Don't the UK have the same culture of unhealthy eating and pretty much same obesity numbers though?
Obesity in the UK is more like mid 20%. Still too high obviously.
Don't the UK have the same culture of unhealthy eating and pretty much same obesity numbers though?
I live in Paris and let's just say when I'm in a tourist area it's immediately obvious who's American and who isn't...
150 calories my ass
150 calories my ass
Or, rather, that all those calories are derived from sugar. Not all calories are equal. A calorie from beef liver =/= a calorie from refined sugar. The human body is not a furnace.it's not the calories that are getting you. it's the sugar.
This isnt sustainable, we cant have more than half of our population with diabetes and heart disease and then expect to be able to afford health insurance.
We have to tax the shit out of unhealthy food and subsidize healthy food. We cant count on americans to control themselves, it doesnt work.
We have to make fruits, vegetables, and lean meats the cheap food, salt, sugar, and fats should be expensive.
I took our son for his first Happy Meal a couple of weeks ago, and only because its his birthday.
Hes 3. One McDonalds in 3 years.
Weve been told that were too strict with that, by some people. People whose kids look overweight, I might add.
Just me who thinks 3 years old is still far too young to let them eat crap like McDonalds?
It really is part of our culture. Every fucking day at work, someone brings in some sort of carbs whether doughnuts, bagels, or pizza. As someone who has struggled with my weight all my life, it is torture.
This, it isn't a matter of overeating for a lot of people. It's the fact that 20 pieces of chicken nuggets is cheaper than a salad or a decent home cooked meal.
I have memories of teething babies being given Mc Donald's french fries. It's perfect when you think about it. They are soft and easy to eat for a baby just starting solids.
Yeah. There needs to be some serious public education campaigns including in schools to tell people that eating unhealthy and being overweight is not ok. The normalization of heavy really needs to be dialed back for change to start.Add to that the visual skewing that's taking place. What's considered 'heavy' today is waaay past what would have been considered heavy in the past. They've changed all the clothing measurements to vanity sizing and people just see themselves as not big. Today's 'average' is part of the problem.
I took our son for his first Happy Meal a couple of weeks ago, and only because its his birthday.
Hes 3. One McDonalds in 3 years.
Weve been told that were too strict with that, by some people. People whose kids look overweight, I might add.
So are cucumber sticks.
I took our son for his first Happy Meal a couple of weeks ago, and only because it's his birthday.
He's 3. One McDonalds in 3 years.
We've been told that we're too strict with that, by some people. People whose kids look overweight, I might add.
We need to ask Asians for their secret.
when i worked at mcdonald's we were trained on their "get 'em while they're young" philosophy to create life-long customers. you can't be too strict about mcdonald's.
Well a child who appears to be overweight to that guy you quoted isn't necessarily an unhealthy child. Like that's dumbLol. You would think they would get a clue :/
Well a child who appears to be overweight to that guy you quoted isn't necessarily an unhealthy child. Like that's dumb
That I don't get, to be both severly obese and still have huge, obviously ridiculous, portions of food. Surely not all are eating away their depression/anxiety?oldie but (not) goodie
Read what I said.How is overweight not necessarily unhealthy?
Plus you're sitting all day. It's just a horrible food environment we have.
I don't even see how we can solve this outside of educating people. How's the rest of the world fighting this problem?
Soda consumption has dropped precipitously while obesity continues to rise. You are looking in the wrong place.
The thing is, I like that show. So does my wife. So do a lot of people I know - none of which are overweight.
The problem comes when people see that and say this is how we should eat every day rather than what sensible people say, which is this looks like a great experience, once in a blue moon.
You can take this stuff off the air, but its pathetic that that sort of coddling is required to get people to eat better.
That I don't get, to be both severly obese and still have huge, obviously ridiculous, portions of food. Surely not all are eating away their depression/anxiety?
Maybe they are but it's best not to wind yourself up about strangers and constructively help those close to you.
I don't even see how we can solve this outside of educating people. How's the rest of the world fighting this problem?
oldie but (not) goodie
This is actually the main problem. As Heston Blumenthal showed in his sugar water banana test, you can subtract actual spices if you replace them with sugar (for 'sweet' spices), salt (for 'savoury' spices) and fat (for 'mouthfeel'). Food used to be spicier. Just look at Medieval recipes which had 6+ different spices in them. Agrobusiness corps replaced a large part of the expensive (and even the cheap) spices ('graynes of paradys', 'cubeb peper', 'star anys', 'root of gingevre', 'bark of the cassia tree' and that's only off the top of my head) with subsidised refined mass-processed garbage. They use only traces of the original spices and bulk up the flavour with sugar, salt and fat.
Read what I said.