Arugala pizza IS a regular pizza w/ cheese and sauce---w/ arugala added on top.
Posted on 01/19/2015 3:55:12 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
....researchers looked at the diets of children ages 2 to 11 and teens aged 12 to 19 from 2003-2010. They found that pizza makes up about 20% of kids’ daily calories on days when they eat pizza—and despite the insistence of some politicians that pizza should be considered a vegetable for its ample tomato sauce, those calories aren’t coming from an onslaught of veggies.....
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
When I know I’m going to have pizza for dinner, I eat yogurt for breakfast and a soup or salad for lunch. The balance of my required calories for the day will come from pizza. But my allotment of calories to maintain my weight is about 1,400.
Kids need what, like 3,000 calories a day? They could have a whole pie and probably not exceed that.
see #30
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Yes, obesity in children should and does provoke concern, but that concern should remain private, between parents and children. The last thing we need is for government to tackle the problem.
And don’t worry too much about it... once the leftists get finished with western civilization, the world will be to a the famine state, as was once the norm before capitalism and freedom teamed up to knock it down.
We used order a pizza on Friday nights but can no longer afford any restaurant food. Friday is still pizza night, but I make it from scratch. This weekend it was an artisan bread crust with prosciutto and fresh mozzarella. Pizza isn’t the worst thing to give your kids.
Pepperoni pizza is the ideal food. It has all four food groups: grain (crust), fruits and vegetables (sauce), dairy (cheese), and meat.
That’s a good idea; financially it became beyond out reach as well, so either I cook frozen pizza (not very good, but Ellios with sausage, pepper & onions is OK) or my wife makes “English muffin pizza” (which when I was younger - being from a large family - was the only pizza we ever had).
I don’t think pizza is bad for kids compared to the alternatives, though some of the stuff on commercials (with buttered/stuffed crusts and laden with meat) doesn’t look too healthy. On the other hand, they seem to be targeting adults with that stuff.
As for traditional fast food, we haven’t eaten that for years, though the other night we got the fifty McNuggets for $10 to go - and supplied the rest of the meal and drinks ourselves.
I have always considered pizza to be one of the perfect foods (provided it is topped with pepperoni, sausage or beef in some form). It contains all of what used to be the 4 food groups (admittedly this is from the 60s and 70s, when I was raised). It has grains, contained in the crust. It has dairy, in the cheese (extra cheese for me, please). It has vegetables, in the tomato sauce (and I like onions, and other veggies on it, too) and of course it has protein in the pepperoni, sausage or beef.
Not my kids ... they don’t really care for pizza very much.
As I stated ... when I’m diagnosed as terminal ....
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Aren’t we all terminal? It’s just a matter of when, not if...
HMMMM .. Y’GUTT’A POINT, THERE
Arugala pizza IS a regular pizza w/ cheese and sauce---w/ arugala added on top.
I make all kinds of pizza. Pizza stone pizza, stuffed crust pizza, Sicilian pizza.. the possibilities are endless. The kids enjoy helping make it and especially eating it. Whole milk mozzarella, homemade tomato sauce, olive oil.. Very healthy and filling.
So long as you are moderately active, stay away from harmful habits like drugs, tobacco and excessive alcohol consumption, it seems that packing a belly is not the health risk everybody seems to think it is.
Now I'm not advocating that people get obese on purpose and certainly there is such as thing as being too fat. For example, if you can't find your size clothing at a Wal-Mart, you are probably too fat. If you are huffing and puffing just climbing a set of stairs, you are probably too fat.
However the quest to be "rail-thin" is probably more harmful to your health then just accepting the fact that you need to go to the "husky" section of the clothing store and pick out the pants with the "comfort waistband."
And if you are going to eat pizza, don't get the frozen crap in the supermarket. Go get yourself some fresh wood-fired pizza at your local pizzeria. No, not the Pizza Hut, not Dominoes and especially not Papa Johns (or Papa anything). Go to a locally owned pizzeria joint. Even your smallest towns should have at least one. Most towns have many and they deliver too. Order unusual topping so you know they have to make it fresh. Just skip the breadsticks and soda pop. Those items are profit centers for the establishment and they are junk.
let this in no way be taken as to mean that the church s becoming inclusive, rather, embracing the sinner.
All we are saying.....is give pizza a chance.
They eat pizza for one meal, (unlike me. I eat the pizza until it is gone. Cold pizza for breakfast. YUM!) And that is 20%. Counting three meals a day they are actually under eating.
Why should I think anything from “Time” is accurate or true?
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