Full English or muesli with skimmed milk?
The great British fry-up is a welcome weekend treat for most, but according to today’s Daily Express it could slowly be killing us as one in four adults admits to eating it twice at weekends.
A study of 10,000 people revealed the perfect breakfast consists of a fried egg, two slices of fried bread, two pork sausages, two rashers of smoked bacon, fried mushrooms, one hash brown potato, baked beans and tomato ketchup, adding up to 1,190 calories and 95.7 grams (about 3½oz) of fat.
Harley Street nutritionist and behavioural therapist Mary Strugar said: “The traditional fried breakfast was conceived in the industrial revolution when working class men would burn up to 6,000 calories a day. Now we lead much more sedentary lifestyles we cannot expect to consume such high fat meals regularly without suffering the consequences.”
Despite being an increasingly health-conscious nation, the good intentions that we start the week with usually slip by the weekend….
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