We need to call American breakfast what it often is: dessert

Re:We need to call American breakfast what it often is: dessert by douche on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @03:16AM (#12077313)

Assuming that eggs are actually bad for you and do contribute to heart disease (they seem to go back and forth on this every second Tuesday...), I'd still take the heart disease over the diabetes from the sugar-blasted breakfast foods.

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Re:We need to call American breakfast what it often is: dessert by NzNz on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @03:46AM (#12077397)

It doesn't have to be either. Common breakfasts in france include eating 1 yogurt, or 1 croissant, or 1 toast with butter. Some people do eat 1 toast with jam, which might fit into your "sugar blasted" category.

In general, we're pretty light on breakfast and we don't have high diabete prevalence compared to countries like the US or even Germany.

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Re:We need to call American breakfast what it often is: dessert by tluyben2 on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @05:07AM (#12077695)

I don't think 1 toast with jam comes anywhere near sugar blasted. Comparing to the (plastic) stuff I see people (not exclusively in the US either as children in Spain and the UK seem to do it as well) eat.

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Re:We need to call American breakfast what it often is: dessert by AstralStorm on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @03:28AM (#12077351)

As if anyone has ever shown diabetes is caused solely by sugary foods. You might be getting a package deal there.

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