I just received this email from Amy Goetz and had to share it.
Basically, she asks the question: “If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, what can a slice of pizza do for you?”
Then she proceeds to answer it. I’ve posted her entire analysis, unedited, for your review.
You’ve gotta read this. The results of Amy’s research are really frightening!
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One portion of Tombstone Sausage & Pepperoni Pizza (appropriately named) — (weighing 125 grams) contains 327 calories,16.4 grams of fat, and 31 milligrams of cholesterol.
One medium apple (weighing 125 grams) contains 74 calories, 0.45 grams of fat, and no cholesterol.
If you want to shed one pound of fat from your body weight, you would have to burn 3,500 calories.
Compare one person to another.
Person A eats an apple each day and person B eats just one portion of Tombstone Pizza each day.
After one year, the pizza person would supply his or her body with 92,345 more calories than the apple eater.
That represents 26 pounds of body fat.
There are 5.38 milligrams of cholesterol contained in 1 medium-sized slice of cooked bacon.
In one year, the person eating the Tombstone Pizza would consume the equivalent cholesterol contained in 2,103 slices of bacon.
That’s nearly 6 slices per day.
The apple eater gets no cholesterol.
During that same year, the pizza eater would eat 12.8 pounds more fat than the apple eater.
Picture a small French poodle weiging 12.8 pounds. Now picture the same sized ball of fat.
Picture the Tombstone Pizza eater’s thighs.
What might they write on her tombstone?
She did not eat an apple a day…
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I tell you what, reading this reinforces my love for apples! :-)
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Hi Ryan,
Love the blog. The pizza thing is scary, reminds me of the documentary on eating mcdonalds for a month….
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Malc.
Absolutely right about that! I eat at least 2 apples a day and a piece of pizza would be about 4-5 apples. Eating for weight loss has become a struggle but pizza is not the way to go. -Jared
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