Why don’t Americans give a f*** about what they eat?
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Anonymous
So you get plain yogurt. Flavored yogurt is...flavored. What is the issue? Don’t get it if you don’t want it. Look at the label. Some people eat yogurt as dessert, some a snack, some a condiment, some an ingredient for a recipe, some as a main part of breakfast. There are different yogurts with varying amount of sugar added or no sugar added to meet everyone’s wants and needs. The food industry isn’t tricking you |
Anonymous
I do look at the label, so I don’t buy it. But I guarantee you that most people think of yogurt as a breakfast food, not dessert, even though it has the sugar content of the latter. |
Anonymous
Salsa is super easy and quick to make. Chop up a couple tomatoes, an onion, cilantro (unless you hate it), squeeze some lime, a little salt and pepper. Takes less than 5 minutes. It will be tastier, healthier, more environmentally friendly, and cheaper than buying a jar of salsa. |
Anonymous
I only choose plain yogurt. I flavor it myself with these things called berries, which are a type of fruit. You can find them in the produce section. I imagine some obesity apologist will be here shortly to tell me that fruit has too much sugar and is actually bad for me, or it's difficult for people to find, or it's of bad quality in their opinion so they don't consider it actual food. |
Anonymous
Thanks for sharing the results of your surveys. |
Anonymous
No, it’s not just pizza. It’s little things. It’s how they hide 20g of sugar in a yogurt and 50g in coffee, how sugar has ten different names on ingredient label and you may not know them, how you have to be a god damn expert at reading labels to know the food additives and coloring to avoid. Why do we have to teach children to decipher ingredients labels? Why can’t we have food standards? |
Anonymous
You don't need to be an expert to know that you shouldn't eat yogurt with 20g of sugar. |
Anonymous
I’m not at all blind to the benefits of walking. I go for long walks every day at home in Washington, plus I exercise intensely 4-5 times per week. I’m absolutely moving less in France, eating whatever I want and losing weight. And, this always happens when I come visit family in Europe. There is absolutely a difference in the quality of our food in the US. |
Anonymous
Oh and by the way I’m a thin guy. I’m not making excuses for being overweight because I’m not overweight. I’m just sharing an observation that our food supply in the US is crap. |
Anonymous
Believe it or not, kids don’t know that. |
Anonymous
Americans on this thread can’t imagine that you can eat whatever you want and maintain healthy weight just because if the quality of food. Nooo, it’s not American way. We should be at war with food and log calories, count grams of sugar, know all fifty names for it on ingredient label and exercise five times a week. |
Anonymous
Yes exactly. I see parallels to American parenting philosophies too - eg it has to be hard and painful in order to do it correctly, and you should derive moral superiority from your suffering |
Anonymous
“They hide 20g of sugar” Are you this passive in real life? Eating whatever “they” sell you? Read the labels. It’s all right there. Buy the yogurt without any added sugar. It says “plain”. I buy the full fat plain yogurt and add real fruit to it (fresh or frozen). It doesn’t take a genius to read a food label. There are standards in labeling. It’s required and has all you need to know to make an informed decision. That list of food you rattled off, I don’t even need to read the label to know it’s not healthy, but if you didn’t know, the label would tell you how much crap is in there. Would you buy a car or appliance without doing independent research or would you trust the Super Bowl ads wholeheartedly? |
Anonymous
Did you know there are 61 names for sugar that go on ingredient label? 1. Label says “Made with Whole Grains” Implies: 100% of grains used are whole. Really means: Recipe often includes only a “pinch” of whole grains, added to many more refined ones. “Made with whole grains” is technically true, but only in a legalistic sense! 2. Label says “Multi-Grain” Implies: More healthful with whole grains. Often means: Many refined grains. 3. Label says “No Cholesterol” Implies: More desirable because it is a special formulation without cholesterol. Often means: The food never contained cholesterol in the first place; for example, “no-cholesterol peanut butter.” Cholesterol is only found in animal products. Plant-derived food never has cholesterol. 4. Label says “Natural” Implies: No man-made ingredients, organic, non-GMO. Often means: Nothing at all. “Natural” is not a claim verified by any oversight body. 5. Label: Sugary junk food does not list sugar as the first ingredient Implies: Sugar content is not very high. Often means: Food contains many forms of sugar, none of which are in high enough amounts to require it to be listed first on the food label. But cumulatively, the combination of many forms of sugar can still add up to little more than a processed form of rock candy. Various names for sugar include: Corn syrup solids, crystal dextrose, evaporated cane juice, fructose sweetener, fruit juice concentrates, malt syrup, maple syrup, molasses, concentrated fruit juice, hexitol, inversol, isomalt, maltodextrin, malted barley, nectars, pentose, raisin syrup and, well…you get the picture! |
Anonymous
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Imagine a world where you would not have to count calories, grams of sugar, exercise to burn it off.
Imagine, you could just eat quality food and not gain weight. That’s how a lot of people live in Europe . But no, you keep clinging to your crap and keep saying that if only you eat a little bit of it, it’ll be OK. You just need to count how much crap you consume. |