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Eating so-called "health" foods can stop any attempt at weight loss and even make you gain weight without even realizing it. Calories are more important than low fat, low carb,
high protein or food claiming so-called "health" benefits. When the extra calories of health foods make you fat, any benefit, if any, is eliminated by the clear dangers of weight gain.
Here is the weight gain when eating a single serving a day for a year, assuming these represents
excess calories:
"Healthy"
Food or
Drink |
Serving size
|
Calories per
serving
|
Weight gain from
eating or drinking
1 serving a
day for a year
|
Time to
walk off
1 serving
(min)
|
| olive oil |
1 tsbl. |
125 |
12 lb. |
30 |
|
almonds
or other nuts
|
17
|
175
|
17 lb |
45 |
| fruit juices |
8 oz. |
125 |
12 lb. |
30 |
These are NOT "free" calories. They count! How we get fooled into thinking we can lose weight eating high calorie, fattening with portion control. See In Part 1
Oprah has recently given up on dieting and is seeking "balance" and eating "health" foods. In fact, she was eating so called "health foods"--nuts, olive oil, whole grains and brown rice all along.
How did it help her? Not much.
She still struggled for 20 years and will struggle the rest of her life until she realizes that fat people cannot imitate skinny people and lose and maintain their weight. Oprah's struggle mirrors all over weight American's struggle.Their obsession with so called "health" foods--especially the low fat and more recently the low carb ones has not failed to reverse the obesity epidemic.
Not losing weight? "Health" foods have fueled the obesity epidemic.
Instead of rethinking the message, people have simply try harder: lower and lower fat, more and more exercise, eating more and more high calorie "health' foods.
Skinny people are different from fat people:
Besides not recognizing that skinny people like different foods, like to exercise, often forget to eat, and rarely eat of anxiety, stress or boredom, they forgot three basics concepts:
"Health foods" often are high in calories:
Look at olive oil & nuts- both 130 calories/ serving. Eating an extra 100 calories a day for a year adds 12 lbs and 2 inches to every one's waist.
"Health" foods have serious portion control problems:
Maybe a skinny person can eat 10 almonds and be done, but not an overweight individual. If they could they probably would not be fat in the first place.
"Health" foods have an aura of being low in calories:
Everyone struggling with their weight needs less food, when they see "reduced," lite, low, no fat, low carbs they have an excuse to eat more.
Losing weight is more important than eating "health" foods:
Which is more important the weight loss associated with reducing calories or the possible benefits, if any, from eating foods that carry "healthy" labels. All the evidence points to the fact that if you reduce 2 inches from your waist line you lower blood pressure, heart disease and cholesterol by more than 25%. The effects of so called "health" foods on these metabolic parameters are unknown, and may not be seen for 25 years, if at all. Can you wait to find the answer?
Calories are calories
Everyone trying to lose and keep his weight off needs to eat less, not more food--"healthy" or not.
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