American food

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[–]passionflounderPaper tiger 16 insightful - 3 fun16 insightful - 2 fun17 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

Most food in this country should be regarded as low grade poison. Sugar is used almost as an addictive and figures prominently on ingredients lists. Any ingredient ending in "-ose" is a sugar. Corn syrup- sugar.

Our food industry has been sugaring us up for years- this not only helps provoke weight gain but also insulin resistance and diabetes. The best way to avoid health problems: Learn how to cook. Buy simple ingredients and teach yourself the art of meal preparation. Prepared convenience foods are a sort of soft and slow genocide that serves as a cash cow to the medical and pharmaceutical industries.

[–]hfxB0oyA 10 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

The best way to avoid health problems: Learn how to cook.

Plus it's a lot more affordable. A bag of potatoes and a package of meat costs less than a frozen entrée, and it can give you a lot more meals.

[–]aaarrgh[S] 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

suger and salt and a lot of muck

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

That’s too easy of an answer. There’s chemicals in our food that make us fat. It’s processed food.

[–]passionflounderPaper tiger 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The best answers invariably prove to be the simplest. People should be free to make the choices that suit them. The choices should be informed ones though. With a research tool like the internet, prepared, packaged convenience fare ought to be PC scannable with each ingredient identified.

The non-nutritional chemicals in our food indeed contribute to obesity. I'd wager they contribute to a ton other health issues- cancers, neurological diseases.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I understand your point, but fruit doesn't make people fat. That has sugar.

The best way to avoid health problems: Learn how to cook. Buy simple ingredients and teach yourself the art of meal preparation.

That is the best advise.

[–]Bonn1770 10 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

It is the high fructose corn syrup and seed oils they put in almost everything. I'm old, and I remember when in my entire high school in the early 80s there was ONE kid who was considered fat, who by today's standards would be considered normal weight. Every one else was thin. Then around 1985 they made the switch from cane sugar to HFCS (look up "New Coke"). That's when everyone started putting on the pounds.

[–]jet199Instigatrix 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

The issue is these things are too refined. If you eat seed oil with the stuff which is supposed to be in seeds, like vitamin b and e, they aren't so bad. If you eat fructose with the things which are supposed to be in fruit, fibre and acid, it doesn't screw with your blood sugar as much. If you have these things on their own with beige carbs then they are pretty disastrous.

[–]Bonn1770 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

too refined

Spot on but just eat like some guy from 1880, it's not that hard. Meat and potatoes.

[–]jet199Instigatrix 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

And cabbage, funny how people always forget the cabbage.

[–]RottenCorpse 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Soy, palm oil, corn syrup, aspartame, glyphosate, GM grain, mmmm mmmm. Thanks, Monsanto!

[–]Airbus320 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Thanks jews

[–]RottenCorpse 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Mm

[–]IMissPorn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Japan uses lots of soy too, so it's probably not that one either.

[–]RottenCorpse 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Fermented soy products are low in isoflavones and soy sauce almost void, and I'm sure tofu is not a massive part of most people's diet. Soy lecithin on the other hand is highly phytoestrogenic and is everywhere in western processed foods. Pick up some chocolate, candy, hell check out frozen foods like French fries and you can find it there these days. Soy lecithin is an unnecessary additive.

[–]1Icemonkey 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

If you can’t pronounce it, don’t consume it. Try to eat like your great grandparents did.

[–]jet199Instigatrix 3 insightful - 7 fun3 insightful - 6 fun4 insightful - 7 fun -  (0 children)

Americans can't pronounce most words, they'll starve.

[–]Alphix 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

A lot of chemical additives that slowly poison us over time.

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

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[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Look up round up ready crops. What do you think consuming round up does to your body? I notice when I eat processed carbs, I bloat out. That's an inflammatory reaction. There's something going on with American wheat.

[–]SerpensInferna 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I struggled most of my adult life with digestive issues. I'm not celiac, but I cut out wheat in desperation and those issues almost entirely disappeared, kind of changed my life. The rest was taken care of by eliminating dairy.

Not only that, my mental health significantly and noticeably improved.

I believe there is something wrong with American wheat.

I also know quite a few people who switched to buying Italian wheat, and all of their issues were likewise eliminated.

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

US wheat and oats and other grains are for sure Round Up/glyphosate contaminated. They started spraying it on finished crops to help dry it better or some crazy shit.

[–]chadwickofwv 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Carbs are the problem. Other things just exasperate the problem. Most people can manage without the additives and other poisons, but very few can mange along with the high carb diets which governments have been pushing for almost a century.

[–]JoeyJoeJoe 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Did you mean 'exaggerate'?

[–]IMissPorn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No, they meant exacerbate.

[–]Brewdabier 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

American food has a lot of sugar, salt and fat then theres the GPO and other additives.

[–]cisheteroscum 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Is the best answer as simple as "sugar and corn syrup" ?

Aka, "avoid carbs" in American?

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    [–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Gatorade has as much sugar as soda, so that's pretty interesting that this switch helped you.

    [–]Dragonerne 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    link?