Take potato chips. Different brands of chips have totally different reactions in your body. I noticed that low salt, baked chips made by Lay’s for example, had a totally different taste and reality from heavy, oily fried chips with excessive salt. Have you ever taken home French fries and let them get cold and tasted one. Yeah, they can be nasty.
Years ago I read a brilliant and very disturbing article about ice water and gallstones. It seems that when people eat fried chicken and French fries it is probably not very smart to wash it down with ice water or iced soda-pop. Imagine the thirty-three to thirty-six degree super cold drink hitting the warm fries and think of pellets of ugly white waxy grease when the fat gets fast cooled by the drink. Yes, it’s as disgusting as it sounds.
I find it best to drink water either ten minutes before my meal or three hours after my meal and not power wash the food with massive volumes of ice water or hot fluids.
One should pay attention to these things and act accordingly.
The answer to longevity, health, and physical comfort is moderation. I found myself at expensive buffets feeling angry at having spent so much money that I would go back for seconds or thirds. I stood back and was honest about the whole deal. At home I would have had a modest meal and eat some more a few hours later. Many wonderful buffets offer carry-outs where you buy it by the pound or fill a container. I was amazed to observe that the food I would have eaten at the buffet over two hours, I ate over two days at six small meals.
Sometimes the universe or Dr. Murphy of Murphy’s Law has a cruel sense of humor. I would start to wander back for a second or third helping that I really didn’t need and some massive 300–400 pound patron would wander up to me and say, “I love this place, and I like coming back for more …” I realized that I was out of control with my food.
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