Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Does It Add Up?

Like many things, it’s not what you do once, or even for half an hour once a week that makes the difference, it’s what you do overall in the 168 hours you have each week.

As far as nutrition goes, it’s what you eat at 21 meals and possibly 7, 14 or 21 snacks each week.

There are 8760 hours in a year. In those 8760 hours you are likely to have 1095 meals, and possibly between 365 and 1095 snacks, and consume somewhere around 700,000 and 1,000,000 calories. Any more than that and you are putting on weight.

Purely in energy terms, you can choose to consume those calories by having ample quantities of vegetables, especially leafy greens, with some fish, chicken or steak, or …. 

… or you can have a much, much smaller quantity of pasta or fast food washed down with soda to consume the same number of calories. It’s your choice. But if you consume your calories as fast foods and soda your body is not getting the nutrients it needs and deserves.

                        

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