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Thank you for this. So many people online make diet and exercise seem like some silver bullet, and it's fascinating how much it has been accepted as a silver bu
by majani 11y ago
Thank you for this. So many people online make diet and exercise seem like some silver bullet, and it's fascinating how much it has been accepted as a silver bullet, yet in my experience it was no big deal.
Though I've noticed that most of the silver bullet testimonials come from US citizens. Could be that the standard American diet is way, WAY crappier than most. Where I come from(somewhere in Africa), fast food and sugary foods are for the wealthy, while organic whole foods is for ordinary folk. So maybe I wasn't eating so badly before, that's why I didn't feel the 'magical' effects I read about from US citizens.
- ashwinaj 11y agoYup it's a US centric problem. Before coming to the US I would never consider "maintaining a healthy weight" (I've lived in the UAE and India before). The sedentary lifestyle and abundance of cheap (I mean really cheap) sugary products is the root cause. One of the striking things to me when I moved to the US was the waistlines of people who were considered to be living below or around the poverty line. I was like "They seem to be well fed, in what sense are they poor?"
- magicalist 11y ago> Before coming to the US I would never consider "maintaining a healthy weight" (I've lived in the UAE and India before). To be fair, the UAE has approximately the same obesity rate as the US.
- ashwinaj 11y agoYes it is, amongst locals. Not expats. And sugary products in the UAE aren't as cheap as they are in the US.
- magicalist 11y agoso...not a "US centric problem" then