Boozy Britain?

Don't be embarrassed, Babs.  Binge drinkers are usually in their twenties and grow out of it.  As for the ones who don't, it's probably not any more of a problem in Britain than anywhere else.  We have our share of lushes over here too.

It's just the descriptions of Britain that I read;

Elsewhere, it paints a picture of a nation of binge-drinking, microwave meal-scoffers who are obsessed with the weather.

'They love to sit on the sofa and watch TV food shows. But in reality the recipe for dinner is more likely to be something like this: open freezer, take out package, bung in microwave, ping, eat.' 

It make us ALL sound like that. I cook proper meals and I insist on sitting down to a table wich is nicely laid! Maye it's just me and I'm boring, old and stuffy!  

Hi Michael,

I don't believe all I read in the newspapers, especially not the The Mail, but that booklet they drew my attention to made me think how bad we must sound to outsiders.  

There are so many lovely things to see in the UK, loads of lovely people to meet and the evidence is here in POE!  

**Just watch out for irate golfplayers........ 

put your feet up with a glass of wine, and chill LOL (joking)

i dont find drink and its problems funny but I think its worldwide babs not just the uk

Unfortunately there does seem to be a lot of binge drinking in the uk. It causes a lot of the violence i have to go to. The junk food diet also seems to be true!! obviously this has HUGE health implications, and again, we end up going to visit these people due to problems caused by bad diet etc... bad lifestyle!! a lot seems to be lack of education, i mean, i like to have a drink, and occasionally i eat junk food, but on the whole i try not to. A lot of these people live on nothing but chips, crisps and chocolate, oh and beer or wine or both!!  and whether they know its bad or not, they don't seem to care!!! there is also a lot of chronic alcoholics, that live tucked away and just drink themselves to death, they shun any help when offered and to be honest, can't be forced to accept help!

Most of your seratonin is madein your gut! so the type of food/drink you consume has a dramatic effect on mood, hence everybody i seem to meet is on some form of anti depressant!! is this all due to bad diet!!???   maybe!!  we really do need to break the circle or as a race we will become obese, depressed and suffer from heart disease and strokes!! and think how much that will cost us all via NHS!!  the NHS will collapse! as it is near to at the moment! it'll only take a small push.