/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>14918110
Because there's a pervasive sense of hopelessness and dissatisfaction creeping through our society and we try to fight it back with food, alcohol and shopping.

We need a lot of energy to power our large brains

I feel like if people can do something, they will do something. No matter how much you nag them.

>>14918126
Wrong retard. It’s because we vastly underestimate the amount of calories that are in the foods we eat because the average American is ignorant as fuck on the subject of nutrition

Holy shit. Can I get a state specific demographic for this? I live in texas and even I can't get past 1800cals on a cheat day

>>14918156
holy shit a talking skeleton

>>14918165
spoopy

>>14918110
Because they can. Can we all say the same ? I'm talking to you Canada.

>>14918152
I liked the first guy’s answer better, but you’re both wrong. It’s because our economy has become service based. The cost of food has plummeted and yet a huge portion of the population relies on a restaurant or waiting job as their source of income. So with massive competition places sell 2000 calorie meals for $10 just to stay in business lest they be accused of being “cheap” or having “small portions”

>>14918173
Who can afford to eat at restaurants every day though?

>>14918180
A lot of people?

I certainly used to do it for lunch and eat gas station pizza every day because I hated Walmart and was an alcoholic so going to the store after work took away from drinking time.

Thank god for the app and pickup.

Otherwise (and this is related to the OP), massive amounts of marketing in store cause people to impulse buy shitty food and think it’s okay to snack on it 6 times a day so your body just keeps storing and storing it as fat. Furthermore, sugar/carbs is like fucking crack whereas you eat small amounts of it and keep craving it next thing you know you’re obese.

because im a fat fuck

>>14918173
Right, but I, as somebody who is nutritionally and calorically “aware”, I can tell you that the meal I just ate is 1400 calories and that I only need to eat 1100 more for the day before I am at maintenance. The problem is knowledge, not portions. People shouldn’t need babysitters to look out for their every need

>>14918156
Yeah I work labor and lift and still have to force myself to eat at a surplus. I've been stuck at 185 for 2 months now. I just get so uncomfortable eating that much

>>14918110
america is a nation of SIN.

LUST
GLUTTONY
PRIDE
ANGER
WRATH
ENVY
SLOTH

it would be God's justice if yellowstone erupts tomorrow and wipes out the entire country.

>>14918332
>ONE OFF
Based post though

>>14918110
Processed foods are high in calories but not very satiating which leads to overeating. Americans eat too much white flour instead of whole grains, too much sugar instead of fruit, etc. and just not enough vegetables in general.

>>14918156
1800 calories is a satisfying meal you soyboy beta cuck

>>14918110
we've got the FREEDOM to become barely sentient hamlords

>>14918379
How is diabetes going?

>>14918142
>>Where do you workout?
>The drive through

>>14918110
What kind of manlet twink only needs 2500 calories a day?

>>14918165
>>14918379
>>14918535
>t.

This is what I had for dinner in the last month. Am I fat?

Burger
Split pea soup
Brisket
Split pea soup
Burito
Chicken sandwich
Cheesesteak
Taquitos
Burger
Spaghetti
Patty melt
Chili
Beef stew
Ravioli
Beef stew
Burger
Steak
Burito
Chicken sandwich
Ribeye sandwich
Taquitos
Burger
Pierogi
Burger
Wings
Beef stew
Sub sandwich
Chinese
Lobster cakes
Italian beef sandwich

>>14918110
we eat hyper-palatable processed foods that are engineered in lab to be overeaten.

>>14918110
Even in 1961 Americans still ate like fatties. The only difference is the average person actually went outside and exercised then so they were still in shape

>>14918920
people ate less processed food/takeout

>>14918110
>eat 2600 calories a day
>morbidly obese

>>14918897
Not enough burgers tbqhf

>>14918920
90% of it is the caloric intake
exercise mostly only helps keep weight off if you're not already overweight
if you're fat, exercise does little to nothing to help get you back to a normal weight
eating less.. a LOT less.. is the main thing
otherwise you will always be fat

>>14918110
Sugar is an addictive substance with no nutritional value which induces hunger by stimulating leptin and ghrelin hormone production and causing insulin resistance. People don't know this, so they eat it anyway. Refined sugar is the SOLE cause of the obesity epidemic in every country that has one.
We're drugging our food. Outlaw added refined sugar and we'd be as thin as Japan in 10 years, after the addiction fueled riots ended.

>>14918948
>if you're fat, exercise does little to nothing to help get you back to a normal weight
Exercise, good exercises, builds muscle. Muscles are what raises your daily caloric needs. Without muscles you have to go on starvation diets to lose the weight. Just exercise and build muscle mass and eat slightly less. It's that easy.

