Your microwave dinner is making you obese...
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And I just stocked up on Stouffer's lasagnas.0
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I could see microwaves contributing to weight gain because those things NEVER fill me up. I'm trying to figure out where all the calories go because the portions are tiny (and it's not like they taste that good).
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Any contribution to weight gain is most likely in their calorie to satiety ratio.0 -
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In fact microwave dinners can be a great tool for portion control if one does not over-consume calories during other meals. A lot of them have reasonable calorie counts. The problem is that too many people eat them as a snack rather than a meal, that's all. As for the article, when I become a mouse and I'm forcefed preposterous amounts of a substance, then I will be concerned.0
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Yep.myfelinepal wrote: »GuitarJerry wrote: »GuitarJerry wrote: »There's a big difference between weight loss and health. You absolutely, undoubtedly could lose weight eating nothing but frozen meals. But, it wouldn't be healthful if that's all you ate.
Why not? What if I had frozen vegetables with a frozen entree every day that hit all of my calorie and macro goals? Would that be unhealthy? Why?
dont take my words out of context. I said if that's all you ate everyday.
OVERGENERALISATION ALERT!
Not all microwave meals are high calorie/high sodium. Some are balanced with veg and nutrients. So it's completely possible to be healthy whilst eating only microwave meals.
And I love when you write whilst
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HAHAH YES!jennifershoo wrote: »
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If there was ever a food source where the actual calories in that source were consistently accurate, like frozen dinners are, then it has to come down to critical thinking and simple math. Basically the author can't compile simple or complex facts or do math.0
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HAHAH YES!jennifershoo wrote: »
Freaky peeps! Haaa! If my kids ever saw this, my microwave would be a disaster!0 -
I think you might want to watch this video from Dr Neal Barnard MD...
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My lunch is usually a frozen dinner. My snack a nature valley granola bar.
Looking at my profile pic.. . #mustnotbeworking0 -
MireyGal76 wrote: »My lunch is usually a frozen dinner. My snack a nature valley granola bar.
Looking at my profile pic.. . #mustnotbeworking
Yeah, total failure. *nods*
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I think you might want to watch this video from Dr Neal Barnard MD...
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OVERGENERALISATION ALERT!
Not all microwave meals are high calorie/high sodium. Some are balanced with veg and nutrients. So it's completely possible to be healthy whilst eating only microwave meals.
Salon posts a lot of sensationalist garbage. I'd suspect anything they claim just on principle. Once you get past the click-bait headline, the article is about food additives, not the food itself. Really, their concern for public health is just a smoke-screen for foodie snobbery.
Being a night worker, my dinner is a balanced, healthy-line microwave meal (PC Blue Menu) about four nights out of seven, and I'm just fine thanks. I must be another medical anomaly.
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Frozen meals are an abomination to the taste buds...and sodium bombs...and a completely unsatisfying amount of food, but I don't think they're the reason people are obese.
We have an obesity epidemic largely because people don't know and don't care to know anything about their energy requirements. People eat massive portions of food without having even a remote clue as to how much energy they are consuming relative to their energy needs.
Also, potatoes are awesome whole food nutrition....0 -
MireyGal76 wrote: »My lunch is usually a frozen dinner. My snack a nature valley granola bar.
Looking at my profile pic.. . #mustnotbeworking
I'd like to be as big a failure as you one day
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Exactly. Whether it is microwave dinners or artificial sweeteners or sugar or cholesterol or salt or starch or anything else, the effect on weight and health in general goes beyond just the calories in that particular item.Need2Exerc1se wrote: »I could see microwaves contributing to weight gain because those things NEVER fill me up. I'm trying to figure out where all the calories go because the portions are tiny (and it's not like they taste that good).
This ^^
Any contribution to weight gain is most likely in their calorie to satiety ratio.
If you are trying to eat the appropriate amount of calories, and choose foods that either don't keep you full, or cause a lot of blood sugar fluctuations, or act in some other way to stimulate hunger (this can be different for different people)...it makes it much harder to resist the urge to eat more calories. A lot of people like to ignore that fact, but some foods make it easier to stick to an eating plan and others make it harder. We all have different genetics and personalities and triggers. It is grossly oversimplifying the matter to just constantly chant "a calorie is a calorie".
I have eliminated most microwave meals (I do eat frozen veggies and berries, but the only ingredient in those is the actual vegetable) mainly because I noticed I got hungrier sooner when I ate them. That's it. Not staying full makes it more difficult to not eat more calories. Sure, I can try to exercise iron willpower while feeling hungry. But this seems like making things harder for no good reason. The odds of me not eating too much are better when I instead eat something that keeps me full. To me, making a choice that is filling is vastly easier than exercising willpower for hours while hungry. Someone else might feel differently, in which case good for them...I hope they enjoy their microwave meal.
But there is more to it than calories. Different foods impact the body in different ways. And while for some people, the convenience or taste of a certain food might make it worthwhile...especially if they don't react badly to anything in it....for others, it just doesn't.
