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YMMV No. Have you ever noticed the "pot-bellies" of undernourished kids from all those poverty photos from Africa? That's because they get the cheapest crap w
by seivan 12y ago
YMMV
No. Have you ever noticed the "pot-bellies" of undernourished kids from all those poverty photos from Africa?
That's because they get the cheapest crap we can send/buy them - Rice.
It's not as simple as general thermodynamics.
Kcal in and out is just half the equation.
We eat too much sugar today. Everything has so much damn sugar in it. All sorts of different varieties of carbs that eventually just become blood sugar and activating your insulin causing you to store it all as fat.
- fossuser 12y agoI think the distended stomachs are caused by actual starvation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwashiorkor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwashiorkor Though it's possible you're referencing something else.
- EpicEng 12y agoDistended stomachs are caused by actual starvation and, no, those kids aren't fat in the slightest. The article is conflating hunger with poor nutrition. They're not three same thing.
- mkr-hn 12y agoIt sounds like you're trying to fit the ideology of your diet to observations.