I began using your advice that Bill mentioned probably 7 or 8 yrs ago: no second helpings. We bring leftovers home A LOT. Your point is absolutely true.
Portion size is an enormous public health problem. The saddest thing is looking at a groups of young people, particularly young women. So many are enormously overweight — sizes that would have been unbelievable two generations ago. Huge servings have been normalized. As adults, we should have some (hopefully) resistance, but kids and teens don’t. Once you’re 180 pounds at 22 years old, you’ll probably never achieve a healthy weight again without medical intervention. It’s a tough prescription for harried households, but for youngsters, the norm should be NO soda in the house and NO fast food meals and French fries only as a special treat. I’m not sure that’s even possible today unless you join the Amish or lock your teens in the basement.
Many Norwegian restaurants have choices for meal size: Normal (for locals) and American (for overseas tourists). You can guess which one is smaller...and healthier.
Obesity and those huge meals of processed foods I am afraid just will not go away. and I don't know what can or will be done about it. everywhere we go, there are huge people. Interesting article in the post today about 'shifting baselines' of how we perceive a lot of thingshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/08/29/shifting-baselines-maine-forests/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_climatecoach&wpisrc=nl_climatecoach
A few days ago I was browsing through a bunch of photo from Woodstock and was struck be something- everyone there was not only thin but by today's standards skinny!
We discussed this just an hour ago. There is no incentive for healthy choices apparently. Thank you.
I began using your advice that Bill mentioned probably 7 or 8 yrs ago: no second helpings. We bring leftovers home A LOT. Your point is absolutely true.
Portion size is an enormous public health problem. The saddest thing is looking at a groups of young people, particularly young women. So many are enormously overweight — sizes that would have been unbelievable two generations ago. Huge servings have been normalized. As adults, we should have some (hopefully) resistance, but kids and teens don’t. Once you’re 180 pounds at 22 years old, you’ll probably never achieve a healthy weight again without medical intervention. It’s a tough prescription for harried households, but for youngsters, the norm should be NO soda in the house and NO fast food meals and French fries only as a special treat. I’m not sure that’s even possible today unless you join the Amish or lock your teens in the basement.
Many Norwegian restaurants have choices for meal size: Normal (for locals) and American (for overseas tourists). You can guess which one is smaller...and healthier.
Obesity and those huge meals of processed foods I am afraid just will not go away. and I don't know what can or will be done about it. everywhere we go, there are huge people. Interesting article in the post today about 'shifting baselines' of how we perceive a lot of thingshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/08/29/shifting-baselines-maine-forests/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_climatecoach&wpisrc=nl_climatecoach
A few days ago I was browsing through a bunch of photo from Woodstock and was struck be something- everyone there was not only thin but by today's standards skinny!
Moderation! Eat to live, not live to eat! Some are foodies, and some are not! I would rather digest a book's content at each and every opportunity!