Joanna Lumley believes people are a bigger size due to takeaways (Image: GETTY)
Dame Joanna Lumley has insisted people aren’t as thin nowadays due to fast food delivery services being so accessible. The Absolutely Fabulous actress took issue with those who favoured ordering “expensive” food over cooking for themselves – and believes this is why people are bigger nowadays.
Reflecting on the earlier stages of her career, Joanna, 78, shared: “In those days, everybody was thinner because there was no fast food. Now there are all these delivery companies.
She added to the Daily Mail: “This idea that your life is so busy that you can’t be bothered to shop, with people just bringing stuff to you, it’s terribly expensive. Just make it yourself!”
The Fool Me Once star has managed to maintain her svelte figure over the years by following a strict diet and ditching meat and fish.
She once shared: “I suddenly thought I am not going to do this anymore. I am not going to eat meat or fish. No more, finished. Gone. But I am not a vegan. That is the next step, but I love cheese.”
Joanna Lumley has followed the same strict diet for many years (Image: GETTY)
Joanna has now been a vegeratian for over 40 years and believes eating this way is why she is “never ill”.
Speaking on the Table Manners podcast With Jessie and Lennie Ware, she said: “The diet I love best is: eat stuff, mostly vegetables, not too much.
“And exercise? I have a tall thin house and I run up and down the stairs a lot!”
At the time in 2022, Joanna said she was yet to fully commit to a vegan diet as she couldn’t resist tucking into cheese.
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The actress also previously shared that she prefers to eat little and often instead of treating herself to a big meal.
She told the Mail on Sunday: “I eat a bit throughout the day if I’m hungry, but not a big meal.
“I’ll have some nuts or maybe some crisps and that’s enough.”
Joanna’s comments came ahead of the Government’s latest report on tackling obesity in England.
Obesity costs the NHS around £6.5 billion a year and is the second biggest preventable cause of cancer.
Over one in four (26 percent) adults and 23.4 percent of children aged 10-11 years in England are living with obesity, which places huge pressure on the health and care system.
Updated back in February, the department of health and social care said it was taking action to help people make healthier choices to tackle obesity, reduce pressure on the NHS, and boost the economy.
Future plans in place include banning the advertisement of less healthy products on television and on-demand programmes before the watershed time, as well as banning multibuy promotions like Buy One Get One Free on unhealthy food options.
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