If you eat crap your body will be deficient in needed nutrients. If your argument is to not eat processed foods ( or keep them to a minimum) I agree. I eat the way I did growing up. Fruits and veggies from the back yard or a local stand. Eat in season. Meat from ranchers you know and trust (I mean buy local folks). Work hard enjoy my meat and potatoes and live to be 90 like my folks did.
My mom baked bread every day until she discovered a nice bakery that made sour dough ( abread she loved and convinced herslef she couldn’t master).
The truth is that most obese folks eat too much (junk or otherwise). Is sugar part of their problem....maybe. But I think the larger driver is a sedintary life style and a style of eating that does not mimic what our ancestors ate.
I’m not making an argument in any way, I’m simply discussing my consumption preferences with other FReepers as a way to show that eating properly (”clean”) is a surefire way to drop the pounds and keep them off.
People have become accustomed to drive-thru slop, salt-laden entrees at sit-down restaurants, huge portions, and obscene desserts. If common sense would prevail, a person could step back, understand their choices, and make decisions based on what they know to be a correct option for health.
Sadly, because of misinformation from the USDA and other Federal alphabet agencies and the proliferation of sweets in everything from soft drinks to snacks, people often choose the worst things for them under the guise of “feeling/tasting good” as opposed to being good for them.
I’ll admit, changing your eating habits is brutal. It took me years of false starts before I finally settled into a groove. My wake-up call was shopping for pants in the big&tall at Dillards and having to buy size 48 slacks. Since then, I’ve never looked back.
And as to our ongoing discussion, my point about eating too much is that people often overeat because their bodies are telling them that they’re still hungry. When you eat junk laden with sugar and simple carbohydrates, your body blows through them quickly and leaves you hungry an hour later. If people took to snacking on fresh fruit and nuts and committed to eating 4-6 small meals a day, the want to eat junk will subside almost immediately.
Like I said, it took years for me to finally settle into that groove, but once I was there, the junk food I used to eat looked unappetizing and overall disgusting compared to the yummy goodness of a handful of smoked almonds or fresh grapes.