Farmageddon on 20 November 2011
| HappySqurriel said: As much as I'm disturbed by this, I'm also disturbed by the demonstrated ignorance of the vast majority of people who don't seem to understand that obesity is caused by excessive intake of food not from eating nutritionally deficient foods. While it would be ideal to have nutritious food served to children in school, as long as the children are eating an appropriate number of calories and are active enough obesity should not be a problem. |
While techinically this may be true, I think it's a lot more complicated.
I mean, eating nutritiously deficient foods may quench your hunger at the time, but it probably means you'll be hungry again earlier, causing you to either have to keep restricting yourself (which might bring other problems, I don't know, but it's not like your body makes you hungry just to screw with you) or to eat too much - in calories, but not in nutrients.
Either way it may make the whole "eat less, exercise more" mantra a lot harder to live by.
