Posts Tagged ‘Michael Phelps’
I’m curious
The marketing of food, especially fast food, poses the classic chicken-or-the-egg question. Are those of us that overeat doing so, in part at least, because of the enormous portion sizes served at restaurants, or do taco shacks and burger barns serve enormous portion sizes because that’s what we want?
In my journey, I’m learning that I can be perfectly happy with small amounts of food. The Food Pyramid suggests that, to maintain my weight, I should eat about 2,800 calories a day (of course, to lose, I should be under that).
That’s all well and good. However, a typical drive-through meal for me (and many others, I suspect) used to be along the lines of this 1,490-calorie leviathan. Multiply that by three, or the more honest four, meals a day, that runs about 4,500-6,000 calories per day. That’s more than just about anyone not named Michael Phelps needs.
Now, of course, McD’s, BK et al. are businesses, and they wouldn’t sell what people don’t buy. But I wonder why I wanted, and ate so much more than I needed. I’m sure there are plenty of complex reasons that students of psychology can debate forever.
I just wonder how much of a role things like this and this played.
