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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband's family cooks all their meals, eat healthy and mostly organic.  They are all fat because they LOVE food and eat too much.  I know quite a few SAHMs with fat children as well.  It's a combination of bigger portion sizes, processed foods, and constant eating and snacking. [b] In this country, every event or activity is an occasion to EAT.  Soccer games -- you have to bring a snack.  Movies, baseball games, sporting events, you eat.  [/b]Every single holiday is an excuse to buy bags of candy and gorge.  Food, especially bad food, is cheap and always available.  In our home (with two working parents), we cook our meals from scratch, eschew processed food, and get lots of exercise, and it's still difficult not to eat crap -- it's everywhere you go.[/quote]

An immigrant from Eastern Europe here. This totally strikes a chord. Why people eat in cinemas and baseball games? Native-born ab2011$Americans behave like they are going to die if they don't eat for 4-5 hours.

When I was in graduate school, we would often get an email about some free food event. In fact, almost every academic event (lectures, student meetings..) was marketed as a place where you get "free food". In most cases, food was total crap (and I say that as someone who likes McDonald's!). Yet tenured professors were running through hallways to get a bite. Unbelievable. [/quote]

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