Obesity and Overweight Prevalence for the U.S

Re:Obesity and Overweight Prevalence for the U.S by nkkollaw on Friday February 23, 2018 @02:56PM (#16448899)

The reason Americans eat that much sugar is not the "one won't hurt" mentality, but the fact that the government singled out fat as the only source of evil, and companies started adding sugar to everything because without fat everything tastes like cardboard.

I bet most of the sugar consumed is from things that no one would think contain as much sugar as they do (like--bread, meat, etc.), which is added to make it more palatable.

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Re:Obesity and Overweight Prevalence for the U.S by RightMillennial on Friday February 23, 2018 @03:25PM (#16449228)

I was curious so I checked the bread in my cupboard. The generic loaf of white bread has high fructose corn syrup, and the fancy whole wheat loaf has sugar. Both are pretty high up in the ingredient list.

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Re:Obesity and Overweight Prevalence for the U.S by nkkollaw on Friday February 23, 2018 @03:36PM (#16449343)

Yes because in European bakeries they might add butter to make it taste good, but in America no one would buy it because it wouldn't say "fat-free", so they add sugar.

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Re:Obesity and Overweight Prevalence for the U.S by ghaff on Friday February 23, 2018 @07:00PM (#16450695)

By and large, the mass produced American breads aren’t very good. But the bread sitting on my counter right now from Trader Joe’s, which is not actually an artisanalproducer, doesn’t seem to have any added sugar. No it’s not a mass market product but it’s also something that’s more than “no one” buys.

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