Weight women now 166.2; men now 196. Trans-Fats
Sometimes it's funny to see two headlines right next to each other on a newsfeed!
First thought, too late! But in due time at least.
Trans-fats are in most all the artery-clogging cookies and chips packaged crap -- "processed or manufactured food." What exactly is manufactured food anyway? I've been avoiding packaged crap for awhile, for health reasons. And weigh close to the male average... from the sixties. I also choose to remain physically active. This seems more sustainable for someone who likes to bike, and swim, and looks to snorkel, scuba dive, play golf and tennis and hike etc. as long into life as possible.
"The FDA encourages consumers seeking to reduce trans fat intake to check a food’s ingredient list for partially hydrogenated oils to determine whether or not a product"... contains artificial trans fat.
Pretty easy equation actually (see bottom). For better health, one needs to add will and awareness (will being the hardest part), and we as a society ought best to avoid or perhaps make less available universally available junk foods (or as here with with the FDA with less junk ingredients), particularly for kids. Which is happening in school, getting full-sugar sodas and fatty, full-sugar candy out of the rec hall vending machines. And/but on some level the FDA has been letting fast food joints and gas station wrapper foods poison us with sugars and carb and fat bomb meals and chemicals and trans-fats for awhile. Hard issue: at what point is free will the hinge, and how poisonous/deleterious to our health must something be before the government has to regulate/remove it (think asbestos, snake oil salesmen, etc.).
"...But the story is mostly one of growing girth... we're eating less healthy food, we're eating more of it, and we're not moving around as much.... Americans are now the world's third-heaviest people, behind only the Pacific island nations of Tonga and Micronesia." !!
Sometimes it's funny to see two headlines right next to each other on a newsfeed!
First thought, too late! But in due time at least.
Trans-fats are in most all the artery-clogging cookies and chips packaged crap -- "processed or manufactured food." What exactly is manufactured food anyway? I've been avoiding packaged crap for awhile, for health reasons. And weigh close to the male average... from the sixties. I also choose to remain physically active. This seems more sustainable for someone who likes to bike, and swim, and looks to snorkel, scuba dive, play golf and tennis and hike etc. as long into life as possible.
"The FDA encourages consumers seeking to reduce trans fat intake to check a food’s ingredient list for partially hydrogenated oils to determine whether or not a product"... contains artificial trans fat.
Pretty easy equation actually (see bottom). For better health, one needs to add will and awareness (will being the hardest part), and we as a society ought best to avoid or perhaps make less available universally available junk foods (or as here with with the FDA with less junk ingredients), particularly for kids. Which is happening in school, getting full-sugar sodas and fatty, full-sugar candy out of the rec hall vending machines. And/but on some level the FDA has been letting fast food joints and gas station wrapper foods poison us with sugars and carb and fat bomb meals and chemicals and trans-fats for awhile. Hard issue: at what point is free will the hinge, and how poisonous/deleterious to our health must something be before the government has to regulate/remove it (think asbestos, snake oil salesmen, etc.).
"...But the story is mostly one of growing girth... we're eating less healthy food, we're eating more of it, and we're not moving around as much.... Americans are now the world's third-heaviest people, behind only the Pacific island nations of Tonga and Micronesia." !!
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