>>>>Some years ago they were celebrating an anniversary of the Twinkie! They were talking to the man who developed the product and asked him how he liked Twinkies. His comment, “I would never eat that stuff and do not allow it in my house”! Now there is a man with a sense of good taste! Just because you invent something does not mean you have to use it. :)
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>>>>Tom
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>>>A couple years ago my wife & I were in the US. I had to try 1. I could not finish it.
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>>>About 5 years ago the city of Montreal decided to close all the large police stations and open several smaller local ones. Funny thing is, in my area they are all about 100 yards from the local doughnut shops.
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>>Mike;
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>>The areas of Montreal near doughnut shops must be crime free! :)
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>>I had a friend who was discharged from the United States Marines, at about the same time I was discharged from the Air Force. He went to work for Hewlett Packard, where each day he would enjoy as many free doughnuts as he wished. He had many! Within a year my friend went from 6’ 3” tall 190 pounds to 320 pounds. He liked doughnuts! Did I mention ice cream?
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>>Well, there was a story out at that time about the little doughnut. Eat one doughnut each day and if you do not otherwise change your diet or exercise you will gain ten pounds at the end of one year. In ten years you will have gained 100 pounds. This is not a joke and just shows the balance between diet and exercise. Eating a “little doughnut” may not be the best thing for your health.
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>>Tom
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>Take one of those 1/2 oz Butter pads. If the total calories you eat exceeds your metabolism requirement by the calories in 1 Butter pad per day then in 365 days you will have gained 182 ozs or about 11 lbs. In ten years 110 lbs.
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>Coke has 42 grams of sugar per can. A can of Coke a day will give you 0.2 lbs per day extra, assuming it is converted directly into fat. About 73 lbs per year. I can testify to this one because that is how I went from 195 lbs to 265 lbs while teaching at college.

Jerry;

I recall reading some works on metabolism which seem interesting. Seems they never take age into account though. Well, one work was stating how a person with an active metabolic rate can eat sugar and fat and it turns into energy. This is true as long as the person does not go outside a specific range of weight from his/her ideal. Once you go outside that range the sugar you ingest becomes body fat. The foods you eat are converted differently and the body suffers for it.

My diet has changed over the last 15 years or so. I watch what I eat but stress gets to me too often. Now I have to remove the excess weight and keep it off with diet and exercise. As you well know this is more than a challenge! It becomes a way of life for life!

Tom