Retired people? Why the all you can eat buffets?

I don't believe that a person will change eating habits just because they are now a senior. Buffets have many different foods - some are good for you and others not so good. They also offer just a taste of something. If you like it - go back and get more. If not - don't get more. Easy!

It is a nice change to go to a buffet to get foods that you would normally not make for yourself if you live alone or are on a limited income and can't afford to buy.

I've never seen such a place but have heard of them. Sadly those with small appetites (or those who are simply NOT GREEDY) are paying for the extra food of those who are eating themselves into an early grave.

I avoid some foods totally (either because I don't like them or because I've heard how they are made) but mostly I eat what I like the taste of, and in moderation. I know when to stop because I've given myself terrible indigestion in the past by eating more than my stomach was designed to have shoved into it.

If I am hungry between meals I will, sometimes, have a small sandwich or a milky coffee and a couple of biscuits but, other than that I am a reasonably healthy eater and understand the term 'moderation in all things'.

Eating out is not an enjoyable exercise for me. I'd rather wait until I get home and prepare my own food. When it is essential to eat away from home I prefer to have a chicken sandwich or something similar and will drink bottled water. I cannot remember when I last ate a 'proper sit-down meal' in a restaurant or even in someone else's home.

At the buffet you can see what the food looks like before you put it on your plate. Besides, people are going to get cancer if it is inside of them no matter what they eat. Over the past decades, many foods have been declared to cause cancer, we have learned moderation in all things and sometimes that doesn't even work. As for me, I like to cook though it's not always healthy. When I go out to eat I like someone to wait on me.

I have two really good friends 30+ miles down the coast. We meet every so often at the Soup Plantation in Carlsbad, California. The food there is very healthy, and absolutely smashing, and definitely not garbage.

I think that you're talking about fast food places. Completely different from good buffet restaurants.

Are all you can eat buffets an American thing?

I have never heard of them over here in the UK.

As for "anti-cancer foods", we should never eat

anything if we listened to all the so called good

advice that the media trot out every day.

With all the chemicals in our soil and acid rain,

surely most foods man made and organic are

impure.

I eat what I want in moderation and then take

exercise. I have never eaten burgers or pizza,

they are sheer rubbish.

I eat what I like, when I like, and hang the scare mongers.

Every day I read in the media about this or that food is bad for you and then the in a few weeks time I read the same foods are good for you. I will take my chances and live a life that suits me and eat what makes me feel good.

So far so good and I`m 70 next birthday, and have no health problems. My last visit to the doctor was about over 5 years ago.

I eat to live ......not live to eat.

1 Buffets do have a lot of nutritional foods starting with salads and veggie plates. You just need to be more selective. By the way a rarely see burgers or fries at them.

2) Hate paying 12 - 15 dollars for MacDonald, AW or KFC when I can go to a good Asian or Chinese buffet with terrific selection for the same price.

Cheers,

Michael Kelly

Gimmie some fried chicken, and everything that the nutrionists says I can't have. I'll have a big slice of Chocolate Cake too, and if I die 6 months sooner, so what. I can't live forever. I have already lived longer than I thought I would.

I don't go to them.

As for what I eat ... it's too late to make any real difference anyway, isn't it?

If I start eating something that will kill me in 50 years, guess what? I won't live to see it.