Big bowl day
The Super Bowl is this Sunday and it’s time to eat nachos, chilli, and other foods that will fatten us up. Oh and we can’t forget to drink copious amounts of beer…but that should be a given. This is the time of year to indulge around a TV and watch the brutal spectacle of action and sport we call football.
But some would like this tradition to take a different route. Today I spoke with a nutritionist who is advising people to make some healthier choices. Jane Rose says we can easily pig out on veggie platters, cheese trays, fruit trays and humus and pita bread, and not put on all those calories.
Calories are those things you’re told not to have too many of but are in large amounts in many of your favourite foods. I don’t plan on changing my Super Diet for Super Bowl Sunday, but maybe some of you will after hearing how many calories you ingest.
Rose says in an average meal on Super Bowl Sunday, you will probably take in 1600 calories, which is approximately your daily max for calories. So in one meal you’re basically maxing yourself out. Not only that, but you can add about 600 more calories by drinking 4 beers throughout the evening…which I’m sure many men will.
Does this scare you? It probably should but if you’re like me you probably don’t care and just want to live a little on the one day a year you can watch football, Ryan Seacrest, commercials you actually want to see, and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers…all in one sitting.
So my advice to all of you is drink, eat and be merry because you only live once.