This will give a very overall clear picture of exactly how big a problem this has become worldwide not just in our country but everywhere. Eating too much food has quite literally become a global phenomenon. According to what this site says where this information came from there are now 1.6 billion obese adults worldwide

Here is the list of the world’s fattest countries.

1. Nauru 94.5 percent
2. Micronesia 91.1 percent
3. Cook Islands 90.9 percent
4. Tonga 90.8 percent
5. Niue 81.7 percent
6. Samoa 80.4 percent
7. Palau 78.4 percent
8. Kuwait 74.2 percent
9. United States 74.1 percent
10. Kiribati 73.6 percent
11. Dominica 71 percent
12. Barbados 69.7 percent
13. Argentina 69.4 percent
14. Egypt 69.4 percent
15. Malta 68.7 percent
16. Greece 68.5 percent
17. New Zealand 68.4 percent
18. United Arab Emirates 68.3 percent
19. Mexico 68.1 percent
20. Trinidad and Tobago 67.9 percent
21. Australia 67.4 percent
22. Belarus 68.8 percent
23. Chile 65.3 percent
24. Venezuela 65.2 percent
25. Seychelles 64.6 percent
26. Bahrain 64.1percent
27. Andorra 63.8 percent
28. United Kingdom 63.8 percent
29. Saudi Arabia 63.5 percent
30. Monaco 62.4 percent
31. Bolivia 62.2 percent
32. San Marino 62.1 percent
33. Guatemala 61.2 percent
34. Mongolia 61.2 percent
35. Canada 61.1 percent
36. Quatar 61 percent
37. Uruguay 60.9 percent
38. Jordan 60.5 percent
39. Bahamas 60.4 percent
40. Iceland 60.4 percent
41. Nicaragua 60.4 percent
42. Cuba 60.1 percent
43. Germany 60.1 percent
44. Brunei Darussalam 59.8 percent
45. Slovenia 59.8 percent
46. Peru 59.6 percent
47. Vanuatu 59.6 percent
48. Finland 58.7 percent
49. Jamaica 57.4 percent
50. Israel 57.3 percent

I suppose when you look at this list and it’s no great surprise that the United States of America is in the top 10, and no great surprise that we number 28 on the list. Surprisingly enough China is in at 148 and has a score of 28.9 percent which is very low, Japan is even lower their score is 22.6 percent.
And interestingly enough India is at 176 and has a score of 16 percent.

Is it feasible to say that affluence is the cause of this it doesn’t seem so necessarily, the world over it just seems we have either good or poor eating habits which ever way you look at it, in this country we have a tendency to binge drink which is something which is on the increase.

Japan has been a very affluent society for a very long time now, but as we can see from the list their rates of obesity are very low, I dare say they have McDonalds, and take-away establishments much like every other country does.

But they could possibly have tighter restrictions on exactly how many there are in the country. If the thing about this is really we ultimately are in charge of what we eat, so if we become fat and or overweight then there is nobody to blame except ourselves. Which will always be the case I’m afraid.

References Forbes Worlds Fattest Countries

So here are six low-fat healthy ways to cook eggs.

Boiled Eggs

Very easy to do this way is, fill a saucepan with some water add some salt and boil your eggs depending on how you like your eggs, for soft-boiled boil for approximately five to six minutes.

And serve with wholemeal bread soldiers, you can put butter on the bread if you wish but make sure you spread sparingly and use low-fat spread.

For hard-boiled eggs follow the instructions for boiled eggs, except cook your eggs for about ten minutes, and serve with some toast, hard-boiled eggs are quite nice with a salad.

Scrambled eggs

I do my scrambled eggs one or two different ways, you can either cook them in a saucepan or in the microwave, whichever suits you best here is the method add about a quarter of a pint of milk into the saucepan, break two eggs Into the milk and whisk the eggs until the mixture goes yellow.

Put on a medium heat and stir until the mixture starts to bubble slightly, after a while the mixture will start to thicken and look like scrambled eggs. To do this in the microwave is a similar process but just use a microwaveable container made out of plastic or glass it doesn’t matter which.

Microwave on full power for about four to five minutes, depending on the power of your oven ours is a 650w oven and takes about roughly four to five minutes somewhere in between that time.

How you choose to serve this Is a matter of personal preference, I normally have mine on wholemeal bread. You can of course add some fresh parsley and sprinkle some ground pepper just to add a bit of flavour.

Omelet

Break two eggs Into a large mug use a fork to whisk them together, until you have a yellow mixture. Put a frying pan on to a medium heat, add some cooking oil corn oil or olive oil which probably the healthiest you don’t need a awful lot of cooking oil, add the mixture and cook it until it looks like a pancake. Turn once during cooking.

