No wonder there is an obesity problem!

This is a picture of my absolutely delicious lunch - a grilled haloumi salad complete with avo, corn, nuts and brinjal. A kaleidoscope of flavours I must tell you!

I should also tell you that these are the leftovers from my supper last night. Notice the rather full plate? 

It also looked like a full plate last night - just a much larger one! So there were easily two portions in that ginourmous excuse for a plate.

It's no wonder there is an obesity problem!

So here I am complaining about how sneaky JB's Corner was to give me so much deliciousness (loving grilled haloumi - yum yum!!) because even too much avo and haloumi will be a bad thing. And I reckon I fared better than my dining partner who, after ordering the chicken shnitzel, was greeted with the most enormous mound of cheaps (at least 2 servings of large McDonalds' chips right there), 2 shnitzels, plus a gravy bought of mushroom sauce.

Luckily we both have the self control (and budgeting problems) to eat only half of our meals and save the rest for lunch today - but I'm sure it would be normal for someone else to guzzle down the whole plate.

And considering restaurants to discriminate (or accommodate) for ladies and men's portions, that there plate was what a regular man would call a decent portion!

South Africans are fat!

South Africans are the third fattest nation on earth. A survey done in 2010 by GlaxoSmithKline has found that 61% of the South African population are overweight or morbidly obese.

Government is taking action of course. Minister of Health, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has set targets to radically reduce non-communicable diseases (including CVD, cancer, diabetes and chronic lung disease) – the majority of which are caused by poor choices and behaviours. The target set for overweight/obesity is to reduce it by 10% by 2020. He also said at the conference that fast food companies would soon be forbidden from marketing their ‘unhealthy’ products on TV during children’s programmes. 

Well Dr Motsoaledi, I think you should also insist on restaurant's declaring the kilojoule count of each dish they serve on the menu. I realise it should be up to individuals to be discerning about what they choose off it but at least when a hungry patron is drooling at the thought of a bacon and blue cheese burger with extra cheese sauce plus fries.....by seeing that enormous number of calories about to be consumed, they might just choose something else > or at least skip the extra cheese sauce and opt for salad instead of fries!