Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: Re: [fast5] Re: Appetite suppressing foods

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Re: [fast5] Re: Appetite suppressing foods

I don't know that it's even in the "back rooms". It's all over the advertising
pages. Most of the "health" websites/magazines are very obviously promoting
various health products. Sparkpeople, which I like, is all about
"which fast food is less unhealthy". WebMD is about ads for diseases.
Health Magazine is about ads for drugs and beauty products.

If a large portion of the population goes to a Fast-5 lifestyle ... which I'm
actually thinking will happen, since it seems to be the only solution
that works, in my research ... then the economy would crash worse
that it already is. It's so delicately balanced that a 1-3% decline in
anything sends it into a tizzy, but the food industry is so outstandingly
bloated right now that it has to contract, like the housing bubble.

The entire food industry would have to reorganize. It's all built
around people eating all day long, every day, mostly fast food. And
some portion of Fast-5'ers would have the time and inclination to
cook again, which means buying produce, not packages.

And, a lot of health problems would go away, which would kill
the drug industry. Right now they are relying on a whole lot of
diabetics and folks with high blood pressure.

Anyway, *our* food bill has gone down dramatically. I'm the
only one officially doing Fast-5, but since I stopped forcing the rest
of the family into "3 squares a day" and pack them snacks, they
don't eat all that much either. Virtually none of it is fast food or
prepared food (we even make our own French Fries these days).
Whole vegies/fruits are *cheap* ... even really good organic ones ...
compared to packaged foods and eating out.

This is my find of the week. PF Chang's street noodles
are to die for, but eating out is expensive. These cost very
little to make (any leftover meat will work, or don't use meat
at all if you don't want). The only real work is chopping
vegies.

http://today-recipes.com/recipe_7798-p_f__chang_s_china_bistro_singapore_street_noodles.html

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Bert Herring<bherring@fast-5.com> wrote:
> I agree - experimenting is they way to find out what works. I've found lately that a handful of cherry or grape tomatoes and a handful of peanuts (unsalted) makes a good appetite quencher, but I have no idea whether that would work for anyone else.
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> I'm no conspiracy theorist, but wonder if these sorts of "news" articles are encouraged somewhere in the back rooms of advertising deals. If every overweight American were to trim his or her diet by 20 calories a day (less than half an Oreo's worth, enough to keep off the "typical" gain of two pounds a year), consider the financial impact:
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> Suppose 130 million people (just the overweight adults in the USA) cut 20 calories per day, every day. Let's say the food that's not eaten (and not bought) comes in the form of pasta, a pretty cheap food, about 1 cent for 5 calories' worth. That's 4 cents worth of food per day per adult. Annually, that's a 1.9 billion dollar revenue loss to the retail grocery industry, with much of the loss passed on to the manufacturing and farming industries. If the same number of adults were to cut back enough to actually lose weight rather than just not gain, the impact would be even more. 500 calories a day -- what Fast5ers cut to lose a pound per week -- is 25 times that.
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> These industries would much rather you keep eating and spending more money on gyms, trainers, exercise equipment and what-not than cut back even a tiny bit on consumption. Rick talked a while back about the financial impact of Fast-5. It's not significant in the big scheme of things, but could be.
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> Best wishes,
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> Bert
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> Bert Herring
> Fast-5 Corporation
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> --- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, "msdanacat" <msdanacat@...> wrote:
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>> I have to agree with Ellen. Almost all of the foods listed trigger appetite for me, rather than suppressing it. It's annoying how those articles present a one-size-fits-all approach that most likely won't fit most.
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>> - DanaCat
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>> --- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Ellen Ussery <ellen.ussery@> wrote:
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>> > All those foods make me hungry. Stories like this drive me up the wall. We
>> > are all different.
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>> > Ellen
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>> > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Rick Stewart <rstewart@> wrote:
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>> > > Hi all-
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>> > > I came across the following article on appetite suppressing foods and
>> > > thought it might be relevant to some here on Fast-5:
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>> > > http://www.beachbody.com/product/365.do?code=NEWS_365_QUIZ
>> > >
>> > > -Rick Stewart
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