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The corn and sugar lobbies are getting really desperate...
Here's the new one.
KEEP THE GOVERNMENT OUT OF OUR SUBSIDIES!
Here's the new one.
KEEP THE GOVERNMENT OUT OF OUR SUBSIDIES!
New US gov't dietary recommendations: "Just stop eating as much you fat fucks!"
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i actually get a 30% discount so i've been messing around with new foods and not having to pay more than if i shopped at regular grocery stores
still don't deviate from my regular eating habits though
only thing i've added is Kombucha which is stupid-expensive but very much worth it
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I was really shocked that an organic tomato cost me $1.80 last night. I expressed my shock and the woman said "well, you know this is organic"
No shit it's organic. What was the alternative? Cyborg tomato? I was very polite though and I asked her if it meant that the tomato was raised free range, and wasn't given steroids. Fucking genius that we can now reclassify vegetables. You know what organic means? It means it's cosmetically more appealing than average. Seriously, it's not like the tomato farmers are doing dr. frankenshtein science fiction on your vegetables.
No shit it's organic. What was the alternative? Cyborg tomato? I was very polite though and I asked her if it meant that the tomato was raised free range, and wasn't given steroids. Fucking genius that we can now reclassify vegetables. You know what organic means? It means it's cosmetically more appealing than average. Seriously, it's not like the tomato farmers are doing dr. frankenshtein science fiction on your vegetables.
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Just look up a recipe for Kombucha and make it yourself, its easy. Like making hard cider.
I've propagated it myself before.
When I made mine I bought a starter scoobie in a quart jar from a mycology store then bred it into a half gallon mason jar. As far as I know you have to have the scoobie itself though to start with, its not like you can grow it out of stuff you can buy from any store.
The closest thing Ive heard of like that is a scoobie spontaneously forming out of the cultured tea itself. This is not common.
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All it takes is to stop eating these everyday
1. Bread
2. Sugar
3. Soft drinks
4. Too much salt
5. Sweets
Its not really that hard, there are so many other food alternatives.
I dont know how the people in America eat but i heard everything is sweetened over there.
1. Bread
2. Sugar
3. Soft drinks
4. Too much salt
5. Sweets
Its not really that hard, there are so many other food alternatives.
I dont know how the people in America eat but i heard everything is sweetened over there.
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I eat like a fat-ass pig, but I burn massive amounts of calories a day. It's simple folks, either eat less or burn more energy.
Oh yeah on thing that helps is that I never eat right before I go to sleep ( I do eat a small dinner if time allows), but I pig-out at breakfast and lunch time.
Oh yeah on thing that helps is that I never eat right before I go to sleep ( I do eat a small dinner if time allows), but I pig-out at breakfast and lunch time.
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When my Japanese friends came to vacation in the States, they were shocked at the sizes that were dubbed "small" — they were the equivalent of the "large" sizes in Japan.
Our portions are too damn big, and we could use healthier diets.
A public drive to promote eating less would be beneficial towards driving down healthcare costs too.
Our portions are too damn big, and we could use healthier diets.
A public drive to promote eating less would be beneficial towards driving down healthcare costs too.
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the only real answer to solving America's obesity issue is to get Americans to stop being lazy fucks
they know what to eat and what not to eat
they know they should engage in daily physical activity
but to reiterate... they don't care
they'll whine about it for sure, but will they actively change themselves for the better?
it's few and far between unfortunately
i wish i could say that's a pessimistic viewpoint but it's sadly more of a realist one
i'll always be willing to share what i know about diet and exercise with my countrymen, but to be perfectly honest, i've little hope for them when it comes to these diet/exercise-based physical health issues
they know what to eat and what not to eat
they know they should engage in daily physical activity
but to reiterate... they don't care
they'll whine about it for sure, but will they actively change themselves for the better?
it's few and far between unfortunately
i wish i could say that's a pessimistic viewpoint but it's sadly more of a realist one
i'll always be willing to share what i know about diet and exercise with my countrymen, but to be perfectly honest, i've little hope for them when it comes to these diet/exercise-based physical health issues
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Ezekiel does a brand of cereals now too
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That was kind of the point behind me posting it --the gov't seems to be just getting more and more either desperate or simply half-assing it to the point where I think they will just resort to "you bastards are going to die and be replaced by those hard-working illegal immigrants you hate and you still don't even get it."
