SNACKING ON THE SOFA IS AN UNHEALTHY HABIT THAT IS FUELLING OBESITY, SAYS GREGG WALLACE
Being a couch potato has a become a British pastime that needs addressing, Gregg Wallace has said.
The MasterChef presenter, 59, suggested there was “more than enough time in your day” for people to cook a proper dinner, while lamenting the growing takeaway culture and the “British pastime that’s got to be addressed” – of sitting on the sofa eating chocolate.
The TV presenter boasted how his day was broken down into 30-minute chunks and suggested people do the same to leave enough time to cook dinners.
He said “everybody thinks they’re busy” but said the real problem was that “nobody in the country knows how to cook any more”.
Wallace told the Monday Mile podcast: “This sitting on the sofa, which seems to be the best of British pastimes – what was so brilliant about sitting on the sofa?
“Sitting on sofas, eating really unhealthy snacks seems to be almost an addiction, a British pastime that’s seriously got to be addressed.
“Sitting eating chocolate biscuits, chocolate bars, is causing an incredible obesity crisis in this country. That and takeaways.”
He added: “I’ve coached people one-on-one for three years because I wanted to learn more about people’s issues and I’ve had incredible success.”
Wallace said he does not ask people what they eat but about their lifestyle and timetable.
“If you work eight hours, travel one, sleep eight – that’s 17, there’s 24 hours in a day.
“So what’s happening the other seven hours in your day? Nobody knows.
“And that’s where I start. I go, ‘There is more than enough time in your day to make yourself proper food’.
“My day is broken down to half-hour chunks. Every bit of my day is worked out.
“I’m not particularly clever but even I can see a link between the growing obesity crisis and the rise of snack and takeaway culture.
“We are playing into the hands of big multinational companies that don’t care and we’re eating worse and worse food the whole time.”
He continued: “Now, people say to me regularly, ‘I don’t have time to cook’ and I instantly know they don’t know how to cook.”
He said grilling fish can take less than 10 minutes with tinned new potatoes.
“But nobody in the country knows how to cook any more so they all think you have to spend hours in the kitchen.”
However, he admitted he only cooks once a week for his family.
He added: “I’m nervous for the NHS and the cost to a nation that’s making itself more and more unwell through it’s food choices.
“Your grandchildren are going to drive past Trafalgar Square one day and there’s going to be a statue of Gregg Wallace in a toga holding a pineapple because he saved the nation.”
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