from Dr. John Berardi’s kitchen

In Athon Elite’s most recent Elite Newsletter I talk about calorie density and how most people don’t realize how dense with calories their daily food favorites are, (i.e., your typical fast food value meal vs. 18 apples… both 1300 calories but I bet you can’t eat 18 apples in one sitting)!

How dense is the calorie content in your meals?  Are you eating very calorie dense foods like hamburgers and chili-cheese fries or less dense stuff like stir-fry’s, apples and carrot sticks?

According to Dr. John Berardi most humans eat around 3-5 pounds of food per day, (compared to an elephant which will eat about 360 pounds per day).

Pictured above is about 3.7 pounds of food… a full day’s worth.  Clockwise starting in the upper right he’s got:

• 2 lentil burgers, steamed broccoli
• Peaches & blueberries
• Raw buckwheat granola with hempseeds and flax
• Roasted garbanzos & goji berries
• Sprouted grain bread with peanut butter
• Lettuce & kale
• Celery, carrots, zucchini

As we reach around 4 pounds of food in a day, we start feeling satisfied, and not really hungry any more.

Now, this can be 4 pounds of celery… or it can be 4 pounds of candy bars!

You see, it’s not the calories that count for making you full and satisfied, it’s the total volume/poundage that counts. But obviously there’s some pretty big nutrition differences between 4 pounds of celery and 4 pounds of Snickers bars!

So, as Berardi says…

what’s in your 4 pounds?!

For more discussion on this read up on the Elite Newsletter this week.  And, if you don’t already get our regular bi-monthly Elite Newsletter subscribe by filling out the information below: