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[mudskipper]

I would have expected wind and constipation to be bed fellows, as the wind making microbes make hay from feeding on vegetation that humans can't otherwise digest.

I heard on QI the other day that 5-a-day in other countries is often much higher than it is in the UK. 10/day or something in France. I still find it hard to accept that it is 5 per day and not per month. Does an apple only count as 1 ffs?

Yep - I struggled with the whole 5 a day concept. Haven't been consciously doing it, but the recipes I've been trying are mostly based round vegetables, and actually it's pretty easy if you chop up veggies and shove them in your pasta / mince or whatever.

[suityou01]

Yep - I struggled with the whole 5 a day concept. Haven't been consciously doing it, but the recipes I've been trying are mostly based round vegetables, and actually it's pretty easy if you chop up veggies and shove them in your pasta / mince or whatever.

Glass of orange juice first thing and that's 1 of your 5. Apple at 11am, that's 2. Token veg with lunch and dinner for the rest.

[SimonMac]

Yep - I struggled with the whole 5 a day concept.

Four pints of cider usually followed by a leak

[shaunbhoy]

Four pints of cider usually followed by a leak

Cider is just apple juice. 1 pint is one of your 5-a-day Simon. For the full benefit, up your intake to 5 pints a day and you'll be just fine and dandy.

SB in "Nutrition Doctor" mode



NB "Leaks" don't count.....

[hyperD]

I ******* hate that "5 a day" meme. It's so ingrained in our culture now that some of the guys in the client #2 office are obsessed with it, counting up oranges and apples and googling things like Walkers crisps, pork pies, chewing gum and truffles to see if they make the grade.

It's like if they miss the magic five then their intestines are going to explode out of their oxo towers all over the polyamide office carpet.

It's saddening to see grown men manipulated by propaganda.


Eat. Enjoy. Stop worrying. Ignore nonsense.

[SimonMac]

Cider is just apple juice. 1 pint is one of your 5-a-day Simon. For the full benefit, up your intake to 5 pints a day and you'll be just fine and dandy.

SB in "Nutrition Doctor" mode



NB "Leaks" don't count.....

[norrahe]

I ******* hate that "5 a day" meme. It's so ingrained in our culture now that some of the guys in the client #2 office are obsessed with it, counting up oranges and apples and googling things like Walkers crisps, pork pies, chewing gum and truffles to see if they make the grade.

It's like if they miss the magic five then their intestines are going to explode out of their oxo towers all over the polyamide office carpet.

It's saddening to see grown men manipulated by propaganda.


Eat. Enjoy. Stop worrying. Ignore nonsense.

It's the one thing I don't miss about blighty.