Not eating enough bread?

Frogdog

According to this survey/research conducted by Brennan's Bread, we're not eating enough sliced pan!

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/survey-just-over-a-third-aware-of-dietary-requirements-565537.html

And apparently our diets are only 45% carbohydrate? I very much doubt the average Irish diet is taking in 55% protein and fat. If only it was this country's population would be in a lot better shape.

Thoughts?

hollypink

This quote from

Dr Mary McCreery, Consultant Dietician at Blackrock Clinic

seems very strange coming from a dietician

"There is also a large misconception amongst the public that white bread is fattening, but white bread is a low-fat, high carbohydrate nutritious food that can and should be included in the daily diet. We get the same amount of energy in our diets from white bread as we do from fruit and vegetables."

Colibri

Too little? If anything, we're eating too much bread.

teacosy

Frogdog wrote: »

According to this survey/research conducted by Brennan's Bread, we're not eating enough sliced pan!

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/survey-just-over-a-third-aware-of-dietary-requirements-565537.html

And apparently our diets are only 45% carbohydrate? I very much doubt the average Irish diet is taking in 55% protein and fat. If only it was this country's population would be in a lot better shape.

Thoughts?

See page 3 of the summary document from the most recent Irish Nutrition Survey

http://www.iuna.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/National-Adult-Nutrition-Survey-Summary-Report-March-2011.pdf

SBWife

Nutritious compared to what? Cotton wool, styrofoam, paper...

Callan57

Who paid for the survey??????? :rolleyes:

anbrutog

Callan57 wrote: »

Who paid for the survey??????? :rolleyes:

Exactly. 'Bout as believable as a Phillip Morris funded study into the benefits of smoking.
Quite why this 'dietician' is placing any sort of credibility in it is beyond me.

Best ignored I think.

tommyboy2222

She was on Matt Cooper today around 4:40.

It was a very strange interview.

teacosy

Colibri wrote: »

Too little? If anything, we're eating too much bread.

The mean intake of white bread and rolls in Ireland among adults is 51gms per day (1 slice of white sliced pan is about 40 gms)

The median intake is 38g and the intake at the 95th percentile is 152gms


source
http://www.iuna.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Food-Consumption-Tables-2.1-to-2.16.pdf

El_Dangeroso

That figure is quite misleading teacosy, considering that the following things in that list contain white flour:
1 Rice & pasta, flours, grains & starches 35 51 0 0 134
2 Savouries (e.g. pizzas) 31 54 0 0 139
3 White breads & rolls 51 52 38 0 152
4 Wholemeal & brown breads & rolls 52 54 38 0 153
5 Other breads (e.g. scones, croissants) 12 25 0 0 60
6 "Ready-to-eat" breakfast cereals 24 30 15 0 80
7 Other breakfast cereals (e.g. porridge) 33 79 0 0 210
8 Biscuits 13 19 7 0 47
9 Cakes, pastries and buns 17 29 0 0 73
10 Wholemilk 102 169 25 0 430
11 Low fat, skimmed and fortified milks 93 143 9 0 380
12 Other milks (e.g. processed milks) 17 65 0 0 113
13 Creams 1 4 0 0 8
14 Cheeses 14 18 9 0 48
15 Yoghurts 31 51 0 0 125
16 Ice-creams 6 15 0 0 34
17 Puddings & chilled desserts 8 20 0 0 46
18 Milk puddings (e.g. rice pudding & custards) 4 18 0 0 30
19 Eggs & egg dishes 16 24 0 0 60
20 Butter 3 8 0 0 19
21 Low fat spreads 3 9 0 0 20
22 Other spreading fats 7 12 2 0 30
23 Oils 0 2 0 0 3
24 Hard cooking fats 0 N/A 0 0 0
25 Potatoes (e.g. boiled, mashed, baked) 71 74 55 0 217
26 Processed & homemade potato products 6 18 0 0 40
27 Chipped, fried & roasted potatoes 43 51 33 0 138

krankykitty

I see that Breaking News article is wheeling out that bloody Food Pyramid:mad: I thought that had been long debunked? I remember learning about that in school, and it set me up for very bad habits (while thinking I was being really healthy), eating shedloads of pasta and bread. I hope nobody reads this and believes that this vested interests article represents a healthy approach to eating.

jam_mac_jam

I am amazed at a dietician saying that, just amazed.

Batigol309

krankykitty wrote: »

I see that Breaking News article is wheeling out that bloody Food Pyramid:mad: I thought that had been long debunked? I remember learning about that in school, and it set me up for very bad habits (while thinking I was being really healthy), eating shedloads of pasta and bread. I hope nobody reads this and believes that this vested interests article represents a healthy approach to eating.

