What in US food supply causes weight gain and inflammation?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sugar is a stimulant and very addictive, even more addictive than cocaine. Sugar is in everything and fake sugar or worse. Europeans eat more animal fat and protein than Americans and are metabolically better for it.

Cut out processed foods, sugar etc. Eat meat, fat and limited amounts of whole fruits/veggies. You will be better off.

They eat plenty of bread too. Not sugar, but they by no means are living the low carb lifestyle

Yeah this doesn’t track for me. My family in Italy eats rusks or cookies for breakfast with cappuccino. Crostini, sandwiches, potatoes frittata, focaccia, Bruschetta, pasta, pizza all very commonly seen at lunch and dinner. Young people are thin, older people are often a bit fat.

The Italian breakfast pastries are small as is the cappuccino. You would have to grab 5-6 cookies and pastries plus 5-6 cappuccinos to equal what you get here in the coffee shop. The portions above are much smaller and they aren’t being served with fries and a bucket of coke.

Young people are thinner because it’s completely unacceptable to be a fat young person. They’ll skip meals and cut portion sizes if they start gaining.

This. It isn’t really what they are eating. It is how much. Plus yes, they are more likely to take action if they notice gain happening then to just not care. It seems like most people in the US that are overweight really don’t care

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GMOs
Corn syrup

I noticed a lot of the foods that cause me joint pain and swelling are GMO foods. Coincidence? I don’t know.

Corn is a bad one for me.

Yes coincidence (or psychosomatic)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sugar is a stimulant and very addictive, even more addictive than cocaine. Sugar is in everything and fake sugar or worse. Europeans eat more animal fat and protein than Americans and are metabolically better for it.

Cut out processed foods, sugar etc. Eat meat, fat and limited amounts of whole fruits/veggies. You will be better off.

They eat plenty of bread too. Not sugar, but they by no means are living the low carb lifestyle

Yeah this doesn’t track for me. My family in Italy eats rusks or cookies for breakfast with cappuccino. Crostini, sandwiches, potatoes frittata, focaccia, Bruschetta, pasta, pizza all very commonly seen at lunch and dinner. Young people are thin, older people are often a bit fat.

The Italian breakfast pastries are small as is the cappuccino. You would have to grab 5-6 cookies and pastries plus 5-6 cappuccinos to equal what you get here in the coffee shop. The portions above are much smaller and they aren’t being served with fries and a bucket of coke.

Young people are thinner because it’s completely unacceptable to be a fat young person. They’ll skip meals and cut portion sizes if they start gaining.

This. It isn’t really what they are eating. It is how much. Plus yes, they are more likely to take action if they notice gain happening then to just not care. It seems like most people in the US that are overweight really don’t care

Really? What are you basing that on? The comments on this site? The hundreds of diet books and diet foods, and weight loss programs of different kinds? All that makes it seem to you “like most people in the US that are overweight really don’t care?”

[Anonymous]

I haven’t read everything here but having experience with food allergies, there are a lot more sprouting in certain regions (US) versus others. Though you find things like higher percentage of lentil allergies in Spain etc. it’s got to be environmental.

[Anonymous]

You just cannot generalize based on one person's idiosyncratic experience. I live in the U.S. and am currently pretty thin (21 BMI). I have lived in Europe twice, once for six months and once for a year, and gained 15 pounds or so both times despite walking much more than in the U.S. (I attribute this to more socializing/drinking and eating more bread - European bread is much cheaper and more delicious than most American bread.) Some things are actually healthier in the U.S. than Europe, at least if you live in an area with some nutrition awareness and many shopping choices. I don't buy exclusively organic food, but I would say it is actually easier to find organic food in the U.S. than in many parts of Europe. And many Europeans eat lots of sweets and candy. Europeans as a whole are thinner than Americans, but obesity is rising sharply there too.

Almost everyone probably changes their habits and consumption patterns on vacation, and so maybe by making the comparison between home and away eating patterns, PP can learn something about what causes them in particular to gain or lose weight (like carbonated beverages causing weight gain or a gluten sensitivity). But it is completely pointless to speculate about large-scale differences between countries based on one person's weight loss.

