Kicking the food pyramid to the curb Update post 18 & 19

[annaraven]

In Italy and France, eating is a very important activity. Food matters. You don't just eat to eat, you eat for the enjoyment of the food. Not to pig out on it but to savor each bite. They pay attention to the food, to the preparation, to the ingredients. The point is that it's not a mindless habit. And obesity is far less common in those countries, even though they eat well: high fat, high carb, high wine... They do tend to walk a lot more. But formal exercise is less common. So yeah.

Personally, I remember when the new food pyramid came out back in the 70s, that called for a lot more grains and less protein, my mom complaining about it and explaining to me: "that's why poor people are fat, because they don't get enough meat in their diets."

 

[Mattemma]

I recall cheese has chemicals in them that is compared to morphine,and we all know how addictict that is! Eating cheese releases brain chemicals that make you feel good.

Lol,on the porno food.That is a new one for me.Gotta tease dh with that one.

 

[speckledhen]

I've removed some name-calling from the thread. There was absolutely no reason for that and it violates the primary rule of BYC. The guilty party knows who he/she is. Continue, please....

 

[mom'sfolly]

I don't know if the person the OP quoted has ever seen a school lunch or pays attention to schools. In schools around here, and in most places, meals are far from puritanical and there are no vending machines. Errors of that kind make me suspicious of the whole premise. Schools are trying to move to more fruits and veggies and less saturated fat and sodium, but most school food is not puritanical in any way.

 

[chickened]

When you work hard you will eat like a horse and not get fat. In my youth I did very phsyically demanding work(logging)and was lean and mean, now I run equipment and am not so lean and have cut back on my portions but eat the same foods not junk food though. People used to spend all day collecting their food thus getting exercise. Our standard of living has contributed to our obesity not what we eat so much. Disease rates are increasing the more we micro-manage our diets, vegans have issues with healing bones and tissue, obese people have heart issues but the guy who does not sit around but is active and ate traditional food and did not give an ounce of worry to his diet or told other people what to eat lives to be 90 plus.

 

[pdsavage]

Americans have allready kicked the pyramid...That is the proublem.....

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6066725n

 

[bluere11e]

When I was a kid in the late 60's, early 70's there was a show called ZOOM i used to watch. They had a jingle on 4-4-3-2 regarding what kind of foods and how many servings of each a day
I think it was 4 veggies& fruit, 4 grain/bread or pasta, 3 meat and 2 dairy. THAT WAS IT!!! I think about how active we were as kids.. No video games. we actually had to PLAY outside when it was hot.

e and we weren't little weeble wobble bowling balls. We all felt a little sorry for the "fat" kid before proceeding to pick on them. It wasn't right, but now, I think it's beginning to be the opposite.. I've seen kids (overweight) calling skinny kids Ethiopians.. Funny how things change..

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

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Too much SATURATED fat to be more specific.

We look to our food to comfort us, to please our senses (taste, smell, etc.), but somewhere along the line, we stopped looking at our food as sources of fuel and nourishment. I'm not saying we don't still try, but people as a whole/in general... myself included. I fight "emotional eating" all the time, and after many years and lots of therapy, most of the time I'm winning the battle!

It's all in how we relate to food. I eat what I want, when I want, but when you have a good relationship with your food, the foods you want are usually the ones that are best for your body.

OK. Obviously you all did not watch the video.

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

What the pyramid should look like, in light of what foods sustained the world, until Industrialization cam e along and made fake food, and vilified real food as the problem.

 

[Katy]

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I've said the same thing for a long time, but people don't want to hear that sitting on your butt makes you fat. They'd rather say it's the food they're eating than have to take some personal responsibility that it might actually be their lifestyle to blame.