Salad makes you fat

[Sedalia Dave]

After all, a salad has to be better for you than a cheeseburger, right? Wrong

 

Salad makes you fat and broke

 

 

Unlike the other entries on our list, Bareburger doesn’t bill itself as a salad restaurant, but that is precisely the point. The terrible glory of salad’s seductive scheme is on full display when it is sitting on a menu next to a list of artery-clogging burgers. After all, a salad has to be better for you than a cheeseburger, right? Wrong.

In fact, an entree-size portion of the adorably named Berry Blue packs in more calories than every single signature burger on the Bareburger menu. So the next time you’re in the mood for the Supreme burger, skip the guilt and dive right in. It might be covered in cheddar cheese, bacon, onion rings, chopped fries and special sauce, but at 1,160 calories, it is still less caloric overall than the Berry Blue and its 560-calorie apple cider vinaigrette.

 

[Tom Bullweed]

When I want a burger, I have a burger.

When I want a salad, I likewise have a salad.

Sometimes I have a burger and a salad.

[Cliff Hanger #3720LR]

My doctor(s) have constantly told me to eat less meat.

I keep telling them I eat meat once or twice a week.

My fridge has no meat in it.

Just veggies to make salads and munch on.

I also eat two meals a day.

Largest meal is between 10am to 1pm depending on when I stop working in the shop.

And then a small sandwich or snack at around 4pm.

 

Then the doctors changed the way I eat.

Wanted me to eat the same things but break it down in to 5 smaller meals.

I did exactly what they said and I gain 30 pounds over 4 years.

 

The doctor(s) accused me of cheating on the program.

I held back and responded with, "we are not going to get along if you continue to call me a liar!"

On a different visit which was going down this same path, I told the doctor always the same thing about eating mostly veggies. he started to say something and I stopped him.

Then I ask if he would explain why the largest animals in the world are vegetarians.

And why are the lean animals like the big cats, wolves, where meat eater?

 

The conversation stopped right there.

I have been over the last 3 years been putting a little more meat in my diet and less dairy.

No milk at all after drinking a gallon every 2 or 3 days all my life.

Without changing anything else, I have lost 20 pounds.

Still heavy on the veggies.

Maybe I should look in to the type of meat I eat and see if I can make a change there.

[Cat Brules]

Well, I think that what you said is exactly correct. I personally believe that milk is bad for your health.

[Blackwater 53393]

Doctors don't know much about the human body, except in general. Those that accept that each individual is different are usually much better at treating individuals.

 

If they're all that smart and well trained, why do they still only "PRACTICE" ????

[Tennessee Trapper Tom]

Its what you put on the salad. Ex. 1 serving of romaine lettuce is 15 calories, add a 1/4 cup of cucumber is 8, one scallion is five. 1/8 cup of parmessan cheese is 55 and lite ceasar is 2 tbsp is 60. 143 calories give or take. I can understand if you eat those giant salads at a restaurant with meat and cheese and that calorie loaded dressing. Half the time I just used salt and pepper with a dash of vinegar. Its all the other stuff I shove down my piehole that gets me in trouble.

[Calico Mary]

mebbe I need ta start etin' more salad....I need ta put on a couple of pounds.....

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

Doctors don't know much about the human body, except in general. Those that accept that each individual is different are usually much better at treating individuals.

 

If they're all that smart and well trained, why do they still only "PRACTICE" ????

The last Dr. I saw, (except for DOT physicals), was about ten years ago. She couldn't understand why i, at age 52, wasn't on some kind of medication on a daily basis. I tried to tell her that there wan't anything wrong with me, and she didn't find anything. She told me to start taking a baby aspirin every day. When I asked why, she said that at my age, I should be on SOMETHING. I haven't seen her since.

[Warden Callaway]

They are finding out most all of our diet guidelines are based on junk science. They pick and choose studies that fit some preconceived notion. They ignore the fact that obesity was very rare before we had these new so called health diets and have gotten progressively worse as now processed foods are made available.

 

I have adopted what I call my grandpa diet. Basically, if it has been a food product developed after WWII, I avoid it. I eat farm eggs, bacon, sausage, REAL butter, drink raw milk and so on. Stop drinking soft drinks - diet included. Cut back on carbs.

 

Went from 260 to 185 in 12 years. Blood pressure and blood sugar under control without medication.

[Dawg Hair, SASS #29557]

A ton of years ago a doctor in our family told me that milk is for children. Helps them grow. This must be true because I'm certainly not growing vertically anymore, horizontally, well, that's a different matter.

Seriously, though, I'm a firm believer in what Ben Franklin supposedly said: "All things in moderation"......................except, of course, pizza, beer and bacon!

 

 

And chocolate, must not forget chocolate!

[Finagler 6853 Life]

Salads are just a delivery system for ham, chicken, hard boiled eggs and cheese. Otherwise it is just food that food eats.

[Warden Callaway]

One major turning point in our diet is when they figured out how to make sugar out of corn. The price of sugar dropped and availability grew. Corn sugar is in everything now. Sugar consumption has went from a cup a year to almost a cup a day in some people's diets.

 

The salad dressing in the original post was likely mostly fat and sugar.