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> In the not distant past most Americans spent 30+% of their income on food, which I doubt is a world many of us want to return to. I mean - I think I underst
by RangerScience 3y ago
> In the not distant past most Americans spent 30+% of their income on food, which I doubt is a world many of us want to return to.
I mean - I think I understand the motivation behind that but
I am pretty convinced that the value of "low-carb" / "no-carb" diets has less to do with the impact of carbs (after all, wheat literally was the symbol of European civilization for a really long time) and more to do with how they're used as cheap caloric filler (looking at you, Panda Express). Pretty much a "get what you pay for" kind of situation, in my eyes - so maybe spending that much on food isn't as bad as was thought.
also, on the gripping hand, looks at cost of housing - so maybe if it's not one thing it's another.
- ch4s3 3y agoEven high quality food is far cheaper than it was only a generation or two ago.
- bbojan 3y agoWhat quality are you talking about? In my 8 years in Canada I wasn't able to by decent blackberries or tomatoes. At any price.
- hotnfresh 3y ago30 years ago (within that generation-or-two span), at least here in the parts of the US I was in around that time, blackberries and lots of other stuff were both expensive, and only available seasonally. You could get canned year-round, not fresh.
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- ilyt 3y agoI think it's mostly that this kind of food is also easily and quickly digestible which just means getting hungry earlier.
- Aerroon 3y agoBut were those Europeans healthy? We can see a life expectancy and height increase in most European countries these days. And this is with us having subpar diets where most people get insufficient amounts of some pretty important stuff like magnesium and vitamin D.