I saw this Pyramid had been put up in the gym I go to recently. Complete and utter rubbish IMO. 12 Slices of bread a day or 6 bowls of sugary cereal. There is an argument to be made it should be upside down to be honest!

TBH you can see the power of multinationals like Kellogs, General Mills etc in their power to lobby government. Its like the 5 a day fruit and vegcontroversy that Channel 4 looked into recently. Money talks...not whats healthy for the people.

Hanley

The more fat and unhealthy people there are, the better the enlightened look.

...but at the same time as a fitness professional I'm thoroughly disgusted by this sort of horsecrap getting media coverage. There's not better tool than the food pyramid as an instructional on how to GAIN weight.

Stench Blossoms

I've seen a lot of 'fitness recipes' and 'healthy eating planners' up on Facebook lately.

One of them put up picture of the food pyramid.

Had to unsubscribe.

siochain

not surprised by a dietician backing this, sad but a true relection to the standards in the medical and health profession in Ireland

Feelgood

I was actually forced to go gluten free a few months back, I haven't touched bread of any sort. Not even the gluten free rice flour stuff. I can honestly say I have never feel better or more healthy in my whole life.

I read a gluten free leaflet that mentioned something interesting - if the earth is apparently 2 billion years old and grains have only been around since the dawn of agriculture around 100k years ago, how did we ever make it this far without grains?.

Zamboni

Feelgood wrote: »

I read a gluten free leaflet that mentioned something interesting - if the earth is apparently 2 billion years old and grains have only been around since the dawn of agriculture around 100k years ago, how did we ever make it this far without grains?.

Aliens?

Fitseeker

Brennans white sliced pan, naturally low in fat. Love that bus stop ad.

El_Dangeroso

The bread companies must be suffering a dip in sales at the moment, they're all coming out with their health-washing ads right now. Best one so far is the brennan's ad comparing home grown tomatoes to the chemically treated crap-in-a-bag that is white sliced pan.

It's a good sign, means that a lot of people are copping on to the fact that bread doesn't agree with them. I'm hearing more and more people saying they are going to give up bread to lose weight, and it almost always works (only time it didn't person in question replaced wheat filled crap with gluten free crap)

anbrutog

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

The bread companies must be suffering a dip in sales at the moment, they're all coming out with their health-washing ads right now. Best one so far is the brennan's ad comparing home grown tomatoes to the chemically treated crap-in-a-bag that is white sliced pan.

It's a good sign, means that a lot of people are copping on to the fact that bread doesn't agree with them. I'm hearing more and more people saying they are going to give up bread to lose weight, and it almost always works (only time it didn't person in question replaced wheat filled crap with gluten free crap)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZtovYAD464&feature=plcp

Bordering on disgusting in my opinion. Junk food marketed to kids as 'good food like I had growing up', pass the sick bag please.
No wonder they disabled the comments , they know well they'd be found out.

Frogdog

anbrutog wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZtovYAD464&feature=plcp

Bordering on disgusting in my opinion. Junk food marketed to kids as 'good food like I had growing up', pass the sick bag please.
No wonder they disabled the comments , they know well they'd be found out.

There's the option to dislike the video, I did.

Gummy Panda

Hanley wrote: »

The more fat and unhealthy people there are, the better the enlightened look.

...but at the same time as a fitness professional I'm thoroughly disgusted by this sort of horsecrap getting media coverage. There's not better tool than the food pyramid as an instructional on how to GAIN weight.

Ah hanley.. you can't be thinking that. You should be thinking future memberships :pac:

j@utis

it's quite hard to find a food ad that doesn't advertise complete sh1te. just saw an ad on greek yogurt that is FAT FREE, oh dear....

Hanley

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Ah hanley.. you can't be thinking that. You should be thinking future memberships :pac:

...as awesome as that is - I'd rather see a healthy general population

Hanley

Hanley wrote: »

...as awesome as that is - I'd rather see a healthy general population

easier to work with people who have a base of health that's going to allow them progress faster through their own fitness goals too.

Tomk1

Frogdog wrote: »

According to this survey/research conducted by Brennan's Bread, we're not eating enough sliced pan!

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/survey-just-over-a-third-aware-of-dietary-requirements-565537.html

And apparently our diets are only 45% carbohydrate? I very much doubt the average Irish diet is taking in 55% protein and fat. If only it was this country's population would be in a lot better shape.

Thoughts?

Think I'll wait for a survey/research conducted by Guinness, that we don't drink enough Guinness.

Don't eat bread anymore, pointless expensive filler used to hold real food in.