Why don’t Americans give a f*** about what they eat?

[Anonymous]

OP, it’s so great that you’ve been readily available throughout the day to answer everyone’s questions while you’ve been staying at your upscale hotel. You are definitely not a troll.

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But yes, of course the upscale hotel has healthy options for room service or likely takeout from their restaurant, and if not, there are healthy choices nearby to get themselves or order in. Just excuse-making.

That’s the thing though, you see, I have to make an extra effort and spend money to seek out and purchase healthy food because it’s not readily available to me. Where is in other countries it is. You see, how it impacts forming eating habits? It’s easier and cheaper just to get what’s convenient. And that’s how we got to where we are as a country.

OP, I don't believe you and I have the same understanding of 'upscale hotel'.

Also, there are plenty of people in the Western European city where I live who don't have the opportunities or knowledge to eat healthily. Every grocery store has the same junk I saw when I visited my brother in America a few years ago. And there are plenty of fat people here in Europe. You people who romanticise 'Europe' as a place where everyone eats healthily and is slim are deluded, or else you haven't been to Europe in the past 30 years, or you have never been anywhere in Europe but the expensive centres of tourist destination cities.

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I don't believe her either. I'm the poster in Europe who just corrected her crazy claim that Subway isn't allowed to call its bread bread. OP sounds like a slob who made poor choices, then decided it wasn't her fault when she became obese and pre-diabetic. Blaming your environment and not taking responsibility for your own choices and decisions is not the way to become healthy, OP.

Fine, don’t believe me. 50% of Americans must be slobs who make poor choices. There is NO problem here. Everything is fine.

Well, OP, you were wrong about your crazy claim about 'bread' in Europe, which has been proven by a few links on this thread. You clearly tend to make hysterical sweeping generalisations based on very little information. You haven't exactly presented yourself as a cool-minded, logical person.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing will change here until junk food is legally treated the way tobacco is, but that will never happen. The pro-diabetes lobby is too strong, and people are totally happy to parrot the words of Big Food lobbyists blindly (this thread is an example).

When you unironically type idiocy like "Big Food" and "Big Pharma," you out yourself as a low-information imbecile. Just thought you should know.

You are just a idiot stooge for them. Both are accepted and used terms in health policy circles. I'm going to go with the Harvard PhDs on this one, thanks.

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OP, I don't believe you and I have the same understanding of 'upscale hotel'.

Also, there are plenty of people in the Western European city where I live who don't have the opportunities or knowledge to eat healthily. Every grocery store has the same junk I saw when I visited my brother in America a few years ago. And there are plenty of fat people here in Europe. You people who romanticise 'Europe' as a place where everyone eats healthily and is slim are deluded, or else you haven't been to Europe in the past 30 years, or you have never been anywhere in Europe but the expensive centres of tourist destination cities.

Do you grasp the difference between “some people are fat” and “40% of the country are obese”? Have you been to South or Midwest of US?

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Anonymous wrote:OP, it’s so great that you’ve been readily available throughout the day to answer everyone’s questions while you’ve been staying at your upscale hotel. You are definitely not a troll.

I don't think OP is a troll. I think she's just not very bright, and that she is looking for someone to blame for her own poor decisions.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m staying at an upscale hotel in Nashville and for lunch my choices are either mystery bread and meat burgers with french fries or some weird salads with a thousand calorie dressing, as well as some cookie skillet.

I guess should just go, find a farmer’s market and cook it in my hotel room.

As you're staying in an "upscale hotel" that either you or your company can afford, you can surely afford to go out and get a healthier alternative or, if not, I'm sure the upscale hotel in Nashville has access to healthier food options via DoorDash or similar services.

Or you can just eat the burger and then claim "IT'S NOT MY FAULT! I'M A VICTIM OF MYSTERY MEAT!!!"

80% of restaurants here don’t serve fresh, quality food. It may come a surprise, but many restaurants still serve cheap, crap food.

