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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm European and eat chocolate or ice cream every day. So does my very skinny kid. My toddler doesn't eat any desserts but I'm not freaking out over a few grams of sugar in a hot dog bun.

You think the French with their butter and smoking are making better choices? Or the Germans with their processed sausages and copious amounts of beer? Or the Brits (I'm not even going there as far as alcoholism goes).

Over to Asia, white rice is metabolized basically the same way as sugar, and while I know many an auntie who swears by the health properties of ghee, I hate to burst their bubble...

Americans are fat because they don't move. It's not because their food is that much worse.

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You are oversimplifying it, but it is not at all that simple. When you eat chocolate you know there is sugar in it, so you don't eat a kilo at one sitting. You also did not grow up with food commercials left and right for decades. I am from former Yugoslavia and the amount of sugar in our processed foods is well, is not even close to here. Teriyaki sauce? Sugar. BBQ sauce? Sugar. Ketchup? Sugar. Salad dressing? Sugar. Plus there is a lot of history there about how the government subsidized big Agra and paid small farmers to stop producing as much healthier produce and meat and dairy. Watch for yourself, it is too long for me to write about history.
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