So how did America and the Middle east get so fat, and how Japan and Korea stay so skinny?
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The FDA that's how. Margarine is a big one, so is the food pyramid. Our common sense was replaced with social engineering bullshit, and our staple foods with over processed garbage.
Well how did Japan and South Korea stay skinny despite also being developed countries?
Culture of unabashed communitarian fat shaming.
Came to say this. Thank you!
I just answered that question.
Because they don't have a corrupt government agency that is deliberately poisoning them.
But the Middle Eastern countries do?
Did I say that?
The Middle Eastern countries, like Latinos, don't understand portion control.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/08/06/1190900066/japanese-food-diet-healthy-eating
Yeah, let me just go to the corner hut and grab a bowl of ramen with freshly made noodles loaded with vegetables.
Oh yeah, that shit doesnt happen here LMAO.
Best we can do is a some fabricated processed noodles with way to much sodium and some fake chemicals that kinda taste like chicken or beef.
https://marketrealist.com/food-industry/us-foods-banned-other-countries/
I saw this video years ago about Japanese school lunch.
Then compare to the US where giant agricorps and DEI hiring have lead to 100% frozen and canned poison-laden lunches for our children.
Also, where thanks to C. Everett Coop, Coca-Cola can put vending machines in school lunchrooms and not have to pay sales tax on the sales there.
unironically white rice.
it's a huge part of their diet, and it's far less processed than the corn and wheat we eat.
No idea about the middle east (you would know more about that, no?) but the genetics component is underrated. Demographics is destiny. Goblinas and sheboons and assorted muttoids with fat asses drive our average up. I also assume seed oils are big factor.
I think its also sugar intake. Americans consume more sugar than anyone else
Sugar is bad, but grains and carbs are the real enemies. Do the opposite of what the food pyramid tells you to do.
And rice is what again? Interestingly, looks like all the lowest obesity countries have rice as a staple in their diet.
Like it says back at the start of this chain, don't underrate the genetic component. Just because a rice-heavy diet works for East Asians doesn't mean it'll work for you. And they do have a fair amount of quality meat and veggies with that rice, they aren't just gorging on carbs all the time.
I've never lost weight so fast when all I was eating was white rice thanks to a severe gastrointestinal issue. It's magic stuff, I swear. Probably related to the shichi fukujin that live in it.
Did Europe exclude itself from this?
UK is quite fat.
Repletely rotund my boy, the UK is repletely rotund.
Good way to put it Baz.
Fuck as fuck just didn't sound cricket old boy!
Diet, that's the BIGGEST one, there was a small island in the pacific that after nearby nuclear bomb testing made fishing impossible shows how bad Western food is.
Your answer is literally a few something posts below yours. I do think there are lots of answers to this question though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDnOgBKMKMY
One thing is most of everything in western society is packed/processed and with added chemicals (flavorings) and preservatives.
https://gizmodo.com/how-flavor-chemists-make-your-food-so-addictively-good-5958880
https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/chemicals-foods-facts
The FDA isnt our friend, they are the friends to billion dollar industries who lobby millions of dollars every year for favors.
https://qz.com/1656529/yet-another-fda-commissioner-joins-the-pharmaceutical-industry
And what do you get? Peeps who retired out of the FDA and join these same groups that are poisoning us simply for profit.
It really doesnt feel like the people who sell us the poison making us die quicker should be working for us and then joining these mega pharmaceutical companys afterwards. People who are going to reap the profits of the legion of sick.
Anytime money is involved, you can be sure there is some fuckery happening.
I mentioned before, I dont know how many places like say Japan do what America does and that is fatten everything as much as they can to drive profit with growth hormones and antibiotics in the livestock like its some factory pumping out plastic molds. Cant be good either.
Another thing I noticed was most of the lowest fat countries seem to be the poorest.
Middle eastern countries are rich from oil.
Ive seen their feasts, some of these houses eat like a couple goats, few chickens, half a cow for fucking dinner every night.
Gluttons.
https://www.bankerinthesun.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Saudi-Arabian-dinner-sitting-on-floor.jpg
Im sorry but this doesnt even look good to me. Looks like half cooked chicken or turkey covered in raisins on rice.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Kabsa.jpg
you get fat shamed in both SK and Japan