Food Overhaul

An NPR comment in response to this article about the long-term results of bariatric surgery hit home for me.

People have to drastically alter their relationship to food...permanently. We have to choose: indulge in all that excess, worthless food and be fat and very unhealthy (and unhappy), or commit to a permanent, life time, life altering food plan consisting of only healthy nutritious foods, and abstaining from worthless processed "foods" containing refined sugar, corn syrup and highly processed flours, also abstaining from excess quantities and learning appropriate portion sizes with the help of a food scale, and abstaining from eating in between meals. A well balanced, nutritious meal will afford satisfaction and a lack of craving or need for between meal snacks, for at least four to six hours. Breakfast is fuel for the morning, lunch is fuel for the afternoon, and the evening meal is fuel for a night of resting and physical rejuvenation. Food is not intended to be "entertainment." It is meant, along with being enjoyable and satisfying to the palate, to be a "prescription" for health and well-being. Also, everyone needs to drink lots more cold, fresh water every day. Processed, sugary and flour-based foods have a tendency to be highly addictive; there are very helpful 12-step programs for recovery from food addiction; these programs are spiritual...NOT religious...in nature.


Amen.