Many Americans have lost, or never had, fundamental cooking skills.
"Even if home cooking is of the fried-chicken-and-mashed-potatoes variety, it rarely produces extreme obesity. Almost any kind of cooking you can produce in a kitchen is healthier than fast food. The decline of home cooking worldwide is an underlying cause of obesity." - Barry Popkin, a nutritional epidemiologist at UNC-Chapel Hill.
In 1965 American women spent a weekly average of 13 hours cooking. Women in the United States now report spending an average of 30 minutes a day preparing meals.
"Twenty minutes in the kitchen will save you three hours on the StairMaster." - Devin Alexander, a chef in Los Angeles who developed the recipes for The Biggest Loser cookbooks.
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