Submitted by: Galenlq Bonner

Nowadays it seems like nobody cooks. Fast food joints and restaurants make up too much of the western diet. There is an obesity epidemic in America due to under informed people eating high calorie food. The obesity epidemic strains the health system, and let’s face it: makes everyone less attractive. There are thousands of diet plans and lose weight quick schemes out there but the simple truth is if you eat healthy, you will lose fat and stay slim.

I have cooked for myself all my life. I remember the first time I moved in with roommates in college and learned that they “could not cook”. I can understand not being able to make complicated meals, but not able to cook at all? Needless to say I was shocked. Cooking is one of the most relaxing and rewarding hobbies out there. Nothing feels better than hunting down some fresh veggies, cooking up a good cut of beef, and crafting an amazing meal. All the effort you put in you get to experience immediately upon completing the meal.

So how do cooking and being fat tie together? If you cook all of your own food, you will intake less calories. People don’t seem to understand just how unhealthy fast food is. When you cook your own food you actually see how much butter you are adding to your toasted bun, you can see how much fat comes of bacon when you fry it, and you can see just how easy it is to eat healthy. Fast food joints normally use processed food, which is robbed of nutrients like vitamins and fiber. Basically they strip off the good stuff, and make their food out of the most unhealthy ingredients available. It isn’t natural and it isn’t healthy.

Cooking healthy food doesn’t just mean salads and veggies. You can still eat a normal cheeseburger, the fact alone that you can use leaner meat, and non processed cheese will drastically reduce the calorie content. Home cooked food also for the most part tastes much better than store bought food. The biggest obstacle to cross to start cooking is gaining some confidence. Start out with a couple simple meals: bacon and eggs, spaghetti with meat sauce, or grill a cheeseburger. Once you get comfortable cooking some simple things expand your horizons. You will start to find food you really love, and with the ability to cook, you can craft them exactly the way you like. Say you like your burger cooked through, and you like saut ed mushrooms and onions on top, well cook them up, its inexpensive and only takes minutes.

In order to achieve a healthier diet, try to use more veggies and less red meat in your diet. Cook a chicken burger instead of ground beef burger. Also try to avoid frying foods, frying by definition is cooking something with hot oil, which is literally pure fat. The only difference between fat and oil is whether or not they are a solid at room temperature. They are chemically the same thing. If you cook your own food, try to cook with some healthy stuff, and enjoy what you’re doing, you will lose weight and have a great new hobby.

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