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Aneirin -> RE: How many calories do you need per day? (6/20/2011 6:22:28 PM)
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Whatever happened to relying in one's body to tell them if they needed more food or not, as surely we aech have our own dietry requirements nad that because we are all different in shape, size, ethnicity and a whole host of other reasons. As lets face it, lots of this stuff that is coming out sugesting this, that and the other, is in a lot of ways based upon statistical analysis, where in statistics, the average is found to be representative of the average person, that being what diets suggest may be way off the mark and even if more in depth analysis is used, what was before is the past, we are in the present, we are different from those of the past and that is a surety.
Ok, so diet specialists have come up with some good clues, like what not to eat or eat in anything but sparingly or moderate amounts, but of those items, are those items from our modern world or not, here I am talking about refined sugars that seem to be in most things and salt despite the fact that the cannery process and other processes already preserve food far beyond it's natural consume by life.
Furthermore many of our lives are increasingly sedentary in comparison to our forefathers and that because of the changing work requirement and the use of automated machines, even for travelling the short distance from A to B. Then there is the oldies, those that are retired from the world of work and often at a comparitively young age wheras in the past retirement from work would be because a person could not physically do it anymore through the wear of age or illness, and continue with their worklife eating patterns and probably consume more sugars in the form of quick fix boredom foods, snacks or alcohol.
As I mentioned before, I tend to only eat when I am hungry or feel a drop in energy for the task ahead, I do not eat candies, nor drink sodas, not because I have a dislike for them, but because I simply don't need them, nor want them. Of sugar, I do have a sweet tooth, but my consumption of refined sugar is only in hot bevarages, the coffee I seem to like so much and of course beer, which I am drinking less and less of these days due to cost. Salt, I do not add to food generally, there are exceptions now and again and I can actually taste it when it is in processed food, so much that the taste I find off putting due to it's intensity. Where I do add salt, is the perhaps bi monthly egg meal or the once in a blue moon fries meal with vinegar. One simply cannot have eggs without salt and pepper, nor chips without salt and vinegar, comfortable taste memories from the past I will not forego on occaision. One thing I do find though, is afer my salt intake, the rest of the day, I have a thirst which requires more and more sugary fluids to satisfy and there I see the danger, as salt in food drives the taste for refined sugar.
But given that we are aware of the danger foods, why can we simply not be aware of our bodies, listen to the indications it gives, for it knows what it needs to balance and function correctly far more than any literature on the subject, if we can be so aware of our outward appearance, then why not use that same observation to look inward.
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