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Everyone

And welcome back to britain under the microscope

Hello onland

Hello

Really ve one last time we recorded

We were talking about those delicious cookies

Have you been eating those cookies again

Yes

Quite a few of those

Actually i had a few packs

As well i always meant to ask you online

How did you manage to keep your figure

I'm and

这个身材保持的还是不错的

Despite the fact that you really like sweet things

I try not to eat too many sweet things

Really to be honest living in china

I do snack a lot less in the uk

In the uk it's very easy to find lots of different touch cakes and chocolate in china

You still have to make a little bit of an effort um and the reason

Why i'm asking you

This question is because i would like to talk about healthy eating and especially vegetarianism in the uk

Okay

First of all would you say people in the uk are generally healthy in terms of weight

Generally no

Why would you say that there's a lot of talk about healthy eat

And

And you can see me all the adverts

But if you go out and about on the street

You do see quite a few people who are

How should i say quite big

I'm relatively plumwell

Relatively plump

So the thing is i've done some background checking

Oh

Would you want to hear the start

I'm forbabwees can be very depressing

Actually

Tually

Quite surprising sing to me

Well well

Acaccording to some of the special wewesisite the latest test ats shows that the adult obesity in the uk

The rate is twenty eight percent obese

If for those of you are listening to the show

I think obesity is calculated by abmi of overight yethen you have overweight

And then you have obese

Yeah

So twenty eight percent is obesity

Another thirty six percent overweight

So basically that ans half overhalf of the british population

Adult population are overweight

I'm not too surprised um to be honest

It's bit depressing

But it's something that you can see

And this is also sigying that you're here in a lot from the government

As well um it is a real health problem

Actually it is also becoming a problem in china

As we are more economically developed

We eat more food is different sorts of food

They're more available

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And among them a lot of high sugar food

But that was about the adult

What about children

Children i know

I don't have the actual statistics

But i do know that children are not potikly hethy

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There's a lot of childhood obesity

Um childhood obeity ity 就用儿童的肥胖

That is a problem in china

As well especially in recent years

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So you said the government in the uk is trying to do something about it obviously promoting healthy eating yep

What else has it done

Lots of government messages

Lots about urging people to cut down the amount to sugar

That seaon

There's something called a sugar tax

Sugar tax to 糖水

Yeah

So if it contains a lot of sugar or sugery products

Than you get taxt more heavily

Yeah

So making suggary drinks more expense

Sive compananies now trying to produce the amount of sugar in their food

Sugar is definitely one thing that will make you overweight or even obese

But there's obviously also fat yeah

That is the whole trend about eating healthier becoming even vegetarian or

Or vevegan

Well

Exactly more more british people are becoming vegetarian or vegan particularly around this time

Because for the past yellow half ful

So the uk has been in griypthe pandeammis so a lot people be staying a home

Uh not exercising

Not exercse ing snack in as well

And this is actually some the government's very worried about because we have a public health system

We worworrithat maybe about about on the undermuch time

Um there's going to be so much pressure on the nhs

Because of all will be people that is really understandable

But essense you said being vegetarian is becoming more popular

Exactly how popular

How many people are vegetarians in the uk

At the moment about one in eight

People are going veggie

Going vegegy means becoming vegetarian

Yeah Wow

One in eight

Um That

That doesn't include people who are trying to juice the amount of me

That they eat

But

But they are maybe vegetarian for a few days of the week

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Honestly

This is something that really tikkles me

If you're vegetarian for three days of the week

You're not a vegetarian or engenglish to actually invented a word called flexicitarian have you heard of that

Yes Yeah

I've talked about in a buzzworard section

If a flexitarian is someone mamaly ly at at fanned based things

Vegetables

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Sometimes also eat meat and fish

Oh Yeah

I think quite few people are that now now

But vegetarians and veveans

What

What are the differences

Oh

That's what ite complex quesall

Because veganism m vevegetanism has quite a few different definitions

Vevegans is probably stestefururther urther

Oh

So for example

A vegan wldn't eat eggs or any animal products at all because like dairy products

