Calories by the Pound

I was flipping through some of my great books this week and I found a chart I had not noticed before. Calories by the pound. Very interesting! I had never thought of calories like that before. It clearly shows why certain foods cause us to gain weight and others don't. Here it is! Check it out!

FOOD	CALORIES PER POUND
Vegetables	65 to 195
Fresh Fruits	135 to 420
Nonfat dairy foods	180 to 450
Potatoes, pastas, brown rice, sweet potatoes, corn, hot cereals	280 to 650
Legumes: peas and beans, such as pinto, garbanzo, black and lentils	400 to 750
Seafood, lean poultry, lean red meat	400 to 870
Dried fruit, jams, fat-free muffins, and all breads, including sourdough rolls, bagels, pita breads, and baguettes	1200 to 1400
Dry cereal, pretzels, fat-free cookies, fat-free potato chips	1600 to 1780
Regular salad dressing	1800 to 2000
Chocolate bars, croissants, doughnuts	2200 to 2500
Nuts, regular potato chips	2500 to 3000
Butter, margarine	3200
Olive oil, corn oil, lard	4010

*From “The Pritikin Edge” by Robert A. Vogel and Paul Tager Lehr

There is a big jump between Seafood and Dried fruit, which is where the processed foods begin. Big surprise there? It really makes you think about the foods that you eat. How about eating a large bag of potato chips. That is almost the same calories as eating straight butter. Would you ever do that? I sure did not pick up that fact, when the bag of Chips that I was eating, listed the calories as 10 chips for 120 calories. Tortilla chips, my favorite are about the same as chips. Tears, tears, tears! You can still eat your favs., just need to be careful with them. Eating real food will pay of for you in weight control! Eat Healthy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Great weekend to all! Kerry