Saga Magazine – August 2018

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More veg and fruit Those
allotment pickings served us
well in the war years. Today,
only a third of UK adults meet
the recommended five-a-day.
More dietary fibre
Home-grown vegetables and
fruit also meant a good
supply of fibre. In 2018,
according to the National
Diet and Nutrition Survey,
dietary fibre intake stands at
just 19g a day – well below
the recommended 30g.
Calcium Thanks to their three
pints of milk and 2oz of
cheese a week rations, people
didn’t go short of calcium
during the war. Today 11% of
adult women in the UK have
inadequate calcium intakes.
The reason? The recent
fad for shunning dairy.
Maybe it’s time to ‘drinka
pinta milka day’ again?
We’ll eat again
Why those who lived
with rationing in
the Second World War
ate a simple, super
British diet
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