Do you struggle to stay on track with healthy eating?
Motivation to keep going with healthy eating can be difficult, temptation is waiting at every corner and you have to have some pretty potent will power to fight all those cravings. And research indicates that maybe Brits should be taking holidays to France and Italy this summer and taking note of their eating habits.
The Samsung Healthy Eating Report - which was commissioned to celebrate the launch of the Samsung Food Showcase refrigerator - highlights that British people along with the Polish and Germans are amongst the most relaxed in Europe when it comes to their diet. The Italians and French believe they have the healthiest diets, with 66 per cent and 64 percent of people in those countries claiming to mainly eat and drink healthy things with the very occasional treat. That was followed by the Polish, Germans and Brits.
The survey reveals that three quarters of British people make an effort to eat healthily, but only one in ten manage to actually stick to their healthy eating plan. More than half of people in the UK admit to consuming a mix of healthy and unhealthy food and 62 per cent confess to buying unhealthy treats even when they are trying to stick to a healthy diet, compared to 46 per cent of Poles and 77 per cent of Germans.
Brits are less likely to buy fresh organic produce when on a diet, with just 14 per cent admitting to buying organic compared with 72 per cent of Italians. However, the UK is the country least likely to only buy healthy food when they are on a diet, compared with almost half of Italians. German dieters are revealed to be the most likely to still be bringing unhealthier food into the home either for themselves or others when they are on a diet.
Top five ways that Brits try to avoid temptation when healthy eating
Whilst the British are relaxed about their diet, the report reveals that many people use a number of different tactics when trying to stick to a healthy eating plan, including:
- Only having healthy food in the house – 46 per cent
- Using up all unhealthy food before they start – 28 per cent
- Hiding unhealthy food – 15 per cent
- Organising meals for specific days of the week in containers in the fridge – 12 per cent
- Giving unhealthy food away – 6 per cent
Nick Osborne, Product Manager - Refrigeration, Samsung UK & Ireland: “Most of the time everyone in the family eats different things, so the refrigerator tends to be full of a variety of healthy and unhealthy food. Our research has revealed that to stop healthy eaters from reaching straight for the unhealthy food, having a fridge that has different zones for different foods makes it much easier for them to stick to their diet.”
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