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American people have reduced longevity by eating fast food
by gos_abhi 6y ago
American people have reduced longevity by eating fast food
- astrange 6y agoFast food burgers are fine if you don’t eat the fries or soda.
- ReptileMan 6y agoAnd fries and soda are also fine if you are doing hard labor.
- saiya-jin 6y agoThis is a common misconception - very few people in the west are actually doing hard labor consistently for such a long time that they would burn enough calories to balance crappy diet full of bad calories like raw sugar in sodas. I mean how many do daily effort on the level of running 1-2 marathons to burn all those calories? If you look around you will see plenty of older manual workers being overweight in the US, and not only there.
- jay_kyburz 6y agoThere is not enough labor in the day that can work off a soda.
- ReptileMan 6y ago300 ml of soda is 120 calories. An hour of proper swimming could burn a lot more. And the fast sugar actually helps in those situations.
- astrange 6y agoI’m pretty sure fries are very bad for you in ways you can’t work off. Maybe if you put a bunch of antioxidants in the spice mix.
- ergocoder 6y agoNot just fast food. The size of dish here is very large. I moved from Thailand and was surprised how big a Thai dish in US was. There is some sort of default expectation that a dish needs to be large. I'm sure that contributes to obesity to some degree.
- taurath 6y agoThat and all convenient food in the US doesn’t have much in terms of non-potato vegetables except as filler.
- rocgf 6y agoIndeed, and I am comparing to Europe. In Europe, I can usually get an appetizer and a main course and be kinda full, but not stuffed. In the US, the appetizer along would usually get me full.
- Tepix 6y agoAlso by eating too much, and too much sugar. 2/3 of them are overweight. 12-14% of people are diabetic. That's crazy!