You can add some vegetables, If you wish add chopped mushrooms and chopped onions to bulk it up a bit and serve with a sauce of your choosing as a garnish.

Poached Eggs

Boil some water in a saucepan add some salt for flavouring, then slowly lower down the heat in order to simmer the water carefully break an egg into the saucepan and wait until you’re egg has turned white take out using a spoon perforated preferably and serve with toast or a bit of side salad.

Omelet Puff

This is a bit of a spin on the normal omelet recipe what you need to do with this is beat an egg in a cup, once you have done that beat together one tablespoonful of milk, and add some salt to this mixture, fold the egg white into a hot greased frying pan, and place this in the oven until it sets.

While it is still in the frying pan flip it over so it cooks on the other side, to take this recipe one step further you can add some bread crumbs soaked in milk, and add this to the beated yolk, and fold this into the beaten white. And that gives you a bread omelet recipe which makes six in total.

There are lots of other reasons to eat eggs coincidently studies have shown that eggs are an excellent appetite suppressant, they turn on the full signal in your brain.

Try eating eggs for breakfast and then take note how hungry you feel at dinner time you may be surprised at what you find.

Why opt for a high fibre diet ?

Fibre is a very key component to any healthy eating plan and or diet, also known in language terms as “roughage” it is responsible for general overall health, without fibre in your diet you may end up with poor digestion, stomach problems, and other ailments.

Fibre is a carbohydrate which we are unable to break down quickly in our stomachs, this serves the purpose of pushing food more quickly through our digestive tract and eliminating waste far more effectively.

Otherwise undigested food can reside in your stomach and will just sit and rot inside your stomach releasing toxins into your body.

How it helps to lose weight

This type of food takes longer to chew in your mouth so you won’t eat as much, when fibre reaches your stomach it acts like a sponge soaking up water, also it takes longer to break down than most other foods, this will give you a feeling of satisfaction and fullness, for a longer period of time this will help conquer cravings. A lot of fibre contains very few calories.

What are the health benefits ?

Because of the very effective elimination characteristics of it, it can help prevent such diseases as bowel cancer, piles, stop constipation which quite a lot of people suffer with, improve overall digestion, in less civilised countries where their diets are high in fibre they tend to have less diseases than their western counterparts have.

Fibre tends to be very low in fat but can help prevent cardiovascular disease which is brought on by hardening of the arteries when fat consumption is high in your diet. Fibre tends to be a good source of vitamins and minerals which is essential for correct body functioning, and also helps prevent cravings.

The best sources of fibre are ?

Wholegrain foods such as wholegrain breads ones that tend to have about four to 5 g per slice is ideal, others include muesli, Weetabix, Shredded wheat, baked beans, wholemeal pasta, Brown rice, porridge or oatmeal as its otherwise known as, dried fruits, nuts.

Best vegetable sources are:

Asparagus

Broccoli

Turnips

Jacket potato with skin

Sweet potatoes

Greenpeas

Carrots

Cauliflower

And spinach

Best fruit sources are:

Apples

Bananas

Blueberries

Pears

Strawberries

Raisins

And oranges

How much am I supposed to eat ?

The recommended guidelines are that you’re supposed to eat between 10 to 25 g of fibre per day I dare say that most of us don’t come anywhere near this figure, just recently in a tabloid newspaper it was quoted that Britons still don’t eat enough fruit and vegetables in their diet.

Studies around fibre

Fibre can be very good for your heart several studies in various countries have shown that eating a high fibre diet is a significant player, in lowering bad cholesterol the sort of fibre known as the soluble type has cholesterol-lowering properties.

The particular countries where the studies were done, their rate of coronary heart disease was a lot lower than those countries who ate less fibre.

The two types of fibre

The two types of fibre are insoluble and soluble soluble fibre tends to bind itself to cholesterol molecules and flushes it out of your body if there is any present think of it as a sponge soaking up all the bad cholesterol in your body.

Insoluble fibre on the other hand serves a different purpose this is purely for pushing food through your body very quickly, and keeping your digestive system functioning correctly this will help and stop problems, such as stomach cancers, bowel cancers and also stop you from being constipated as well.

Are there any problems with a high fibre diet ?

Not really know although some people do say that when they changeover to a higher fibre diet it can cause them to suffer from flatulence, but based on mine and a lot of other people’s experiences, this tends to be a short-term thing rather than rather than a long-term thing. So as we can see there are more pros and hardly any cons to having a nutritious high fibre diet.

