What in US food supply causes weight gain and inflammation?
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Anonymous
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This entire thread is full of pseudoscience. Please go back to goop.
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Anonymous
What exactly on this thread is "pseudoscience"? You said it, so explain yourself. |
Anonymous
| Same. Pre-Covid I went to Turkey and Spain every year. Always lost weight. |
Anonymous
| What on earth are y'all eating here? |
Anonymous
| I lived in Germany for over a year and came home 5 lbs heavier (on a tall frame so basically the same). I don't think there's a lick of truth to this, no matter how often people say it. |
Anonymous
There's no evidence that GMOs cause obesity. None. Americans don't drink more alcohol than other countries. Our soil is depleted of nutrients? Evidence? Connection to Obesity? Evidence that processed food causes obesity? Proof? Pesticides cause inflammation and thus obesity? Proof? I'll give you that eating lots of sugar probably has som impact. The rest of these reasons are garbage. |
Anonymous
This except I’m not knowledgeable about the soil issue. I used to think the fervor about non gmo but as stupid but honestly now I think there may be something to it. And I agree we have more added sugars. I also always lose weight in Europe. And stuff like pizza that makes me feel gross and bloated here doesn’t do the same here. |
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| if there were anything to this, you'd think it could easily be studied using exchange student groups as your study population. my personal experiences with those populations don't make me think you'll find much by way of results (the obese students come back just as obese, the thin students come back thin) but it's plenty study-able. |
Anonymous
Not my job to educate you. You need to educate yourself if you really believe everything you just wrote. You are either a troll, or living under a rock. |
Anonymous
| Alternative explanation to advance: when you all visit Europe, you’re thrown out of your normal routines. You’re walking more because you’re in a new place, you have to really think about how, when, where to get food. Maybe you skip a meal or a snack here and there because it’s less convenient and comfortable than what’s in your pantry at home. You’re eating less, moving more. Portion sizes are smaller, too. People snack less. It’s not what’s in the food, it’s that the routines are different. |
Anonymous
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The EU doesn’t allow most of the chemical garbage that’s polluting every single processed food we consume. Aren’t we the most sickly western country? Health is not profitable to our grossly corrupted medical system.
The FDA has been in bed with the mega ‘food’ corporatists forever, much like the AMA and big pharma. |
Anonymous
This. If you moved there and established normal life routines, with work stress and evening snacking, you’d likely be right back where you started, and if you weren’t it’d be because you successfully changed your habits. |
Anonymous
I've heard this as well. The enzymes used in the US cause faster baking of bread. |
Anonymous
OP here. I used to think this. But in my past three visits, after seeing this pattern over and over, I logged my food and I used a fitness tracker, and I don’t think it’s this. I eat more when I’m in Europe, not less. I eat at more restaurants. I don’t exercise as much. On the face of it, I should gain weight every time I go to Europe, not lose it. But the opposite happens. |
Anonymous
OP here. The pizza thing is noticeable for me. When I am there, I eat the Italian-style personal pizza, where you get one personal pizza. That’s a huge amount of pizza! I usually leave a slice or two, and can’t finish, but still, it’s a lot. Here, I feel gross and bloated after just one slice, and I rarely eat pizza as a result. I can’t help but wonder if there is something different in the pizza ingredients. |