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

[Anonymous]

"1 in 10 Americans has diabetes and 1 in 3 is pre-diabetic"

So, 9 in 10 and 2 in 3 are NOT and yet you generalize your post to all "Americans" because it happened to you?

[Anonymous]

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Look, OP, you are obviously right, but you will never convince the "git yer hands off my guns and my junk food" crowd here.

+100

I’m not sure half of them have eaten real food in other countries and know what real food feels like.
They think Disney has healthy food for God’s sake.

You understand that the people you’re calling “junk food addicts” are the ones who are advocating for personal accountability, and who are the ones in this thread who are able to keep their weight in check by eating healthy food?

And the OP of this thread is the one who is pre-diabetic because she is unable to make healthy choices for herself, and those agreeing with her are essentially arguing that junk food is impossible for people to resist so the government needs to step in and make those dietary choices for them?

So it doesn’t really track when you equate the people who are seemingly the only ones here who eat healthy foods and take care of themselves to be saying “git yer hands off my junk food”.

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I eat healthy foods and am fit, and I agree that the PPs (maybe you too) are addicts with a "git yer hands off my junk food" mentality. The idea that you can get high quality, healthy food at Disney is laughable. I think you've just never even tasted good food and believe the tasteless cardboard you eat is "healthy."

You have no idea what people posting here eat, dumbass. You’re making it up out of whole cloth.

[Anonymous]

Well, you can get an apple and carrots at disney, so it’s certainly possible to eat healthy food at disney. Most people don’t though.

I think part of the debate about calories versus food quality relates to what people consider overweight. If you are eating quality food made with fresh ingredients, it is hard to become truly obese—like the kind of obese you see where people have trouble fitting in chairs or walking. But it is very easy to end up with an oversight BMI or to end up wearing a size 8 or 12 instead of a 0 or 2. The truly skinny Europeans are the smokers or maybe the Northern Europeans who just have very different genetics than the Slavs, Southern Italians, even the Irish. You can eat fresh Irish butter and brown bread, salmon, lamb, potatoes, veg—it’s all lovely and fresh and you will definitely put on some pounds.
I honestly don’t think we know enough about how food issues other than calories affect diabetes—-it may well be that there is a difference between weight you out on with fresh food and weight you put on with processed food for purposes of diabetic risk. Recent research seems to point to gut biome as playing some role so perhaps the processed and factory farm food is worse in that regard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Look, OP, you are obviously right, but you will never convince the "git yer hands off my guns and my junk food" crowd here.

+100

I’m not sure half of them have eaten real food in other countries and know what real food feels like.
They think Disney has healthy food for God’s sake.

You understand that the people you’re calling “junk food addicts” are the ones who are advocating for personal accountability, and who are the ones in this thread who are able to keep their weight in check by eating healthy food?

And the OP of this thread is the one who is pre-diabetic because she is unable to make healthy choices for herself, and those agreeing with her are essentially arguing that junk food is impossible for people to resist so the government needs to step in and make those dietary choices for them?

So it doesn’t really track when you equate the people who are seemingly the only ones here who eat healthy foods and take care of themselves to be saying “git yer hands off my junk food”.

-1

I eat healthy foods and am fit, and I agree that the PPs (maybe you too) are addicts with a "git yer hands off my junk food" mentality. The idea that you can get high quality, healthy food at Disney is laughable. I think you've just never even tasted good food and believe the tasteless cardboard you eat is "healthy."

I didn’t post the Disney thing, so you can pack that one away.

And I have a hard time believing that you are a healthy eater given how hard you’re coming in on OP’s side with the whole “adults are not capable of not eating trashy junk food because America”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Look, OP, you are obviously right, but you will never convince the "git yer hands off my guns and my junk food" crowd here.

+100

I’m not sure half of them have eaten real food in other countries and know what real food feels like.
They think Disney has healthy food for God’s sake.

You understand that the people you’re calling “junk food addicts” are the ones who are advocating for personal accountability, and who are the ones in this thread who are able to keep their weight in check by eating healthy food?

And the OP of this thread is the one who is pre-diabetic because she is unable to make healthy choices for herself, and those agreeing with her are essentially arguing that junk food is impossible for people to resist so the government needs to step in and make those dietary choices for them?

So it doesn’t really track when you equate the people who are seemingly the only ones here who eat healthy foods and take care of themselves to be saying “git yer hands off my junk food”.

-1

I eat healthy foods and am fit, and I agree that the PPs (maybe you too) are addicts with a "git yer hands off my junk food" mentality. The idea that you can get high quality, healthy food at Disney is laughable. I think you've just never even tasted good food and believe the tasteless cardboard you eat is "healthy."

Not the pp but its the tasteless cardboard food that is healthy. My coworker is 50 something and a skinny Asian woman. She only snacks on things like dried salted mushrooms seaweed snacks Ki m chi or an occasional dark chocolate. I went to this popular only frequented by Chinese restaurant and the food was horrible. So bland and no seasoning. Tasty food is addictive and fattening for a reason. You can't just have 1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"1 in 10 Americans has diabetes and 1 in 3 is pre-diabetic"

So, 9 in 10 and 2 in 3 are NOT and yet you generalize your post to all "Americans" because it happened to you?

73% of Americans are overweight. If they don’t have diabetes yet, they’re definitely working towards that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
You understand that the people you’re calling “junk food addicts” are the ones who are advocating for personal accountability, and who are the ones in this thread who are able to keep their weight in check by eating healthy food?

