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| Still Not Good for Us |
A recent posting at
Health Day entitled, "
Despite More 'Healthy' Options, Little Change in Fast-Food Calorie Counts," reports on a recent study of so-called healthy foods available at eight of America's leading fast food chains. It probably should come as no surprise that they aren't that healthy. Even salads come with hidden calories, and the article reports that the researchers advise the health-conscious to eat at home or, if they must for some reason eat at a fast food place, eat the smallest portions possible. That is not to say that it is easy to eat healthfully anyplace anymore, including at home. But the point is that at home we can control what goes into our foods, which we can't at a fast food joint.
Politically speaking, we the public can do what Congress seems unable to do, which is to get a handle on soaring health costs and the huge chunk of governmental spending devoted to health. All we need to do is eat more wisely and in less quantities than we do today. That and some regular exercise would do wonders for us and for health care costs in America. Consume less. Eat mostly what is healthy (but allow for a little indulgence now & again). Exercise. Sounds easy, but a lot of us know it isn't. Still,
if we could do these things, we would make a huge difference to the state of the nation's health. Amen.
