Eating the delicious chocolate bunny for Easter is probably not helping your insulin sensitivity or fat loss (if that is what you are striving for), but are we suggesting to people that every minute of every day we are to follow a specific diet and NEVER deviate from it, as though these small deviations will really impact your whole life in a large way. Eventually the concept of seeing the whole picture has to be taken into consideration. As Aristotle wrote, "The whole is greater than the sum of it's parts."
I am not suggesting that sugar, processed food, and random ingredients found in those "Easter basket" foods are not unhealthy, but they need to be taken in context of the person in question and the contribution that they make to that person's entire day/entire week/entire year of eating. I for one will happily allow my daughter to consume some candy on and around Easter, because I know the values and overall lifestyle behavior that I teach her will exponentially outweigh that single candy bar, or even the whole basket for that matter. The problem lies in the fact that a person who is obese did not become that way by overindulging in a single candy bar at Easter (or even at Thanksgiving dinner), but by chronically consuming those foods in combination with other chronic lifestyle choices that pose to define the whole that is you. Each individual is different, and the current health status of that individual may require a different attitude towards that candy, but the point is that while I wholeheartedly and expertly believe sugar and processed food to be a major culprit in our nations ill health, we have to learn to see these foods as they are and more importantly how they make up our eating as a whole.
Healthy people eat candy all the time and see no disastrous ill effects. It is not the candy that is causing disease and obesity, but rather the chronic overconsumption of that candy and the choice to continually buy and eat it.
-Pd
I am not suggesting that sugar, processed food, and random ingredients found in those "Easter basket" foods are not unhealthy, but they need to be taken in context of the person in question and the contribution that they make to that person's entire day/entire week/entire year of eating. I for one will happily allow my daughter to consume some candy on and around Easter, because I know the values and overall lifestyle behavior that I teach her will exponentially outweigh that single candy bar, or even the whole basket for that matter. The problem lies in the fact that a person who is obese did not become that way by overindulging in a single candy bar at Easter (or even at Thanksgiving dinner), but by chronically consuming those foods in combination with other chronic lifestyle choices that pose to define the whole that is you. Each individual is different, and the current health status of that individual may require a different attitude towards that candy, but the point is that while I wholeheartedly and expertly believe sugar and processed food to be a major culprit in our nations ill health, we have to learn to see these foods as they are and more importantly how they make up our eating as a whole.
Healthy people eat candy all the time and see no disastrous ill effects. It is not the candy that is causing disease and obesity, but rather the chronic overconsumption of that candy and the choice to continually buy and eat it.
-Pd
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