They Don't Know What An Avocado Is!

[pastafreak]

I'm watching Eat Well for Less...and the family has never seen an avocado...!

[tamborine]

Shirley on gogglebox

https://mobile.twitter.com/Channel4/status/850450040074063872/video/1

[douglas9401]

The only thing removed is the dirty nappy, Snags.

[Rockrose]

Then millions of people must be wrong then, as they have lost weight with Slimming World.

[NoMercy]

237, there are foods that encourage your body to burn fat - eggs being the king of the fat-burning foods. When I went through a phase of eating only boiled eggs (for no other reason than I didn't fancy anything else), I lost a good deal of weight in the space of a few days.

[sunny-dave]

Surely Avocado is the key ingredient in Mushy Peas?

[ cf Peter Mandelson in a Hartlepool chippy ]

[237SJ]

Eggs don't encourage your body to burn fat. No food does. If that was the case then the drug companies would have identified the enzyme etc and would have made a pill and would have made a fortune. What eggs and other proteins do is stop you feeling hungry and that is why you lose weight.

[murraymints]

lol snags..nah..just wipe the bum !

[douglas9401]

Hmmmm, an homage, that's what we'll call it.

[pastafreak]

You need to eat fat...that found in eggs, avos, olive oil, nuts, seeds etc, to burn fat. It's sugar and carbs that become sugar that cause both weight gain and a host of other diseases. Carbs and sugar cause the release of insulin...the fat storage hormone. That's why more and more diabetics who reduce carbs are now seeing a reduction in both symptoms and the need for medication...along with weight. The research and results are there.

[NoMercy]

Eggs definitely encourage fat-burning, and facilitate weight-loss in more ways than one. True enough those foods containing complex proteins do curb appetite but they also cause the body to switch metabolic pathways to a fat-burning, rather than glycogen-burning routine.

I've read a fair bit of literature over the years, having been very interested in nutrition from my early teenage years.

[murraymints]

carbs are the devil !

[237SJ]

I know. Dr Atkins was right and all of the modern diets are ripping him off but it's just not that simple. If it was, we would all be skinny. There are people in the world who's diet consists of fat or maize and they are slim. There is no one size fits all and genetics have a lot to do with it.

[Old_Geezer]

I know they taste awful because I once bought one to try. Wasn't utterly revolting like some foods, but half way through I was asking myself why I was putting myself through the unpleasant experience. I had no answer so slung the other half and never had another.

Guacamole is bearable; not great but edible. Unsurevwhat they add to make it so. Wouldn't recommend it though.

[Old_Geezer]

UNSURE WHAT ...
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hc4361]

That's the current thinking, pasta, but people like my grandparents never ate avocado, olive oil, seeds and and nuts only at Christmas, covered in chocolate, usually. They ate huge quantities of bread, cakes, stodgy puddings, yorkshire puddings, cheap cuts of fatty meat, dripping, butter, cheese, very little fruit but weren't obese or diabetic.

[Old_Geezer]

They were probably very active, not stuck in a desk job.

[gulliver1]

I hate trolley snoopers, you meet a friend or a neighbour in a supermarket and all they do is look to see what is in your trolley , none of their business , get a life.
Get your own trolley in order first.

[237SJ]

"Guacamole is edible not great but edible" It is on a chicken quesadilla with flor de gallo. That's the only time I eat it.

[hc4361]

My grandmother only worked during the wars, in the munitions factory and led a very sedentary lifestyle. She did love her bottle of stout every day, too, and her snuff. Active she was not

[237SJ]

"flor"? Where did that come from? I meant flor de gallo