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I think you might want to watch this video from Dr Neal Barnard MD...
This video has all kinds of wrong in it.. I've only managed 10 minutes but in these 10 minutes I got that meat gives you diabetes, saturated fat is bad, and cheese makes you fat.
I've never liked meat in my life and have always had a high carb diet, yet I came so close to being diagnosed as type 2 diabetic. Why? Because I was morbidly obese. Now before the "carbs are evil" people come trotting in, I've lost the weight, my blood sugar normalized, I'm still eating a high carb diet.
Saturated fat has been studied over and over lately and has not been directly linked to any of the evil stuff it was thought to be a cause of.
Cheese and pizza have been in the French and Italian cousins for centuries, yet they have some of the lowest obesity rates.0 -
I think you might want to watch this video from Dr Neal Barnard MD...
Barnard is a QUACK0 -
I've never heard of Salon, had my suspicions, and had them confirmed when the links embedded in the article for other stories were for improving sexual technique and something about Glenn Beck. Not exactly hallmarks of scientific validity and rigor...0
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I lost over 40 lbs eating nothing but microwave dinners...0
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I love the daily demonisation of different type of food type posts on here. Fat, carbs, protein, sodium, sugar, microwave meals...what's next, too much water? I just wish being really silly and blaming everything except excess calories made you gain weight. Because that's the only way some people would ever learn.0
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I've never heard of Salon, had my suspicions, and had them confirmed when the links embedded in the article for other stories were for improving sexual technique and something about Glenn Beck. Not exactly hallmarks of scientific validity and rigor...
This. Taking weight loss advice from a place like Salon.com is like getting sex advice from Cosmo.
Just don't do it.0 -
Gravy (Turkey Type Flavor [Monosodium Glutamate, Caramel Color, Flavors, Disodium Inosinate, Disodium Guanylate], Caramel Color, Mono and Diglycerides), Mashed Potatoes ([Mono and Diglycerides, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Citric Acid], Margarine [TBHQ and Citric Acid as Preservatives, Mono and Diglycerides (BHT, Citric Acid)], Potato Flavor [Natural Flavors, Calcium Chloride]), Cooked White Meat Turkey (Carrageenan, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Sodium Phosphate), Stuffing (Breading [Dough Conditioners (Ascorbic Acid, L-Cysteine Monohydrochloride, Azodicarbonamide), Yeast Nutrients (Ammonium Chloride, Calcium Sulfate)], TBHQ and Citric Acid as Preservatives, Turkey Flavor [Natural Flavors, Autolyzed Yeast Extract, Monosodium Glutamate, Disodium Guanylate, Disodium Inosinate, Caramel Color, Sodium Lactate), Sauce (Margarine [Mono and Diglycerides, Natural Flavor], Salt, TBHQ and Citric Acid as Preservatives).
Yum. This sounds very appetizing.
Honestly though, if you want to eat this, keep it in your calorie goal. Then I say go for it. As for me, I like to be able to pronounce my ingredient lists. Plus when I make real foods at home, the portion sizes are large enough to actually satisfy my hunger. Rather than taking 5 bites and already being at my calorie goal.
With that said, it is not the microwave dinner that makes people obese! It is overeating microwave dinners that make you obese. Really you can over eat any food (although it would be hard to overeat broccoli without your stomach exploding), but convenient, calories dense foods lend themselves to overeating.
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Shout out to these little delicious sodium bombs. **drools**
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Ok, what's in the middle, back? Is it a brownie? My first thought was dipping sauce (luckily quickly saw the error of my ways) and then pudding, but you wouldn't heat pudding...SconnieCat wrote: »Shout out to these little delicious sodium bombs. **drools**
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Ok, what's in the middle, back? Is it a brownie? My first thought was dipping sauce (luckily quickly saw the error of my ways) and then pudding, but you wouldn't heat pudding...SconnieCat wrote: »Shout out to these little delicious sodium bombs. **drools**
It's pudding with pop rock sprinkles. They pop. Alot.
BTW Kids Cuisine as gone waaaaaay downhill in quality. They used to be awesome. Now... not so much.0 -
Ok, what's in the middle, back? Is it a brownie? My first thought was dipping sauce (luckily quickly saw the error of my ways) and then pudding, but you wouldn't heat pudding...SconnieCat wrote: »Shout out to these little delicious sodium bombs. **drools**
I think it's a brownie with sprinkles? Maybe pudding? Unless it's hot pudding. Which is interesting.
You ask the tough questions.0 -
The same is true of carrots. Plus you'd turn orange.GuitarJerry wrote: »GuitarJerry wrote: »There's a big difference between weight loss and health. You absolutely, undoubtedly could lose weight eating nothing but frozen meals. But, it wouldn't be healthful if that's all you ate.
Why not? What if I had frozen vegetables with a frozen entree every day that hit all of my calorie and macro goals? Would that be unhealthy? Why?
dont take my words out of context. I said if that's all you ate everyday.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDgA3T_JF2A
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