Posted on 03/12/2010 7:48:18 PM PST by Mount Athos
For thousands of years, human body weight had stayed remarkably stable. Then, in the 80s, something changed.
Three decades ago, fewer than one Briton in 10 was obese. One in four is today.
Sugar, fat and salt make a food compelling. Combined in the right way, they make a product indulgent, high in "hedonic value".
It is not just that fast food chains serve food with more fat, sugar and salt, or that intensive processing virtually eliminates our need to chew before swallowing, or that snacks are now available at any time. It is the combination of all that, and more.
This kind of food disappears down our throats so quickly after the first bite that it readily overrides the body's signals that should tell us, "I'm full."
In the past, Americans typically chewed food up to 25 times before it was swallowed; now the average American chews 10 times.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Bacon-wrapped pancakes sounds good right about now.
The Communist Guardian disapproves of salt, sugar and fat. What would Lenin say?
So do Little Smokie sausages wrapped in bacon and sprinkled with brown sugar, baked to greasy perfection. Perfect combination of fat, sugar and salt. Daughter #2 calls it meat candy.
Bullshit. I was raised in the fifties and was taught then to chew food ten times before swallowing. Hardly ever did it.
This article was written by cartoonists I'm afraid.
For all his sloth, Onslow is a great independent.
It is easy to understand how the problem of obesity came to be with morons like Kessler in charge of the public’s good health. He makes no attempt to differentiate between the different fats. He mentions not one word about the effects of d3 deficiency, and the antagonism between calcium and iron for gut absorption. A person can eat MCD BURGERS every day and lose weight buy throwing away the bun and drinking unsweetened tea or coffee with every meal.
I think I’ll go get some Pringles and ice cream before I finish reading this.
Great find! Lots of good info. in there. I’m sending it off to a few pals who, like myself, need to lose a few pounds.
I will admit that he tends to march to the beat of his own little drum, most of the time.
The steady diet of instant gratification and lack of personal responsibility that has been fed to everyone for the past 30 years or so may have a little something to do with it too.
I didn’t really take it that he was attacking McDonald’s; just that they know how to make their food taste better. But I believe he DID go after KFC for their “popcorn chicken”.
As you mention, throwing away the bun from McDonald’s burgers is a lower-calorie way to eat their products (I do this all the time). And their salads are great! They do seem to have succeeded at having healthy items on their menu.
You’re supposed to chew your food?
Beats Richards position LoL
Dang! that’s a keeper recipe.
Kessler had a weight problem, so he blames tasty food and wants to control its production and marketing. How about some self-control instead?
Pig Candy ...
It’s candied thick bacon. Yum ...
Eh-yah. You may die early but you die happy.
Let’s see.......
They ate:
Lots of Butter
Lots of Lard
Lots of Salt preserved meats
Lots of Sugar cured fruits and meats
Lots of potatoes
Lots of breads
Lots of Jams and Jellies
What they didn’t eat:
Tons of different chemicals added to ‘enhance’ food each year
What they did:
Kids played hard and actually did physical chores
Adults actually cleaned their own houses, washed their dishes by hand, split firewood, cut grass with push mowers, tended gardens with a hoe, walked to the store, did things for themselves and were very physically active.
Of course it is easier to tell people to ‘not eat that’ instead of telling them to eat natural and get off their duffs and do some physical WORK for a change - forget the cardio mini bursts of nonsense exercise and do something constructive for a change.
But, guess that just isn’t popular now days.
I have dealt with a lot of intestinal issues, until I discovered that it was probably the chemicals in the processed food that was causing the problem.
Also .. those chemicals which create labels such as “no fat”, “low fat”, “95% fat free” - cause us to just eat more. I found it was better to just eat the real stuff (on a once-a-month splurge), and I ate less bad for me stuff and craved less bad for me stuff.
Consequently, we have to learn what works for us, and stop sabotaging ourselves.
Now, I eat lots of fresh fruit (one of the keys), I hardly ever eat stuff that is processed.
