Weight a minute

Nowadays, we focus on the taste that is going to last hardly for a minute in our tongue and not about the number of calories that it carries. Consumers in many fast-food eateries and coffee rooms trim on calories, often in the shape of “add-ons” like sour cream on tacos and extras to coffee drinks. Even so, in sandwich and burger restaurants, there seemed to be a small crash.

There are calorie counts displayed in the cover of the eatables, and even in the menus of some restaurants to help people be aware of how much calories they consumed. And since we ignore them all now, will we be conscious if the menu displays the minutes of exercises we need to burn off the calories in any item listed, instead of just the calories? According to some of us, calories don't count:

• If no one sees you eating.

• If the fellow you're in the company of, eats as much as you do.

• If you are surrounded by people who weigh more than you.

Isn't it?

Some eat to have a sort of pleasure, and some out of resentful and rebellious feeling and overeat to just prove something, but with not knowing who they are trying to prove or what they are trying to prove. Most people find comfort in consuming a large amount of high fat and high-calorie food. But there are also people deriving a strong sense of self-worth in their capability to resist their food consumption- even to the point of starving to death. So answer to my previous question, posting neither calories or the minutes of exercises on menus won't change any of that. So, what do we do?

Its time to recognize that just focusing on calories, either consumed or burned, isn't enough to change our eating behavior. It's important to change our national unhealthy eating behavior. It has nothing to do with the calorie counts, but learning more about healthy portions would probably help a lot. It's a part of our culture to think of more as better – educating ourselves and our children to taste and appreciate each bite of a more limited amount could be a useful approach. This certainly doesn't mean we should initiate eating more greasy foods and stop drilling. Yet it does mean that we require a reconstruction of our national and personal vantage point towards health and beauty.

Agree or not, the way we eat is directly linked to how we soothe ourselves. Eating patterns can sustain themselves and can turn accustomed and even enslaving soothing techniques. So perhaps it’s time for us to concentrate not on what the cafeterias, news, lawmakers and big marketers are convincing us about the daily bread we eat, but to check out our own needs, and what is best for us.