Sure but if fast food was cooked in tallow like it used to be instead of industrial waste oils, and soda was sweetened with real sugar like it used to be instead of HFCS, they wouldn't be as bad. Both of these changes made the food taste worse, not better, but the newer ingredients fuck with people's endoctrine systems and make them hungrier. Which is why they stuff their faces.
Some guy lost weight eating fast food. He explained the logic behind it and, from what I recall, it's just that he kept his carbs low and calories around the daily minimum.
It's a documentary called "Fat Head" that's a rebuttal to Super Size Me. It's a lot deeper than just his experiment and he talks about how Government has been lying about what makes a healthy diet (e.g., the Food Pyramid is horrible and actually causes health problems) and a whole bunch of other stuff regarding health and diet.
Sure, it's all about calories in and calories out. But good luck getting a satisfying meal consisting of sugar, fat and cardboard. By the time you're even remotely full you'll have eaten thousands of calories too many.
All my asian girlfriends gained weight, too. I had a korean ex who would shit talk American food, then we'd go out for dinner and she'd stuff her face. And all these asian girls told me that it everyone knew when you came to America, you gain weight, and then when you go home, everyone says how fat you got.
My current GF is Japanese. Yes, everyone praises Japanese food - though normal Japanese people don't actually eat sushi much. Here in America, you can get every kind of Japanese food plus every other kind of food. My GF started out like most asians not really liking dessert. Well, she does now. Know why? because asian "dessert" is shit-tier while American dessert is god.
America pretty much has everything, especially where I live being in a big city on the west coast. (LA) The only problem is things being overpriced. It takes effort to find places that have good quality but without extortionate prices.
Also:
No, food is not "loaded with chemicals", except maybe in China
Restaurants do not use "canola oil" whatever that's supposed to mean (as if it fucking matters what form your added fat comes in), but they use shitloads of fat & salt in their cooking because it makes things taste better and that's all customers care about
I never go to fast food. Except In-N-Out which doesn't count. You've got to be pretty trashy if you go to fast food on purpose when you have any other option.
Some pedantic and technically correct annotations:
food is not "loaded with chemicals"
Water is a chemical. Sugar is a chemical. Salt is a chemical. Protein is a chemical.
Food is a heterogeneous chemical mixture.
"canola oil" whatever that's supposed to mean
Canola oil is a Canadian "invention"... The invention part being renaming "rapeseed" to "canola" because people got scared of "rape-seed" oil. I guess they thought it would grow up into rape oil? It's just a specific type of flower/fruit seed oil, like grapeseed oil or sunflower oil.
especially where I live being in a big city on the west coast. (LA)
You have my condolences. You should consider moving.
In general, Asian cuisine has strong-tasting meals, but very mild desserts. Pepper-oil-soaked spicy noodles... with three-milk-pudding for dessert, to calm the taste buds from the meal. That kind of philosophy.
It's beyond just some culinary stereotypes, though. Cola in Asia has less sweetener (be it sugar or corn syrup equivalent) than in North America or Europe, and generally speaking, the people there have a much lower tolerance for sugar, and find western things to range from "very" to "too" sweet.
Europe is generally, stereotypically speaking, the opposite. Boiled beef and mashed potatoes... With dessert of sticky toffee pudding, covered in caramel and iced cream.
America, land of the cultural melting pot, went "why not both?". American culinary norms can be summarized as "more". Not just more serving size, but more flavor. The spiciest foods in the world? American-made. The sweetest? American. Biggest servings? You betcha. American food is a brawl, a contest to punch you in the face with the most "more". It's not just some ribs, it has three sauces, each made from different smoked woods, spiced with different peppers, and sweetened with different sugars! ...And the ribs were smoked in a fourth wood. And dessert is a 7-tier fudge cake, deep-fried and covered in strawberry liquers.
dessert is not popular in most asian countries except maybe Thailand. It has started to get more popular in Japan, but not consistently. Plenty of asian people never grew up eating dessert. Or what they have for "dessert" (China) is terrible.
Because most people splurge out on a vacation, the availability and price of American food means people are likely to gain weight compared to other places.
As for internally why Americans have more obesity, I have my own theory. Because of the sheer SIZE of the country, travelling to another state can feel like vacation compared to internal travel in other countries so they fall into the same mindset of splurging.
I very clearly was referring to people who were not on vacation. The guy in the screenshot was also not referring to vacation.
Food is no less "available" anywhere else. America just does a better job of making people want to eat more of it because our capitalists are the best at slanging their wares. Food variety & quality are the best in the world here.
I'm sure the vast majority of Americans buy food at the supermarket, walmart, target & costco (trader joes & whole foods for hippies) like you'd expect everywhere.
We know this because we can see the volume of sales from these stores.
Kroger annual revenue for 2023 was $148.258B, which is 8% market share, so Americans spent ~$1,850 billion in supermarkets on food. That doesn't count lots of other places like Costco.
