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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]6 dollar bread is not obscene

It's obscene to think there's something wrong with eating healthily. [/quote]

What I wonder is why we need this "healthy" bread. Millions of Europeans buy fresh bread every morning. most of it white bread. I don't know what their internal health is, but most are not overweight, so it makes me wonder what is up with US factory bread. When I try to find a fresh loaf of bread, it is white of whole wheat at best, some sourdough. I am at loss as to 6 dollar bread, at least when it comes to weight related issues. How can a French people be generally weight ok, and they eat a lot of bread. I think there is a warped idea of what eating healthy really is. I think another difference that bread here contains sugar, yet in most of Europe it does not.[/quote]

Europeans eat smaller portions, less processed foods and get more exercise.  That's all.  It's surprising how the differences in lifestyle really add up.  Americans who are overweight generally eat HUGE portions of food and commute via car.  You don't have to give up bread to be thin.  You just can't eat and eat and eat and not move.  [/quote]

Americans are overweight because carbs are cheap, plentiful taste good and are heavily subsidized by the government (carbs are cheap). Also, our bodies are hard wired to crave them as they are essential to life and not plentiful in nature. Asians and Europeans spend a much higher percentage of their incomes on food and have much better eating habits, but sloth and gluttony, contrary to popular belief, are not the main reasons for obesity in the US.[/quote]

Keep in mind that the carbohydrates subsidized in the US are simple ones (e.g., sugar). People eat lots of carbohydrates abroad too, but eat complex ones, which are as good as food gets along with vegetables.[/quote]

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