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

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I do love a good low quality past with powered cheese.

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Anonymous wrote:I do love a good low quality past with powered cheese.

I do too. Kraft is delicious. I like homemade mac and cheese and mac and cheese with powdered cheese. It's all yummy.

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Anonymous wrote:What the heck is an “orange puff”?

Cheese puffs, I would imagine.

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Anonymous wrote:What the heck is an “orange puff”?

Cheese puffs, I would imagine.

Oh ha! I thought orange like the fruit. I was thinking my kid would probably love that.

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Anonymous wrote:Because our government is influenced by money more than people

This. Americans care about what they eat as much as anyone else in the world. But we live in a hyper capitalist state that has made very limited effort to ensure good nutrition, and does not regulate food well enough. The laws like the one you cite in Europe about Subway's bread simply do not exist here.

It's a system where corporations are given carte blanche to market and sell cheap junk food to Americans, sometimes with the government's assistance, as is the case with many of the contracts food companies have with schools in this country. Then Americans develop diseases and disorders thanks to this poor nutrition, and our privatized medical system fails to serve them, often refusing to pay for preventative treatments (like nutritionists!) that could keep the problems from getting worse. Then the pharmaceutical companies swoop in with drugs to treat high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and the medical insurance companies WILL pay for those treatments.

It's a system where the average American is miserable but the average shareholder is rich. It's going great.

Doesn’t matter. Call a subway sandwich here a donut sandwich and people won’t care and will eat at same rate

But some would stop. And then some other places would pop up that actually start selling bread sandwiches. Capitalism at work. But government has to step in and redefine terms (and I'm not really a fan of big government)

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Anonymous wrote:What the heck is an “orange puff”?

Cheese puffs, I would imagine.

For toddlers/kids? Goldfish are ubiquitous but cheese puffs aren't.

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Anonymous wrote:Um…you’re pretty judgmental for someone who is pre-diabetic because of their own crappy American diet.

This.

Lol this is actually pretty funny.

This might turn out to be my favorite thread! In all seriousness, most of us (i.e the approximately 2/3rds you mentioned) learn proper nutrition from a young age and make healthy choices. Why didn't you, OP? I doubt anyone forced you to eat crap and not exercise.

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You’re wrong that “no one cares about this.” Do you live in the DMV area? There are very few obese people, adults or kids, in my county. People prioritize eating healthy food and providing it to their children. Certainly there are very few pre diabetics who have young kids, or young kids eating “orange puffs.”

I’m not clear on what “have you seen what our kids eat” even means. If your kids’ diet is shocking, that’s on you.

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Diabetes by race/ethnicity

The rates of diagnosed diabetes in adults by race/ethnic background are:

7.5% of non-Hispanic whites
9.2% of Asian Americans
12.5% of Hispanics
11.7% of non-Hispanic blacks
14.7% of American Indians/Alaskan Natives
The breakdown among Asian Americans:

5.6% of Chinese
10.4% of Filipinos
12.6% of Asian Indians
9.9% of other Asian Americans
The breakdown among Hispanic adults:

8.3% of Central and South Americans
6.5% of Cubans
14.4% of Mexican Americans
12.4% of Puerto Ricans

https://www.diabetes.org/resources/statistics/statistics-about-diabetes

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Anonymous wrote:You’re wrong that “no one cares about this.” Do you live in the DMV area? There are very few obese people, adults or kids, in my county. People prioritize eating healthy food and providing it to their children. Certainly there are very few pre diabetics who have young kids, or young kids eating “orange puffs.”

I’m not clear on what “have you seen what our kids eat” even means. If your kids’ diet is shocking, that’s on you.

DP. OP is right though. Go outside the DMV, either into Maryland or Virginia or to other cities all over the country, and the people are all bigger. A lot bigger. Including (especially!) the kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Um…you’re pretty judgmental for someone who is pre-diabetic because of their own crappy American diet.

This.

Lol this is actually pretty funny.

This might turn out to be my favorite thread! In all seriousness, most of us (i.e the approximately 2/3rds you mentioned) learn proper nutrition from a young age and make healthy choices. Why didn't you, OP? I doubt anyone forced you to eat crap and not exercise.

Um yeah OP blaming “American food” for her poor choices is ridiculous. Sorry, you’re pre-diabetic and just decided now to give a f*ck. You’re in the minority, as you pointed out.

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Anonymous wrote:You’re wrong that “no one cares about this.” Do you live in the DMV area? There are very few obese people, adults or kids, in my county. People prioritize eating healthy food and providing it to their children. Certainly there are very few pre diabetics who have young kids, or young kids eating “orange puffs.”

I’m not clear on what “have you seen what our kids eat” even means. If your kids’ diet is shocking, that’s on you.

DP. OP is right though. Go outside the DMV, either into Maryland or Virginia or to other cities all over the country, and the people are all bigger. A lot bigger. Including (especially!) the kids.

I remember going to a fudruckers in suburban Maryland and they had burger sizes that they didn’t serve in the city (when there was one here). You could get a literal pound burger, a pound of cheese fries and a freakin gallon of coke. How far gone must you be that you don’t feel like dying after eating that? American culture is sick. The vast majority of adults are overweight and kids won’t be far behind. Wake up.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Um…you’re pretty judgmental for someone who is pre-diabetic because of their own crappy American diet.

This.

Lol this is actually pretty funny.

This might turn out to be my favorite thread! In all seriousness, most of us (i.e the approximately 2/3rds you mentioned) learn proper nutrition from a young age and make healthy choices. Why didn't you, OP? I doubt anyone forced you to eat crap and not exercise.

Um yeah OP blaming “American food” for her poor choices is ridiculous. Sorry, you’re pre-diabetic and just decided now to give a f*ck. You’re in the minority, as you pointed out.

OP isn't in the minority at all. Over 40% of American (42% of adults and 19% of children) are obese and over 70% of Americans are overweight/obese. It's true that not all obese people are diabetic but it doesn't mean that they won't become diabetic in the future.

We clearly, as a country, don't give a f*** about what/how much we eat.

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Anonymous wrote:Um…you’re pretty judgmental for someone who is pre-diabetic because of their own crappy American diet.

Yeah, you can blame it on people and say it’s their fault for making poor choices. But what choices do they have? If at every step you are being targeted by marketing that sells you junk, when 90% around you is junk food. What choices do our kids have growing up in this culture? Why is the system not being held accountable for this?

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Anonymous wrote:Almost nothing you said is true. Subway bread is bread. Taco Bell meat is meat.

Only in America. In Europe this is not considered bread and meat.