My family survived a famine, 80% of them died in the Holodomor.
I've got literal famine resistance genes.
I now live in the United States with access to delivery food and extra cheese pepperoni pizza.
Checkmate natural selection 👉😎👉
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So your only diet options are… starvation? Hehe
i love personal anecdotes where someone makes sure to call everyone but them stupid and fat. eating proper meals takes time and money, which a great many people do not have, and large portions of the population do not have even live in areas with fresh food. ever heard of a food desert?
also the BMI system is based entirely on white Irish men of a specific height who lived like a hundred years ago.
also also, being 'fat' does not always mean you're unhealthy, and being 'skinny' does not always make you healthy.
The shitty US labor laws (piss poor working conditions) are one of many problems associated with obesity.
Every time I visit Germany, I eat and drink a ton. I'll lose about 5 lbs that week just from the higher quality food and walking convenience.
5 lbs is literally just a hydration and glycogen difference. You tend to have about 5 lbs of glycogen of which each pound is holding 2 lbs of water so 5 lbs is within normal fluctuations. Carb and fat profile of diet and a lack of gluconeogenesis can have you eat the same amount of calories while "losing" weight. Additionally, the amount of salt that you retain from your food can have a significant difference. If you're going from a high salt diet to a low one, you could expect to lose water weight.
That's interesting. Germans certainly aren't known for their healthy food when you look at the prevalence of cured meats and things like currywurst.
contrary to conventional wisdom, quality of food isn’t really considered a primary instigator of the obesity epidemic. rather, environmental factors such as poverty, failures in education/access to diet information, and car-centric urbanization are proven to be much bigger factors in the ongoing health crisis.
in other words, america could be totally healthy eating the exact same food if we built society around people living healthy lives, but that is far from the primary goal for a country living under capital.
At least the Germans have time to take care of themselves, but quite a bit of the food is processed too.
Where do you normally eat?
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When I bring my rice and veggy curry to lunch I become a spectacle for everyone. Because they are all either ordering fast food, not eating, or just eating junk and snack food. This is a huge problem, why am I spectacle for doing something so basic?
There are actually microaggressions from people to me just because I eat healthy.
People hate being reminded that the conveniences they enjoy are unhealthy/unethical/etc. All it takes is somebody else choosing differently to trigger defensiveness and denialism. Rather than making changes to their own life they choose to ridicule those who are making better decisions.
Business school calls it Escalation of Commitment.
I call it Bucket o’ Crabs. In this case the bucket comes with another bucket full of melted butter.
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Some previous coworkers I had were blown away by a pear that I brought as part of my lunch. A pear!!!
edit: duh, not pair
I can't tell if you're kidding, but the homonym you're looking for is pear.
I was really confused for a second thinking, "a pair of what" then I realized you meant pear!! Lol. English is fun
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Probably the real reason why McDonald T-rump got voted for again.
genuinely curious wtf you mean with this lol. like i’m not following at all.
Social/environmental - life is fucking terrible and I have to take anxiety meds to survive it without panicking and breaking down. My last meds made me hungry CONSTANTLY. Sadly, I didn't know it was the meds until about 3 months ago. New med calms the anxiety and doesn't make me starving all the time.
I am not built for modern society.
I am not built for modern society.
No one is. Modern society wasn’t even built for you. We are just means to an end under capital.
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Under-educated overweight people with guns. Everything's gonna be alright.
I have noticed the general public is now very tolerant of sweet drinks. I know that is not the only problem. I was never allowed soda or coffee or sweet tea growing up, so don't have much of a tolerance for them now. But when I try popular coffees (pumpkin spice this or vanilla chai that) or cocktails at most restaurants, I am surprised that people don't send them back and ask for less sweetener.
As an infrequent treat, I can understand it. But if you are drinking that much sugar on a daily basis, it must seriously screw with your system. I am sure lots of people are drinking a huge amount of calories and don't register how different that is from past generations.
I(M) am an actually healthy weight (I believe I'm almost exactly average for my height and build for a man in the 60s or 70s), but my brain has absolutely been hijacked by sugar, and I can tell. Even avoiding over sweetened stuff for months and months I will still get cravings and having something I know a European would find sickeningly sweet I find is very similar to how junkies describe a relapse.
Despite all of that, I refuse to give in. I enjoy the freedom having a relatively healthy body gives me. Makes finding a partner with a similar mindset and goals hard though. It's worse than a Thanos snap, 3/4 of the population just gone.
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