The ugly truth about bad nutrition

all this you are what you eat is a load of rubbish, it is all down to genes at the end,  i have always had 3 sugars in my tea have never eaten veg and eat fast food and chips all the time.  I am 50 this year and have been told all my life that i look 8-10 years younger.  Some things i don't do are smoke or drink, i may have an occasional drink but did all my drinking in my 20's, i am not overweight, i have the normal illnesses and i also now have an underactive thyroid but this i am told is heredity even though my parents never had it.  Whatever it is we do is always wrong, we cant win, its not living life its conforming to what we are told we should and shouldn't eat or do,  I also have never exercised apart from when i did pe at school. And all the people we are told look good for their age have admitted having work done or dent it even though they look nothing like they used to.

carryll: dont smoke and drink alcohol moderately, you answered your own question of why you look 10 years younger!

Carryll and Super-freak, its not rubbish, just count yourself lucky if you dont have any problems.  There are thousands out there who do. you can always tell who smokes and who sunbathes a lot by their skin, opposed to those who dont.  also maybe you are are ok now, but later on all these chips and junk may take their toll, its not just the weight its the heart etc. or maybe you are both in denial perhaps?

The cupcakes in the picture are Waitrose cupcakes, they're extremly delightful.

Many of the statements made in this article are quite extreme with no reference to scientific study. It is common sense to eat a balanced diet. I don't like articles that make claims about carbohydrates being "bad", many less educated/ impressionable minds may act on such a claim and cut out an entire food group which is unhealthy.

People should not take a journalists view on nutrition over their GPs.  Sadly many people do and cause themselves much damages.

So basically we can't have anything we enjoy because we're all going to turn into hideous mingers? What a load of c**p. I'll eat and drink what I want thanks, I've been doing so for years and I get told that I'm quite pretty. This is just health-freaks trying to convince us that eating anything but veg and drinking anything but water will kill us in 5 seconds flat or render us vile-looking so no-one will look our way and we'll die alone in my opinion. Now, for a nice can of Pepsi and a plate of chips smothered in salt