Dont you think our food is too unhealthy?Even when we eat at home,we use canned sauce&lime,frozen vegs etc?
817482
Yes it is. Most foods are processed or have preservatives to make it last longer. But our lifestyle dictated that change. There is still healthy food out there, but no one has time to buy and cook fresh food everyday. There are just too many things going on. The best thing I did and what alot of people can do is stop eating fast food. That is the worst for you.
255266
apparently your idea of delicious food is crap!?
921334
Someone once told me that everything good in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening.\n\nWith the high-pressure society we live in today, we humans are faced with hundreds of times more stress on a daily basis than our ancestors.  Take cell phones, for example.  They allow you to be joined, literally at the hip, by your biggest stressors twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.  And those little earbud phones that everyone is in love with these days.  "But they're so convenient!" people say.  "I don't even have to reach in my pocket and pull out my phone."\n\nBut, to what degree are we going to go with this technology?  Now, your boss can literally start screaming in your ear with barely a warning, any time of the day, regardless of where you are or what you're doing.\n\nWe're killing ourselves with convenience.\n\nAnd, to combat the stress, our bodies begin to crave comfort and happiness.  The most (once again) convenient form for many women is food.  It's typically very easily accessible, and provides an instant mood boost.\n\nI also tend to think that we're far less aware of portions than we should be.  "Oh, this one M&M isn't going to hurt anything."  But what about the second, and the third, and hey... wait a second, the package is empty!  Restaurant portions are more often than not more than enough food for two, or sometimes three people.  But we say to ourselves... "Well, we paid for it, it would be a waste to see it thrown out," even if we literally have to gorge ourselves to get it down.\n\nI think that portion control is a good first step... shake out six or seven M&Ms, then put the rest away somewhere where it's inconvenient to get them back out, or give them to someone else.\n\nI've often ordered smaller portions in advance at a restaurant... many times, a meal will include an entree, two sides, a soup or salad, and dinner rolls.  Most of the time, I'll just order an entree and one side.  Often times, if you actually ask them to do so in advance, they'll take it off your bill as well.  Or, if this is uncomfortable... when you receive your food, mentally tell yourself exactly how much you're going to eat, and stick with it.  When you're done, ask the waitress for a box, instead of waiting for her to offer you one.  It's so easy at a restaurant to overeat, because you just sit there and pick at your food while you socialize.  But, if it's in a box, you're certianly not going to open that and start picking around in it.\n\nI also think that, as I stated before... stress is a huge trigger.  Do everything you can to eliminate stress in your life... it plays a far bigger role in overeating and in some cases, even disease than most people realize.  Turn off your cell phone for a few hours a night (if this is the case).  In today's "instant gratification" society, people expect you to be available around the clock, at the exact second they need you.  Teach them to live with the fact that you're not.  What did we all do six years ago before cell phones became prevalent... ?  We seem to have managed fine then.\n\nI hope that some of these things pertain to you, and if not, you may find them useful to apply to other aspects of your life.\n\nI tend to have the same problem, so this is all written from the heart... :)  Hope it helps, and good luck!
717143
Well, the fast food industry grew out of a demand also.  Our lifestyle has become so fast paced that we barely have time to sit down and eat a proper meal let alone cook a proper meal!  Since they're catering to the public, they have to make the food taste good so that it will be bought and, unfortunately, what tastes good may not be what's healthy for us.
975019
I'm not on a diet.. I love food too much LOL.. yes, I know I'm a little overweight, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying the foods that I love.  \nSo everyone on diets here on Yahoo.. get off your diets and EAT!!
670574
Are we going to next ban preservatives in their lunch food...kids are going to do whatever they want so as RESPONSIBLE parents we should arm them with the pros and cons of drinking soda, eating nasty food, unprotected sex, drinking alcohol and trust that they will use their common sense to do what is right...you can't be there every moment for the rest of their life...
800256
This goes into an interesting area.  There is a book out there called the Warrior Diet.  It talks of this very style of eating.  It can be healthy but you have to do it right.  This was basically the diet of natives and other hunter/gather societies.  Our bodies are probably more adapt at this diet then the crap we have forced into over the last 70 years.  I would change it up from apples to other nutritious fruits.  Read the Warrior Diet and get a better prospective.
698343
How about having fruit for  'starters' before every meal, or puree some vegetables into a drink and of course you could have soup. I have heard recently that people who have soup before a meal consume 30% less calories for each meal
1073928
I agree that we should tax unhealthy food, but the money should not go to health care for people who have abused their bodies by eating crap.  The money should go to lowering the price of healthy foods.
