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In about 6 hours time i'll be sitting down to my 4th Takeaway of the week and it got me thinking.

Are they really as unhealthy as we are lead to believe?
 
Everything in moderation my friend. At the end of the day the main problem is lack of exercise. Lazy fat people. There I said it. :ninja:
 
Axios said:
In about 6 hours time i'll be sitting down to my 4th Takeaway of the week and it got me thinking.

Are they really as unhealthy as we are lead to believe?
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Depends what the 'takeaways' are.

Four fried food type takeaways would be unhealthy. But four un-fried meals and it's no different to having home ****** food, apart from the cost.
 
aythreee said:
Depends what the 'takeaways' are.

Four fried food type takeaways would be unhealthy. But four un-fried meals and it's no different to having home ****** food, apart from the cost.
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1 chripsy duck, banana fritters
1 chow main, crispy beef and more fritters
1 double decedence meator and double decedence Texas BBQ
1 mix tekka and 2 nan breads. (Sorry for spelling errors).

whats fried out of that?
Fritters, duck, chow main and the tekka?

Time to get the bike out again i think. lol
 
Axios said:
1 chripsy duck, banana fritters
1 chow main, crispy beef and more fritters
1 double decedence meator and double decedence Texas BBQ
1 mix tekka and 2 nan breads. (Sorry for spelling errors).

whats fried out of that?
Fritters, duck, chow main and the tekka?

Time to get the bike out again i think. lol
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I wouldn't eat all that too often. Your poor arteries! :happy:
 
PaulTheo said:
So it should be ok if you walk to the shop to get it. LOL
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no, thats what mobile phones are for. lol

aythreee said:
I wouldn't eat all that too often. Your poor arteries! :happy:
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Thats what i'm worried about.
I might go for a run this weekend with the dogs.

Oo i did eat half a water mellon yesterday. lol
 
If only there was someone, a moderator perhaps, with some inside knowledge of the takeaway business..... :think:
 
jcs356 said:
If only there was someone, a moderator perhaps, with some inside knowledge of the takeaway business..... :think:
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If only, apart from the fact that he is probably in some takeaway stuffing his face!!

We used to have nearly 4-5 takeaways a week, but we have cut down bigtime now and only have it once a week, but i do make the most of it, normally a kebab and a pizza and chips.

However, I sometimes go for a sheekh kebab in a naan, now i think thats ok, as its fully grilled and most of the oil etc drips off, however the chillies in it and the garlic mayo and chilli sauce may bring all that back...lol!!!

I do love takeaway food though :)
 
Axios said:
In about 6 hours time i'll be sitting down to my 4th Takeaway of the week and it got me thinking.

Are they really as unhealthy as we are lead to believe?
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the short answer is yes. they are. i've got an interest in nutrition and i'm a bit of a gym rat. don't get me wrong, my diet is appalling but that's only because of the hours i work - i don't have time to eat healthily lol.

the main things to watch out for are saturated fats and salt. take aways are high in both. you can eat as much as you like if you're doing the exercise to work it off. i exercise a lot, and my job is quite physically demanding so i can eat a lot and i'm still losing weight (i'm around the 80kg mark now, i was around the 87kg mark when i started this job 6 months ago).

i once worked out that because of my height, muscle mass, the job i do etc. i need around 3000 calories on a training day just to break even. the recommended daily allowance is 2000kcal.

i'm slightly different to most ppl in that i'm actively looking to put on weight. i'm about 6ft 2" and i think i'm skinny. i went on a weight training programme and got my weight up from around 70kg to 85kg in about a year. i used to have a McDonald's 3 times a week because i NEEDED the extra fat and calories - but i noted that i was putting on fat as well. i stopped eating the chips and replaced it with a healthier source of carbohydrate and problem solved. little changes in diet can make big changes in your appearance.

HOWEVER polyunsaturated fats are good for you. they lower your cholesterol and reduce your chance of heart disease. monounsaturated fats are indifferent. neither of them will increase your body fat, unless you're eating stupid amounts. peanuts, walnuts etc. are loaded with "good" fats. it's the saturated fats to watch out for and sadly take aways are loaded with them.
 
