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Polish Eating Habits [87]
I like to eat late about 9 or 10 pm
It's often said that it's not good to eat your main meal later, because it gives your body less time to work it off. Sadly I do the same, just because I don't have time to prepare a proper meal when I am out of the house for 12-13 hours at a time. But really, eating in the middle of the afternoon is, according to an article I read, a healthier option.
Also, we have had lots of comment about how unhealthy Polish food is. But people forget, that it's not just the type of food that makes people fat and unhealthy. It's the amount that is ingested, when you eat, how much you excercise on a daily basis (and I am not just talking about the gym, but walking, stairs, etc) and a whole host of other factors.
Coming from Scotland, I see plenty more overweight people in the street there, because of a diet of chips (french fries for the benifit of our friends across the pond) and little/no excercise and a huge intake of sugar. Over here, it seems that yes, people eat a meal with fried meat, bread, potatoes and salads, but that is much more balanced than chips all the time. I still cringe inside when I walk past a new mother with her baby in the pram eating a bag of crisps or chips in Scotland.
More or less what I'm getting at is, saying Polish food is fatty is true (in some parts) but saying it's unhealthy, without thinking about other lifestyle factors, is not.
