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These are excellent points. And I so agree. Big Food seems to go hand-in-hand with Big Pharma and Big Farms.
But we still possess free will and can choose what we buy. It just gets harder and harder when most foods these days are loaded with HFCS, gluten, MSG, other additives, and salt. Navigating the grocery aisles is like avoiding landmines. Got to read all the fine print on the labels.
Mostly I just buy one-ingredient foods such as spinach, chicken, avocados, leafy greens, cheese, eggs. Keeps it simple.
This. I love cheese but it is not a one ingredient food. I think it is fine to consume as long as it isn't American or Velveeta cheese product.
I live in a very fit and slender area (there are exceptions of course). But, go to the poor neighborhoods and we have the same issue as the rest of the country. It is a class issue here and I suspect, with most of the USA. These poor people don't know any better nor do they have as many choices. The cycle of poverty produces generation after generation of unhealthy people. There is a lot more involved like what the government subsidizes and what they do not but if we throw up our arms and just blame the food industry and the government then nothing will change.
United States has world's highest rate of child obesity at 20 percent. Globally the average is 5% for girls and 7% for boys.
I think it will just continue to increase. Entertainment in the United States is mostly based on the experience of eating.
It is amazing how eating huge of amounts of food for entertainment and driving to the mailbox is the culture in 2017.
The US doesn’t have the highest rate of childhood obesity. The UK and the Mediterranean countries all have higher rates. The Mediterranean super-region has a much higher rate.
More “Americans so ugly” anti-Americanism. The fact that people are so veraciously trying to intellectualize this is honestly disturbing.
The concept of “obesity rates” for large countries, particularly using BMI, is laughable anyways. It makes no logical sense if you know anything about weight and differences in ethnic phenotype.
I’m confused as to why right wingers are buying nonsense CDC-assisted anti-Americanism anyways. You know, the organization that, in concert with the WHO, released report after report twisting the verbiage (“America has 4% of the world’s population and 20% of the world’s COVID deaths”, or whatever) to distract from the fact that other western nations had higher death rates and case fatality rates than the US.
These people always jeuje the data and the comparative indices to make America look bad wherever they can. “America has the worst infant mortality rate in the west, right?!!!!”
Read the small print, methodology information, and the supplemental studies that Lancet releases. It delegitimizes all of it.
The US doesn’t have the highest rate of childhood obesity. The UK and the Mediterranean countries all have higher rates. The Mediterranean super-region has a much higher rate.
More “Americans so ugly” anti-Americanism. The fact that people are so veraciously trying to intellectualize this is honestly disturbing.
The concept of “obesity rates” for large countries, particularly using BMI, is laughable anyways. It makes no logical sense if you know anything about weight and differences in ethnic phenotype.
I’m confused as to why right wingers are buying nonsense CDC-assisted anti-Americanism anyways. You know, the organization that, in concert with the WHO, released report after report twisting the verbiage (“America has 4% of the world’s population and 20% of the world’s COVID deaths”, or whatever) to distract from the fact that other western nations had higher death rates and case fatality rates than the US.
These people always jeuje the data and the comparative indices to make America look bad wherever they can. “America has the worst infant mortality rate in the west, right?!!!!”
Read the small print, methodology information, and the supplemental studies that Lancet releases. It delegitimizes all of it.
The World Obesity Federation (World Obesity), formerly the International Association for the Study of Obesity and the International Obesity Task Force, is the only global organisation focused exclusively on obesity.
People keep acting like it's the lack of exercise that's making everyone fat. It is not the lack of exercise. That adds to it. But it's really the food. The food that people are eating and feeding their children is total crap.
There is no amount of PE and recess that can burn the amount of calories that are in a big bag of hot cheetos.
If I have to hear one more person say that their children won't eat healthy or they won't eat anything except for a chicken nuggets and french fries or that they refuse to drink water, I'm gonna puke.
Do you have kids? I have a 7 year old who is an extremely picky eater. He will puke if he eats something he doesn't like. We try. I are smoothies and add veggies to them but the kid doesn't even like Mac and cheese and getting him to eat pizza can be a struggle. He is far from overweight, he's extremely energetic and I wouldn't be surprised if he's on the lower end of the weight chart. It's hard to shove healthy food down someone's throat or make threats or even spank them. Kids go through phases with foods. I sometimes envy people whose kids will eat anything.
I remember before I had kids a woman on my company's executive team complaining that her son would only eat chicken nuggets and Mac and cheese. I remember thinking wow get it together and make your kid eat more but here I am. Restaurants created kids menus for a reason I guess. Again if you have a young kid who's favorite food is sushi or spinach salad then lucky you. I don't understand how there's so many fat kids either.
Food Stamps. About 1/3 of US children are on them, and Food Stamp recipients are the demographic group with the highest obesity rate both adult and children. Combine Food Stamps with free school meals (breakfast, lunch, and sometimes snacks and dinner, too, if kids are in after school programs) and the result is the kids are eating twice as much as they should.
I wonder if there is some anxiety amongst these lower income kids and they turn to food as a stress release. Or just bad/slow metabolism.
I just dont come across many obese kids...we know of 1 who comes from a wealthy family but he has an obese father so it seems to be more of a genetic thing. The kid plays sports and is always moving around. He does seem to eat a lot though...we had a birthday party, he ate 3 slices of pizza at least and the mother had to tell him not to have more cake.
So we have food insecurity and obesity going on at the same time ???
I think we've gotten used to it by now. Everywhere you look are fat people.
Again I guess I want to know where the fat people are...i put on about 15-20 lbs in this pandemic which put me at 145 and i feel like i'm the fat person. I live in the Boston area...there arent many fatties here at all.
Do you have kids? I have a 7 year old who is an extremely picky eater. He will puke if he eats something he doesn't like. We try. I are smoothies and add veggies to them but the kid doesn't even like Mac and cheese and getting him to eat pizza can be a struggle. He is far from overweight, he's extremely energetic and I wouldn't be surprised if he's on the lower end of the weight chart. It's hard to shove healthy food down someone's throat or make threats or even spank them. Kids go through phases with foods. I sometimes envy people whose kids will eat anything.
I remember before I had kids a woman on my company's executive team complaining that her son would only eat chicken nuggets and Mac and cheese. I remember thinking wow get it together and make your kid eat more but here I am. Restaurants created kids menus for a reason I guess. Again if you have a young kid who's favorite food is sushi or spinach salad then lucky you. I don't understand how there's so many fat kids either.
Not to worry. One of my kids would eat only scrambled eggs and strawberries for 5 years. Then he ate veggie pizza and blueberry yogurt. He is a healthy adult who eats most anything as he travels all over the world. Sometimes in various parts of Africa for a month a year and all over Asia for months. He eats all kinds of foods.
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I think it is fine to consume as long as it isn't American or Velveeta cheese product. 
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