/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18049226
US has been gradually getting fatter every decade since the 80s. it didn't accelerate or slow down much, it was a pretty steady increase of about 10% every decade

>>18049226
US has been gradually getting fatter every decade since the 70s. it didn't accelerate or slow down much, it was a pretty steady increase of about 10% every decade

>>16447542
>Low fat yogurt
>loaded with sugar
really? examples please. low fat yoghurt with low sugar is a staple for dieting, high protein is great for weight loss. of course a sweet yoghurt isn't so great, but surely it's not as much of a culprit as junk food, beer and soda.
regardless, the problem is, how far did low fat dogma really extend? dairy? sure, yeah. except then people went and ate tons of vegetable oils and food fried in it, as well as lots of fatty meat, etc. butter too. not surprising American south has always been ahead of the nation in obesity.
and virtually all of junk food is high in fat, too, like i mentioned, except for soda. unless we're talking what, skittles and sugary cereals?

why does USA keep getting fatter? some say "food is cheap and available", but it cost about the same in the 80s. other conditions like poor PE in schools also didn't change much.

>>9837827
Fuck no

>>9551099
Americans are much less healthier than Europeans, and obesity is a huge portion of our healthcare costs.

In an even playing field, we do pay less. Cheaper drugs and healthcare.

>>8768873
>There are professional athletes who would be considered "obese" using this system.
Yeah, and they are something like 0.01% of the population?

1 in 50 (!) of Americans have a BMI>40. I highly doubt this is because of a surge in Schwarzenegger-tier bodies.

>>7991216
>Nutrition first, ideaologies second
That's a rather odd thing to say from someone who is arguing against a results-based policy that targets the bigger problem (coca-cola hamplanets) rather than the smaller problem (a vanishingly small minority of freakshow vegans who ended up in the daily mail)

If this is really not ideological, why are so many people acting like teaching children it's ok to eat icky broccoli is a form of child abuse, and that there's some kind of moral equivalence to tens of millions of hamplanets being told that it will damage their kids' self esteem to learn proper eating habits, and some obscure vegan who thought soy milk was a good thing to feed to a newborn?

Well, it's not a rhetorical question. The answer is stockholm syndrome.