Hey! Yep it’s been a while since I’ve added to the blog, I apologise for that, let’s say I’ve been too busy making tees to write about them! Anyway for my next crazy installment - check out the Junk Food T-Shirt.

It was inspired by a recent TV program that dealt with how much food we throw away these days. It made me think, better than eating the junk, but that’s not the point. The point is food must be really awful these days if we will all buy it but not even eat the stuff. Then again consider all the crap many of us choose to eat everyday, I include myself in that category, I’m lucky, I don’t really have any weight problems, maybe a few pounds on and off somtimes at Christmas, but mainly I take after my dad, I am a skinny sod at the best of times. But Christ, doesn’t junk food screw you up? It must be my age, I just can’t process that stuff after a while. There are certain burgers that give me wind and stomach cramps and their buns taste of sugar, their shakes give me a headache, and their fries are so salty I get heart pangs from the sodium build-up.

I was a veggie once, I was even an activist for an animal protection group, but I was only 12 years old, very impressionable, and recently moved to a new school after Mum and Dad’s divorce. The point is I wanted friends, and if they were veggies, then I was, if they were activists, then I was. I spent two or three years living of Beanfeast and Soya, it was so ironic, I’d just spent over a decade detesting vegetables and now here I was trying to be a vegetarian.

At first I went the whole hog, veganism is a very tough regime, no dairy, nothing. I became rather ill and slipped back to vegetarian so I could eat a few cheese sandwiches now and again, it got worse. After a year or two I was one of those awful veggies who ate Tuna. Eventually I became as close to a carnivore as you can get. I’d been so starved of just about every edible treat known to man.

Even now I can’t resist a bit of junk. Sweets mainly. Chocolate. Perhaps I have my brain all wired up wrong, are males suspposed to get a buzz of chocolate? Anyway, I was always getting the munchies in my late teens and Student years, I wasn’t so bang on all the fast food junk as much as crisps (US - chips) and sweets. I know I’m paying for it now. A rather wise friend once pointed out that there is a balance. If you eat healthy food and you hate it you really aren’t receiving all the benefits. Your body won’t process it as efficiently, and you will rather skip meals than face another bowl of lentils and a detox tea.

It’s true, fruit, veg, if it’s healthy I have trouble with it. I’ve learned over the years to trick myself into enjoying a rather more stable diet these days, I hardly touch caffeine in the day. I’ll eat yoghurt crunchies instead of sweets, when I actually find them in the shops. I probably have less than ten takeaway meals a year now which is progress I suppose.

What still gets my goat is the occassional vegan or even worse (I knew a girl who lives on fruit and nuts!), badgering me about the healthy advantages of a meat-free diet. To be honest, they look ill, kinda defeats the whole point I’d say.

Do what you like within moderation seems to be the best advice. Anyway, who the hell wants to live forever these days. People die from jogging, people get run over, people who never smoke or drink, or eat meat or dairy, who exercise everyday die from cancer. I don’t know, I’d say the healthiest thing to do is stay as happy as you can, and make sure you keep up a diet of healthy cynicism too.