You may live longer here in Spain when compared to the UK...Women fair better than men. see today's mail mind you they have been known to tell the odd porky

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...es-Europe.html

The diet does that actually... People in Mediterranean countries do live longer, that's a proven fact... It's related to consuming vast amounts of olive oil, and fresh fruit and vegetables/legumes ...

The UK is not to far behind America with its obsessive eating. In fact I'd even say Americans look better than British women now

that applies to most who were born here.most who come from the uk still have there meat pies and chips.sunday dinners.sausage and mash ect.

maybe some do - we do - but only now & again

So do we (have sausage & mash, etc., now & again), but it boggles me to see all the processed British food being bought in shedloads at Iceland. Then again, maybe that's just what they would have been doing in the UK so why change just cos you've moved to a place with brilliant fish, veg, tasty meat, etc

Maybe it just feels longer?

we have an Iceland not far from us - I haven't been there - have no intention of ever going there

but then, I wasn't in the habit of buying processed food in the UK either!

I'm sure it's hard for some when they first come over to discover that you actually have to COOK!

Although it has changed a lot in the 5 years we've been here.

I'll never forget the first chicken I bought in MasyMas - this was before they started doing ready cleaned/pre-wrapped chickens. I got a bit of a shock when I realised it still had everything inside it!

Luckily dh had worked in a butchers as a teenager, and I used to work in restaurants, so we both knew what to do - but not pleasant when you're not used to it. Trust me - I learned how to ask them to clean it pretty quickly!

I think it's no bad thing when children learn (albeit with a bit of a culture shock after plasticised shrinkwrapped meat in UK supermarkets) that that pink stuff actually used to be an ANIMAL

Another soapbox, but I get so frustrated when we go out with friends & their kids choose from the kiddy style, nuggets or nothing menu & we then struggle pretty much in vain to keep son & heir to what he would usually choose - swordfish, boquerones, rosada, steak, to name a few.

re Iceland..... yes, but where else would I get wholegrain (can't remember the real name) peanut butter? Or the relatively unsugared, unchocolated cereals - in Car4 the choice is I think 3?

true - crunchy peanut butter is a bit of a problem!

my kids eat special K - well the mercadona version anyway (about half the price) with fresh fruit - and dd1 is very into making porridge from scratch at the moment!

also, I think my 2 being older will choose what they want when they eat out - rather than copying the other kids

the problem is when they are with friends - dd1 went back to a mates after school the other day - the mum said she hadn't been shoppping so took them to the english chippy for lunch!

with what she spent she could have got a good 3 course del dia a few doors away - and they've lived here longer than us.......................

Plenty of fat Spanish around including their kids. Think they are changing their eating habits. Mcdonalds if always full of Spanish families and look at those sugary teeth rotting sweets they buy them.

You have to be veeeeeery careful with ststistics like that. F'r instance the
least obese men are in countries like Norway and Switzerland. Even Russia has
fewer obese men that Spain (although that's only one factor in live expectancy).

Then again, here's another study of life expactancy that shows a completely
different result. Maybe it's reading the daily wail that reduces your life expectancy?
ref: World health Organisation

Young Spanish people are just as likely to eat fastfood and sweets as British young people. My Spanish nieces and nephews hate eating healthy food but don't have any choice- however, by the size of most of the childen in our town, I'm guessing that most do.

Maybe it's reading the daily wail that reduces your life expectancy?

yes, that & bothering about pc-ness.

...crunchy PB you can get in Car4 + possibly others, it's the Wholenut stuff which contains the skins etc I mean!

[QUOTE=fionamw;6981210]Maybe it's reading the daily wail that reduces your life expectancy?

No doubt about that

yes, that & bothering about pc-ness.

mmmmmmm.......