Are You Fat? Here's Why!
Are you sick and tired of being bombarded with advice on what you should and shouldn?t eat by the media? Does all over this advice make you feel guilty every time you eat a cheeseburger? Please don?t feel guilty. Why should you feel guilty? The government and media should just butt out of our culinary lives. Since they have started giving all of this advice, we as Americans have just gotten fatter and fatter.
Did you ever go over to your grandparent?s house for a nice Sunday dinner? Were you amazed at the scrumptious variety of fattening, heart stopping food? For many of us a Sunday ham was real treat and regular occurrence. After consuming all of this amazing food, did you ever wonder how your grandparents managed to stay so thin? They ate everything that is considered taboo by today?s health experts. Yet they were in good health generally, very active in their communities and much thinner than the generations that have followed them. Could it be their occupations were the reason they managed to stay so thin.
If you have ever looked at the portions we are encouraged to eat by companies selling their lean and fit frozen meals at the supermarket, it?s no wonder you are not able stay on this type of weight loss program. The food in these meals is so sparse it barely registers as an appetizer to my appetite.
Maybe we are not supposed to get by on a measly 1700 calorie diet. Maybe evolution has programmed our minimum caloric intake to be between 2500 or 3000 calories a day to be truly satisfied. Our bodies are definitely designed to be active, and our grandparents were. Let?s look at a couple of common activities and occupations of previous generations.
General working activity of a coal miner rates at 408 calories burned per hour. And a steel mill worker is estimated to burn about 504 calories per hour. Feeding the animals on the farm rates 306 calories burned per hour. Now lets have a look at the most common task performed today by today?s office worker. Whether you?re an accountant or a lawyer you spend most of your day in front of a computer screen. Computer work burns 110 calories per hour. That?s it. Multiply this over the course of an eight hour day and you come up with a 1600 to 3200 calorie surplus when comparing our grandparent?s activities to our own. Even when it comes to household chores we are also adding hundreds of calories a day to this surplus. Light housework, using the dishwasher and washing machine and dryer as compared to scrubbing pots and pans and taking clothes out to hang out on a clothes line rates a 100 calories an hour surplus of unburned calories. Over the course of a year these deficits can add up to dozens of pounds of added body weight.
The lesson here seems to be rather than trying to starve oneself; we should be focused on adding activities that burn enough calories to allow ourselves to eat satisfying amounts of food. Never feel guilty about the amazing little pleasure of a culinary treat. Do feel guilty about not walking or exercising daily. And tell your government and media to mind their own business when it comes to the collective guilt they try to burden us with because we like eat tasty, fulfilling foods.
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