Lately, one of my favorite things to do is watch the ocean waves and sunsets.
But today, I couldn’t stop watching a bird that weighs far more than his flying counterparts.
This sight is not uncommon in an area where obviously nutritionally illerate- passers-by feed these poor birds scraps of white bread and other processed scraps..
White bread or refined starches such as white rice, white pasta and other foods from white flour — act much like sugar once your body starts to digest them.
In short, as Michael Pollan so eloquently put it in Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual,”The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead.” Pollan was quoting some cross-cultural grandmotherly advice, which suggests, as he put it, that “as far as the body is concerned, white flour is not much different from sugar.”
It’s “little more than a shot of glucose,” Pollan explains.
Is it any wonder that this bird is overweight — or is it obese?
By the way, this bird also was somewhat lazy — it let me get very close before it darted (barely flew) off to a nearby rock.
On the other hand, his or her fellow birds do lots more flying and swooping.
So sad that we’re harming these poor birds.
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