Surely processed foods are not the healthiest. The amount of salt in processed foods is amazing. How much salt is good/bad for you is debated and I suspect we can eat more salt than some studies would suggest but there is just too much salt in food.
I have started drinking veggie drinks like V8. Even the low salt V8 is heavy in salt at around 140 MG per 8 oz. Organic veggie juice had about 40 MG AND TASTED BETTER! More expensive though.
While I don't think processed foods are the best foods I don't think they are causing fat people. Portion sizes are causing fat people. Going to McD's in the past, one would get a couple of hamburgers, a bag of fries, and a small drink by today's standards. Now, you get a Big Mac that is loaded with calories. Heck maybe two Big Macs, a supersized fry that has maybe 4 times the food as the small bag, and the drink is HUGE compared to what we used to get. It is just too danged much food/calories and it is cheap. One can get all, or most, of their daily calories at a fast food place but they still eat three meals a day. Too much food. Too much calories.
I have been wearing a heart rate monitor when working on our place. Splitting firewood burns 300-500+ calories an hour. 300 if I am not splitting all of the time. 500 if I can splitting and stacking all of the time. 500 calories would be 2,000 calories in four hours. If I maintained the calorie burn for eight hours that is 4,000 calories just to get the work down and I would guess I would need at least another 2,000-3,000 just to stay alive. The problem is that people are eating like they are splitting wood for 8 hours when all they did is sit.
Like many, I gained weight in my 20's and I have been fighting the fat off ever since. A few years ago, I stopped eating as much. I just ate less and I lost 10-13 pounds as a result. I bought a new belt when I started and I was using the buckle hole that made the belt the widest. The belt has five holes and I need to make a sixth because I have lost that much fat. I did it by simply eating less.
I went to the gym last night and burned around 1,300 calories, For dinner I had some veggies juice, carrot juice, and the wifey cooked a small cheese pizza that three of us ate. I had thee little slices that were about the size of one regular slice of pizza. I splurged and had a beer too. :laughing::laughing::laughing: I did not go to sleep hungry. In the past, I would have eating most of the pizza...
We just eat too much.
My area of NC has a large number of people from South of the Border and I don't mean South Carolina. Some of these people are thin but many are really, really fat. :shocked: Southern food might be fat/calorie heavy but refried beans have lard in them if they are made right. And I love me some good refried beans! :licking::licking::licking::laughing::laughing::laughing: All about portions...
Later,
Dan
