The shocking transformation of the UK household diet since 1980 😲🍔 BBC
The shocking transformation of the UK household diet since 1980 😲🍔 BBC
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Watch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 https://bbc.in/iPlayer-Home 64% of calories consumed by children in the UK are now from ultra-processed food. Dr Chris Van Tulleken finds out more.
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We're going through the US cigarette scandal all over again. Those 'scientists' are paid for and backed by the food corps just like the tobacco industry was
No wonder cancer rates are through the roof.
The music is really annoying and totally unnecessary!!!😢
Up until the late 80's early 90's used to have one metal rubbish bin. Very rarely full. Only at maybe christmas or a birthday extra full.
Now the recycle bin, normal waste bin, glass recycle bin. They can get full… 🤔
Shocking! Corporations are killing us.
Not my household, in the 1980's or today. We were always poor, so the average meal was beans and chips, or beans on toast, probably with egg. That's not changed. I'm still alive. I'm not morbidly obese. I'm not paralysed down one side of my body, nor do I have cancer that I'm aware of yet.
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income pressure, dual-income households, wealthy disparity and distributions means same 24 hours a day vs. less disposable income/headcount/day to spend on buying and whipping up meals. Time + Income Pressure = change in diet intake! Voila*
I went out and bought a carrot in sheer panic
When both parents have to work because the mortgage or rent and household bills are so high and there’s less time/energy for preparing food…
I got to these videos only because I noticed how ALL of my food I was preparing was leaving so much rubbish! I was eating nearly 100% ultra processed, (and obviously not feeling too great by that point). Really keen to learn more about this.
This garbage is killing our children in US! Our kids are getting cancer from eating this gmo overprocessed GMO and coloring and additives.this stuff is not food!garbage!
I didn't see any minimally processed meat in that demonstration. Doesn't anyone in Britain cook roasts (joints), chops, and whole birds?
In 1980 a family lived on one income so People had time for cooking. Now all adults need to work to pay the bills they don't have time for it.
womens empowerment out of the kitchen
We have to make cooking look sexy again. When I was young my aunts would measure themselves by their ability to rustle up dishes quickly and to be able to feed a sudden surge of guests…this was 70s. It was healthy but also patriarchal and oppressive. What we need is to make it everyone's responsibility and make cooking a shared, treasured practice. Women fed men healthy food for centuries. Now men who say "don't bother with the cooking darling, we can order out" aren't really feminists or returning the millenial favour.
So the take-home message – everybody nowadays is so overworked that they don't even have time to cook.
I blame America. Their cancerous diet spread to the rest of the world in the pursuit of more money for a rich few.
and the fresh ingredients price also increased
0:28 – really? a British household could afford a whole crate of broccoli back in the 1980s? Today, in my country, it costs probably more than all other crates combined. In line with fresh strawberries or lake salmon.
These days we can't even afford the rubbish.
Facebook does not allow to share this film!!! They want to shut our mouth!!! 🙁
People always go on about how much healthier people were back then but they forget that everyone smoked and drank way more alcohol
Don't call it food. Its Junk, Snake Oil, Scam, Cheat, Poison
The incredibly annoying beeping music is way too loud. Gave up at 1 minute.
What the government could do is tax certain processed food a little more while subsidising fresh food. If the policy were implemented correctly it could benefit farmers, overweight members of society and the NHS as a whole. In addition, this is something that could be taught in schools along with cooking and financial management. It brings it home that governments really aren’t doing a good job.
Why do they only talk about the rise in obesity? Cancer skyrocketed in the early 90s there is a clear link between ultra processed foods and cancer…
Ive lost a lot of weight after starting to cook most of my meals myself. Not diet food but normal homecooked meals.
It is almost as if diets got worse as families moved away from two-parent, one-worker households.
To be fair ultra processed food is way more calorie dense thatm vegetables, meaning the visualization is not really right! If i eat 50/50 ypu will habe a bag of chips and a ton of vegetables you know what i mean
I was born in 1981. My parents couldn't afford much but we l weren't raised on complete crap either. My mom learned to cook (she was a young mom and she never focused on her mom as she cooked homemade food growing up) and we ate mostly homemade food. There was packaged foods of course, but it wasn't the bulk of my diet by any means.
I think because I loved to cook and had a passion for food from an early age, I focused on my parents and Grandparents when they were cooking, so I learned how to cook.
Growing up with a tight household income (my father was a fisherman with a crew, boat, gear, license) I learned to preserve foods that came on sale, and cook from scratch and create meals from whatever was in the fridge. Our diet was supplemental with fresh fish, moose meat, rabbit and preserved food.
I truly believe that having the skills and knowledge is key, but sadly not everyone is privileged to have someone to learn from. Plus, their food environment means they may not have access to a decent grocery store. Their finances may be absolutely stretched, either from wasting money on nonessential things or from absolute poverty or both. Also, there is genetics at play, where some people crave junk foods over healthy foods and have no control over their hormones for whatever reason.
No body is perfect, but just trying to eat a little more better quality food is a start. Take care everyone.
Oh I know why. It's called dual income households. Mom and dad are too tired to cook. Fast food and prepackaged foods are easier. We are all poorer than we realize. That is why mom has to work and the diet gets worse.
That’s human pet food lol 😮ultra processed food
Interviewer: And how do we know that ultra-processed food leads to obesity and negative health outcomes?
Food scientist: Well, here we have an average American …
Absolute bollix. I grew up in the north of England. Times were hard and fresh produce was a premium. We had the chip pan on every night. So everything with chips. Anything else was deep fried because the chip pan was already on. And everything was served with a few slices of bread and butter to bulk it out. By contrast I eat far healthier now. Although the abundance of cheap food is more readily available now.
Easy, just buy actual food
In the 80s it was possible for a single person to work while their partner stayed home cooking and cleaning. This is completely impossible today for 99% of young families.
This explains the British polical thinking minds too . Junk.
Food company’s must pay more tax for supplying un heathy foods
A lot of the problem is due to long working hours and higher work load for bad pay. Add this to the stress of high inflation and many people simply so not have the energy to cook, especially if they have additional people to cook for other than themselves. So many people with mental health issues. If you've been there you would understand how exhausting it can be to even chop a few vegetables especially after a long day of work. (8 hours plus two for commuting, not including extra hours for team meetings etc… ) if everyone could work 32 hours a week for the same pay as 40 hours, they would be happier, have more energy and likely be eating better.
We spend our money on cheap crap….cause we can’t afford anything else..