Your document contradicts itself constantly..
Yet, curiously, it AGREES with ME, more than you...
In the last two decades, Americans
have been more successful in
reducing the fat density in home
foods than in away-from-home
foods, according to food intake surveys.
In 1977-78, both home and
away-from-home foods provided
slightly more than 41 percent of
their calories from fat. By 1987-88,
the fat density of home foods had
declined to 36.4 percent of total
calories from fat, compared with
38.7 for away-from-home foods.
Since then, the fat density of home
foods declined steadily to 31.5 percent
of calories from fat, but fat
from away-from-home foods
declined only slightly to 37.6
percent of calories.
This supports my claims.
Owned? Not at all.
Americans in 1997 consumed
more than a fifth (22 percent) more
fruit and vegetables than did their
counterparts in the 1970?s
Meanwhile, as calorie-intake levels
have risen, physical activity levels
appear to have declined among
the majority of Americans. More
than 60 percent of American adults
are not regularly physically active,
and 25 percent of adults are not
active at all, according to the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. Increasing physical
activity is a formidable public
health challenge in a technologically
advanced society. Few occupations
today require significant
physical activity, and most people
use motorized transportation to get
to work and to perform routine
errands and tasks. Even leisure is
increasingly filled with sedentary
behaviors, such as watching television,
?surfing? the Internet, and
playing video games.
For the most part, your document agrees with MY central message of sedentary lifestyles being central to the obesity epidemic.
Yes, calorie intake has risen a three hundred calories or so. I never said it did not. I said sedentary lifestyles lead to over eating through
munching. A quarter package of cookies or tenth of a box of Cheez-its easily fits the bill for both increases in calorie intake, and offset of benefits from an lower average fat intake from low fat foods and diets.
Next time you declare "owned" actually READ the document you are using to "OWN" me. :roll:
ERS data suggest that average
daily calorie intake increased 14.7
percent, or about 340 calories,
between 1984 and 1994, and
remained stable between 1994 and
1997. Of that 14.7-percent increase,
grains (mainly refined grain products)
contributed 6.2 percentage
points; added fats and oils, 3.4 percentage
points; added sugars, 3.4
percentage points; fruits and vegetables,
1.4 percentage points; and
meats and dairy products together,
0.3 percentage point.
The bulk of added calories was, GRAINS followed evenly by fat and sugars. This sounds a lot like munchies to me. Note that meat makes up an insignifigant part of those increased calories? Because meat isn't a munchie.
Per capita use of flour and cereal
products reached 200 pounds in
1997 from an annual average of 155
pounds in the 1950?s and 138
pounds in the 1970?s, when grain
consumption was at a record low
(table 5). The expansion in supplies
reflects ample grain stocks; strong
consumer demand for variety
breads, other instore bakery items,
and grain-based snack foods
How many of you munch while watching TV? Working/surfing/playing at the desk?
I've seen a LOT of tech company break rooms and KNOW what geeks munch all day at their desks. It ain't pretty.
Munching to this degree simply did not exist when people were moving around more. It's far harder to munch when you're on the move and physically active.
More support for my less fat claims:
Nutritional concern about fat and
cholesterol has encouraged the production
of leaner animals (beginning
in the late 1950?s), the closer
trimming of outside fat on retail
cuts of meat (beginning in 1986),
the marketing of a host of lower fat
ground and processed meat products,
and consumer substitution of
poultry for red meats since the late
1970?s?significantly lowering the
meat, poultry, and fish group?s contribution
to total fat and saturated
fat in the food supply. Despite near
record-high per capita consumption
of total meat in 1994, the proportion
of fat in the U.S. food supply
from meat, poultry, and fish
declined from 32 percent in the
1950?s to 25 percent in 1994. Similarly,
the proportion of saturated
fat contributed by meat, poultry,
and fish fell from 33 percent in the
1950?s to 26 percent in 1994.
Finally, you must understand that much of this "food survey" is guess work.
They must guess how much food is lost to waste and spoilage in a chain starting with growers and ending in homes and restaurants. No way in hell can that be done with any real accuracy, so they must make a best guess.
Owned? Hardly. The % of fat per calorie has dropped. Calorie intake has risen, largely due to the munching that goes along with sedentary lifestyles with GRAINS (munchies) making up the bulk of that increase. NOT meat.
My local supermarkets have no less than 3 full aisles filled with snack foods and munchies alone, with other munchies peppered throughout the store.
It wasn't like this when I was a kid. Chips alone did not take up an entire aisle back then. Cookies didn't have their own aisle either. And crackers didn't take up an entire row.
Stop the sedentary lifestyles and the munching will stop automatically.
At any rate, I'll repeat my objection to Spurlock's deception: Foods and those who sell them are NOT the bad guys, folks. YOU are. Only YOU decide what to put in your body and how much to exercise.
The solution to obesity: Get off your ass and stop munching.
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