I like to ask this question every few months.
Currently reading Life of Pi by Yang Martel. Saw the movie a few months ago and wanted to read the book. The one I just finished was called Black Ice by Michael Connelly. It’s one of the Bosch books.
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Was the book about America becoming fat what you expected?
I didn’t really have any expectations. Mostly about food regulations and culture changing to allow for the abundance of high fructose corn syrup and ever-increasing portions. Then it gets into a lot of detail about what Type 2 diabetes is.
My grandparents grew up on farms and they always told me about the meals they had with lots of meat and vegetables but they grew their own food and slaughtered their own animals so eating bacon everyday wasn’t so bad. I imagine working on a farm burns a ton of calories
I remember the first time I went to Europe I came back and got something sweet and it about knocked me down with how sweet it was.
Recently have cut almost all that uber-processed shit in American food to near zero, and I feel like a different person. American food standards are just bad.