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aythreee said:
He's probably too busy crying over this new takeaway 'fat tax' being introduced.
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What Tax are they introducing now?

sub39h said:
the short answer is yes. they are. i've got an interest in nutrition and i'm a bit of a gym rat. don't get me wrong, my diet is appalling but that's only because of the hours i work - i don't have time to eat healthily lol.

the main things to watch out for are saturated fats and salt. take aways are high in both. you can eat as much as you like if you're doing the exercise to work it off. i exercise a lot, and my job is quite physically demanding so i can eat a lot and i'm still losing weight (i'm around the 80kg mark now, i was around the 87kg mark when i started this job 6 months ago).

i once worked out that because of my height, muscle mass, the job i do etc. i need around 3000 calories on a training day just to break even. the recommended daily allowance is 2000kcal.

i'm slightly different to most ppl in that i'm actively looking to put on weight. i'm about 6ft 2" and i think i'm skinny. i went on a weight training programme and got my weight up from around 70kg to 85kg in about a year. i used to have a McDonald's 3 times a week because i NEEDED the extra fat and calories - but i noted that i was putting on fat as well. i stopped eating the chips and replaced it with a healthier source of carbohydrate and problem solved. little changes in diet can make big changes in your appearance.

HOWEVER polyunsaturated fats are good for you. they lower your cholesterol and reduce your chance of heart disease. monounsaturated fats are indifferent. neither of them will increase your body fat, unless you're eating stupid amounts. peanuts, walnuts etc. are loaded with "good" fats. it's the saturated fats to watch out for and sadly take aways are loaded with them.
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That's rather informative. lol Did not expect that. thanks.

I'm just a little bit over 6foot 3 and about 92kg. Not sure if its good or not but I spend most of my days sitting around a PC with the occasional walk around the base, which could be about a mile. I do cycle during the summer about 15miles aday and the random run with the dogs. so I guess I dont do to badly.

jojo said:
My advice is.... eat more chinese. :yum:
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Defo Love the food.
Just need to get my mate to cook more of it and stop yelling at me for using the chop sticks wrong. lol
 
My folks have their own chippy on the Isle Of Wight and when im there i just eat everything on the menu, as well as anything else i can throw in the fryer, i like to help out when im there aswell as consume profits.

Fortunatly they live 200 miles away so i cant over indulge too often.

Best Fish and Chips on the Wight!, they use the same spuds as walkers crisps! and the fish is fresh and everything is ****** to order! they can get through 1000kg of potatoes a week on a good week!

uummmm...chips!!

Not aware of any FAT tax as of yet?
 
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Dazmo said:
My folks have their own chippy on the Isle Of Wight and when im there i just eat everything on the menu, as well as anything else i can throw in the fryer, i like to help out when im there aswell as consume profits.

Fortunatly they live 200 miles away so i cant over indulge too often.

Best Fish and Chips on the Wight!, they use the same spuds as walkers crisps! and the fish is fresh and everything is ****** to order! they can get through 1000kg of potatoes a week on a good week!

uummmm...chips!!

Not aware of any FAT tax as of yet?
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:sign_plug: :lmfao:
 
Axios said:
1 chripsy duck, banana fritters
1 chow main, crispy beef and more fritters
1 double decedence meator and double decedence Texas BBQ
1 mix tekka and 2 nan breads. (Sorry for spelling errors).

whats fried out of that?
Fritters, duck, chow main and the tekka?

Time to get the bike out again i think. lol
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by any chance was the meator on tuesday
 
Axios said:
What a ****.
stupid ****** interfearing goverment.
It should be up to the people or parents to decide what they want to eat and how fat or thin they want to be.

STOP STICKING YOUR NOSE IN TO YOUR LIVES!!
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i'd agree with you if we paid for our healthcare. but we don't, and it's our responsibility to look out for our own health. is it fair that someone doesn't get breast cancer or alzheimer's treatment because someone else has already spent that part of the NHS budget having a coronary?

if you have private healthcare do what you like. if you don't, then it's the government's job to ensure it's doing what it can to either improve the health of it's population or to be able to afford to deal with the consequences on the NHS.
 
sub39h said:
i'd agree with you if we paid for our healthcare. but we don't, and it's our responsibility to look out for our own health. is it fair that someone doesn't get breast cancer or alzheimer's treatment because someone else has already spent that part of the NHS budget having a coronary?

if you have private healthcare do what you like. if you don't, then it's the government's job to ensure it's doing what it can to either improve the health of it's population or to be able to afford to deal with the consequences on the NHS.
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We do pay for our health care.
Not the same as private but we still pay for it.

Educate the people but dont tax the buinesses. Its not their fault that familes (and others) find it easyer to pop to McDs or the local take away then feeding their kids something proper.
 
