Along my quest to be aware of what goes in my body, I found that buying bread was one of the hardest things to do. There was the healthy bread, but even that had HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup) in it, and a whole bunch of other things that I don't recognize. I did find some natural stuff, but really.... $4 for a loaf of bread?
"Another patient...carefully preserved a picture of his grandma, a woman the size of the Titanic who had a great fondness for baking bread. He loved his grandma and he cherished that picture. Yet... [he said] time and again, "I just don't want to be like her." He love her, admired her, respected her- but he absolutely did not want to wind up morbidly obese, like her."
Meet more families studied by clicking here.
"Parents, the time to prevent or reverse SuperSizing in our kids is always now. Don't wait until the problem gets worse. Don't wait until serious physical problems appear. If your child has an apparent obesity problem, start today to deal with it. Why? An average-sized adult may have 20billion to 30billion fat cells; a moderately obese adult, however, can have 60billion to 100billion fat cells; and a morbidly obese person in excess of 300billion fat cells. Obese children can have five times more fat cells than children of normal weight!"
"Once formed, these fat cells can decrease in size, but they do not decrease in number....
"Today is the best day to start!"
4 comments:
This post reminds me of a class I took a few semesters ago: Obesity and Weight Management. It was, with a doubt, one of my favorite classes I have ever taken! I completely agree with your second to last quote talking about once you have the fat cells, they are yours to keep for the rest of your life; there is no natural way to get rid of them. If I can remember correctly, we begin to increase the number of fat cells when we are about 40 pounds over our ideal weight! Our orginal fat cells (which are good) get so full of fat that they can't expand anymore without spliting up. Then those fill with fat and split, and it just keeps going like that; it's kinda the same process when a fetus becomes a baby! Except, we don't every 'give birth' to those fat cells. They stay with us forever!
Let's do what we can to eat healthy and exercise!!
Whoo hoo for being healthy!!
Destiny
ewww, giving birth to fat cells? Sounds painful. :)
I liked your picture holding a bread plate. I liked your post a lot. You are really a loving mother and wife. Before I came over America, I thought bread was not good as a dialy meal. However, I came to know a variety of bread such as wheat bread and bread with lots of nuts and grains. I think bread can be as good as rice or potatoes. If it is a home-made bread, it can be much more nutritious or heaty food than any other food. So, I do not stick to rice for every day meal even though we used to eat rice everyday in Korea. Instead, I cook more nutritious with bread or taco. I think the issue is not only what we eat, but also how we eat and cook. I want to introduce your site to my friends who are interested in cooking.
Mihyun- thank you for your comments! I like to share my findings all in one place to make it easier for me and others to gather information about living better!
Post a Comment