Avoid Heavy Calories!
Eating a piece of pie with real ice cream a la mode, following a fried chicken dinner, is okay once in a while, right? A large prime rib steak or large hamburger with cheese, matched with a basket of french fries is just fine, “I don’t do it all the time, this is a special occasion.” Right? This is where the slippery slope of nutrition now requires a parachute! The danger is in the acceptance of consuming food that’s so heavily rich with calories and fat, that even an intense bout of exercise that same day will not recover all the calories that were just consumed at this one point in time. Furthermore, consuming large amounts of fat or calories at one time is enormously taxing on our entire physiological system; potentially leaving trace amounts of damage in our blood vessels each time this occurence is experienced (much like lying in the sun for too long each time we sun bath damages our skin in trace amounts). In addition, we’re at an increased risk of heart attack and stroke while our body releases all those free fatty acids into the blood stream following the heavy meal. All those free fatty acids have a tendency to thicken our blood increasing our health risks for an acute time period of 3-5 hours after consumption. This is much like smoking a cigarette puts us at a higher risk of death for 2-3 hours after their consumption while the drugs affect our physiology. Avoid the cigarette in the moment – you avoid the acute risk. Never smoke again – you avoid the long term risk. Avoid heavy calorie consumption much the same way!
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