Fewer than one in 100 Brits eat healthily

That’s right, we’re all doomed. Well, 99 in the hundred of us are anyway.

According to the Mail, where they call us Britons instead of Brits, because they’re like that, only one in a hundred of us have a diet that is healthy and not too high in sugar, salt and fat.

A new study has been published that shows only eight in 1,000 adults met all five of the World Health Organisation’s targets for a healthy diet. The five targets look at levels of saturated fats, total fats, fruit and vegetables, salt and sugar.

The ladies fared better, with 1.2% hitting targets, just 0.4% of lousy men managed it.

The data was collected by the Office for National Statistics and the Medical Research Centre.
Dr Joanne Lunn, of the British Nutrition Foundation, said:

“The consequences of a poor diet are chronic diseases in later life.

“Bad habits are often ingrained in families. They can be changed but it often takes the efforts of the entire family. We need to change some people’s preconceptions, such as that healthy food is more expensive.”

The World Health Organisation wants us to get less than a teaspoon of salt a day, and eat more than 14oz of fruit and veg.

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