You’re right. It was never 25 chews. 10 is more like it but I never did and still don’t. 4-5 is enough.
Now, where’s that Milky Way bar?
Hey, that's my secret to a happy marriage. Whenever I think my wife is picking on me too much, I think of Richard and lighten up..... a lot ;^)
The big problem is that the NIH and FDA have been asleep at the wheel for 40 years. They mandated the addition of iron to baked goods in 1940 and they have skillfully overlooked the rather obvious latitude effect of degenerative diseases. Even the stupid communists in east germany started dosing every child with 300,000 IU of d3 every 90 days in 1955. This vitamin d deficiency in people of color is the reason why american blacks have 20 time the incidence of early cardiac mortality than whites between the ages of 40 and 50.
great article. can’t agree with any regulation or forcing restaurants to do anything differently though.
I already had my ice cream, then I got a peanut butter and jelly sandwich complete with a glass of 2% milk. Yummy.
My mom makes a simalar recipe. The only thing different is she mixes the brown sugar with Guidens(sp) mustard and drizzles over the bacon wraped little guys. They are fantastic.
Note, however, that beef consumption for a lot of people was something of a luxury. Beef is probably cheaper now, inflation adjusted, than its ever been. Higher fat content too, as it's "corn fed," which used to be a higher priced item, but now is standard.
The article does make some very good, common sense points, some of which I have been using successfully of late, such as "list the food and situations you can't control." For me, that means no foods like pizza or donuts. Also, "snacks" for me now means fruit, where it used to mean junk food.
Fast food, junk food, processed food, lack of physical labor--all have had an impact.
How much do you have to chew soup?
Bacon-wrapped pigs in blankets sounds even better.
And......
People are living longer and longer in spite of these claims.
According to the food police, we shoud all have died right after High School.
Why is the average age still going up if we are eating so many “deadly” foods and chemicals?
Yes, and the onset of the sitting-in-front-of-a-screen-8-hours-a-day mode of living we have now.
All of this BS is geared toward one thing: Another government take over, this time it will be your food. They have been trying for years but now they have the communist in chief in the oval office and they think they can get away with regulating what you can eat.
Brain washing the uninformed masses who are too stupid to think for themselves into being terrified of eating anything with salt, sugar or fat in it. That pretty well eliminates food altogether.
I do believe, however, when they try to take this stuff away from Bozo's prime voting group they will have a major fight on their hands.
>>>Higher fat content too, as it’s “corn fed,” which used to be a higher priced item, but now is standard. <<<
That’s called ‘demand’.
Used to be you bought beef in 3 grades - ‘Prime’, ‘Standard’ & ‘Cutter and Canner’. Prime was only for company - the fat marbled through the meat made it tastier and more tender. How many today buy lesser cuts of meat for such things as Swiss Steak? Those ‘lesser grades’ today are sold at a premium (LOL now that is marketing for ya.) as 93/7 ground beef.
We generally eat way more venison than beef, but I’m sure most don’t have that option.
>>>For me, that means no foods like pizza<<<
Oh, NO! - We love our pizza..... Whole wheat or even with Oatmeal crusts, canned sauce that we made from our garden, venison sausage, onions and peppers that originated in our garden, topped with home made fresh yogurt cheese - what’s unhealthy about that?
>>>Also, “snacks” for me now means fruit<<<
I am currently starting my own fruit trees, trying to get away from the wax coating, fumigants, etc. from store bought fruit.
Sorry for picking on you... Since I am retired, having been involved for many years in food production and processing, I look at lots of food things that most people don’t even know about a bit differently than they do.
p.s. I can about 80+ cases of veggies, meat and fruit a year and freeze lots more.
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I've heard that's not true. This generation might not live longer than the previous generation. Mostly because of diet.
Your pizza sounds great! :) Unfortunately, that’s not what’s available at my neighborhood pizza place, thus I avoid it entirely now. :(
It’s less about age than how much you cost on the way out. Most folks don’t drop dead anymore, they linger. Lingering costs money.
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