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The man has been eating pizza exclusively every day for the past 25 years (Vice)
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look at this confused response to the thread, I can safely say this guy never had sex because
where does the article say he's type 2? from what i heard on reddit in the baltimore sub he is type 1 which is actually worse because his body can't make insulin. i know when i eat pizza it makes my sugar do uncontrollable things. i don't know how this guy does it....
it doesn't say anywhere when he developed it. not to mention you don't get type 2 from a bad diet. you must have the genetics first. then years of insulin spikes leading to your body not metabolizing glucose properly.
my grandfather eats entire cakes, pies, plates of cookies, spaghetti with bread, and he is no where near diabetic since he doesn't have the genetics. now my grandmother eats the same foods and she has it.
Slayer-33
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Da fuck lol
If the only thing he eats is the hamburger and he doesn't buy some JUMBO MEGA fries, an extra super large chocolate milkshake and other extra shit with it, then going to some hamburger place for a daily meal isn't that unhealthy. It's usually all that extra crap people order that makes it so unhealthy.
Good for him? I wonder what he does at dinner parties, or when he goes out to eat with other people and pizza isn't on the menu. Does he bring his own? Does he just sit there? Definitely a strange situation, but if he's happy I don't see any issue other than dumb people using to excuse shitty life styles and extreme diets.
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wants to fuck an Asian grill.
Yep, I get Egg McMuffins and McDoubles from mcds all the time. I have a gut but at 5'8" 145lbs its hardly making me obese or even approaching it. I suppose theres internal stuff that begins to misfire but meh
"I'm thin" as its own sentence is a dead giveaway. You can be incredibly unhealthy and still thin. I imagine he defines "tons of energy" in the context of a sitting on his ass 12 hours a day unless he is commuting to his job or to get more pizza. Everything's relative I suppose. I just hate this "story", he may act like a child that never grew up but that doesn't make it a fairy tale.
This. I'd be torn between pizza and cheeseburgers with fries. But that counts as 2 foods I guess. So pizza it is.
Davey Cakes
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I won't rag on this guy, even though I think he could've made better strides towards a more varied diet.
I'll accept all the shame in saying this but I generally can't stand it when people have limited taste in food. And I'm not talking about just picky (since I have my own dislikes, e.g raw tomato and olives). I've met folks who basically never grew out of the tastes of a six year old, only enjoying mac & cheese (or other pasta), pizza, MAYBE burgers and hot dogs, chicken fingers, French fries, etc. Probably not the "gourmet" versions of these items, either; just the basics.
(Don't get me wrong, these foods can be fantastic.)
They can still be some of the nicest people on earth but man, the human palate is quite a thing to waste.
I'll accept all the shame in saying this but I generally can't stand it when people have limited taste in food. And I'm not talking about just picky (since I have my own dislikes, e.g raw tomato and olives). I've met folks who basically never grew out of the tastes of a six year old, only enjoying mac & cheese (or other pasta), pizza, MAYBE burgers and hot dogs, chicken fingers, French fries, etc. Probably not the "gourmet" versions of these items, either; just the basics.
(Don't get me wrong, these foods can be fantastic.)
They can still be some of the nicest people on earth but man, the human palate is quite a thing to waste.
He must be mentally ill as well pizza guy. Needs an intervention.
This man is obviously just trying to gain the strength of a dragon.
Hey, I'd seriously recommend reading the OP, at a minimum, and the article, if possible, before popping off in the thread. We do still ban people for not reading OPs.
The guy has a problem, obviously. Whether his previous food issues (abuse by a caregiver over food, poisoning by fungi) are at the root of that, or whether there's something else going on, I don't know. I'd guess he doesn't know. That's why he's in therapy, trying to work on it. Kudos to him for working on his issue. I hope he gets to a place where he can manage a healthier lifestyle, and one that allows him to live a more normal life.
The guy has a problem, obviously. Whether his previous food issues (abuse by a caregiver over food, poisoning by fungi) are at the root of that, or whether there's something else going on, I don't know. I'd guess he doesn't know. That's why he's in therapy, trying to work on it. Kudos to him for working on his issue. I hope he gets to a place where he can manage a healthier lifestyle, and one that allows him to live a more normal life.
samus i am
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Well he doesn't look like a fat slob. We'll see how he is doing once he hits his 50s and 60s.
