It's all about knowledge. can i say that if the parents have no idea what they're eating, the kids will have no respect for healthy foods? I have met so many people that have never had a salad in the past year, let alone a green vegetable. it's insane. And our portions are HUGE! most entrees are bigger than your face, it's ridiculous how much food restaurants are sending out.
there's a commercial that shows kids complaining about food they don't like, "peas, no way." "green beans, yuck." "broccolli, gross." then all of a sudden it shows a frozen meal of chicken nuggets and mashed potatoes. YES, BECAUSE CHICKEN NUGGETS ARE VEGETABLES AND POTATOES ARE ACTUALLY HEALTHY FOR YOU -__- no no no that is not how this works.
huge portions + smart advertising to the ignorant = obesity
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Thought this would be of interest:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/...ng-us-fat?
Quote:The story begins in 1971. Richard Nixon was facing re-election. The Vietnam war was threatening his popularity at home, but just as big an issue with voters was the soaring cost of food. If Nixon was to survive, he needed food prices to go down, and that required getting a very powerful lobby on board – the farmers. Nixon appointed Earl Butz, an academic from the farming heartland of Indiana, to broker a compromise. Butz, an agriculture expert, had a radical plan that would transform the food we eat, and in doing so, the shape of the human race.
Butz pushed farmers into a new, industrial scale of production, and into farming one crop in particular: corn. US cattle were fattened by the immense increases in corn production. Burgers became bigger. Fries, fried in corn oil, became fattier. Corn became the engine for the massive surge in the quantities of cheaper food being supplied to American supermarkets: everything from cereals, to biscuits and flour found new uses for corn. As a result of Butz's free-market reforms, American farmers, almost overnight, went from parochial small-holders to multimillionaire businessmen with a global market. One Indiana farmer believes that America could have won the cold war by simply starving the Russians of corn. But instead they chose to make money.
By the mid-70s, there was a surplus of corn. Butz flew to Japan to look into a scientific innovation that would change everything: the mass development of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), or glucose-fructose syrup as it's often referred to in the UK, a highly sweet, gloppy syrup, produced from surplus corn, that was also incredibly cheap. HFCS had been discovered in the 50s, but it was only in the 70s that a process had been found to harness it for mass production. HFCS was soon pumped into every conceivable food: pizzas, coleslaw, meat. It provided that "just baked" sheen on bread and cakes, made everything sweeter, and extended shelf life from days to years. A silent revolution of the amount of sugar that was going into our bodies was taking place. In Britain, the food on our plates became pure science – each processed milligram tweaked and sweetened for maximum palatability. And the general public were clueless that these changes were taking place.
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I'll admit that I still can't eat salads. There's something about the 'all vegetables' thing that really gets to me. And I can't eat chicken due to a texture issue, so I can't get chicken salad, and I've never heard of a beef salad (I've heard of STEAK salad, but I'm not much for thick meat... hehehehe...) Anyone have any recommendations on that? I like Italian dressing and can do ranch, but the mass of vegetable thing gets to me (I can EAT them, I just can't seem to eat them in THAT form.)
I do, however, love vegetables in soups, and I've grown to love broccoli when it's steamed.
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some countries escape this; mostly japan but france too
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I'd have to agree with some of you with schools having a bit of the blame. After I graduated from high school and started college/got a part time job, I lost 15 lbs without doing any exercising (outside of anything I did at work) and only one change to my diet.
I stopped eating school lunches. I swear I have never seen anything so unhealthy. My school had a changing food schedule, so on Mondays you could get a salad, or a burrito, or a slice of pizza. It went on through the week, but every day they served pizza. Peperoni and a changing flavor.
The pizza was good-sized, i think they made it at one foot long and cut it into 6 slices. But as the helpful poster hidden behind the counter, with very small print, showed: One slice Peperoni Pizza: 1350* calories.
The asterisk led to a note that said: approximate value. Since the cafeteria workers made it themselves from per-packaged ingredients it could be (and thus probably was) even more unhealthy, More than half the suggested daily intake of a healthy person in one slice of pizza. Who's good idea was that?
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Deryn Wrote:One slice Peperoni Pizza: 1350* calories.
:eek:
I don't think even Pizza Hut/Dominos pizza is THAT fattening for one slice. Holy... just... wow. That's absolutely horrendous.
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Pix Wrote:Thought this would be of interest:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/...ng-us-fat?
Yes....not just weight gain....practically everyone got one of the big three in the 10 years that followed: Depression, Bi Polar and ADD. I have been convinced from the time it happened that it was the crap they were processing in our food. I get why they did it...trying to feed billions of people more efficiently and to maximize profits (greed fuels just about everything)...but when you introduce these chemicals into our bodies and brains there is gonna be repercussions...there always are.
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firstly i must say that in my little story that people in it may not be all american familys!!! we had a family holiday in florida and at disney i commented that isnt it wonderfull how they have catered for the disabled by providing motorized buggies as i saw many familys i.e. mum dad and one to 3 kids usaully all in a line driving them around the disney resort a bit like a family of ducks - my brother in law pointed out it was for the over weight americans who will not or cannot walk around - then i noticed the huge amounts of people in them, all very obese, even the children - i was taken aback by this, plus - even though ot was 100 degrees they were pulling up to kiosks and buying huge cooked turkey legs - i swear we dont have turkeys that big in the uk,, they were red hot and the people were sweating buckets but still ate tons......as i say though - i cannot say these familys were all american at all
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matty7 Wrote:firstly i must say that in my little story that people in it may not be all american familys!!! we had a family holiday in florida and at disney i commented that isnt it wonderfull how they have catered for the disabled by providing motorized buggies as i saw many familys i.e. mum dad and one to 3 kids usaully all in a line driving them around the disney resort a bit like a family of ducks - my brother in law pointed out it was for the over weight americans who will not or cannot walk around - then i noticed the huge amounts of people in them, all very obese, even the children - i was taken aback by this, plus - even though ot was 100 degrees they were pulling up to kiosks and buying huge cooked turkey legs - i swear we dont have turkeys that big in the uk,, they were red hot and the people were sweating buckets but still ate tons......as i say though - i cannot say these familys were all american at all
*sigh* I'll say it then... They were all American.
I'm sure they were so American that they sweat red, white and blue. And I don't mean that they're really patriotic. I mean that they were probably so unhealthy that they literally sweat red white and blue.
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According to a radio news report we are becoming too fat for our planet and the UK isnt the innocent party with a whopping 1% of the worlds fat population living in the UK. Maybe before we start on america we should look at ourselves and let americans worry about themselves...
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Why Americans are so Obese
