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What is Poland's view on obesity? How healthy, fit are Poles? [166]
It's true that the diet in PL in not a healthy one - it seems like a glorified PRL diet: parówki, kanapki, crisps, pepsi/coke/nasty cheap juice, lots of white bread and plenty of highly processed foods + sugar... Polish children (under 10 or 12yo) are now supposedly most (or nearly) obese in the EU... I think the problem is mainly with the parents' sheer ignorance on the subject of basic nutrition... most seem to don't care, the more sweets/comfort foods the better... perhaps it stems from their personal experiences where such foods were luxury during the PRL years, and that they can afford it they think the more the better for their children...
greasy wędliny and pork, cabbage and starches, no vitamins, no minerals which is for me an explanation why most Poles look old and much older than Westerners at same age and are also always sick.
Agreed. Unfortunately, bad eating habits die VERY hard; in fact, most people would actually prefer to suffer the consequences than change, ie give up their comfort foods even when faced with disease/death... overall, much too much meats i PL diet - especially the nasty cheap and processed types... also, the food tends to be cooked to death...
I bought melon a couple of days ago, it's completely dry Inside, no juice, no taste...
I doubt any melons grow in PL. The golden rule is to eat local stuff. The good think in PL are the local food markets - from spring to autumn you can find good stuff grown locally with a little effort...
I won't talk about the "food" they serve in Polish hospitals ;)
OK, bit it is the same all over when you have universal health care - have you ever seen what's served in, for instance, British hospitals?
