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You can do the same thing in the USA or anywhere else in the world, you just have to be more diligent with reading labels and choosing products that do not have high fructose corn syrup in them, do not use sweet tea, choose produce that is fresh first then frozen, weigh and measure your own portions and have only what you have weighed and measured, do not purchase snack chips, pretzels and things like that and get your pasta fresh made or make it yourself.
Making pasta is not that difficult, it takes 1 egg, 1-2 cups of flour and boiling salted water.
This is my world, except for the home-made pasta. This is how everyone I know lives. No differently than in Europe. According to reports in the US, it's people with little education and/or living at or near poverty level who don't read labels, eat a lot of processed food, and buy soft drinks and the fast food huge drink portions and burgers, because they're cheap and fill kids up cheaply.
Why would I avoid pasta? I eat pasta often and make my own and work it into my daily food consumption so the amount I eat is accounted for.
I didn't give up sugar, bread, pasta, milk, cheese or anything that was full flavor, full fat, well I didn't give up anything and I managed to lose 500 pounds. It took 13 years to do it but throughout those years I learned how to eat what I wanted, how much I could have and what choices would be better but pasta was not and will not ever be removed from my list of go to foods for a quick, light, easy, filling meal.
As far as I know only the US allows this. It's not allowed in the UK.
Yes, because the pharma corporations bought off politicians to get the "freedom" to run these commercials, give kickbacks to doctors who pedal their pills... then when you pay for the pills, you're also paying for the high cost of marketing them
This is my world, except for the home-made pasta. This is how everyone I know lives. No differently than in Europe. According to reports in the US, it's people with little education and/or living at or near poverty level who don't read labels, eat a lot of processed food, and buy soft drinks and the fast food huge drink portions and burgers, because they're cheap and fill kids up cheaply.
I've watched a few episodes of "My 600 Pound Life" and food ignorance, combined with food addiction and lack of exercise is the problem. I couldn't believe what some of these people were eating, not even realizing how horrible it was. Once woman honestly thought french fries were a "healthy vegetable". Apparently we need mandatory nutrition classes in all U.S. high schools.
I've watched a few episodes of "My 600 Pound Life" and food ignorance, combined with food addiction and lack of exercise is the problem. I couldn't believe what some of these people were eating, not even realizing how horrible it was. Once woman honestly thought french fries were a "healthy vegetable". Apparently we need mandatory nutrition classes in all U.S. high schools.
Not a bad idea. I got basic nutrition instruction in 2nd grade. Don't schools do that anymore? Then in middle school, they could kick it up to a more advanced level, and talk about vitamins, food additives, reading labels, how food interacts with the endocrine system to build fat or maintain a healthy body, include some science and physiology in there. Great idea!
Yes, because the pharma corporations bought off politicians to get the "freedom" to run these commercials, give kickbacks to doctors who pedal their pills... then when you pay for the pills, you're also paying for the high cost of marketing them
Yet another example of how life in the US is about selling, commerce, corporate-driven agendas, instead of basic health.
Not a bad idea. I got basic nutrition instruction in 2nd grade. Don't schools do that anymore? Then in middle school, they could kick it up to a more advanced level, and talk about vitamins, food additives, reading labels, how food interacts with the endocrine system to build fat or maintain a healthy body, include some science and physiology in there. Great idea!
Doesn't matter what the school teaches if parents are loading their kid's lunches up with junk foods and the cafeterias are serving high fat, low nutrient foods.
Doesn't matter what the school teaches if parents are loading their kid's lunches up with junk foods and the cafeterias are serving high fat, low nutrient foods.
True, but there seems to be a lot of parents who also have no understanding of nutrition. Or even basic cooking skills I know people my age who consider the kitchen a room to just "look at", because they don't use it. Food is all "drive through on the way home from work".
It's kind of sad to see that some people think that fresh and natural food is something like a secret and that highly processed artificial stuff is the norm.
Here is the US - it is the norm. There's a Mcdonalds, Wendys, ect on every street corner.
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Yet another example of how life in the US is about selling, commerce, corporate-driven agendas, instead of basic health.
Yep. And that applies to our industrial farming complex where we shove corn into all of our animals.
Here is the US - it is the norm. There's a Mcdonalds, Wendys, ect on every street corner.
That's not the whole story. I live in a small town of 20k pop. in Europe and have access to 30+ fast food restaurants that deliver to my house, I couldn't count those that I could go to within 10 minutes driving.
There are differences of course. The governments here do not subsidize corn and HFCS just isn't well established here... yet. Government subsidizing in general shouldn't be underestimated because they create huge incentives towards certain products. In fact they should be feared and abolished.
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I know people my age who consider the kitchen a room to just "look at", because they don't use it. Food is all "drive through on the way home from work".
