Making a Salad Healthier - Missing the Point
Going right along with the salad discussion from my previous post is this article on CNN today about building a healthier salad. This is ridiculous. I mean, come on, our real problem with eating is not that our salads aren’t healthy enough! If everyone had a salad, and nothing else, for dinner, then we would be a whole lot healthier. And I really don’t think it would matter if people put in 1 tablespoon of shredded cheese or 1/2 cup. Our problems with eating are not that we eat too much cheese or eat ranch dressing instead of vinaigrette! Our problem is that we go to fast food joints 2 or 3 times a week and consume 1000 calories there at one sitting, then go home and have a dinner consisting of another 1000 calories on top of the snack and breakfast we already had. That adds to about 300-400 calories more than most people need per day. Let’s focus on the real problem!
