The big question: Is it possible to eat healthy in the United States?
With images so it seems that the answer to the question is: no, you can not eat healthy.
All we imagine American fridges as this family appears full of fried potatoes, pizzas and soft drinks of all kinds:
Well you will be surprised, but living here I can say that the answer is YES !! Yes you can eat healthy in America.
Another thing is that people make the effort of eating healthy, a much more complicated task than in Spain (and therefore no such level of obesity in the country).
Many people when going to live in the United States either for work or studies come home with a couple of extra pounds (or 10 as it happened to me after Erasmus ...). And the excuse that we all take? "Is there no healthy food in America, is that all are hamburgers and hotdogs here, etc."
No, it is not so, as in any Spanish city or town in the United States there are supermarkets where you can find everything and organic food shops, etc. So the fruit, vegetables and other healthy foods are at our disposal.
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Where lies the difference? In the ease of eating healthy ... In Spain we are used to the Mediterranean diet, down to the portal home and have your same block fishmonger, bakery, greengrocers, or else even better, a neighborhood market in which you find yourself everything and just brought the field / sea.
This is not so easy either because they generally do not have such a hand where to go to buy this kind of food also can not buy in large quantities because perishing, or just so extremely affordable is fast food ... It is very difficult to resist to temptation!
junk foodYou really have to have an extreme force will not fall into poor diet. The supply of junk food, pre-cooked, fast and easy is extreme and is very difficult to resist it. For example, you find in the supermarket a bag of vegetables which are mixed and pre-cooked carrots, beans and broccoli, which only have to go through the pan with a little oil; and next they are the natural broccoli, carrot and natural natural beans, you have to clean, boil and then cook mix ... and why you decant? Well, usually, by the pack already prepared (ved then my food today, what do you think that is, vegetables natural or pack ?. For this same happens not only with vegetables (at least minimally will be healthy), but with thousands of different foods you already offer pre-cooked and know what chemicals that make you take that balloon inflarte fair .
For those who do make the effort to go to buy fruit and vegetables to supermarkets and still continue getting fat ... I have a theory: fruit and vegetables in the US is xD toy. Let me explain with an example:
On August 1 this past summer (yes, I remember the dates by heart) I bought two apples to eat them during the week since the August 7th I returned to Barcelona to spend 3 short week with the family. Finally I only ate one of the apples and the other remained in the fruit bowl hoping that maybe my boyfriend eat it before putting bad ... The truth is I did not think to ask more about the issue and I figured that either had eaten or he had thrown ...
AppleWell, on August 28 I come home, I look and I find the fruit bowl an apple ... An apple perfectly Coloradita out. So what my first idea? "That monkey my boyfriend bought for me when I got an apple!". What it is my surprise when I ask for it and tells me that apple has been there for more than 3 weeks !!! It was the apple I had left me! But as he could be so perfectly Coloradita ?? It is true that I was a wee bit wrinkled, but like apples after 5-6 days of having them at home, they get nothing. Before throwing it logically, I decided to cut it, to see how he was inside, what I found? The apple was black inside !!! If any of my followers have some idea about this whole issue of the putrefaction of food, etc, I can explain how it can be that the apple rot inside and outside however perfectly follow?
My conclusion? "The fruit and vegetables in the United States is toy / artificial" jajajjaa
The solution seems to be to go to stores where they sell organic products (in fact this is a trend that was born in the US), but I'm not in a financial position to pay triple for my purchase weekly food ... so, by the time will have to settle for toy fruit and vegetables my packs of artificial ^^
Yes, definitely I put aside pre-cooked (apart from vegetables) food and make a great effort to also avoid fast food as much as possible! I will become one of my resolutions for the new year
By Rokydoya