Extraordinary story in today’s Evening Post which says

THE number of Nottingham people eating enough fruit and vegetables has dropped to just 20%, new figures have revealed.

Only 1 in 5 people in the city are eating enough fruit and veg – and I’m in the four fifths.

I’m also amongst the 47,000 obese people and many of my friends are amongst the 84,000 are “only” overweight. I know the damages being obese can do, since a few weeks ago we discovered I’m now twice as likely to die.

I only eat five a day if I make a special effort – and the days I do are the days when I cook properly. When I started using “OneClicktoCook” I was amazed by how much fruit and veg it got me to buy for just one week’s worth of evening meals. The sad truth is that although that website supplies me with 6 evening meal ideas and a shopping list of all I have to buy, too often, those 6 evening meals last two or three weeks. I’ve had to stop buying fresh meat and fish with the recipes because I just don’t get around to cooking it in time.

Eddie Izzard was right:

So it’s all those fruits there, and there’s South African fruit we can have now, without going, “Oh, the guilt!” And star fruit, which are from Mars! So it’s great, you’ve got all these fruits, and you get a selection, you take it home, you arrange it in a bowl… and then you watch it rot! You never eat it, really… Occasionally, you go up to it, and go… “Ah… I don’t think I will. Ooh, a Mars bar, there we go!” (mimes eating bar) “Oh, I’m full-up now!” And they all rot from the bottom up, you go… (disgusted noises)