Recommendation:
Fill 1/2 your plate with fresh veggies and fruit
Skip bread
Avoid fast food.
Eat lean cuts of meat
Cut back on dairy products like milk and cheese.
ME:
I’ll have a double-cheeseburger, large order of fries, and an apple pie and large coke.
I wish I could say this was meant to be one of those funny memes you read on Facebook. It’s actually the truth of how I’ve done things. Getting fast food is truly convenient. It’s a quick meal, I don’t have to prepare anything, there are no dishes to do and it is yummy and comforting.
I read a meme on social media that suggested we create a fast food place that served only fresh fruits, vegetables and salads. I saw a lot of people had “liked” the post including myself and then I started wondering if it would really work.
It wouldn’t.
I’m not being pessimistic, I’m being realistic.
- All those places serving processed fried foods are turning a pretty good profit and the reason is
due to the cost to produce the food actually fairly inexpensive when compared to serving things fresh from the farm. Everything at the cheap ( yeah right ) fast food restaurants is filled with carbs, sugars, and chemicals designed to preserve the food as long as possible.
Fresh produce comes at a cost. We have regional crops and seasonal crops so we do a lot of importing, exporting, shipping and receiving and not just within the borders of our own country. This is all done in a very tight time frame in order to get it to the stores so you can purchase and take home to rot in your crisper. Because of this, the cost of the stuff for the end user is generally much more daunting than a frozen pizza.
http://blog.vitacost.com/cooking-recipe/junk-food-bad-for-your-waist-and-your-wallet.html
- People with money invested in those very popular franchises won’t benefit from encouraging Americans to take on a healthier lifestyle. Nor will the pharmaceuticals or the doctors. I know it all sounds like some sort of wild conspiracy theory but what benefit do any of them get from a change so large? Less people in their restaurants, less people taking meds for diabetes and hypertension, less people going to the offices to treat weigh related medical issues? Where is the incentive for these powerful and greedy entities to promote places that serve only fresh produce?
- The government won’t step in and interfere. While this sounds like a great thing, I have to wonder why no one has proposed a bill to hike up the cost of processed foods and reduce the costs involved in the fresh and healthy foods. Maybe offer incentives to people who choose to eat healthier. Like a break on their taxes with proof of their purchases. Have a card that they swipe every time they buy an apple or an orange and give them a 10% discount on their federal taxes or a free gym membership or something! Anything to encourage people to stop going after the quick and easy food that is slowly killing us all.
- Americans would never go for it. A few would, but the majority will keep going for the burgers and fries and make jokes about the ones eating lettuce and cucumbers. It’s the way we do things. If the Government steps in, we’ll protest and fight it. Its our bodies and we will destroy them if we see fit.
Still… I’d love to have a place like that, somewhere they already chopped up all the ingredients for me and prepared the evening meal where I’m not stressing over if it was healthy and I wasn’t the one left to do the dishes… Okay.. I just described a restaurant, but I was thinking more or less in the same format as say one of the big fast food giants… only fresh food instead of processed heart attacks waiting to happen.
MY ADIPOSE & ME 