The power of processed food products and sugar

[Anonymous]

These foods should be banned. Why are they allowed? They are more dangerous than Covid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would love if the US food industry was regulated more like in Europe and we had less processed crap in the stores and more focus on fresh foods.

But I'd also love if American culture didn't expect people to work so much so it would be easier to prepare healthy meals at home without relying on processed foods for convenience because people are so pressed for time.

I'd also love if schools took the quesiton of healthy eating seriously and stopped offering absolute garbage to kids on a daily basis. Not even talking about school lunches (but yes those are bad) but just all the candy and junk food schools often hand out all the time because it's easy and convenient.

And finally I'd love it if we could adopt a healthcare system that focused more on preventative care including healthy eating rather than just waiting for people to develop horrible illnesses as a result of their garbage diets and then spending billions trying to mitigate the consequences.

Yes +10000
It is the number one culprit that is making it harder for parents to instill good eating habits at home.

Agree school lunches should be far healthier and schools can do more; but schools are hardly the thing making it harder for parents. Parents don't instill the good nutrition at home because
1. healthy food costs more
2. parents don't want to deal with kids not eating and/or constantly complaining about the healthy food and being told "no" to the bad food
3. "convenience" foods are (oftentimes, and "seemingly" when you don't know how or aren't in the habit of cooking from scratch) far easier and faster
4. inundation of marketing - to children! - and prevalence of processed foods in stores along with a lack in good quality produce in many stores ...and farmers' markets take more time and cost even more
5. they don't practice good nutrition and cooking habits themselves - whether they never learned or just feel they don't have the time

The biggest problem isn't schools - it's the dominating prevalence of bad options and the unhealthy crap continuing to be allowed in this country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I trust any food I buy in US. I don’t trust any restaurant, anything I buy in the store. Maybe farmers’ market and it’s a big maybe.

Even when I buy a wild salmon filet from Costco, I wonder it has been drenched in something chemical or if the plastic packaging leaks endocrine disrupting chemicals into the food.

How will you explain our food supply problems when our US fed olympians dominate the gold count this summer? And, a huge percentage of those athletes are amateurs cranking through on their own well before they get sucked into games prep by our Olympic program. Where do you think they get their food? Some super secret store in Omaha Nebraska?

The dumb things people come up with to explain away their own laziness is amazing. Eat real food. There is plenty of it in the US. And particularly here in the DC area.

I guarantee you Olympic trainees are eating far better than the average American. Even before they're headed to the Olympics.
Did you ever consider that those who generally eat and exercise better are more inclined to become Olympic athletes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I trust any food I buy in US. I don’t trust any restaurant, anything I buy in the store. Maybe farmers’ market and it’s a big maybe.

Even when I buy a wild salmon filet from Costco, I wonder it has been drenched in something chemical or if the plastic packaging leaks endocrine disrupting chemicals into the food.

How will you explain our food supply problems when our US fed olympians dominate the gold count this summer? And, a huge percentage of those athletes are amateurs cranking through on their own well before they get sucked into games prep by our Olympic program. Where do you think they get their food? Some super secret store in Omaha Nebraska?

The dumb things people come up with to explain away their own laziness is amazing. Eat real food. There is plenty of it in the US. And particularly here in the DC area.

I guarantee you Olympic trainees are eating far better than the average American. Even before they're headed to the Olympics.
Did you ever consider that those who generally eat and exercise better are more inclined to become Olympic athletes?

Jesus. You are making the same point.

Anybody can eat well in the US. Did you even read the idiocy of the post I quoted? I will help you with this delicious quote of stupidity: “Even when I buy a wild salmon filet from Costco, I wonder it has been drenched in something chemical or if the plastic packaging leaks endocrine disrupting chemicals into the food.”

The premise of all these threads is the US food system is so broken it’s impossible. That of course is nonsense. Including that we have a huge Olympic team that gets along buying their own food, training themselves, and many times working full time jobs. Just like all of the rest of us.

The issue is people don’t want to eat well. Even wealthy people. Because it requires not eating garbage that they want. That’s why it’s there. There is a market for it. Instead of recognizing that, it’s all one big external conspiracy where nobody has any responsibility and somehow big pharma is in on it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would love if the US food industry was regulated more like in Europe and we had less processed crap in the stores and more focus on fresh foods.

But I'd also love if American culture didn't expect people to work so much so it would be easier to prepare healthy meals at home without relying on processed foods for convenience because people are so pressed for time.

I'd also love if schools took the quesiton of healthy eating seriously and stopped offering absolute garbage to kids on a daily basis. Not even talking about school lunches (but yes those are bad) but just all the candy and junk food schools often hand out all the time because it's easy and convenient.

And finally I'd love it if we could adopt a healthcare system that focused more on preventative care including healthy eating rather than just waiting for people to develop horrible illnesses as a result of their garbage diets and then spending billions trying to mitigate the consequences.

Yes +10000
It is the number one culprit that is making it harder for parents to instill good eating habits at home.

