Archive for the ‘Obesity’ Category
Do You Have To Drink So Much?
No not beer. Soda.
15 billion gallons a year are consumed each year in the United States alone. Did you know that drinking just one can of soda a day can add more than a pound of weight every month. That’s mainly because that one can can have the equivalent of over a dozen spoonfuls of sugar (usually High Fructose Corn Syrup).
Ok, so you’ll drink diet soda instead? The jury is still out on that one. All those artificial sweeteners taken over time aren’t necessarily much better than the sugar either.
Even done the experiment of putting a small piece of meat into a glass of soda overnight, and seeing it dissolve? It does the same to your teeth enamel too.
It could also help to bring on kidney stones, and liver damage – thought to be the sodium benzoate in it.
It can lead to caffeine addiction, and it’s not goo for the stomach as it’s quite acidic, and can damage the lining of the stomach.
Oh one last thing, a can a day habit will cost you over $100 a year. So if there are 4 in your house drinking 3 cans a day, that’s over a grand a year, plus the health risks above.
TGFC recommends you make sure you drink your eight recommended 8 ounce glasses of water each day. It won’t do any harm to your health or your wallet!
Fat Kids
A recently released study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that about 32 percent of children were overweight, 16 percent were obese, and 11 percent were extremely obese.
Meanwhile junk food companies continue to promote so-called healthy choices, such as diet sodas, and low-fat chips. Many cereal products are way less than healthy too, containing large amounts of sugar or the ubiquitous High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS).
Whatever the recent commercials from the corn industry might say about HFCS, the bottom line is that it’s still empty calories, and eating less calories is one way to lose weight. Quite simply, if you burn more calories than you take in, you’ll eventually lose some pounds.
Pay More Eat Less
Is that crazy? No, it makes perfect sense when you think about it.
Most of us eating a Western diet eat far too much. Too much of the wrong stuff to a large extent as well.
Eat more fruit and vegetables. Eat more whole grains. Eat more fish.
Eat less fried food, eat less sugary food, eat less white rice and bread. Eat less red meat.
I know you like fried eggs with some syrup, and accompanied with steak, and toast, and some sweet tea.
It doesn’t hurt occasionally. Like once a month.
Where folks trip up, is that they’ll tell you they only eat pizza once a week. They only eat a Big Mac once a week too. Same goes for Chinese take out, fried chicken, doughnuts, pancakes…
You get the picture?
Sure they only eat those things once a week, but they eat plenty of it when they do, and they eat one of those items most every day.
So cut back on your portions if you eat out. Don’t supersize everything. I guarantee you’ll still feel full in about twenty minutes in any case. That’s how long after eating that it takes your stomach to tell your brain to stop sending the triggers to tell you to eat more. It probably derives from when man lived in the wild, and had to gouge as much food as he could, in any given time, as he didn’t know when his next meal would be.
Thing is too, with all that processed food about these days, that’s super high in calories, you end up eating way more calories than you need to, even before you feel full.
So, spend more on better quality food, and buy less of it. That works however large or small your food budget is.
eyebee
