Re:U.S. Women Are Dying Younger Than Their Mothers, and No O...
by adrr on Monday October 07, 2013 @03:05PM
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I don't think its poor education. I think its the lack of caring. I think people realize it isn't healthy to drink a two liter of soda a day, but people still do it. Nutrition for food including fast food is posted everywhere. You have to make cognitive choice to ignore it.
Re:U.S. Women Are Dying Younger Than Their Mothers, and No O...
by VLM on Monday October 07, 2013 @03:30PM
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I would strongly disagree in that there's no reason other than ignorance and frankly .gov/.com corruption that we don't treat sugars and grains and grain based products like cigarettes or beer. I don't think the opposite extreme of copying the War On Some Drugs is a great model, throwing street level dealers in prison for selling ice cream to minors is going a bit far. I see no reason that any corn syrup soda should not have a surgeon's general warning stamped on it, "this product is medically proven to fatten, sicken, then kill its users" or similar wording. Its illegal to market cigs and alcohol to kids, especially on TV, why not ban marketing of ice cream to kids? Breakfast cereal is a product designed and manufactured to make people fat, and probably shouldn't exist as currently marketed to kids.
Re:U.S. Women Are Dying Younger Than Their Mothers, and No O...
by varelse on Monday October 07, 2013 @03:26PM
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And I think that's because they've convinced themselves that things are never going to get any better.
They're completely and utterly wrong about that. But to get there would involve taking a new approach to getting out of whatever circumstances got them where they are and most will never do so. The few that do will become the next generation's rags to riches stories.
wrong, usually poor education / bad for profit dietary advice.
Wanna sit around all day and eat while watching TV? Sure go ahead here's a bottomless bag of celery to eat. Or carrots. Or lettuce. Good luck getting fat on that. But if the .com and .gov make a lot of money promoting corn chips, it doesn't matter that corn is terrible for mammals other than fattening up livestock on the farm, there's money to be made, pork those babes up with corn chips. Ditto 2 liters of corn syrup soda, bowls of ice cream, anything with refined sugar added. Get back to me when a disgusting display of gluttony involving grilled chicken ceasars salad results in obesity.
On the other hand if its something that farmers slop their hogs with to fatten them up, like, say, corn products, well, guess what happens if you slop the chicks with corn products?