While the calorie may have originally been created for good, it seems to have had the opposite effect when it comes to health. Mainstream dieting encourages eating “less” caloricially, and supplies many commercial products that can help you keep your calories low. Consequently, low calorie also means low nutrition! A sure way to ensure your health goes to the gutter and your weight struggles never end…
If you’re on track will all this, you’ll adore this article from blogger Sophia Herbst:
“I don’t know why 1,200 managed to be the magic number of calories women should consume if they want to lose weight.
I don’t even know how I know of this number. Only that I know it, and my friends know it, and my mom knows it. Somehow, somewhere along the road, I was taught that if I want to have a flat stomach and tight tushy, I need to limit my calories to 1,200 a day and do cardio. I don’t know how it got into all of our collective brains, but somehow it did (if any ladies remember how or when they first heard the 1,200-calorie rule-of-thumb for losing weight, please let me know via comment box).
What I do know is that 1,200 is the general number of calories health professionals say women cannot drop below without suffering negative health consequences.
Interesting, isn’t it? 1,200 calories. The line between health and what they call “starvation mode.” 1,200 calories. The dangerous tightrope that many women are trying to walk, because they think this is how thinness is achieved.”
Keep reading at Sophia’s blog…
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