Agree school lunches should be far healthier and schools can do more; but schools are hardly the thing making it harder for parents. Parents don't instill the good nutrition at home because
1. healthy food costs more
2. parents don't want to deal with kids not eating and/or constantly complaining about the healthy food and being told "no" to the bad food
3. "convenience" foods are (oftentimes, and "seemingly" when you don't know how or aren't in the habit of cooking from scratch) far easier and faster
4. inundation of marketing - to children! - and prevalence of processed foods in stores along with a lack in good quality produce in many stores ...and farmers' markets take more time and cost even more
5. they don't practice good nutrition and cooking habits themselves - whether they never learned or just feel they don't have the time

The biggest problem isn't schools - it's the dominating prevalence of bad options and the unhealthy crap continuing to be allowed in this country.

Everything is expensive now. The problem is the humans and in this case the parents. Not the businesses marketing the garbage people want to eat because it’s ultra palatable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

How will you explain our food supply problems when our US fed olympians dominate the gold count this summer? And, a huge percentage of those athletes are amateurs cranking through on their own well before they get sucked into games prep by our Olympic program. Where do you think they get their food? Some super secret store in Omaha Nebraska?

The dumb things people come up with to explain away their own laziness is amazing. Eat real food. There is plenty of it in the US. And particularly here in the DC area.

1. The Olympics haven’t started yet and Russia was banned.
2. Athletes are not example of great health. They push themselves to extreme for a short period of time and retire with a lot of health issues. They take steroids, supplements, etc.
3.

Long term athletes, like Jokovic, for example, really care about what they eat. He is on a strict gluten free, dairy free diet. He wrote in his book about it “Serve to Win”.

Phelbs gained 30lb after retirement and he talks about how he had to clean up his diet.

Serena Williams gained weight as soon as she was off the court for a surgery and immediately dropped in her rankings. Her weight has been going up and down significantly. Look at her now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I trust any food I buy in US. I don’t trust any restaurant, anything I buy in the store. Maybe farmers’ market and it’s a big maybe.

Even when I buy a wild salmon filet from Costco, I wonder it has been drenched in something chemical or if the plastic packaging leaks endocrine disrupting chemicals into the food.

How will you explain our food supply problems when our US fed olympians dominate the gold count this summer? And, a huge percentage of those athletes are amateurs cranking through on their own well before they get sucked into games prep by our Olympic program. Where do you think they get their food? Some super secret store in Omaha Nebraska?

The dumb things people come up with to explain away their own laziness is amazing. Eat real food. There is plenty of it in the US. And particularly here in the DC area.

I guarantee you Olympic trainees are eating far better than the average American. Even before they're headed to the Olympics.
Did you ever consider that those who generally eat and exercise better are more inclined to become Olympic athletes?

Jesus. You are making the same point.

Anybody can eat well in the US. Did you even read the idiocy of the post I quoted? I will help you with this delicious quote of stupidity: “Even when I buy a wild salmon filet from Costco, I wonder it has been drenched in something chemical or if the plastic packaging leaks endocrine disrupting chemicals into the food.”

The premise of all these threads is the US food system is so broken it’s impossible. That of course is nonsense. Including that we have a huge Olympic team that gets along buying their own food, training themselves, and many times working full time jobs. Just like all of the rest of us.

The issue is people don’t want to eat well. Even wealthy people. Because it requires not eating garbage that they want. That’s why it’s there. There is a market for it. Instead of recognizing that, it’s all one big external conspiracy where nobody has any responsibility and somehow big pharma is in on it.

Poor people can’t “eat better”, it’s too expensive

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I trust any food I buy in US. I don’t trust any restaurant, anything I buy in the store. Maybe farmers’ market and it’s a big maybe.

Even when I buy a wild salmon filet from Costco, I wonder it has been drenched in something chemical or if the plastic packaging leaks endocrine disrupting chemicals into the food.

How will you explain our food supply problems when our US fed olympians dominate the gold count this summer? And, a huge percentage of those athletes are amateurs cranking through on their own well before they get sucked into games prep by our Olympic program. Where do you think they get their food? Some super secret store in Omaha Nebraska?

The dumb things people come up with to explain away their own laziness is amazing. Eat real food. There is plenty of it in the US. And particularly here in the DC area.

I guarantee you Olympic trainees are eating far better than the average American. Even before they're headed to the Olympics.
Did you ever consider that those who generally eat and exercise better are more inclined to become Olympic athletes?

Jesus. You are making the same point.

Anybody can eat well in the US. Did you even read the idiocy of the post I quoted? I will help you with this delicious quote of stupidity: “Even when I buy a wild salmon filet from Costco, I wonder it has been drenched in something chemical or if the plastic packaging leaks endocrine disrupting chemicals into the food.”

The premise of all these threads is the US food system is so broken it’s impossible. That of course is nonsense. Including that we have a huge Olympic team that gets along buying their own food, training themselves, and many times working full time jobs. Just like all of the rest of us.

The issue is people don’t want to eat well. Even wealthy people. Because it requires not eating garbage that they want. That’s why it’s there. There is a market for it. Instead of recognizing that, it’s all one big external conspiracy where nobody has any responsibility and somehow big pharma is in on it.

Poor people can’t “eat better”, it’s too expensive

We can debate that. And I have actually done work in that area and my wife works for a non profit focused almost exclusively on those issues.

How about GS-15s coming on here asking about .gov insurance paying for wegovy or ozempic after decades of poor life choices? Or the obese people of McLean and north Arlington. What’s their excuse?