Are you constantly on a diet and thinking about your nutrition, but balk at the idea of going out for a jog? If so, you are in good company, as Britain as a whole has just been discovered to be diet obsessed and completely lazy at the same time.
A study has found that whilst it would seem that Britons care about their wellness and wellbeing, as they obsess about what they eat, they are amongst the least active nations in the whole of Europe, second only to Poland.
Only one in five Britons play a sport, and yet only the Danes were found to be more obsessed with their diet, proving that Britons really do contradict themselves about how to look after their bodies and health. Well over half of those surveyed in Denmark played sport on a regular basis, contrasting sharply with Britain’s one in five.
Despite this stunning lack of regular exercise, around 17 percent of Britons who responded to the survey said that they had followed some type of slimming diet in the six months prior to answering the survey. Denmark had around 23 percent of respondents on a diet in the past six months, but all the other countries were lower, especially Germany, where the response was that just eight percent of people had been on a diet in the past six months.
This British obsession with being on a diet dates back many centuries – poets and writers throughout the ages are fixated on the idea of food and fad diets have their roots well entrenched in popular culture and folklore. One of the first low-carb diets was actually published by a man called William Banting as far back as 1863, and ‘Banting’ then became a synonym for dieting, right up to the 1920s.