So get eating those high fibre fruit and vegetables.

Its empty

1. Processed food is all about time saving, millions of pounds are spent every year on the junk that manufacturers pump out every year. Such is the methods that are used the overall quality, of the finished product mostly tends to be very low nutritional wise.

This is one of the reasons why when you are eating processed food, you tend to feel far more hungry than you would do if you are eating fresh prepared food, the reality of this time difference is marginal.

Fresh food in comparison tastes a lot better, processed food tends to taste very bland some of it to me, I would say is like eating cardboard although that is a bit of a slight exaggeration on my part.

A lot of food stores that sell pre-packaged frozen processed food have now jumped on the healthy craze in order to cash in on healthy eating. But then again this all tends to lead to misleading information on the packaging.

Let’s not mess about here the people that sell this garbage are interested in one thing only money. Nothing more and nothing less, do you really in your wildest dreams think that the people that make this junk are concerned about your health I think not.

One particular tactic that is used, is to focus on one healthy point ie for instance the packaging might contain contains 20% less fat, but what they will fail to tell you is what sort of fat it is, is it unsaturated fat or saturated fat which is the unhealthy type.

It may be the case that the particular product is low in fat but it also may be the case that it might have tons of sugar in order to compensate for this.

Another thing that is used on a lot of processed food especially in our country is the round nutritional pie chart where you have sections of a pie chart, in order to see the calories contained within the product etc.

What a lot of manufacturers have been doing just recently is putting down the values of either half or a quarter, of what it has in it say for instance, it might give you the total fat value. This to me seems to be another misleading way of trying to trick people into thinking they are buying something that is lower in fat when in actual fact it isn’t.

And if you think about it if we are taking notice of what we are eating how come as a nation we are still getting fatter, the something is wrong somewhere don’t you think ?

Have more money in your pocket

2. Processed food tends to be a lot more expensive than it is healthy counterpart if you think about the logistics of this here is why, when you’re eating food that is full of artificial crap and no nutrition whatsoever you’re bound to eat more of it.

Here’s something for you to do go, out and compare fresh food compared to processed food and see how much difference there is you might be surprised at what you find some processed food is quite cheap admittedly but that’s no reason to eat it

Boxes that contain processed food are bigger than the food inside it this is another psychological trick that you may not have realised. You’re not necessarily getting more for your money probably less if you look carefully.

its synthetic

3. When food is processed a lot of the nutritional value is lost in the process so added synthetic vitamins and minerals are added in order to make the shortfall, the only problem with this is that they are nowhere near as good as their regional counterparts so in a way you’re cheating yourself yet again.

As we said previously when you don’t get the correct vitamins and minerals from your food you will tend to eat more and because of the very nature of the food, you’re eating your more likely to gain weight. You see manufacturers can say packed with fortified vitamins but as we know they are no good.

Where is it ?

4. Where is it indeed everything that should be in processed food isn’t, on a scale of one to 10, I would say that the nutritional value of processed food is about one, and that is being generous to say the least. Have you ever noticed on the back of the packet all the preservatives e numbers etc. what on earth do they mean will they do you harm are they good for you what exactly are they for, the problem with this is no one knows except the manufacturer.

Is it alive !!!!

5. I would say almost definitely not all the living enzymes and/or bacteria that can be good for you doesn’t tend to be in processed foods and I dare say that phytochemicals probably aren’t there as well, which are important factor when it comes to free radicals in your body for these like plants soak up free radicals in your body which prevent disease.

Is it worth investing in ?

6. When you buy this food you’re encouraging more being spent on it so therefore keeping it alive if less people spend more money on fresh fruit and vegetables and more money would encourage the growth of this particular industry.

Not needed additions

7. Processed food tend to have tons of chemical additives which are no use whatsoever to you or the food things like artificial colouring and preservatives, so the food will last longer no use to you whatsoever for all you know these could cause harm without you even knowing.

Mystery guests !!!

8. This type of particular food can have all sorts of strange odds and ends added during processing one particular example of this is sausages say or hot dog sausages to be more specific they can contain something called edible offal, i.e. different parts of the animal like ears.

Are you a crack addict

9. It’s a well-known fact that fat and sugar are as addictive as heroin and cocaine they stimulate the same receptors in your brain that make you feel good this is what’s known as a dopamine high, manufacturers all too well know that.

These substances are highly addictive that is why processed food does have a lots of hidden sugar and fat, so as to make it addictive and also enhance the taste.

Listen to old advice

10. Can you remember when you were younger and your parents told you to eat more vegetables well guess what they were right.

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