My day right yeyeah

Vegetarian dependent on definition

They do sometimes eat cheese and eggs

Uh i've even heard of some vegetarians who would eat fish

Because they think that's not meat

Yeah

This is there are so many definitions

I'm sure some of you

If you're serious about vegetarianism

You can perhaps explain to us

Um but coming to the reason for being a vegetarian

Maybe nowadays is getting more popular in china

But before if you hear someone saying that they are vegetarian

Then you would immediately assume they are chjai ananfor like they are religious

That's not the case in the uk

Is it no traditionally

There's no real religious reasons behind becoming vevetarian for example

Like britain used to be abstromly ly christian country

What still is to was an extent

But there's nothing in christienanity or about eating meat

About eating meat all going vegetarian especially in the christianza in the uk

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So essentially

People are turning vegetarian simply because of the health reasons

Then uh partly health

But a lot of vegetarians

Become vegetarians because of animal

Welfare

Animal will all because they don't want to kill

They think killing animals for food

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Is not okay

Yep

And also how animals are kept as well

So for example

Free rage

Eggs a very popular

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就是散养鸡的这种鸡蛋

Free range

We talked about that before

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There is one expression

That i constantly see in like animal welfare very strange expression called battery chicken

Yeah

Battery doesn't mean

Battery like 电池

Does it no a battery chicken or battery hand

It's when you keep the hand in cages

It's h like small small cages in small cages that they can't move

And it just a battery eggs

It's basically kind of animal torture

It is and back a few years ago that used to be the norm

But now free range eggs

Even people not vegetarian

Y're probably choose free range eggs um

I think you do hear

Talks about that in china

As well now when you go to supermarket to buy eggs

You do see free range

And also free range chicken

And also free range meat

Yeah

That's a night

If i buy eggs or if i buy meat

I generally look for free range um and apart from the animal side of it

Think some people are also doing it for environmental reasons

Well Yeah

Farming animals does produce a loof of bon on oxide um

And there's much more of the focus on sustainable farming

Sustainable farming to make minimal environmental impact

Yeah

Ah honestly though we've talked all about these details about vegetarianism and healthy eating

And whayouyour take on it

Or what would you say in general in the uk

How do you people feel about vegetarianism

If they are not vegetarians themselves

I would say that vegetarianism is now the norm

Or

Or is now seen is something and lots of people are

When i was growing up

It was seen as a bit of ununsual

Maybe a little big extreme um

But nowadays

It's not seen as anything strange or anything nowadays

And according to your laws and regulations

All of your restaurants have to at least provide one or a few vegetarian options

Oh Yeah Um

If you look at a british menu

It will clearly say what products are inside that food

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And it will have like a little vv sign for vegetarian

Tomorrow this vegetarian

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And normally they would have a very short gloss to show

If there's eggs in it

If this buts us

And so i'm so full

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之前我们也谈到过

就是英国餐馆里的那个菜单

一般都会很明确的标注哪一项是可以让素食者吃的

就是safe vegetarians

But you heard of the recent controversies about vegetarian influences on

On for exple instagram or facebook or twitter

Some of these vegetarians or even vegan influencers

They were caught on camera eating meat or fish

And they

And that consts quite a str

Yeah

Doesn't

I would say that vegetarian ism

Because it's such an emotive issue

It's a question

That does provoke a lot of debate

And sometimes always say a little bit of extremeity

As well um

It does generate quite a few extreme opinions

So for example

There are some people in you gay

And i'm sure

They

They are in china

They are vegetan into the point

Where they just completely oppose anybody eating me

This is how i feel honestly i have no problem with people choosing whaeveryday like to eat

However what i sometimes finit a little bit hard to accept

Is the fact that some vegetarians really just have a very small group of them can be a bit judge

Can be a bit judmental

So if i go out

I have vegetarians ans or vevean an ds theyyylololy ly they're okay

So if we go out to eat

They just eat what sues them

And i can eat what i like

But some

Sometimes you will meet some people

They say their vegetarian

And they judge you

When you eat meat

That is something

I have a sight issue with yeah to be honest

I would actually like to be vegetarian

Ii ququququk et at i don't

I don't think have the wheel power

It's the old saying

I would like to be vegetarian

But i just love stakes too much

Well pretty much

But

But hopefully in the future

They're talking about lab grown meet and things like that

That's a new trend isn't it and to be honest

If that carries on then i probably will um

So let's wrap up here

We've talked a lot about vegetarianism

Vegisism

Also hehealy eating in the ukk and ve gengeneral

If any of you are vegetarians

Vegans

Or if your interested in this topic

Leave us a comment in the comment section

Thank you onland

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