Filed under: Health, Healthy Eating, Don’t Eat This
After my KFC Double Down post earlier this week, one commenter on That’s Fit.ca’s Facebook page said she would love to try the “sandwich” and that it was “nothing 35 hours of cardio won’t fix.” This gave me a great idea for a post – let’s call it The Exercise Myth.
One of the main points of the Double Down post was that the widely disseminated means of evaluating our foods is a broken system. Measurements of calories, fat and sodium don’t actually mean anything in terms of whether or not a food is good for you, nutritious or health promoting. One of the consequences of this view point is the exercise myth.
When we deal in calories, we reduce our foods to the idea of nothing more than a number, which makes us think we’re free to manipulate these numbers within an equation. For example, a Double Down is X number of calories, therefore if I eat it, I can burn it off by burning X number of calories working out. Calories in equals calories out and the fast food indulgence is forgotten.
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