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IF YOU THOUGHT that one typical Chinese takeaway meal was just enough to feed one person, you’d be wrong.
According to safefood, a typical Chinese takeaway meal of a starter, main course and egg fried rice can contain enough food for two people.
This combination can add up to much more calories than an adult’s total daily requirements, as well as one and a half times their recommended maximum level of salt, according to a new safefood report.
Some Chinese takeaway starter dishes provided a third of an adult’s total daily calorie requirement, the report shows.
Dr Cliodhna Foley-Nolan, director of human health and nutrition at safefood said:
Although traditional Chinese food is healthy, being low in fat and with a strong emphasis on vegetables, chefs here have adapted their recipes to suit local taste buds as their dishes have become more popular. With our taste buds in the West favouring foods which are high in fat, salt and sugar and because we eat bigger portions, Chinese dishes have become less healthy over time.
She added:
While it is encouraging that almost two thirds (62 per cent) of people regard Chinese takeaway as a treat, portion sizes are unnecessarily generous and not healthy.
Portion size
After sampling 220 Chinese meal items from 35 outlets on the island of Ireland, safefood found:
More than half (54 per cent) of consumers choose egg fried rice (727 calorie average), while a main dish served with this can result in a person consuming between 1300 and 1800 calories, said safefood.
Tips for having a healthier Chinese takeaway
While safefood is not advising people that a Chinese takeaway should be a regular dinner choice, it does suggest:
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They need to be on the Luas, but for many other reasons.
More selling off state resources to buy party votes. Hmmm somethings/ some parties never change.
Come on what’s next? Free sky TV for everyone over 30!
2 years or whatever being trained at great expense to the state, and to supply Luas with free security gaurds. Thats how I see it. Rediculus idea. Try locking them up instead. Tackle the real issue. The revolving door system is the problem.
Does this mean the Luas will be extended ‘down the country’ to catch those rural criminals ?
We need a complete media ban on these horse shite promises before an Election.
If I am elected I will have all pre-election promises banned.
Vote for Leo.
Voting for Fianna Fail is like inviting a burglar back to your house the next day and handing them the keys to your car.
“Voting for Fianna Fail is like inviting a burglar back to your house the next day and handing them the keys to your car.”
Lol.
They are the biggest burglars in the history of the nation.!
Result: banks bankrupt; country bankrupt; every citizen who owned shares in the banks, virtually bankrupted.!
Cronies with a dollop of nepotism, and a side order of lies.
“Burglars on the Luas” Is she for real.. The lads breaking into houses are driving around in vans and cars in broad daylight. If FF are yapping on about more Guards on the streets why was there six or seven Guards pictured standing around laughing and joking while having a cup of tea with Richie Kavanagh down at their Ard Fheis?
They never stopped the biggest crooks and gangsters in there own party from committing serious crimes against the state(Haughey, Ahearn, Cowen), so they can go shove there false promises!
Same ould shiate from the same shower. Short memories the lot of them.
LOL let’s close the M50 !! Arrest every suspicious person on the Luss! ! I wonder about some of these elected people. Are the completely stupid.
A lot less Gardaí than I realised. I don’t think it’ll ever be above or at 15,000.
Pointless incrrasing Garda numbers to catch burglers if they get off with suspended sentences to reoffend. Better off tackling that issue first.
Or if the end up day behind a desk shifting paper
Or if they end up stuck behind a desk shifting paper
Not much point in increasing Garda numbers unless you increase prison sentences. This revolving door light jail terms means career criminals are in and out in no time. Tuff, long sentences in need to be introduced, the increse in Garda numbers is a start.
Head line should cut off at Fianna Fail wants.
Delusional shysters suffering from gravy withdrawl.
I said at the time that closing that station was folly….. ‘folly that is’ is what I said at the time.
It’s nice to have my suspicions confirmed.
Folly!
Indah, iJoan, grub Noonan, meeehal the snake, a terrorist, the 1% brigade renua, a shower of self serving independents! We have no decent choice for change, lefties are too extreme and the rest are a shower of nepotistic so and so’s. The truth sadly is if I was in power I would more than likely look after myself and my own too, sadly most of us are the same!
I don’t even know how the likes of Martin and that idiot O’dea etc can show their faces in public after what their party did to Ireland. The people who voted for them are no better than ISIS fanatics
Bloody nonsense, if your after robbing a house, you need to be caught coming from the house, not getting off the luas, dart, bus!
All the fantastic news and promises from our politicians of late, we will be a positively utopian society and the envy of Europe and the world before the year is out…. oh wait, there’s an election just around the corner, silly me…
I hear you’re moving south to the new north pole ?
Are you implying I’m Polish?
Is this a Waterford Whispers story? Top quality satire – couldn’t actually be serious I assume…
Never saw Haughey, Burke, Lawlor, Flynn,Ahern, Callelly or any of the others on the Luas so not sure what good this idea would deliver?
This Government may have broken promises but the brass necks of Fianna Fáil after leading us to economic oblivion is mind boggling!
Templemore should have been reopened faster but still shouldn’t take priority over the defence forces , both should have been evenly funded.
An Ireland for all?
Ban the Luas.
Hello
Putting Gardai on the luas in the hope of catching burglars?!. Are burglars even that stupid?
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