Voice-over: This is the sort of food we should be eating more often. But initial reaction to todays report suggest that while the carrot isnt tempting enough, the stick wont work either.
Clip 4 Study highlights health risks of salt
Voice-over: Millions of Britons are overdosing on salt every day, not only adding it to food but taking in high levels from processed products without even realizing it. Now a study in America says cutting salt by 1/3 cuts the risk of dying from heart attacks and strokes by 20%/
Man 1: What we now have is evidence that actually reducing salt only by three grams a day—around 30% reduction—has major, causes major reductions in stroke and heart attacks.
Voice-over: Andy Jones was left partly paralyzed by a stroke at only 40. Now he chooses his food more carefully.
Man 2: I was eating burgers, chips, takeaways, and it was off to me having a stroke, leaving me paralyzed down the right-hand side.
Woman 1: So lets take a look at just how much salt can be hidden in three typical meals of the British diet. Remembering we should only have around six grams of salt each day. Surely this is alright, isnt it, Anna Denny?
Woman 2: Most of the food weve got here are manufactured foods, so that means they can contain a lot of processed food, lots of salts in the processed food. If we take a look at breakfast, it could be about 0.4 grams of salt in an average bowl of breakfast cereals and up to 1.75 grams or more even in a slice of beans in toast. Its about two grams in a breakfast as a whole.
Woman 1: And for lunch?
Woman 2: Anything four or more grams in a large parmesan with large amounts of cheese or ham. Soup could contain between 1.5 and 2.5 grams of salt per bowl of soup and an average of 1 gram of salt in a packet of crisps. So that could be really 6-7 grams or more for this lunch.
Woman 1: And for supper?
Woman 2: About 1 gram of salt probably in the fish and chips, but thats without any salt added, so if you add salt at the table then you will obviously be increasing that. Bread and butter pudding 0.6 grams of salt. So a total for supper could be 2 grams or more.
Voice-over: Bringing the days total to over 10 grams of salt.
Clip 5 Exercises help you keep fit
Voice-over: No one wants to end up as an oversized cardboard cut out. But this is what could happen if you dont get a grip on those Christmas excesses PDQ. Today, a succession of poor souls who dragged themselves back from lard land, were congratulated by their guru, Rosemary Conley, on losing anything from 6 to 10 stones. Losing another person, in effect.
Woman 1: I feel so proud of them and it is the highlight of what we do. Its what were about. But usually its some event like youre going off to Alton Towers and you get stuck in a ride or you see yourself on video or a photograph. Those are often triggers that make you thinks: This is it; Im not going to go there. Ive had enough of being big and now Im going to do something about it.
Voice-over: But becoming healthy obviously has to be a lifestyle change for good, which is why ITV is campaigning to get Britain on the move and make walking, rather than driving, the choice. Today, Karen Church has launched her Round Britain Great Walk, which we can join in at any stage.
Woman 2: I just think that, you know, to get out, to be able to do something with your family, and at the same time raise money for charities or causes close to your hear, you know, thats just a positive way to start 2005, I think.
Voice-over: Now is the time of year to take out your gym membership, buy a stunning workout suit and never go again. But this year will be different. Make a personal trainer happy and see it through for once.
Man 1: While you come into the gym and having a good workout around, it actually boosts your whole metabolism. So that when youre going away, youre gonna be burning extra energy while youre away from the gym at the same time. And it can also take you into a fat burning energy system at the same time as well. So, theres a lot of benefits from just coming to the gym.
Woman 3: The thing is about going to the gym, or working out in any way, no matter how much you hate it—and believe me, I do—its always worth it afterwards. You feel great and you look an awful lot better.
Woman 4: I wouldnt have looked in the shop window. I would have even not trained thought that people wont sit next to me because Im big. Im fat. Theres no room next to me. Now, at first I started doing a bit of double take... Whos that, rather than it was me. And yesterday I went to buy a pair of Gap jeans size 12 and the buzz. And my husband bought me some lingerie女内衣 for Christmas and it was too big, because he bought me a size 14. And I was like, gosh! And he even he was like. Oh right, OK, fine. It’s great.
Man 2: Since I’ve lost loads of weight, I’ve taken on motorbike racing quite seriously, a bit of road racing, lots of motor cross and I’ve got me a bit of an expert status at motor cross, w