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Wet summer led to comfort food
03/09/2007 20:03 - (SA)
London - Britons resorted to eating more chocolate and cakes to cope with one of the wettest summers on record, a new poll revealed on Monday.
Half of those asked said they opted for "comfort-eating" in June, July and August, with 27% ditching salads altogether and 10% admitting to a significant drop in fruit and vegetable consumption.
Whereas normally summer sees lighter foods on the menu, the downpours and floods spurred 18% of Britons to eat more chocolate, 14% more cakes and nine percent more pasta and bread.
"Reaching for the comfort food is a real mistake," said Joy Parker, home economist for Somerfield Magazine, which commissioned the poll for the British supermarket chain.
The poll, based on questions put to 1 333 Britons, also showed that two thirds blamed the miserable weather for increased feelings of lethargy and irritability, while 26% abandoned their exercise regimes.
Nearly a third said a lack of sunshine lowered their productivity at work, while 43% said the bad weather made them decide to stay at home rather than go out and socialise.
Britain had its wettest summer since rainfall records began in 1914, with flooding in northern England in June and further south in July leading to at least seven deaths.
- AFP
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