Calorie Counts Comparison

Have you ever heard of Calorie counts per pound? Some foods per pound are almost as caloric as eating straight butter per pound! That is something none of us would do! Yet we do quite frequently, we just don't know it!

Check out the following chart for your offenders! It should not surprise you that real foods are much less caloric per pound, than processed foods!

Your stomach can hold between 3 and 4 pounds of food per day. It does not care about the choices you make, it just likes to feel full.

• You could fill it with 4 pounds of potato chips and it would be happy, but it would cost you over 10,000 calories. Potato chips are one of the food items comparable to butter! Not a good choice.

• You could fill it with fruits, veggies, dairy, grains, legumes, and lean meat and it would be just as happy.

A healthy diet habit is to eat 3 to 4 pounds of real foods per day. A lifestyle solution would be to limit eating processed foods because they cost too much, calorically! The creativity comes in adding in just enough of your favorites to keep you happy!

*From The Pritikin Edge by Robert A. Vogel and Paul Tager Lehr

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My motto has always been, the more you know, the more you can eat! Be a Learner! Think twice before you down a bag of potato chips or nuts, and choose healthier foods that have lesser calorie counts per pound, that is real foods over processed ones!