You are not looking at America. You're looking at a small segment of VERY ONLINE people who are young overpaid idiots using doordash all the time.
Normal people cook their own food with restaurant meals being an occasional treat.
This. I will go out to eat when I cant be bothered to make something, but that is usually once a week max, once every other week more often.
For my normal week, when I go grocery shopping, I will buy meat (usually switch it up between chicken, pork chops, or burgers), cook it on the weekend when I have plenty of free time, and then put it in the refrigerator in a container. Sometimes with extra food like potatoes that I also cooked. Then throughout the week, when I get home from work, I just get some of the meat and other sides like carrots, and that will be dinner.
It’s an easy habit to get into. Cooking takes time, planning, and effort and normal Americans work hard so they have no energy left and takeaway looks very attractive.
Many on here will disagree, and insist they cook their own food more than they actually do, but that’s really just an intentional opposite response to whatever Reddit is doing.
It's in the grain. Apparently during the depression our grains were modified to be more filling, and we've been farming with that grain ever since. I have a few relatives who had dramatic weight changes when traveling between the states and europe, without any significant diet changes.
Cut bread and noodles (pretty sure rice is fine), sugar drinks (sparkling water or watered down fruit juice goes a long way for this), and starchy foods. Eat more fruits, vegetables, and naturally fed meats (grass fed beef for instance).
Also consider skipping breakfast, or otherwise having a small breakfast. Just be sure to have meat and eggs, or toast with butter and real jam. Breakfast cereals are a scam.
US grain is pretty much the same as everywhere else. Food is traded internationally and the US does not have its own unique grain.
Cut bread and noodles (pretty sure rice is fine), sugar drinks (sparkling water or watered down fruit juice goes a long way for this), and starchy foods. Eat more fruits, vegetables, and naturally fed meats (grass fed beef for instance).
lol you literally just described the keto diet, except rice is not fine.
Sure but if fast food was cooked in tallow like it used to be instead of industrial waste oils, and soda was sweetened with real sugar like it used to be instead of HFCS, they wouldn't be as bad. Both of these changes made the food taste worse, not better, but the newer ingredients fuck with people's endoctrine systems and make them hungrier. Which is why they stuff their faces.
libtards don't believe in free will or personal responsibility
Some guy lost weight eating fast food. He explained the logic behind it and, from what I recall, it's just that he kept his carbs low and calories around the daily minimum.
It's a documentary called "Fat Head" that's a rebuttal to Super Size Me. It's a lot deeper than just his experiment and he talks about how Government has been lying about what makes a healthy diet (e.g., the Food Pyramid is horrible and actually causes health problems) and a whole bunch of other stuff regarding health and diet.
Here's the documentary for anyone interested: https://youtu.be/evcNPfZlrZs
Sure, it's all about calories in and calories out. But good luck getting a satisfying meal consisting of sugar, fat and cardboard. By the time you're even remotely full you'll have eaten thousands of calories too many.
A nutritionist also went on a diet consisting only a Twinkies & a multivitamin and still lost weight just fine.
> Complains about American food having "chemcials"
> Freely injects themselves with an experimental soup of mRNA
All my asian girlfriends gained weight, too. I had a korean ex who would shit talk American food, then we'd go out for dinner and she'd stuff her face. And all these asian girls told me that it everyone knew when you came to America, you gain weight, and then when you go home, everyone says how fat you got.
My current GF is Japanese. Yes, everyone praises Japanese food - though normal Japanese people don't actually eat sushi much. Here in America, you can get every kind of Japanese food plus every other kind of food. My GF started out like most asians not really liking dessert. Well, she does now. Know why? because asian "dessert" is shit-tier while American dessert is god.
America pretty much has everything, especially where I live being in a big city on the west coast. (LA) The only problem is things being overpriced. It takes effort to find places that have good quality but without extortionate prices.
Also:
No, food is not "loaded with chemicals", except maybe in China
Restaurants do not use "canola oil" whatever that's supposed to mean (as if it fucking matters what form your added fat comes in), but they use shitloads of fat & salt in their cooking because it makes things taste better and that's all customers care about
I never go to fast food. Except In-N-Out which doesn't count. You've got to be pretty trashy if you go to fast food on purpose when you have any other option.
So many tumblers just fell into place lol
Yeah. It makes more sense now.
Some pedantic and technically correct annotations:
Water is a chemical. Sugar is a chemical. Salt is a chemical. Protein is a chemical.
Food is a heterogeneous chemical mixture.
Canola oil is a Canadian "invention"... The invention part being renaming "rapeseed" to "canola" because people got scared of "rape-seed" oil. I guess they thought it would grow up into rape oil? It's just a specific type of flower/fruit seed oil, like grapeseed oil or sunflower oil.
You have my condolences. You should consider moving.
You know what this libtard meant by "loaded with chemicals".
Yeah, I just hate that people use terms incorrectly. Language matters.
