Who says you can't eat pizza for every meal?
Author: indianapoliseater | Filed under: Announcements/News
Credit Ron Kaplan/seriouseats.com
It’s long been held that it isn’t healthy to eat pizza for every meal. As a child I seriously disputed this because based on the way the food pyramid was taught at the time, you fulfilled several of the major food group requirements when you ordered a sausage, pepperoni and mushroom pizza. The crust gave you your grains, the cheese gave you your dairy, the pepperoni and sausage gave you your meat, the mushrooms gave you your vegetables and the tomato sauce gave you your fruits. It made perfect sense to my young third grade mind and this drove my teachers nuts because I argued with them constantly that I was right. Of course, I didn’t know anything about calories and/or grease at the time, because if I did, it would have destroyed my argument.
Anyway, I bring this up because Slice at seriouseats.com has posted a story via the Chicago Tribune profiling how a Chicago man ate only pizza for 30 days in order to fulfill the requirements of a bet with a friend.
Now, if you’ve ever seen “Supersize Me” or at least know the general idea of the movie, you’d think that this story of a man eating nothing but pizza for 30 days would have a horrible, unhealthy ending. Well, if that’s what you thought, you’d be wrong. The guy lost six pounds in that thirty days! So, I guess my elementary school food pyramid argument was right and my teachers were wrong. HA!
There’s probably a reason why they don’t teach the food pyramid that way anymore…
-IndianapolisEater
Best news ever.
Maybe it didn’t have a horrible unhealthy ending because unlike “Supersize Me” he perhaps, didn’t eat past his body’s natural point of “full,” just to prove a point. In the Chicago Tribune he also noted that he ate less then he used to because the pizza restriction prevented him from grazing.
Your teachers were and are always right. Not that I am biased.
Can we do a test where I eat cheesecake or carrotcake everyday?
We certainly can. Start a food diary, list out what kind of cheesecake/carrotcake you’ve had, how much you’ve had and where you’ve had it and we’ll post it on the blog. We’ll also need weight measurements and pictures that cover the span of the entire month so that we can chart your progress.
I just resolved to give up pizza greediness 3 days ago. But you just justified my hungry ways. I’ll have some for lunch.
I lie. I’ve been put in my place. I can’t do this to myself yet. I’m only 5′…I’m scared…I don’t wanna be Sherri Shepard!!! I’ll get back to you….