When I go to the store, which I try to avoid, I am always marveling at the rows and rows of non-food. Most of it is pure garbage. Few read the labels. My mom, God rest her soul, taught me to cook things that included cans of condensed soup and box mixes. It was not until I was in my 30s that I started to really learn how to cook. Now I'm…
When I go to the store, which I try to avoid, I am always marveling at the rows and rows of non-food. Most of it is pure garbage. Few read the labels. My mom, God rest her soul, taught me to cook things that included cans of condensed soup and box mixes. It was not until I was in my 30s that I started to really learn how to cook. Now I'm nearly all scratch.
You're right, American eat an insane amount of sugar, refined everything, GMOs, preservatives, partially hydrogenated whatever, "vegetable" oils and other non-food crap. It's just not food. Then we wonder why we are all so sick.... go figure.
As for obesity, it's now celebrated, don't know know? Calvin Klein ran ads with morbidly obese, unattractive models, as if that's a goal to aspire to. There's a difference between celebrating being a glutton, overweight and unhealthy as opposed to being a decent human being and not being cruel to someone about weight. Society no longer sees that line.
It's really interesting to see what the FDA deems "safe" for us Americans while other countries have BANNED these same items/ingredients. . The thing these other countries have in common is "socialized medicine". They're keeping their costs down, plain and simple. I heard Americans spend double what other countries do on "healthcare" yet we're something like 57th worldwide in "health". Big Pharma gets a lot of their profit from the "rich Americans" so they sell their drugs to other countries much cheaper. That's why people try to go to Canada or Mexico to get their meds. It's also why the US does everything they can to STOP that from happening.
When I go to the store, which I try to avoid, I am always marveling at the rows and rows of non-food. Most of it is pure garbage. Few read the labels. My mom, God rest her soul, taught me to cook things that included cans of condensed soup and box mixes. It was not until I was in my 30s that I started to really learn how to cook. Now I'm nearly all scratch.
You're right, American eat an insane amount of sugar, refined everything, GMOs, preservatives, partially hydrogenated whatever, "vegetable" oils and other non-food crap. It's just not food. Then we wonder why we are all so sick.... go figure.
As for obesity, it's now celebrated, don't know know? Calvin Klein ran ads with morbidly obese, unattractive models, as if that's a goal to aspire to. There's a difference between celebrating being a glutton, overweight and unhealthy as opposed to being a decent human being and not being cruel to someone about weight. Society no longer sees that line.
It's really interesting to see what the FDA deems "safe" for us Americans while other countries have BANNED these same items/ingredients. . The thing these other countries have in common is "socialized medicine". They're keeping their costs down, plain and simple. I heard Americans spend double what other countries do on "healthcare" yet we're something like 57th worldwide in "health". Big Pharma gets a lot of their profit from the "rich Americans" so they sell their drugs to other countries much cheaper. That's why people try to go to Canada or Mexico to get their meds. It's also why the US does everything they can to STOP that from happening.
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