806082
I think we do.  For me, whenever something becomes an obsession or is done excessively, it is not good, even though that thing is orginally a good thing.  Like eating, we all have to eat to keep ourselves going.  A sensible thing is to eat the right amount of the right food at the right time.  If we eat too much, eat a lot of junk or if we eat at the wrong time (for example, eat when we're not hungry), we are violating our body and the result is that we get sick and feel really awful.  If we are obsessed with food, we have little time for anything else and that's not what life is meant to be.  Sex is like this.  It's a basic human need which has to be satisfied but it is not something we need all the time and do with just anybody.  The culture in which we live nowadays seems to preach otherwise, in the same way as it sells us highly processed junk food that doesn't nourish our body or promote health.  Sex, in the context of a loving, caring and committed relationship, is the highest form of human connection and not only does it satisfy the body but it also nourishes the soul, bringing us closer to our other half.  Junk sex, like junk food, that is sex consumed indiscriminately, has quite the opposite effect on us.  It is like drinking cola to quench your thirst or eating food high in MSG to satisfy your hunger.  The more you consume junk drink/food, the thirstier or hungrier you feel and the sicker you get.  Likewise, the more junk sex people have, the more emotionally depleted\nthey feel and the result of long term obsession with junk sex can leave people feel more and more dissatisfied, unfulfilled and degraded to the point where they can't feel their own value.  I always think that human society has evolved to the stage where we shouldn't be dominated by our animal instincts but the sex-obsessed culture of today's world seems to point to the opposite direction.  I have thought that in this world, where human rights are valued, our young women should be loved, treasured and protected and not used by men or exploited commercially.  In today's sex-obsessed culture, women's dignity and respectability doesn't seem to matter anymore.   This I think is detrimental to men/women relationships.  When a generation of young men grows up to believe that women are sex object, what hope is there for them to respect women?  What hope is there for a stable relationship where men won't treat women as something they could use for pleasure?  What hope is there for young women to have high self esteem and feel loved and valued?   I think junk sex is really a kind of self-harm.  If we value ourselves and fellow human beings, we don't allow ourselves to use others or be used, just for bodily pleasure, just as we don't contaminate our bodies with junk food that harm our health.
202262
i agree with whats been said already. Organic foods (grown without pesticides), unprocessed foods, fruit and vegetables. Foods to avoid - foods that contain hydrogented fats, trans fats (such as is in fast food burgers or french fries. Do not fry food. Fish contain omega-3 which is good for you. There are so many other facets of healthy food . read one of Patrick Holford's books.
823799
Very. I cannot understand people who knowingly put junk into their bodies. Our family has been free of trans fat for almost four years. We also limit sugar, high fructose corn syrup, sodium nitrites and msg. I make home cooked meals and snacks. I exercise daily and I do yoga for my body and for my spirit. We also do not take any kind of medicine unless absolutely necessary.
921121
Everyones answers are so healthy, is nobody going to say junkfood. Unfortunately I can't either. Fruit for breakfast and nuts and sometimes yoghurt. Grapes and pineapple for lunch and veges and fruit for tea plus hot milk and tonight too much custard. I'm quite addicted to custard and yoghurt at the moment. It's awful.
301333
it`s new........like any other new THING these foods may be better than normal ones.......may be worse..it needs time to be proven.\ni my self wouldn`t try them coz i can have any thing i want in normal and organic food market.
1007363
yeah, i definetely agree with you.  people nowadays are just too lazy to actually watch what they're eating...that's why everyone is getting fat.  I wish it was required to learn about how saturated/unsaturated fats affected your body, as well as proteins and carbohydrates, and just learning about the body in general.  I have taken so many classes on how things affect the body and I wish everyone would have to learn those things because it seriously makes you so much more aware of your personal health!
730159
i think a lot of the problem is society being that parents are working more and don't have the time to prepare meals so they need something quick and they go to fast food joints . we are living in the times where both parents  are to busy to focus on home.i also think that a lot of kids or spending a majority of their time on games(xbox,gameboys.....etc)instead of being physically active.school food may also play a role in the kids diet since they are there a good bit.
160669
How dare you say we are becoming fat and lazy, we are weight challenged and exercise deficient.  We are a healthy country, excuse me while I open my cheetos, we eat right, have the best resturants (McDonalds, Dennys, Burger King, Taco Bell, Del Taco, the snack bar in Walmart) where else can you get the nutrious and lip smacking meals like they present, only in America.  Do you (of course you don't) remember the day when you had to get out of your chair to change the television channel?  Lock your car door with a key?  Get out of your car and walk into the resturant to get your food, cash your check, buy your liquor, get married, get divorced, go to church.  Did you ever walk to work, ride a bike, take the bus?  Do you have a car and drive to work by yourself, letting this 2000 pound vehicle take your 150 pound body around, how efficient is that???  If you do any of the above and we all do, then you have answered your question, so why ask??????