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Gérard Mclean's avatar

I spent most of the summer in Denmark and ate more candy, potatoes, breads and pork than I eat in America and I LOST 12 lbs. I come back here, ate less and gained back 7.... it’s the crap in every food in this country! From the flours we use in our breads to the crap in just everything. I have no idea what these things are, but I know the EU has strict regs about what is and isn’t food and what crap you can pump into fruits and add to dairy, meats, etc. It’s gotta be the food...

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House of Neglected Poetry's avatar

Really nice article. And I must say, when you said, more or less, that American's hadn't gotten lazy, or " less informed," nor did these factors directly contribute to our national "unhealth," I almost laughed out loud. But then I started to really ponder over the average worker, their pay, their hours worked, cost of living, their family dynamics, inflation, etc., and how many, myself included, now have two jobs, even three, where a decade ago, I, and many others, only had one job, or only needed one job to survive, and that perhaps it is our fast-paced "consumer-driven" (for lack of a better phrase) society that causes our unhealth, as we have almost no time to look after ourselves in any meaningful way, and couple this with the "weaponization" of portions that you so aptly pointed out... and oh boy, we really do seem to be in quite the unhealthy pickle.

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