Calorie / points counters (update: 4/30/2016) |
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Counting calories can come in handy to make SURE we are getting ENOUGH calories daily (should get at
least 1500 for a woman and 2000 for a man - also 2500 to 3000 if you are
under 35 and active) but not too MANY calories. Skipping fast food
which is packed with calories, trans-fat and other things not necessarily
healthy (to put it mildly), is a good idea! Kidding ourselves about our intake is easy if we do not journal our food especially when our bodies have experienced a weight loss and are producing hormones to make us hungry.
In digging for info on the Internet, I found that 60% of people who had
tonsillectomies in the 1950's and 1960's, sustained damage to the pituitary
gland, significantly lowering their metabolism regardless of their activity
level. The affinity to obesity is also somewhat hereditary - scientists have
postulated the presence of something they call "the thrifty gene" (really
likely a group of genes) seen in people descended from nationalities where
the workload was high and not much food was available. (Included in this
group are Native Americans, African Americans, Germans, Polish and so
forth). The following sites are very helpful in determining and controlling food and caloric intake:
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