The other day I went into a Subways shop. I bought a foot long for my two sons.
Next to us was a woman with five daughters. All of them bought a sandwich and sugared drinks. ALL of them were fat. I don't mean chubby - I mean fat.
A friend of hers came in with her three children and the were ALL fat. Eight little pink balloons with faces painted on them. No definition. The mothers were fat.
How do you explain this? There are fat kids ALL over the place. HFC may not be the only cause but it certainly carries its share of the blame along with all the other sugars in food today.
I have been saying recently that the Obesity issue is a perfect storm of several factors, not just one.
Having said that, I gave up regular soda drinking a few years back and dropped 15 pounds.
This is why I think there is something we don't understand yet about our diets and what has changed. Hormones in meat? It could be a number of things, but it has come about too quickly to be explained in standard ways.
We all know scrawny teenage boys who can inhale forty dollars of groceries, play video games all weekend, and never gain a pound. It's just not as simple as calories in and calories out.
“How do you explain this?”
Portion size.
We used to drink a 8 or 12oz soft drink as a treat occasionally. Now it’s a common more than daily occurrence for some. And they drink 32 oz at a time.
And look at most other food’s that are consumed. Restaurants serve huge portions to people.
People eat huge amounts of calories in many ways. It’s quite disgusting when you think about.
Every pound of body fat is like carrying 4 sticks of butter around on your body.