It is quite frankly amazing that I am still here. The media is pummeling us with so many health caveats at the moment that I am unsure what to believe.
Apparently theSubway's six-inch Meatball Marinara contains roughly the same amount of salt as 'nine small packets of Walkers Ready Salted crisps'. Well, with a name like six-inch Meatball Marinara, forgive me if that does not seem surprising (on a side note, I did not think that small packets of crisps existed any more. When I walk into a pub, all I am presented with these days is a garish selection of dustbin bags full of mostly air and the occasional large genetically modified slice of potato generously dusted with salt).
So is my glass of wine now hiding an evil payload of toxic substances (apart from the obvious)?
One glass of wine has approximately the same calorie content as a slice of cake (120). The average wine drinker consumes 2000 calories each month which is like eating an extra 38 roast beef dinners every year. Wait a minute, that is only four glasses a week.
That means I am eating an awful lot of beef.....
So how about salt in wine? If your liver could take it then you would have to drink100 bottlesto exceed your maximum daily intake of salt. So no problem there.
It is all so confusing, especially after the u-turn on attitudes to eating eggsfor example, which are now deemed fineafter all, unless you put salt on them of course.
I was in a pub the other day and ordered a pickled egg. They always look so unappealing, sulking in a swamp of vinegar, deliberately not revealing how many decades they have been waiting to be picked. I ate my healthy egg in a very unhealthy traditional way.
I added it to a very generous bag of crisps all washed down with a glass of Merlot. Delicious.

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