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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]It’s so stupid to think you are free while you have to go through trouble of hunting down healthy foods on sale and spending compounded hours cooking so your kid doesn’t eat junk every day at school and educating people how they should not eat outside their house.

No one does this in France. [/b]No one goes around saying “Larla, you lazy slob,  shouldn’t eat in a cafe because you’re sacrificing quality for convenience” because the food in a cafe is going to be healthy.  No one thinks of sending kids lunches to school because their lunches are well balanced and healthy.  See how easy it is to live like that?

The government is us. We decide how we want to live as a country.  We set the standards.
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1.  Nobody said anything about "spending compounded hours cooking so your kid doesn't eat junk every day at school."  Why would you do that?  It is quite possible to quickly prepare healthy school lunches.

2. You claimed that "no one does this in France."  Yes, they do.  I live a few hours from the French border and (in non-Covid times) we regularly spend time there shopping or on holiday.  There are plenty of chubby people in France and there is plenty of easily available junk food in France.  People there are getting fatter.  You probably like to read those stupid self-help books claiming to help you eat or dress like a French person, right?  What you imagine to be the way all French people live is in truth mainly a Parisian phenomenon.  And that's wealthy and middle class Parisians, not the many people who live in the poorest arrondissements and ghettos of Paris.[/quote]

DP. It is statistically true that the percentage of obesity in France is much lower. [b]It is also true that poorer people in particular in France are getting fatter, but that supports OPs point more than yours. [/b][/quote]

No, it doesn't.  People in France are getting fatter because they are now flooded with easy, cheap junk food.  They were slimmer before this phenomenon, because they did what was easiest then and ate what was available; they were not making specific, calculated choices to be healthy.  Now that easy junk food is an option, people need to learn what making those choices means to their health.

OP herself may have been from a country that didn't have easily available, cheap junk food.  She may have been healthier, but not because she ever thought about food choices, but because what was available to her just happened to be be healthy. When she came to the US, she was suddenly surrounded by easy, cheap junk food, and since she wasn't educated about nutrition and food choices, she made the wrong choices.  The obvious solution is to educate people about how to find and prepare inexpensive, healthy food.  [/quote]

And I still don't believe OP is from another country at all.  She's a poorly educated person making up lies to justify the poor personal choices she makes but does not understand.  I've asked her several times to name the country and she won't do this.[/quote]

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