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“People don’t realize that food is fuel,” says Roger Snow, Owner and Operator of Rocky Mountain Grain Products, “They think you should be eating according to how heavy you are. That’s completely wrong. You should be eating according to how much work you’re trying to do. It’s fairly obvious that if you take you body to the top of Mount Everest on you feet you need enough fuel to do that job, but if you’re going to take your body and sit in a chair all day, you only need enough fuel to do that job.” Roger illustrates with his own story, “At different times in my life I needed a huge amount of fuel. One time I worked in the Artic. I worked on Geophysical exploration and we walked 2000 miles across the Arctic. It was always between 40 and 65 below zero. So in those days I would eat 20 eggs for breakfast, several pounds of bacon, a huge amount of food, and make 2 loaves of bread into sandwiches and carry that under my army parka all day. We were eating all the time in order to have enough energy to handle the cold and do the physical labor.” “So that’s really what’s happening with people who are gradually getting heavier. As they get heavier, they think they need to eat more because they need more energy to do the same job, when really eating more just makes them even heavier.” Roger’s point is that to stay fit we need to fuel ourselves for our actions, rather than according our learned attitudes about weight. |
