Dealing with Diabetes2 and remembering Goldi Community Group
A support group for individuals with Type2 diabetes. Encouragement, empathy, advice, and personal experiences from members dealing with the illness. A friendly environment with compassion and support as our main objective.
Who's eaten all the cakes???
wasen't me Guv Honest
That darn Cat again, While Dibble is in the hospital with cat flu!
Diets ditched: cake sales jump
Consumers' New Year diets has been abandoned, according to sales figures which indicate sales of sweet, fatty foods have jumped, while healthy options have fallen in recent weeks.
Cake sales have jumped by 12 per cent in the last couple of weeks
In the final two weeks of January sales of cakes, chocolates, biscuits and sweets all increased while Weight Watcher and Slim-Fast branded products fell, when compared with the first two weeks of the year.
The figures, compiled by the price comparison site MySupermarket, suggest many dieters' good intentions have disappeared the moment they entered the confectionery aisle of their local supermarket.
Sales of chocolate have increased by 44 per cent, ice cream by 23 per cent, crisps by 14 per cent, biscuits and cake by 12 per cent over the last two weeks of January.
Meanwhile, sales of low-fat Special K breakfast cereal has dropped by 13 per cent, skimmed milk by 6 per cent, Slim-Fast products by 6 per cent, Weight Watcher products by 5 per cent and cottage cheese by 4 per cent.
MySupermarket which compares the price of grocery items on sale at the websites of Tesco, Sainsbury's, Ocado and Asda also pointed out that the coldest winter for 100 years may have prompted dieters to abandon the zero per cent yogurt in favour of some sticky toffee pudding.
Jonny Steel, spokesman for mySupermarket said: âJanuary is traditionally a time for good intentions, and the first two weeks of 2010 showed that we were really trying to eat more healthily. But with this year being one of the coldest winters in recent times, shoppers have been turning to comfort foods to give themselves the feel good factor that they crave.â
wasen't me Guv Honest
That darn Cat again, While Dibble is in the hospital with cat flu!
Diets ditched: cake sales jump
Consumers' New Year diets has been abandoned, according to sales figures which indicate sales of sweet, fatty foods have jumped, while healthy options have fallen in recent weeks.
Cake sales have jumped by 12 per cent in the last couple of weeks
In the final two weeks of January sales of cakes, chocolates, biscuits and sweets all increased while Weight Watcher and Slim-Fast branded products fell, when compared with the first two weeks of the year.
The figures, compiled by the price comparison site MySupermarket, suggest many dieters' good intentions have disappeared the moment they entered the confectionery aisle of their local supermarket.
Sales of chocolate have increased by 44 per cent, ice cream by 23 per cent, crisps by 14 per cent, biscuits and cake by 12 per cent over the last two weeks of January.
Meanwhile, sales of low-fat Special K breakfast cereal has dropped by 13 per cent, skimmed milk by 6 per cent, Slim-Fast products by 6 per cent, Weight Watcher products by 5 per cent and cottage cheese by 4 per cent.
MySupermarket which compares the price of grocery items on sale at the websites of Tesco, Sainsbury's, Ocado and Asda also pointed out that the coldest winter for 100 years may have prompted dieters to abandon the zero per cent yogurt in favour of some sticky toffee pudding.
Jonny Steel, spokesman for mySupermarket said: âJanuary is traditionally a time for good intentions, and the first two weeks of 2010 showed that we were really trying to eat more healthily. But with this year being one of the coldest winters in recent times, shoppers have been turning to comfort foods to give themselves the feel good factor that they crave.â
I must say, I have never had toffee pudding, but it sure does sound good compared to plain yogurt :)
Sadly a thing of the distant past now.
Well it seems that many people with good intentions never made it past the first month...........
Don't know about the rest of you but I have been there, done that - got the diabetes to prove it - LOL
Actually mine is genetic but I am sure even better eating habits would have helped prevent it - or at least delayed it's onset.
I think here the healthy eating might last a little longer as it is summer and many people are happily eating salads and our jump will possibly come more as the weather closes in for winter in a few months time.