they got on with their lives, worked hard which naturally kept their weight down and lived full lives. The fact that we now live longer I put down to better medical care rather than a better diet. If my grandmother lived without good bacteria special drinks, then I am sure that I can too.
I am not overweight although if I overeat I would very easily gain weight which is why I try to exercise regularly and try not to eat too much. I finish eating when I?m full and have managed to wean myself out of the eat everything on the plate syndrome. But, apart from food and drink I don?t like, I deny myself nothing. My fridge is a mix of salad and chocolate, fizzy pop and water, and my cupboards contain crisps and olives. All foodstuff provides us with an invaluable part of our health, there are very few foods that have absolutely no nutritional value at all and those that have very little still provide us with something just as important, a sense of satisfaction or even happiness.
The only rule I tend to try and follow is drink water when it?s hot, I also read that we no longer need as much water as once advocated, but I have always drunk when thirsty, seems a good rule to me!
I am not advocating everyone go out and stuff their faces with chocolate and wine, although what a diet! All I?m saying is enjoy the foods and drink you love just don?t survive plainly on it because even carrots are bad for you if you eat too many.

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