Axios said:
We do pay for our health care.
Not the same as private but we still pay for it.
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that's what i mean. you don't pay based on risk. because you don't pay based on your risk of using the service, you should do your best to make your own health as good as possible so that you're not wasting the resource on preventable disease. clearly we aren't doing this, so i don't think it's unfair for the government to lubricate the process a bit.

don't get me wrong, i hate it when they try and interfere in our choices of what car we can or cannot drive for example - mainly because it's becoming more and more apparent the climate change evidence is as thin as the polar ice caps supposedly are. but for things which affect us as a society, it's up to them to exercise SOME control.
 
sub39h said:
that's what i mean. you don't pay based on risk. because you don't pay based on your risk of using the service, you should do your best to make your own health as good as possible so that you're not wasting the resource on preventable disease. clearly we aren't doing this, so i don't think it's unfair for the government to lubricate the process a bit.

don't get me wrong, i hate it when they try and interfere in our choices of what car we can or cannot drive for example - mainly because it's becoming more and more apparent the climate change evidence is as thin as the polar ice caps supposedly are. but for things which affect us as a society, it's up to them to exercise SOME control.
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I see your point.

But why tax the sellers?
 
BBC News - Fat patients 'prompts ambulance fleet revamp'

This story is very apt considering the topic! The costs associated with the new ambulances for fatties are obscene. As mentioned they need to get their money back from somewhere I guess. And I don't think they'd be allowed to introduce a 'fat tax' for larger people.

On a side note though...keep eating them take away's, you're not fat yet!
 
sub39h said:
lol his BMI is 25.3 - so technically he's overweight.
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:crying:

Axios said:
But i look damn good!!
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HAHA! Time to stop the takeaway's though! Or are you going to make it 7/7?



EDIT: I've just checked mine, i'm 26.2. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. And I cycle 6 miles a day too, I really must eat too much crap!
 
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i know very few people that hit their BMI but all look healthy. one guy is a veggie and goes to gym 4 days a week pure cardio and does 2 lesson of kung fu and hes 25.8. bit of a joke tbh.

seems that thing doesnt account muscle into the equation either
 
If this fat Tax does come in, I can see all the smaller, low profit shops disappearing altogether. In the ten years I've been in this trade(shop has been trading since 1976), I've noticed a few fastfood shops closing down in the last 12 months! They have been killed off by the increase in gas/electric bills, reducing their low profits to making a loss.

I'm quite keen in getting out myself if I'm being honest, but I have no idea what to do instead! lol
 
Just punish fatties in the pocket, end of.
Doesnt matter where the calories come from.

We should have some kind of `obesity means test`and tax the individual on that basis.

"You fat-You Pay!"

There, Ive even invented a slogan.

I dont want to pay for an emerging generation of fatsos NHS treatment.

**** em.

Paul
 
PaulAr said:
Just punish fatties in the pocket, end of.
Doesnt matter where the calories come from.

We should have some kind of `obesity means test`and tax the individual on that basis.

"You fat-You Pay!"

There, Ive even invented a slogan.

I dont want to pay for an emerging generation of fatsos NHS treatment.

**** em.

Paul
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I don't think that will work completely! I think it should be according to work performed. For example, (And i can say this as my mother isn't a member here...I hope). My mother is quite overweight, but has never had any treatment needed due to her weight. She is relatively fit (for her size), and a healthy person (again for her size). She has never smoked or drank alcohol...EVER. To tax her would be unfair until she becomes a drain on society...sorry mum! :p

I am loving your slogan though...genius!
 
crazy88 said:
EDIT: I've just checked mine, i'm 26.2. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. And I cycle 6 miles a day too, I really must eat too much crap!
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DaveA3 said:
i know very few people that hit their BMI but all look healthy. one guy is a veggie and goes to gym 4 days a week pure cardio and does 2 lesson of kung fu and hes 25.8. bit of a joke tbh.

seems that thing doesnt account muscle into the equation either
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exactly. it's not a very good way of telling you if you're healthy. i was just messing around lol

best way is to get one of those scales that measures your body fat. Asda were selling them for £10 not long ago. i snapped one of those bad boys up sharpish lol
 
To be honest don't do take aways very often maybe 1 - 2 times a month
i use to a least once a week but now i'm not to bothered with them.

My favourate is chinese and Jojo does very nice food.... yummy......
 
i wanna give him a try, but he still hasn't told me where he is
 
Axios said:
He delivers. :)
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that's kinda irrelevant if i don't know where to place an order lol. in any event i don't live in solihull - i reckon a trip into Birmingham centre might be out of the question
 
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