>>14918499
>the man on the left can calculated where the white women are at twice the rate of the man on the right

>>14919058
Exercising takes a lot more effort than just eating less. In fact, it takes zero effort to not eat food.

>>14918110
I run marathons so unlike most disgusting fat fucks, I don’t have self esteem problems that need food to fix lmao.

>>14918156
What’s up with lying like this? I see posts like this constantly on /ck/ and it’s so fucking gay and fake. You couldn’t eat 2 Big Macs in a day? Shut the fuck up and stop lying.

>>14918951
>no nutritional value
Sugar is the only reason you’re alive you stupid asshole. It’s literally what powers your whole fucking body. You spew a lot of shit when you talk out of your ass, bud.

>>14919073
Two big Macs don't equal 1800 cals

>>14919086
He's talking about refined sugar, which allows people to consume sugar in quantities 100 times greater than what you can find in nature. If people got their sugar only from fruits, obesity wouldn't exist.

>>14918110
It's like in Europe also
Food is cheap, in abundance, and cheaper stuff is more caloric
It's the end result of a country that became TOO successful in food production. In third world countries and previously in western countries being fat was a sign of wealth, now anyone can chew down 3000 calories on a shoestring budget

>>14918110
Cause fuck you. I'm about to eat my 4th meal

>>14919086
Are you in high school and you just learned about glucose for the first time? There's a very big difference between that and refined sugar.

Because carbs and vegetable oil cause hunger. American food is just carbs and vegetable oil now.

jesus christ, almost 4,000???? what the fuck? what is the sample size? what the fuck?

>>14919086
Sugar in its colloquial sense always means "fructose+dilutant", it doesn't mean glucose. Look at a nutritional label, where it lists "sugar" it's talking about fructose. Try to learn the language you're speaking before getting all pissy

>>14918332
I agree. The US is modern day Sodom and Gomorrah. Even a large portion of the "religious" are deeply wicked, rejecting the Holy Spirit and doubling down on their sinfulness, even though it is literally at this very moment being punished for its evil.

>>14919161
>muh carbs
The Japanese diet contains tons of rice, and they're not fat. It's the hormone effects of sugar. People have been living on bread for the past 12,000 years, they've only been fat for 60.

>>14918142
>brains
More like stomachs and arses......

>>14919274

japan isn't as obese because they don't market breakfast cereal and other candies to children

but they still have an obesity problem of their own and their rate of diabetes is similar to the US

it is in fact carbs

>>14918110

Food wasn't as easy to get in the 60s. I mean, hell ten years ago food delivery was only for shit like pizza and chinese takeout. Now we have services like grubhub that allows us to get tasty food from from wherever without even leaving our house.

>>14918156
Ya, I'm gonna call bullshit on this. 1200 calories is like one McDonalds meal.

>>14918180

People with fucking jobs? The average salary in the US is about $50k/yr. That is enough for a single person to afford fast food every day.

Fuck, when I was in the military I got paid like $30k/yr and I ate jack in the box every day for lunch.

>>14919073
/ck/ has the low key best posters on the website

Americans spend the lowest percentage of their income on food in the world and still eat it he most
>High income
>Low cost

>>14919148
Food use to be what humans spent the majority of their day and effort trying to procure in some form or fashion. Now it's some single digit percentage almost throwaway expense with ad infinitum choices at hand for the average american

>>14918110
Food is cheap here, and the culture is shit. I'm trying to get better. Tell me how to cook this gigantic bag of broccoli I bought.

>>14919726
Just roast it. I roast all my vegetables, now I eat vegetables all the time.

>>14919073
2 big macs = 1100 calories (at least in my country).
Never going over 1800 sure is bullshit, but the idea of averaging a 500-1000+ surplus a day is disgusting, I would be constantly sick

>>14918110
womanlet here, my daily intake if i were to be completely sedentiary is 1200-1300 calories
yes 1200-1300 calories, this is the same amount of calories they tell others to eat in order to lose weight. for me i need to eat 500-900 calories in order to steadily lose weight (if I was sedentary).

2000 calorie intake is for a woman who is 5ft7+ aka insanely tall women. it is incredibly misleading and discriminating to recommend 2000 calorie intake for women.

>>14919753

You won't. The body adapts pretty easily.

