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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Perhaps it’s “ingredients “ like this:

“More than 80% of urine samples drawn from children and adults in a US health study contained a weedkilling chemical linked to cancer, a finding scientists have called “disturbing” and “concerning”.

The report by a unit of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that out of 2,310 urine samples, taken from a group of Americans intended to be representative of the US population, 1,885 were laced with detectable traces of glyphosate. This is the active ingredient in herbicides sold around the world, including the widely used Roundup brand. Almost a third of the participants were children ranging from six to 18.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/09/weedkiller-glyphosate-cdc-study-urine-samples

And this is just one study of one ingredient. Hormones, medications, fertilizers, pollution, different varieties of food sources — all might play some part in what could be significant differences between US and EU foodstuffs, in addition to other lifestyle variables.

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Exactly correct.[/quote]

This is really depressing. [/quote]
Half depressing, half relief. As some of the PPs demonstrate, some people really want to blame fat people for being fat, but if the behaviors are the same around the world and across the country and it’s that the foods are different from place to place and perhaps there’s a genetic sensitivity to the effects of some combination of foods, ingredients (like the kind that aren’t required to be listed on the label as in the famous orange juice example), chemicals used to grow the food, etc and not everyone has that sensitivity…

I was just driving in a rural farming area recently and I’m old enough that I remember when it wasn’t mile after mile of corn and soy monoculture. I saw multiple tractors spraying something that smelled like lawn chemical and one helicopter. This isn’t food. “Make better choices!” We have the illusion of choice given corporate ownership of brands that appear independent and for anyone below a certain income level, they really have no choices at all. Our entire food supply sucks and is damaging the earth. [/quote]

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