I have always enjoyed writing and observing the power of words. I have seen how the slant of words can make people respond accordingly. Graphics and videos help too.
My biggest beef is emphasizing body weight and making that weight a goal. Disease is not caused by weight going up or down - for the most part - but selection or rejection of damaging foods. For example, the best way to reduce the flabby-bread -belly is to reduce the number of bread loaves with butter, peanut butter, jelly - also slices of meat.
Tour the biggest grocery store and measure the number of foods which are most like fast food joints -
- Heavily salted
- Heavily sugared or fake-sugared (which is worse)
- Heavily fattened up, often with plenty of salt and sweetener.
A can of Garbanzo beans can have as little as 120 mg of salt. The same can with the same livery but with the name of Chick Peas can have 480 mg of salt: Walmart vegetable aisle.
Reducing those items, which are little more than quarter-pounders with fries (bread, and salty toppings), will reduce body fat, once the addiction pains lessen. One waiter told me he lost 40 pounds by not drinking the free coke they were allowed to drink any time.
Getting the fast food off the grocery store menu is slow and the withdrawal is acute. It is easy to reward quitting salt by eating a bag of Fritos.
The Answer Is Not Yuk Foods But New and Healthy Addictions
The doctor gave me potassium magnesium pills when I was low on potassium. Let the reader understand - He never mentioned bananas, which have
- Vitamin B6.
- Fiber.
- Potassium.
- Magnesium.
- Vitamin C.
- Manganese. (Harvard bananas link)
- The pills did not taste very good.
An apple is just as delicious as a slice of apple pie - completely satisfying with one or two large apples.
Charlie Sue always shares my apple and banana when I am enjoying them. Peach is favorite for both of us, but she walked away sadly when I offered her a pear half open.
The Fun Part - Splurge on Deluxe Fresh Fruits and Fresh or Frozen Vegetables
People shift gears when buying certain foods, so really good fruits and vegetables can be especially good and nutritious. I am willing to bet (with Monopoly money) that buying the fast foods like pizza is going to cost less than a plentiful table of vegetables and fruits (top quality) with a reasonable amount of meat.
Today Charlie Sue and I shared one sausage in slices, and she finished the vegetable stew bowl:
chopped frozen spinach
walnuts
blueberries
onions, green and red peppers,
ground flax seeds
garbanzo beans
tomato paste.