In general, Asian cuisine has strong-tasting meals, but very mild desserts. Pepper-oil-soaked spicy noodles... with three-milk-pudding for dessert, to calm the taste buds from the meal. That kind of philosophy.
It's beyond just some culinary stereotypes, though. Cola in Asia has less sweetener (be it sugar or corn syrup equivalent) than in North America or Europe, and generally speaking, the people there have a much lower tolerance for sugar, and find western things to range from "very" to "too" sweet.
Europe is generally, stereotypically speaking, the opposite. Boiled beef and mashed potatoes... With dessert of sticky toffee pudding, covered in caramel and iced cream.
America, land of the cultural melting pot, went "why not both?". American culinary norms can be summarized as "more". Not just more serving size, but more flavor. The spiciest foods in the world? American-made. The sweetest? American. Biggest servings? You betcha. American food is a brawl, a contest to punch you in the face with the most "more". It's not just some ribs, it has three sauces, each made from different smoked woods, spiced with different peppers, and sweetened with different sugars! ...And the ribs were smoked in a fourth wood. And dessert is a 7-tier fudge cake, deep-fried and covered in strawberry liquers.
dessert is not popular in most asian countries except maybe Thailand. It has started to get more popular in Japan, but not consistently. Plenty of asian people never grew up eating dessert. Or what they have for "dessert" (China) is terrible.
With that opinion, be extremely careful going to Europe, despite everything else their deserts a evil in how good they are
Especially English sweets, I've seen Americans go like it's crack with how much of a sugar rush they get from them
Thing is you can get all that in the US. I have an extremely popular french pastry place near me, then also other types as well.
Geese don't get fatter in America than France, do they? They don't lose weight when they go back to France, do they?
All food is "high caloric" with a small number of exceptions. The vast majority of what people eat worldwide is high in carbs.
Everywhere in the developed world, "cheap food" is available relative to incomes.
I know you want to shit on the US but your arguments are trash. America simply has better food that you foreigners can't stop eating.
What an idiotic thing to say. I actually don't live within the city limits of Los Angeles anyway, just in the area.
Thanks for your dumbass comments, though.
Because most people splurge out on a vacation, the availability and price of American food means people are likely to gain weight compared to other places.
As for internally why Americans have more obesity, I have my own theory. Because of the sheer SIZE of the country, travelling to another state can feel like vacation compared to internal travel in other countries so they fall into the same mindset of splurging.
I very clearly was referring to people who were not on vacation. The guy in the screenshot was also not referring to vacation.
Food is no less "available" anywhere else. America just does a better job of making people want to eat more of it because our capitalists are the best at slanging their wares. Food variety & quality are the best in the world here.
Actual genuine question here, because I've heard different things about this.
Do "normal" Americans "normally" cook their own food?
I've had some people tell me it's all takeaway all the time, which I find difficult to believe, and some people tell me the opposite.
I'm sure the vast majority of Americans buy food at the supermarket, walmart, target & costco (trader joes & whole foods for hippies) like you'd expect everywhere.
We know this because we can see the volume of sales from these stores.
Kroger annual revenue for 2023 was $148.258B, which is 8% market share, so Americans spent ~$1,850 billion in supermarkets on food. That doesn't count lots of other places like Costco.
You are not looking at America. You're looking at a small segment of VERY ONLINE people who are young overpaid idiots using doordash all the time.
This. I will go out to eat when I cant be bothered to make something, but that is usually once a week max, once every other week more often.
For my normal week, when I go grocery shopping, I will buy meat (usually switch it up between chicken, pork chops, or burgers), cook it on the weekend when I have plenty of free time, and then put it in the refrigerator in a container. Sometimes with extra food like potatoes that I also cooked. Then throughout the week, when I get home from work, I just get some of the meat and other sides like carrots, and that will be dinner.
It’s an easy habit to get into. Cooking takes time, planning, and effort and normal Americans work hard so they have no energy left and takeaway looks very attractive.
Many on here will disagree, and insist they cook their own food more than they actually do, but that’s really just an intentional opposite response to whatever Reddit is doing.
No one is forcing goyfeed on you.
It's in the grain. Apparently during the depression our grains were modified to be more filling, and we've been farming with that grain ever since. I have a few relatives who had dramatic weight changes when traveling between the states and europe, without any significant diet changes.
Cut bread and noodles (pretty sure rice is fine), sugar drinks (sparkling water or watered down fruit juice goes a long way for this), and starchy foods. Eat more fruits, vegetables, and naturally fed meats (grass fed beef for instance).
Also consider skipping breakfast, or otherwise having a small breakfast. Just be sure to have meat and eggs, or toast with butter and real jam. Breakfast cereals are a scam.
US grain is pretty much the same as everywhere else. Food is traded internationally and the US does not have its own unique grain.
lol you literally just described the keto diet, except rice is not fine.
A keto diet is just what eating healthy is.
Your advise is sensible.
Do the French have a history of obesity though?