[Anonymous]

And yet…. Europeans represent about one-tenth of the global population, yet one in four of all cancer diagnoses occur in this region.
https://canceratlas.cancer.org › europe

[Anonymous]

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And yet…. Europeans represent about one-tenth of the global population, yet one in four of all cancer diagnoses occur in this region.
https://canceratlas.cancer.org › europe

Those numbers are skewed because of how much longer Europeans live in general. Old Americans aren’t getting cancer because they are already dead.

[Anonymous]

could be hormones in our meat, our dairy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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And yet…. Europeans represent about one-tenth of the global population, yet one in four of all cancer diagnoses occur in this region.
https://canceratlas.cancer.org › europe

Those numbers are skewed because of how much longer Europeans live in general. Old Americans aren’t getting cancer because they are already dead.

True, but a study in 2016 showed only a 2.2 year difference in favor of Europe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GMOs
Corn syrup

I noticed a lot of the foods that cause me joint pain and swelling are GMO foods. Coincidence? I don’t know.

Corn is a bad one for me.

Same with me.
People are looking for scientific evidence which is not available.
Before arriving to the US, many are told to be extremely careful with food consumption in order to keep normal weight , that the food in the US is different from Europe or Canada. I know of a 24 year old professional ballerina who put on 18 lbs in a month eating the same way she ate in Eastern Europe. It was a disaster. She was put on a 1000 calorie diet until the end of her 1 year contract.
Does GMO affect everyone? Probably not. But it definitely affects many, especially those who are not used to it.

I think GMO is bad for a variety of reasons but I am not convinced that it’s the one thing that ruins our food supply.

Of course it isn’t just one thing. How about if it’s not food, just STOP calling it food.

[Anonymous]

Eat healthy foods. Mostly plants. Control portions. If you gain a few pounds, cut back until you lose them. This is how I grew up (yes, In Europe) and it's iso much easier and more sustainable than anything else I've tried.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GMOs
Corn syrup

I noticed a lot of the foods that cause me joint pain and swelling are GMO foods. Coincidence? I don’t know.

Corn is a bad one for me.

Same with me.
People are looking for scientific evidence which is not available.
Before arriving to the US, many are told to be extremely careful with food consumption in order to keep normal weight , that the food in the US is different from Europe or Canada. I know of a 24 year old professional ballerina who put on 18 lbs in a month eating the same way she ate in Eastern Europe. It was a disaster. She was put on a 1000 calorie diet until the end of her 1 year contract.
Does GMO affect everyone? Probably not. But it definitely affects many, especially those who are not used to it.

I think GMO is bad for a variety of reasons but I am not convinced that it’s the one thing that ruins our food supply.

I’ve no need to try to convince you either way, but just want to point out that “GMO” is not “one thing” — it’s hundreds, if not thousands of different things. The modifications on wheat, for example, are not the same as those on corn or salmon. So the question is not “Does GMO affect everyone?” but how do different GMOs affect different people?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

And yet…. Europeans represent about one-tenth of the global population, yet one in four of all cancer diagnoses occur in this region.
https://canceratlas.cancer.org › europe

Those numbers are skewed because of how much longer Europeans live in general. Old Americans aren’t getting cancer because they are already dead.

True, but a study in 2016 showed only a 2.2 year difference in favor of Europe.

2.2 is a huge difference statistically. That alone could explain the cancer difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:could be hormones in our meat, our dairy.

...and the massive use of antibiotics in the animals.

The antibiotics are ruining our gut flora, and increasing overall inflammation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GMOs
Corn syrup

I noticed a lot of the foods that cause me joint pain and swelling are GMO foods. Coincidence? I don’t know.

Corn is a bad one for me.

Same with me.
People are looking for scientific evidence which is not available.
Before arriving to the US, many are told to be extremely careful with food consumption in order to keep normal weight , that the food in the US is different from Europe or Canada. I know of a 24 year old professional ballerina who put on 18 lbs in a month eating the same way she ate in Eastern Europe. It was a disaster. She was put on a 1000 calorie diet until the end of her 1 year contract.
Does GMO affect everyone? Probably not. But it definitely affects many, especially those who are not used to it.

Is food really he only factor here? Did the ballerina sit in a car more in the US than in Europe? Did other aspects of her daily activities change?