Are You Fat? Here's Why!
Author: Jeffrey Dorrian
Author: Jeffrey Dorrian
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.
About The Author: Jeffrey Dorrian is the webmaster at
http://www.thesoapguy.com. He has been making handmade soap for
six years. "Handmade soap is a little luxury anyone can afford".
Premium wholesale soap. Old fashioned lye soap.
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.
About The Author: Jeffrey Dorrian is the webmaster at
http://www.thesoapguy.com. He has been making handmade soap for
six years. "Handmade soap is a little luxury anyone can afford".
Premium wholesale soap. Old fashioned lye soap.
