Bugging your brain like a stone in your shoe!Fit or Fat?
If companies can create food products with ‘Half the fat but the same great taste!’, why don’t they simply do us all a favour and stop selling the higher fat version? Surely if it actually tastes the same, none of us would notice a difference?
Yeah, right!
The fact is that healthy foods do taste different. They have their own distinct taste, not unlike the original product but still not quite the same either! Low calorie drinks for example have that weird after taste that reminds you it was a chemical, rather than sugar that gave that sweetness!
And if they’re taking out the sugar and fat and all things nice, what are they replacing it with and how bad for us are these substitutes? The more chemical compounds we ingest, the more likely we are to develop some nasty side effect… We’ll be thin but we’ll have bowel cancer?
It seems to me that looking back on Times gone by, people were generally healthier yet they ate butter, lard, sugar… Is it more about exercise than it is about eating?
Well, utilising the Weight Watchers programme, I have managed to loose weight previously and am doing so again at the moment. It can consist simply of adapting your nutritional intake to match the points allowance for the day. You can still eat any foodstuffs you desire and not exercise so long as you stay 'in points'. This would imply that you can still eat fat, lard & sugar and yet not get fat! It’s about quantities too!
All in all it makes for a confusing mess. You have to decide weather or not to eat differently, eat less, eat more, exercise. exercise more, or get fat! There just doesn't seems to be a balance anymore… pun intended! Jxx
3 comments:
You're right - in the past people ate butter, animal fat, lard etc. But they took far more exercise, did more manual labour and walked more and further. They probably didn't eat quite as much food either.
Ideally, we should buy fresh ingredients and prepare our meals rather than buy convenience foods that are prepared in minutes - shame we don't live in an ideal world:)
jan
Ah, you'd be suprised! We're working towards the five a day at the moment and doing rather well! We're preparing far more of our own food and even growing some it ourselves ;-) Little Angels us! Jxx
I firmly believe in real sugar and real butter as opposed to lab created chemicals. I eat butter on just about everything. Hubby always gives me crap about all the butter I eat, but I can dish it right back and ask him, "Yes, but which one of us has kept the same size since we met, and who has gained 100 pounds?" :D
iPam
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