>>14919759
I'm like you but probably taller (maintenance is 1400/day on sedentary days and I'm a bit underweight). Please don't eat less than 1100-1200 a day, you wouldn't get enough vitamins and minerals unless your day was carefully planned. I like to add a little bit of exercise everyday to be able to have that extra banana/egg/yogurt

>>14919759
Anything approaching a one size fits all diet for people is insanely dumb. I'm as blue collar and backwoods as anyone on this site gets and 3500 probably keeps me stable. Our diet needs are about as compatible as yours to a dog or mine to a gorilla. Think that's a big problem no one really appreciates

>>14919067
>i don't have self esteem problems
>brags on an anonymous anime imageboard about how good he is at running to show how strong his self esteem is
ok?

>>14919781
I work out at the gym, and walk pretty much to get anywhere at anytime, so while eating 1100-1200 will have me lose weight, it eventually gets to a point where I need to eat less to lose weight. Not overweight in any capacity, I just feel/look better showing a bit more bones.

>>14919790
Absolutely agree. They put the 2000 label on EVERYTHING and it's so annoying. Any beginner on health and diet will look at that 2000 and think it means them. If you're not used to nutrition and calories, it takes a lot to shake off all those bad habits.

>>14919759
Show your tits, hole.

>>14919759
I want to cuddle your small femlet body.

>>14918920
You what? Working out or doing sports after work just was not a popular activity in 1960.

>>14919131
what the fuck are you on, orange juice is more dense in sugar than coke

>>14918126
This is the actual answer.
Capitalism kills its host, undeniable fact, because capitalism is parasitic and opportunistic.

>>14918110
american food is an engineered product. everything is packed with high fructose corn syrup, food coloring, sodium, etc. to make it more addictive. if you're a typical american fatass and want one of the largest redpills of your life: drink nothing but water or black coffee for a week, and cook everything from scratch for a week. then revert back to your usual diet of coca colas and processed prepackaged crap food. you'll be overwhelmed by how much sugar and other garbage they pack into it, and you'll be amazed that you ever became "taste numb" to it.

>>14919086
look up gluconeogenesis, retard

>>14918126
Indeed. Food is just about the last enjoyment you can have that is not ruined by government (taxation, regulation) or any other nonsense. Though that is changing recently.

>>14918126
/thread.

>>14918554

>>14921195
>It's like a parasite maaaaaan now give me stuff

>>14919066
But building muscle also improves your appearance, isn't that worth working at?

>>14918110
It's a number of factors, fast food places started showing up in the early sixties, the sugar lobby intentionally suppressing information on how sugar is addictive, corn being used has a filler product to the point in where Americans are literally 1% corn genetically and that over the years our lives have become more sedentary.

>>14918110
You mean
>Mexican-American
and
>African-American
Right?
Well the answer is foodstamps. We provide our brown people with free money to buy all the food they want because they are oppressed.

>>14918110
americans like to EAT
they like to FUCK
hot CUM flowing through their veins

>>14921195
No, it isn’t. The US economy is definitely based on capitalism, but the current system is a bastardized version of it. There is no “free market,” there’s literally 9-10 big monopolies that control the food in grocery stores. Please educate yourself on economics before you spew more bullshit about muh capitalism bad.

>>14918110
Boredom too much free time, too little engament at work, nothing else to do but eat.

>>14918110
Cost of cheap, calorie-dense foods went down drastically and frozen, canned and fast food makes it much easier to consume lots of food without even investing much time in food preparation (which in a household where both parents work might be hard to come by).

>>14918951
>>14918110
There we go. And half the reason for the sugar abuse is government subsidy to the corn industry.
All other factors are secondary to sugar.

>>14920274
Orange juice is not a fruit, it's a juice.

>>14922057
Orange juice is liquid candy

>>14918379

>>14918897
Is there a liquid sugar side with it every meal?

>>14918110
cuz me hungie

because americans lift all day every day, have you ever been on vacation and saw a massive muscular dude that stands out from the crowd? that's probably an americhad, and you just got your panties wet

>>14921475
what an argument, I am impressed by the sheer power of the polcel
>>14921982
>corporations that leverage their financial power against the state, it's people and their competetion is not real capitalism, real capitalism is when the corporations are completely free to do as they please, hire mercenary soldiers and their own police force.
Fucking brainlet and the "free market" myth. You know who needs to enforce a free market? The State, and the bigger the market proponents are, the more massive the state has to get to actually control market forces.

>>14918110
Because a lot of food that prepackaged and pre-made food that Americans eat have a shitton of calories and very little nutrition.

>>14918920
No they didn't. They were more than likely cooking at home more and not working as late or as many jobs as they do now.

>>14919086
Refined sugar and glucose are not the same thing.

>>14919753
It depends. You can over 1800 calories in sugar and not be full or sick, at all. Do it enough and your body will get used to it.