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Plan: Muscle Centric
Stats: 238/153/160
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Progress: 109%
Location: UK
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Chew on this: we are getting fatter while eating less
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From The Sunday Times
London
23 April, 2017
Chew on this: we are getting fatter while eating less
Britons are eating less than ever while at the same time experiencing record levels of being overweight or obese.
Researchers have found we are consuming an average 14% fewer calories a day than in the 1970s, suggesting obesity is strongly linked to the sedentary nature of our workplaces and lifestyles, as well as to food intake.
The figures are found in a Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs report, Family Food 2015, which tracked Britons’ household energy intake over the past seven decades. It shows the average adult consumed 2,534 calories a day in 1974. By 2015 the figure was 2,173 — a 14% decline.
Such figures should be treated with caution, though. More people now eat outside the home, for example, while the elderly eat less.
Yet the report said the same trend was visible even over much shorter periods: “Based on food and drink purchases, total energy intake per person was 1.6% lower in 2015 than in 2012. This is a statistically significant downward trend over this four-year period that confirms the longer-term downward trend apparent since the mid 1960s.”
About 27% of British adults are obese, with a body mass index (BMI) above 30 and 36% more with a BMI of 25-30 are overweight, meaning 63% of adults are unhealthily fat.
“Society has changed, with a dramatic reduction in the physical work we have to do both at work and at home,” said Professor Philip James, president of the International Association for the Study of Obesity.
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/...-less-srlmhndbb |
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