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Totally. Its an axiom of capitalism here that corporations should engineer and promote the most addictive sort of foods possible. For the shareholder, who is the most important consideration always!
In a way, the body positivity movement thus serves the same system. You don't have to look for alternatives to the cheap food that is sold to you and the havoc it wreaks on your body. Continue consuming and increasing profits.
So the old saying "Finish your food because people are starving.”
Sometimes, children refuse "healthy foods" because the food isn't prepared to their taste. For example, broccoli (famously disliked by children) has been shown to contain bitter flavour that children are more perceptive of then their parents, which results in the perceived difference in tastyness. Also, children are more likely to have specific bacteria in their mouth that break down the broccoli into foul-smelling gases.
www.abc.net.au
A lot of people are trying to move to where the food is, but for some reason and in spite of the messaging of Sesame Street, the people who live where the food is don't like to share.
That reads like a horoscope. Just a grab bag that anyone can find themselves in. I do, too, and I wasn't raised on that silly statement.Though apparently even though it made little sense, those that heard it acquired all kinds of positive traits.
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Not to go off topic, but it reminded me of a study where if a grandfather ate too many pot lucks at his church get togethers, his future grandchildren would be obese, OR the more overweight friends someone has, the more overweight someone is likely to be.
Anecdote: my “devout” atheist friend who died in 2024, was morbidly obese for most of her adult life (300+ pounds). She was raised Episcopalian which is mainline.
I saw very few overweight people in Europe the three times I was there. I swear, most of the natives were in excellent shape, despite (from my limited experiences) all the eating and after dinner drinks I did when I visited.i wonder if that was considered a cultural norm? I don’t know.
you’re spot on!
This cannot be. Theres too many equally unhealthy and addictive alternatives available to Jews.
So if food access is not the problem (and I didnt say it was) then habits and cultural conditioning are left as the most likely reasons for your map distribution of obesity (which I did say). And thats pretty much what you go on to describe.
Sort of.... But the problem with this is that loads of healthy eating people enjoy food just as much as your Baptist potluckers.
I think we found the problem! The proposed healthy alternative being grilled chx breast and some plain sounding veg. Sounds bland and miserable frankly. Appealing food thats not simply fat/sugar/refined flours takes some knowledge and typically comes out of a deeper food tradition (like Greek, Japanese, French, North African etc).
That was just and example, there's obviously other options than just plain chicken and carrots.
If you're referring to the immigrants from Latin American countries, I'd argue that they have food...and in many ways, food that's better than ours.
Most adults wont pick the berders if they have experience with those food traditions. So I still dont buy the entertainment value of crappy food as the root cause here. Its what you were brought up with - or cultivated as adult that matters. The entertainment value follows from that.
To be clear, I wasn't saying that the crappy'ness of the food has the entertainment value, I was suggesting that eating a bunch becomes a void filler at social gatherings when other things aren't allowed.
