According to the advisory panel on Dietary Guidelines for Americans (a panel of nutrition experts), Americans eat a lot more calories than they need daily and than they used to consume time ago. Yes, it is true, it is not necessary to be an expert to arrive at these conclusions that as you imagine you could be extended to a certain extent to a good part of the population.
According to this commission, very few people follow dietary guidelines, including extensive consumption of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and low-fat dairy products. Instead, they are stuffed with foods made from refined cereals and also from other foods that carry a lot of fat, sugar and therefore many calories.
Thus, the main sources of calories in the Americans diet are, in order:
1. Sweets and foods with an overabundance of simple carbohydrates such as sweet desserts, cakes, cookies, donuts, chips, and cereal bars.
2. Bread made with refined flour and yeast (note: this element could have also been contemplated to some extent in the previous point, I suppose it will be a "license" to get to make a "decalogue to use".
3. Prepared dishes based on chicken or in which chicken is an important ingredient (note: I want to understand that although the wording of this element is as it is, I suppose that the excess of calories is more for the rest of ingredients, sauces, etc. than by the chicken itself; also a person who exercises regularly 3 or more days a week should consume a portion of protein preferably white meat such as chicken).
4. Refreshing drinks with gas, energy and "for sportsmen".
5. Pizza.
6. Alcoholic beverages.
7. Pasta dishes (note: complex carbohydrates of slow absorption, such as pasta are not bad; pasta as well as rice, or wholemeal bread are foods that can get into the diet, preferably before or during the afternoon, but should not be avoided).
8. Prepared dishes of Mexican style.
9. Prepared meat dishes or meat products.
10. Dairy products, usually in the form of "desserts".
