KoolBak wrote:I keep trying to come back to the public forums, but the unbelievable idiocy here simply grows....sigh. Gonna stick to the private; I'm sure you're all heartbroken.
I for one, would miss you. Please don't go.
jimboston wrote:KoolBak wrote:betiko wrote:Anyways; strong advise tomy american friends: a soft drink should be a treat. like a can a day, and not while you eat. The only acceptable liquids while you eat are water and wine, if you don't want to be a fatass american
Ya know, I like you Frenchie, but your fucking over generalizations simply astound me. If you're trying to be funny, I don't see it. If you're serious, you simply flaunt your ignorance
I keep trying to come back to the public forums, but the unbelievable idiocy here simply grows....sigh. Gonna stick to the private; I'm sure you're all heartbroken.
What private forums?
Don’t go... I’m sure Frenchie didn’t mean to be condescending. I’m sure he didn’t mean to
generalize by assuming all Americans are Fat-Ass soda guzzlers. He can’t help it, he’s French!
Okay, in fairness, we're all in this together. We've all been lied to by the paid propagandists of the junk food industry, and many of us show the consequences. Obesity, diabetes, and all their many consequences -- osteopenia, atherosclerosis and most cardiac diseases, most cancers, renal dysfunction, alzheimers, parkinsons, PCOS, and so many more -- are on the rise in EVERY developed and developing country.
Of course, junk food doesn't kill you overnight. In most populations it takes 20 or 30 years for the consequences to become obvious. The Americans bear the brunt of it because they've been dealing with it the longest, and thus have the most obvious symptoms. Fast food and junk food culture began in the U.S. in the 1950s, so right on schedule the obesity epidemic hit hard in the 1980s. Thus, the obese American has become a fixture in most people's minds. But that's only because it was the first. As other countries switched to a junk food diet, their obesity epidemics have been arriving right on schedule.
The British were next to adopt a junk food diet after the Americans, in the 1960s, so their obesity epidemic began in the 1990s.
Germany and the Scandinavian countries signed on to the junk food diet in the 1970s, so their obesity epidemic didn't arrive until the early 2000s. Eastern Europe didn't join in until the 1990s, so their obesity epidemic is just beginning now.
China switched to a junk food diet in the early 2000s, so their obesity epidemic is just building steam now, but it's going to be a doozy!
https://www.ibtimes.com/effects-rapid-growth-economy-chinas-booming-fast-food-culture-takes-its-toll-health-photos-1155083According to a report, while China’s GDP doubled between 2005 and 2009, the nation’s number of obese people grew from 18 million to 100 million. And to make the situation worse, China, along with India and Vietnam, is a nation that has the “double burden” of dealing with a population that eats too much and is malnourished at the same time. As a result, Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease have become more prominent in China. A study by the New England Journal of Medicine estimated 9.7 percent of the country’s population has diabetes, most late onset Type 2, close to the U.S. rate of 11 percent.
It's really shocking how fast the junk food industry overwhelms a nation's traditional cuisine. The "Mediterranean Diet" is now considered the epitome of good health, but the ironic part is that most people in the Mediterranean basin don't actually eat a Mediterranean diet any more. They too have now been occupied by the death merchants of General Foods, and the people who still eat the classic Mediterranean diet are mostly retirees. Ironically, they're healthier than the young people! Ditto for the famous Okinawa Diet -- most people on Okinawa don't actually eat that any more!
So, KB, don't get upset when Americans get stereotyped. America is where it happened first, and when you're first to something that reputation tends to stick. But we're all in this together now. Almost all, anyway.
Thank you.
