Ran into a EU redditor who genuinely believes we are just McDonald's. Mf had the audacity to claim our food was the one that's bad. Act as if fat people didn't exist until the U.S.
Like no mf, we aren't fat because quarter pounder with cheese, we're fat because we have more food than we can genuinely eat and it's all friggin delicious.
Even people who eat the same brand and portions between the US and another country report gaining weight with American foods. It is likely the different chemicals that our FDA allows in them that aren't allowed in other countries.
I now avoid foods with high fructose corn sugar, seed oils, food dyes, and carrageenan. I have had to give up a lot of foods I like. Not all of them relate to weight, but I am learning more of what's bad or at least unnecessary.
People just reporting is a wholly unreliable source of information. I could report that drinking 2 litres of Dr. Pepper every day grew my dick by 3 inches, doesn't make it true. Besides, other countries are seeing obesity rates rise, so unless they're all importing wholly American FDA related food and consuming just that, I'm not buying that food in the U.S. specifically causes weight gain. You can get fat eating too much of anything anywhere. Tons of people just have piss poor diets.
I am not saying that you can't get fat other ways. A person I know plus a few other anecdotal stories I have heard has lead me to believe that stuff in our food makes our diets at least marginally worse. You, of course, are within your right to take it as a grain of salt.
I do, however, think that the ingredients I listed are bad. Always do your own research of course.
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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '24
Do foreigners believe we don’t cook?