Areloch said:
Leon Royce said:
If Americans didn't eat so much garbage they wouldn't be so fat.
Stop eating food imitation products, chemical products, GMO, fertilizer, pesticides and eat real food instead. Watch the fat melt away.
Man, just...what?
First, food IS chemicals.
Second, do you actually know what GMO means and stands for? Or did you hear about how they're bad for you somehow?
Third, are you actually positing that Americans eat fertilizer and pesticides? Or are you insinuating that you shouldn't use fertilizer and pesticides on crops. Because both of those are astoundingly nonsensical.
Lastly, You can have the healthiest diet in the world, and if you don't get any exercise, you'll still get fat because you're not burning any of the calories you're taking in. Healthy food isn't some magical silver bullet and that line of reasoning is actually a large part of the obesity problem for the first world.
"Exercise is hard and takes too much time. I'll just try X, Y, Z diet or this magic diet powder! Oh nooo, I'm not getting skinny!"
McDonalds come to China, and a few years later an obesity epidemic breaks out among young people. Why? Low quality food, like that served in McDonalds (which can be easily identified because it doesn't rote if you leave it) is simply unhealthy filth. You saturate your body with crap and your appearance will manifest it. We have starting living in the last couple of decades the consequences of three generations eating processed, doctored, chemical foods, something which began after the second world war, a result of a simultaneous population explosion and a desire from consumers to lower expenses on food to have more disposable income for toys.
If you drink Red Bull and Coke instead of water, Doritos and doughnuts instead of fresh bread, eat TV diners and fast food instead of hand cooked meals with high quality ingredients and fruit loops and skittles instead of real fruit, not only will you put on weight but after a few decades your body will become riddled with disease (diabetes, cancer, and more recently crones disease which has been linked to GMO foods in studies on bovines)
Exercise is overrated. It's pushed to sell things. Walking is all most human beings really need. I know a fat woman who has been exercising for 20 years, but eats low quality food from cheap supermarkets and has never put off the weight. I eat organic food and go for the occasional walks, and have remained on the lean muscular side my whole life without doing any sport, other than one and a half years of weight lifting.
I switched years ago from typical western supermarket food. Since then I've cut my daily meals from three to one and a half while retaining the same level of energy, in fact more. Since natural high quality food is richer and fresher, you don't have to eat more to get the same amount of vitamins, minerals and calories. Pasteurized foods are the worst. We pasteurize almost everything to extend shelf-life, but pasteurization kills close to 99% of all the healthy elements in food, like in orange juice for example.
While there are factors beyond simply eating and exercise that influence a body's ability to put on and retain weight, the fact is the quality of the fuel is a great place to start. Neglect quality in favor of quantity, and shove large amounts of it into your body, and you will pay a price for it eventually. The larger the food company (Nestle, General Mills, Kraft, Pepsico etc...) the more they push for low quality, GMO and lower government oversight of quality in any country they operate. Why do they lobby for lower quality?
I agree with you though that most diets are bullshit. Diets are always looking for that one chemical (cholesterol, gluten, salt etc...) that is causing everyone's problems. Given enough time, it's proven that naturally present elements in food (like those cited previously) are not a problem. The only time something has to be removed is when it comes from a lab, like trans-fats.
Dieting tips never recommend to improve the quality of the food eaten, only changes in the types eaten.
Having lived in the states a year (from Europe), and seeing army cadets drink gatorade for electrolytes (another term for mineral salts present in water) for breakfast while picking the yoke out of their eggs for fear of cholesterol has given me plenty of incite into American (and increasingly Western) eating habits.
