RE: Rant about weight, fat acceptance, obesity and health
October 30, 2015 at 10:50 am
(This post was last modified: October 30, 2015 at 10:58 am by The Grand Nudger.)
How much of the meat, by weight, is additive and GRAS (and what are those additives). Guess what, you don't know..because they don't have to tell you. So, when you see a sticker that says "up to 20% broth", for example..on the average store bought skinless boneless breast...there's yet another undeclared portion of that chicken breast which is most definitely not made of chicken.
Basically, you're being sold plumped food. Meat balloons, if you will.
As regards the veggies. Two inconvnient issues crop up. Firstly, the amount of veggies your store sells is miniscule. It;s miniscule both to their profits and their square footage. They use that aisle to get you in the door. They want you to see that. They want you to walk in and feel that "veggie aisle feeling"....and then traipse around the store buying everything else. Which is what we, as americans, do. The veggies themselves are less nutritionally dense than they were just a few years back...and this is intentional, and not entirely avoidable.
I'm not telling anyone that there's -nothing- healthy to eat, anywhere...but you can find healthy food at McDonalds too. I;m simply suggesting that the majority of whats available is not healthy, and that economic and social constraints steer us and cause people -to- steer us towards the unhealthy shit, time and time again. Doesn't help, ofc, that our biology is fucking with us. That unhealthy shit is often absurdly delicious.
Basically, you're being sold plumped food. Meat balloons, if you will.
As regards the veggies. Two inconvnient issues crop up. Firstly, the amount of veggies your store sells is miniscule. It;s miniscule both to their profits and their square footage. They use that aisle to get you in the door. They want you to see that. They want you to walk in and feel that "veggie aisle feeling"....and then traipse around the store buying everything else. Which is what we, as americans, do. The veggies themselves are less nutritionally dense than they were just a few years back...and this is intentional, and not entirely avoidable.
I'm not telling anyone that there's -nothing- healthy to eat, anywhere...but you can find healthy food at McDonalds too. I;m simply suggesting that the majority of whats available is not healthy, and that economic and social constraints steer us and cause people -to- steer us towards the unhealthy shit, time and time again. Doesn't help, ofc, that our biology is fucking with us. That unhealthy shit is often absurdly delicious.
Quote:I like to go to farmers markets and butcher shops too, and I know the cost is a factor but a lot of these places even take food stamps now.This, right here, I love this. States are starting to roll out programs like this, it's a positive change. They're fighting against a tide of prior bad policy decisions, however. Course, if food stamps have to go to higher priced niche products in order to get healthy food, or in order to increase the ratio of healthy-to-unhealthy products.....is this not another example of precisely the problem I'm shining a light on? I'm not condemning your dietary choices, or claiming that you make poor ones, or that it's impossible for you to do so, I'm simply expressing that you are not given the opportunity as often as you could be, or would like to be. Cornbread outta fatten your beanpoles right up, btw.
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