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BHF: Message is simple, eat healthily to live longerDate: 03/07/2007 09:14:07
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Eating a balanced low-fat diet is essential in the fight against heart disease later on in life, but fad dieting just won't do, the British Heart Foundation has asserted.
According to the BHF, getting into the habit of eating a healthy diet early in life has become increasingly important, particularly given the high numbers of people now developing type 2 diabetes - linked with poor diet.
The comments come as figures from the BHF show 44 per cent of men and 35 per cent of women in England are now overweight.
Furthermore, nearly a quarter of men and women, 23 per cent and 24 per cent respectively, are now classed as obese.
Judy O'Sullivan, cardiac nurse with the BHF, gave her advice about how to eat healthily without resorting to faddy unsustainable dieting: "It's about having balance in the diet…and about choosing food that you like. People should not choose food as a punishment and not choose it as a medicine.
"It should be something that you enjoy eating and therefore you're more likely to stick to it or to something that's going to become part of your routine."
She added: "Fad diets are fad diets: they only last a short period of time because they're often quite crazy…You couldn't possibly enjoy it or live off it…We advocate the complete opposite.
"We say: choose food you like eating, make sure that it's healthy and make sure that it fits into enjoying the food and becoming part of the day to day routine and then you're more likely to stick to a sensible, healthy eating plan for life."
The percentage of adults who are obese has increased by over 50 per cent in the last decade.
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