And the OP of this thread is the one who is pre-diabetic because she is unable to make healthy choices for herself, and those agreeing with her are essentially arguing that junk food is impossible for people to resist so the government needs to step in and make those dietary choices for them?

So it doesn’t really track when you equate the people who are seemingly the only ones here who eat healthy foods and take care of themselves to be saying “git yer hands off my junk food”.

Am I the one, really? Reality check.

This forum is full of posts “how to lose weight”.
Also, it’s someone else calling you addicts. But it does sound like you are. Step one is to admit there is a problem. Which you have not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
You understand that the people you’re calling “junk food addicts” are the ones who are advocating for personal accountability, and who are the ones in this thread who are able to keep their weight in check by eating healthy food?

And the OP of this thread is the one who is pre-diabetic because she is unable to make healthy choices for herself, and those agreeing with her are essentially arguing that junk food is impossible for people to resist so the government needs to step in and make those dietary choices for them?

So it doesn’t really track when you equate the people who are seemingly the only ones here who eat healthy foods and take care of themselves to be saying “git yer hands off my junk food”.

Am I the one, really? Reality check.

This forum is full of posts “how to lose weight”.
Also, it’s someone else calling you addicts. But it does sound like you are. Step one is to admit there is a problem. Which you have not.

Lol. Okay, OP.

I’ll be over here with my healthy homecooked dinner while you wait for the government to swoop in and knock that third chalupa out of your hand and magically make you thin and healthy again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"1 in 10 Americans has diabetes and 1 in 3 is pre-diabetic"

So, 9 in 10 and 2 in 3 are NOT and yet you generalize your post to all "Americans" because it happened to you?

73% of Americans are overweight. If they don’t have diabetes yet, they’re definitely working towards that.

+1

So much cognitive dissonance on this thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
You understand that the people you’re calling “junk food addicts” are the ones who are advocating for personal accountability, and who are the ones in this thread who are able to keep their weight in check by eating healthy food?

And the OP of this thread is the one who is pre-diabetic because she is unable to make healthy choices for herself, and those agreeing with her are essentially arguing that junk food is impossible for people to resist so the government needs to step in and make those dietary choices for them?

So it doesn’t really track when you equate the people who are seemingly the only ones here who eat healthy foods and take care of themselves to be saying “git yer hands off my junk food”.

Am I the one, really? Reality check.

This forum is full of posts “how to lose weight”.
Also, it’s someone else calling you addicts. But it does sound like you are. Step one is to admit there is a problem. Which you have not.

Lol. Okay, OP.

I’ll be over here with my healthy homecooked dinner while you wait for the government to swoop in and knock that third chalupa out of your hand and magically make you thin and healthy again.

Omg third chalupa. I’m dying! Thanks PP. Funny sh!t!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
DP. Calories are calories. The end. I can choose to have a sliver of cheese or a huge bowl of cauliflower. I can choose to have a regular Mexican taco or to add 500 calories in cheese to it. Are you imagining somehow that I might eat more calories in a day than I burn but if it was broccoli I will not gain weight and if it is a hamburger I will gain weight? That is simply untrue.

Yes, it is. Your ignorance is surprising. Calories are not equal. Calories from a salad will not end up in your thighs the same way like Big Mac calories. Why are Italians not fat like Americans? They eat a lot of pasta.

You are so brainwashed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"1 in 10 Americans has diabetes and 1 in 3 is pre-diabetic"

So, 9 in 10 and 2 in 3 are NOT and yet you generalize your post to all "Americans" because it happened to you?

73% of Americans are overweight. If they don’t have diabetes yet, they’re definitely working towards that.

+1

So much cognitive dissonance on this thread

Yeah, I give up on them. Go back to your twinkies and think you are “free”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
DP. Calories are calories. The end. I can choose to have a sliver of cheese or a huge bowl of cauliflower. I can choose to have a regular Mexican taco or to add 500 calories in cheese to it. Are you imagining somehow that I might eat more calories in a day than I burn but if it was broccoli I will not gain weight and if it is a hamburger I will gain weight? That is simply untrue.

Yes, it is. Your ignorance is surprising. Calories are not equal. Calories from a salad will not end up in your thighs the same way like Big Mac calories. Why are Italians not fat like Americans? They eat a lot of pasta.

You are so brainwashed.

Yes, 1000 calories from salad will up on your thighs just like 1000 Big Mac calories. Sorry to break it to you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
DP. Calories are calories. The end. I can choose to have a sliver of cheese or a huge bowl of cauliflower. I can choose to have a regular Mexican taco or to add 500 calories in cheese to it. Are you imagining somehow that I might eat more calories in a day than I burn but if it was broccoli I will not gain weight and if it is a hamburger I will gain weight? That is simply untrue.

Yes, it is. Your ignorance is surprising. Calories are not equal. Calories from a salad will not end up in your thighs the same way like Big Mac calories. Why are Italians not fat like Americans? They eat a lot of pasta.

You are so brainwashed.

LOL! Calories are calories, the end. You are actually arguing that calories are not calories???
And I am the ignorant one?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Sounds like your kid wanted a Frappuccino, which is basically a milkshake. You can easily order plain coffee or an americano in Starbucks with no sweetener. Did you really not know that sugary drinks have a lot of sugar?

Why would a person think a coffee drink = sugary drink. Only in America. Kids don’t know this. They also think chocolate milk at schools is healthy. The sugar, additives, preservatives get concealed in food and drinks in America.

You are the parent. It is your job to teach your children how to eat. Perhaps this is the real root of the issue?