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I'm not taking about the guy who drinks soda. Really how far did your "girl" stick the stick up your *ss.
You don't know what you're talking about. That's always the problem with you. P.S. pompous.... That's a big word coming from you. Dictionaries work wonders...
Addiction. That's what it boils down to. Sugar releases dopamine in much the same way as cocaine, so the brain forms an addiction. It can be broken, I've done it (7~10 cans a day to none, cold turkey... was a rough couple of weeks but very doable.
I hate it for the kids (SNAP poor foods), I'd be hard-pressed to find one that isn't obese in my area (very poor rural southern town). They are being Taught poor food/eating habits that will cause a lifetime of health issues. Led down a path to failure by the parents who are supposed to be doing everything they can to ensure their kids have more success than they, themselves, have.
When I lived in Philly for a short time, I had never seen so many morbidly obese people in one location in my life. I saw mothers giving their toddlers and even younger children, soda and chips. Never fruit or anything remotely healthy (although I think ice cream is better than soda and chips, right?). I'm sure it was a lifetime of bad habits being passed down; didn't make it any less sad.
When I lived in Philly for a short time, I had never seen so many morbidly obese people in one location in my life. I saw mothers giving their toddlers and even younger children, soda and chips. Never fruit or anything remotely healthy (although I think ice cream is better than soda and chips, right?). I'm sure it was a lifetime of bad habits being passed down; didn't make it any less sad.
It seems illogical to those of us on the outside, but I was reading a story of a southern African-American woman who had completely changed her diet because of diabetes. She said that even though all the information is out there, it just doesn't register. In her family, they ate all the high-sugar/high-fat foods that their family had always traditionally eaten, and that getting "the sugar" at some point in life was just taken for granted as inevitable. She had lost weight and lowered her blood sugar and was trying to educate others in her family.
I think some of it is the emotional attachment to food. If we grew up on certain unhealthy-but-tasty dishes and associate them with our childhoods or parents and grandparents, to be told "you shouldn't eat that anymore, here is some unfamiliar thing that's better for you", the emotional impact has an effect.
It seems illogical to those of us on the outside, but I was reading a story of a southern African-American woman who had completely changed her diet because of diabetes. She said that even though all the information is out there, it just doesn't register. In her family, they ate all the high-sugar/high-fat foods that their family had always traditionally eaten, and that getting "the sugar" at some point in life was just taken for granted as inevitable. She had lost weight and lowered her blood sugar and was trying to educate others in her family.
I think some of it is the emotional attachment to food. If we grew up on certain unhealthy-but-tasty dishes and associate them with our childhoods or parents and grandparents, to be told "you shouldn't eat that anymore, here is some unfamiliar thing that's better for you", the emotional impact has an effect.
There's nothing wrong with eating things from your childhood. I just don't understand how people think that eating this stuff morning, day and night doesn't have consequences. I just had a BLT for lunch and organic polenta with pesto. I limit how much organic bacon I put on my BLT. Two strips prepared in the oven goes a long way. I used fresh organic arugula (packed it on) and fresh GMO free local cherry tomatoes grown here in NY. A smear of Sir Kensington mayo on toasted organic wheat bread and it's very tasty. The bacon can still be tasted and I satisfied my BLT craving. Much healthier than your usual BLT by using more veggies and less meat. That's something I eat maybe once every three or four months. Certainly not every day.
There's nothing wrong with eating things from your childhood. I just don't understand how people think that eating this stuff morning, day and night doesn't have consequences. I just had a BLT for lunch and organic polenta with pesto. I limit how much organic bacon I put on my BLT. Two strips prepared in the oven goes a long way. I used fresh organic arugula (packed it on) and fresh GMO free local cherry tomatoes grown here in NY. A smear of Sir Kensington mayo on toasted organic wheat bread and it's very tasty. The bacon can still be tasted and I satisfied my BLT craving. Much healthier than your usual BLT by using more veggies and less meat. That's something I eat maybe once every three or four months. Certainly not every day.
They don't care. My dad has no problem cooking an entire package of bacon in the morning and eating most of it himself. I'm not saying my eating is that healthy but I'm pretty slender so I'm "too thin" to my dad, who's over 300 pounds. He would love to die with a roast beef hero in one hand and a beer in another.
I don't like healthy foods, TBH. The only reason I stay trim is that I walk a lot and I don't usually eat breakfast. Sometimes I keep an eye on calories because for me, it's all about calories in, calories out. I'm going to unload some whipped cream from the canister right now.
If we still fat shamed people they'd likely put down the mayo laced hoagie.
Next time you're bagging a womans grocery who is buying garbage and she's on SNAP- be all like, "woah- so you're gonna be poor and fat! What a catch!."
If we still fat shamed people they'd likely put down the mayo laced hoagie.
Next time you're bagging a womans grocery who is buying garbage and she's on SNAP- be all like, "woah- so you're gonna be poor and fat! What a catch!."
They are allowed to use SNAP for cheap unhealthy food, so they do. Any attempt to force only healthy food would be seen as UnAmerican and dictating food choice.
In some states, non-prepared (ie, fresh) foods are exempt from sales tax.
Make the SNAP card only apply to fresh food.
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