According to a “freshly cooked” nutritional analysis, there are still too few plant foods and too many animal foods on the daily menu in Austria!
Each of us consumes over a ton and a half of food over the course of a year. The choice of crunchy food or vegetables has a decisive influence on our health. “It is therefore not only important what we put on our plate on holidays such as Christmas or New Year, but also what we eat in the long term,” analyzes Maria Fanninger, the founder of the association ‘Land Creates Life’.
Nutritionist warns
As a nutritionist, despite statistics that say we should eat more plants than animals, she is not completely satisfied with our eating behavior. “Although vegetables come first in the total amount of food consumed, our actual consumption of carrots, lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes or more green vitamins remains well below recommendations,” Fanniger warns. Three servings of vegetables per day are ideal.
According to the current “Austrian Nutrition Report”, we manage only one plate on average – regardless of gender. Fanninger’s Appetite Summary: “While we eat too little of some foods, like fruit, we eat too much of others.” Here she takes the male population into her “cutlery sights”: “They eat so much roast pork, schnitzel or even sausage that the upper limit recommended in Austria is exceeded.
Water consumption is clearly considered exemplary
However, our drinking behavior is exemplary according to glass and bottle calculations for non-alcoholic drinks: women consume – broken down per day – more than two liters instead of the recommended minimum amount of one and a half liters!
Men even pour up to three liters. Globally, liquids, without alcohol, are at the top with 913 liters per year. This includes water, sparkling drinks, fruit and vegetable juices, as well as tea, coffee and other caffeinated foods. But the need for beer is also enormous, with an average consumption of more than 105 liters per year, while wine consumes more than 27 liters per capita.
Recommendation: After the holiday, take a good look at what ends up in your stomach or throat.
Source: Krone
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