Food is like medicine your body needs. None of it is bad. It all serves a purpose and isn't good or bad- you're either close to the right amount to be healthy, or too little/too much. How much of what you need depends person to person on age, lifestyle, activity, goals, and genetic/physiological factors. Calories are how much energy is in food. That's important but not the only important thing. The calories include all the nutrients in the food. Your goal is to get the right amount of nurtients for you, within the amount of calories you need to be in to reach or maintain your goal for muscle, fat, energy, and growth. Once your body reaches what it can use and needs, what is left is excreted or stored as fat (simplified version). At that point 400cal of quinoa is no different to your body than 400cal of donut for all intents. Remember that cells only eat sugar. Your body coverts things like carbs to sugar- so even a "sugar free" carb source will raise blood sugar. That unused sugar....
...is processed and can be unhealthy or fattening in excess. Your body can use any fat, and all fat can be good in the right amounts depending on the listed factors. But any extra is processed like anything else. So if a food has fat- that doesn't mean your body will just absorb that fat. Fats are converted to hormones like testosterone that help regulate healthy function. Because a food has no fat doesn't mean that your body won't convert what it does have into fat. To make it simple: if you use a mirror or scale as a guide- raise calories or decrease activity to gain fat, raise calories and take up activity to gain muscle. Lower calories and/or increase activity to lose fat. For the rest like sodium, iron, vitamins, just get what you need in the calories you have. The danger of high sugar food is that it doesn't need converted and rapidly spikes sugar levels and can tax the processing systems for sugars.
I mnow, some people are obsessed with “zero calorie foods” which they think means won’t make them as fag, which really measn it will make them fay, just won’t give them energy
As daddy always said: if it's too good to be true, it probably is. There happens to be no such thing as 0 calorie food*, although in the US you're allowed to say something has 0 calories so long as it has less than 5 calories. For instance something like Nerds candy which is pretty much just sugar, in theory if I made a serving 1 Nerd, could be called 0 calories. That's the calorie key too. The calories are per serving- most people tend to eat and drink more than a serving, and many foods like chips or soda tend to break a small package into 2 or more servings to display a smaller number. It's a dirty game out there, but it sounds more complex than it is to make sensible choices, it just requires a little extra work.
Ok now, with all this US vs oil jokes over and over again and nobody argues, I start to think this has become the fact, even for americans. In other words, the poor soldiers sent to wars are no heroes. There is no such thing as defending the country. And at this point, I'm afraid to ask.
Half half. If a fireman puts out a fire, but the conditions for that fire were started by a greedy businessman so he could sneak in and rob the place, and then get the contract to rebuild it- are the firemen not heroes? Of course most Americans know there are powerful private interests and profit motivations behind many military actions. Citizens don't vote on wars, politicians do- rich politicians looking out for the citizens interests, but their own interests first. No one on earth doesn't value oil, and any country you're from you'd have to be daft not to know that behind the scenes your government is plotting and scheming, trying to get anything it can for free from anyone else of it thinks it can get away with it. Every country deals dirt, and in any game whoever is at the top is almost always going to be dirty. The US is no different but it's also not the whole countries fault or the whole militaries fault that some people are twats.
It's interesting that people get that impression, considering that out of the top 10 largest oil companies in the world, only 1 is US, the largest is the Saudis, and the next 3 are all Chinese.
It's almost like people WANT to have the impression that military actions in the Middle East were all about oil, but if that were true, we'd take out the Saudis first.
It's more complex than people like to admit, and the United States isn't the only one playing the game. They also forget that the United States is a major world oil producer as well, Texas, Los Angeles, Alaska, and so on. Even if people don't believe the US fights wars for 100% economic reasons, nonone can deny that while we are there we will do what is best for our economic interests. What country, what person doesn't? Who here has donated 80% or more of their wages to charity? Who here has donated large sums and not taken a tax write off? The world isn't good and evil, good and bad intentions and deeds mix together and blur those extremes into a deep gray.
It's almost like people WANT to have the impression that military actions in the Middle East were all about oil, but if that were true, we'd take out the Saudis first.