Obesity

[blueangel]

A lot of the problem with obesity is our food industry. Do you know that cereal companies and cookie companies employ food scientists to formulate our food to make us crave more? Ever wonder why you can't stop at just one bowl of cereal, or one cookie? It's not will-power-- it's how the food has been engineered to make you not feel full.

Another problem is the widespread attitives such as high fructose corn syrup and the transfats. And, even though a label may say the food contains no trans fats.. it still might. If it's below a certain percentage per "serving" (and who ever eats one serving?) a food company can claim "no trans fats."

So if you see the words "hydrogonated" or "partially hydrogenated" or "high fructose corn syrum" --- run! Once you start reading food labels, you'll be horrified at how wide spread these very unhealthy ingredients are.

[CutiePie2000]

As someone who "eats" clean (It's a lifestyle that I have been following for a year now, where I do my best to avoid processed food) and competes in "Figure", I can tell you that the vast majority of stuff sold in the grocery is processed crap. If it's sold in a box (i.e. cereal, cookies, crackers etc), it's processed and it's crap.

An example of a healthy, minimally processed, breakfast is a 1/2 to 3/4 cup of slow-cooked oatmeal (or better yet, oatmeal made from steel cut oats), and stir in 3/4 cup of egg whites. Microwave it for a bit, then take it out and stir, stir, stir. Microwave it a bit more, if it needs it (depending on how powerful your micro is) It should come out nice and fluffy. It will hot as blazes, so stir in 1/2 cup of raspberries or blueberries or strawberries. You can also add in some stevia and cinnamon for flavor. You could even crush 5-7 almonds and add those in too for crunchy yummy flavor, although that will start to add a bit more fat content (because there is already fat in the flax).

Anyhow, this breakfast is very nummy (in my opinion) and very good for you too.

For lunch, I have chicken breasts or tuna, sweet potatoes or rice or yams, green vegetables and water...LOTS of water.
Small meals, every 3 hours is the key!