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[quote=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.  [/quote]

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