One of the telling moments on a trip to Japan was seeing a Starbucks that actually advertised its "Short" size.
This implies your knowledge of the Nation of Islam is disappointing.
Clearly, you are part of the 85%.
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yeah, this is true. But you don't see Japanese people as muscular as Americans. It doesn't really mean much, we're just a more built society, and that includes our Asians as well. A regular Asian kids here is probably going to be a lot more built than his relatives in Asia.
Another issue is that our social system doesn't lend itself to physical activity. We have a society that is built around "living to work" rather than "working to live", so most people just work and work and work, and never have time for physical activity. When they get home, they just want to vegetate because their minds needs to reboot. But the idea of sleeping early and waking up to exercise is out of the question because must see tv starts at 8 and runs until whenever, and the New American Idol, and my nuts. The other problem is that we don't have time to make our own foods, and even if we do, healthy eating is expensive. You want to make your own salad? You need
a tomato ($1.80 organic; $3.99 for a pack of 4 hydroponics, or campari; cherry; plums)),
leafy greens ($2, will last a few days),
dressing ($2+; I do ginger dressing for the asian restaurant flavor; but a vinegrette is more expensive with the cost of olive oil. I don't bother with single cold pressed either, but supposed it's good.)
- right there you're talking $3.00 for a piece of your dinner; or $5+ if you want to get full off that. Even more if you want to add good fat like avocado. And yeah, I do add avocado. No fucking fungus. No fucking brocolli. I want to enjoy my salad. But regardless, it's going to cost as much as a value meal, and take time to prepare. I'm not going to toss a lot of shit in a bowl and leave it to get soggy.
Okay, that's one example. Now you want to make something with some carbs. You get the
cheap spaghetti ($0.65)
some gravy ($2.00)
some meat ($2.00)
This will probably make 2 servings at the prices I listed, but the issue is that it's going to take you a while to boil that water, get the spaghetti the right softness, cook the meat. Maybe you don't just want to fry up meat on a pan. Maybe you want to cook it in olive oil, mix in some chopped onions, some fungus, and black olives. Either way, cost goes up, price goes up, and prep time goes up. In the end, you got a healthy meal, but it would have been cheaper and more time efficient to get some fast food.
And this is what people face on a regular basis. I don't really deal with this because I don't do jack shit except exercise and eat food. But working people, I feel for them. And a lot of them try really hard to be fit but it's an uphill battle when you need to pay a mortgage, put clothes on your kids, and maybe even pay for your family's health insurance. Take your family on trips, buy presents for each person at least twice a year, own a retarded pet that won't wipe it's own ass, and pay taxes. People just need more money to live here. I feel like in other countries this is not the case.
In need of much civilization.
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Umm... no.
(pretty sobering, I saw this last August and it stuck with me)
If you want an even more damning version, check out the CDC's animated graph that starts in 1986: Abandon all hope, all ye who click here.
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The Eskimo decided to go ahead and harpoon those individuals during their whaling expeditions to Anchorage and Fairbanks.
(check out the updated link I added to the CDC's 86-09 data)
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Umm... no.
(pretty sobering, I saw this last August and it stuck with me)
If you want an even more damning version, check out the CDC's animated graph that starts in 1986: Abandon all hope, all ye who click here.
i don't trust those things because they still use BMI as their base
i realize they have to as it's the easiest and most general way to measure such a thing but it's really a rather terribly dated and messy system
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BMI makes no sense to me, because for physical appearance mass means nothing without density.
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according to BMI i was actually obese at one point when i bulked up to 185 a while back
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how tall are you? 5'10?