Spent a week in Portugal breaking every rule the NHS ever gave.
I ate eggs daily. I had steak. I ate local sardines, cheese and bacon. Nothing out of a packet with 47 ingredients. And I sat in the sun with no factor 50.
I slept like a baby and my nervous system had a full factory reset. No supplements, no app, just sun and real food.
Meanwhile the locals in their 80s were marching up hills I needed a sit-down after.
People talk about the Mediterranean diet like it's all vegetables and olive oil.
But the reality is grilled fish, pork, lamb, eggs, cheese, animal fat. And red wine. People walking everywhere, sitting in the sun, eating late and slowly with family, and having a nap when they felt like it. Nobody rushing, nobody grazing on "healthy snacks", nobody living on cortisol and a meal deal.
That's why they live longer. Not because someone drizzled oil on a lettuce leaf. It's the whole way they live, and you can't sell that in a bottle at the supermarket.
@KayBurley The greatest consequence of social media is that people like you have had your influence reduced to dust.
You are the DVD player of modern media.
Utterly obsolete.
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A British five-year-old is now shorter than a five-year-old in North Korea.
In 1985 British five-year-olds ranked 69th in the world for height.
By 2019 the girls had fallen to 96th and the boys to 102nd.
A British boy of five is shorter than one in North Korea, in Haiti and in Libya.
A Dutch boy of five stands 7cm taller than him. A Bulgarian boy stands 8cm taller.
The experts blamed austerity.
Bulgaria has a fraction of Britain's money. It also has its name on the bacteria in your yoghurt, and its children grow up on yoghurt and white cheese.
Dutch children grow up on milk with lunch and cheese on their bread.
British children get the Eatwell plate. A third of it starch, cereal at breakfast, semi-skimmed from the age of two, red meat cut back, and a fruit pouch for being good.
British boys of five have grown about a centimetre since 1985.
Thirty years of telling children to eat more starch and less fat, and the rest of the world walked straight past them.