Steak and eggs would be a good meal for me too. But I couldn't handle that at every meal. I feel like there's enough varieties of pizza to keep me interested for a while. It wouldn't just be cheese pizzas.
I love steak and eggs but even that I'd tire of. Plus it counts as 2 foods too. Pizza FTW.
Messypandas
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And he looks great for his age, go figure. Get Armie Hammer to play him in the movie.
Davey Cakes
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Oh I just remembered, pizza is considered a vegetable!
In schools, anyway.
In schools, anyway.
crazygambit
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Based on him passing out from low sugar and such I assume he's dealing with type 1. I was diagnosed at 20 years old myself so that's not out of the question either.
I love to cook, but I can't really disagree. I just don't really mind spending 1-2 hours preparing and eating a meal. But hey, I would definitely have a lot more free time and money if I just resorted to eating canned or frozen foods all the time.
Vegetables are gross. Texture is gross. Taste is gross.
Your taste develops when you're young. My parents weren't around then to encourage such things and as such, I choke down veggies. I never enjoy them outside of corn and carrots.
Taste develops throughout your life. I wasn't a fan of onions when I was younger, now I love them.
HotHamWater
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By cheese pizza he means margherita, right? There isn't some American thing where you just have cheese on a pizza base?
sixteen-bit
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Ullillilia?
edit: beaten
edit: beaten
rokkerkory
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thanks frankie, im hungry now
FutureZombie
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Became vegetarian
doesn't like vegetables.
Not wanting to hurt animals doesn't have anything to do with liking the taste of vegetables.
chadderbox77
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It's kind of strange how your early caregivers can affect the things you eat. In the article he states how Mrs. Stanfill forced him to eat Brunswick stew everyday and it helped mess him all up. When I was around 4-5 I had a babysitter, my mother called "Aunt Gladys" who would watch me, while my mother worked, and forced me to eat (every day) spread banana on toast and a cup of cream of broccoli soup. I hated it. I would try to do everything to get out of it. One day I sat there and protested eating it and she said I'd have to sit there until I ate it. I sat there for what seemed like eternity. I cried. I yelled. I got smacked. I sat there. Finally I gave in and tried to eat it. The soup was stone cold and the banana on toast was so cold and hard and disgusting. That meal changed me and from then on I have never liked, nor eaten any fruit. I can trace it all back to that. I haven't eaten any fruit in over 30 years.
That's more of a refinement. I'm not going to suddenly start enjoying the texture of veggies.
All veggies don't have the same texture though and different cooking methods will also produce different textures.
Yes. And I've tried the vast majority. The fibrous texture of the majority of veggies is gross and no cooking method changes that for me.
Davey Cakes
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Get a pressure cooker and turn those veggies into delicious mush.
People are gonna say well he seems fine let him eat what he wants, until he's not fine anymore, and he dies, then everyone will say what did you expect? The guy ate pizza everyday. And then we'll all forget about it.
This sounds even worse.
I'll grin and bear it with stuff like broccoli because I care more about my health than my taste buds, but I'll never enjoy it.
Davey Cakes
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I've talked about this before on here.
In America, cheese pizza is just a regular sauce and cheese pizza (which is basically called "margherita" in other parts of the world.) However, on top of that we have a style of pizza called "margherita" which is basically a cheese pizza but with more emphasis on the tomato aspect and seasonings.
For example, I'll see a lot of "margherita" style pizzas that have chunks/pieces of tomato on top. And the taste is usually different too.
This guy is likely talking the standard bread, sauce, cheese. No frills. No special emphasis.
You don't like mashed potatoes? You can get broccoli, cauliflower, and root veg down to that type of consistency.
BronsonLee
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Something that really does bug me about this:
Beyond nearly dying and totaling a car because he blacked out, he's fine?
Like.. damnit man, that's a sign
Beyond nearly dying and totaling a car because he blacked out, he's fine?
Like.. damnit man, that's a sign
it's called low blood sugar. diabetics get it all the time. just part of what we deal with.
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