And it seems only UMC and wealthy can afford to buy healthy food. Regular, everyday folks don’t.

The food they serve in public schools here is also horrible.

What do you mean only UMC and wealthy people can afford to buy healthy food? I find healthy food at the Giant or Harris Teeter and even cheaper at H Mart or Great Wall. I rarely go to Whole Foods. Shop the perimeter of the store and not in the aisles. My white MIL doesn’t like to set foot in the ethnic groceries because she’s afraid of the poors, but that’s where inexpensive, good quality produce is found. As far as food in the public schools, my kids packed their own lunches because, yes, they aren’t healthy. It’s cheaper to pack your own sandwiches or leftovers than to buy lunch at school cafeteria.

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I don't think OP is a troll. I think she's just not very bright, and that she is looking for someone to blame for her own poor decisions.

I think Americans are not very bright or lost some IQ digits due to bad diets, because they don’t acknowledge there is health crisis in the country and refuse to take responsibility for it.

Good luck yo your kids.

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OP, I don't believe you and I have the same understanding of 'upscale hotel'.

Also, there are plenty of people in the Western European city where I live who don't have the opportunities or knowledge to eat healthily. Every grocery store has the same junk I saw when I visited my brother in America a few years ago. And there are plenty of fat people here in Europe. You people who romanticise 'Europe' as a place where everyone eats healthily and is slim are deluded, or else you haven't been to Europe in the past 30 years, or you have never been anywhere in Europe but the expensive centres of tourist destination cities.

Do you grasp the difference between “some people are fat” and “40% of the country are obese”? Have you been to South or Midwest of US?

60% of the people in the Western European country where I live are overweight: https://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/243299/Germany-WHO-Country-Profile.pdf

That is over half of adults who live here. And Germany isn't the only European country with a lot of overweight people. You sound so foolish as you try to blame America: this is a problem in many places, even 'in Europe'. Junk food is widely and readily available in wealthy countries, even in Europe. To remain healthy, a person needs to consciously choose to ignore the junk and take the time to choose and prepare healthy foods. It is a matter of personal choice, OP, not of one's environment making you fat.

[Anonymous]

I think Americans are not very bright or lost some IQ digits due to bad diets, because they don’t acknowledge there is health crisis in the country and refuse to take responsibility for it.

Good luck yo your kids.

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Anonymous wrote:

I don't think OP is a troll. I think she's just not very bright, and that she is looking for someone to blame for her own poor decisions.

I think Americans are not very bright or lost some IQ digits due to bad diets, because they don’t acknowledge there is health crisis in the country and refuse to take responsibility for it.

Good luck yo your kids.

lol

[Anonymous]

OP, don’t you dare to criticize Americans since we are the best of the best! U.S.A is the best country in the world and only we are allowed to criticize others and teach them how to live.

[Anonymous]

I'm American, and it's not easy to eat healthy here. I am made fun of by my own relatives for making healthy choices and cooking. I pay $$$ for vegetables and healthy meats / fish, and spend a lot of time cooking. Even though I live in MoCo, I typically have to drive to Rockville or Bethesda to find a healthier restaurant.

If I didn't do all this, I wouldn't be able to fit through the door of my house. I haven't had a fast food meal in 10 years, and still I have to work daily to exercise and eat right--and still be overweight.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm American, and it's not easy to eat healthy here. I am made fun of by my own relatives for making healthy choices and cooking. I pay $$$ for vegetables and healthy meats / fish, and spend a lot of time cooking. Even though I live in MoCo, I typically have to drive to Rockville or Bethesda to find a healthier restaurant.

If I didn't do all this, I wouldn't be able to fit through the door of my house. I haven't had a fast food meal in 10 years, and still I have to work daily to exercise and eat right--and still be overweight.

Yes, that is my experience in the Western European country where I live. Eating healthy is a choice and it sometimes involves less than convenient steps. It isn't just America.