Other: The Cold War. Subsidizing farmers to grow corn to help win the CW

Dec 12, 2024
11:38:39am

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caused an over surplus that was then turned into high-fructose corn syrup. HFCS is much easier and cheaper to use in processed food production than sugar. It then become an additive in things that didnt need it.

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Longseason

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POLL: Primary cause for America being overweight?

Samsonite All-American

6:28am

Drive cars everywhere, don’t walk anywhere.

Japan Coug

6:30am

+ food injected with processed crap

maxpowers

6:57am

+ lots of people working desk jobs

thewaterboy

7:08am

People drive around parking lot multiple times to avoid walking.

maYbe

7:14am

I see that a lot at the gym.

Everyman

7:41am

Diet is more important. Almost impossible to out-exercise a bad diet.

Jay Rick

9:20am

Diet matters too, but I've lived in a bunch of places, and to me the biggest

Japan Coug

11:34am

Definitely all true. But the AVERAGE calorie consumption in the US is 3600.

Jay Rick

1:44pm

Lack of self control and sacrifice

Dr MoBYU

6:40am

Mostly carbs but mental health and sedentary lives play a role

Charles Darwin

6:42am

I picked other and here is why

gww687

6:43am

Yeah it's a combo.

JuicyJam

7:21am

This is not the own you think it is.

NGB

6:55am

Linking meat and sugar together as obesity causers is stupid.

Samsonite

7:07am

#mytruth. Never let someone take that from you.

Baron

7:10am

11% body fat for my dumb self… but you keep up with that food pyramid!

Samsonite

7:18am

What's your apo-B lipid level?

TN_Coug

7:22am

Why would that be relevant? We are talking scientific facts and studies that analyze broad data sets. I know yourtruth

Baron

7:44am

But he's fit, so he must be doing something right

NGB

7:47am

Who knew suggesting less meat and more vegetables was so wrong.

Baron

7:50am

Mom: Eat your veggies little Timmy so you can grow big and strong

NGB

7:58am

But... why?

NGB

7:11am

Research on diet has been horrifically wrong for 80 years now. Funded by food lobby.

Samsonite

7:17am

You're being cynical about the most irrelevant things

NGB

7:20am

Focusing on eating less meat is counterproductive. It won’t make you fat. It also fills you up so and gives you

Samsonite

7:25am

man, remind me never to think CougarBoard knows what it's talking about

NGB

7:33am

Oh man, wait until you learn that plants like beans have protein and fiber

TN_Coug

7:33am

probably more related to overall fitness and less with nutrition to be completely honest.

TN_Coug

7:10am

Example 1: Weight loss and nutrition arent the same thing.

TN_Coug

7:12am

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cougfanz

7:41am

Overweight is fat storage. Fat is excess energy. An excess of energy consumption

Recipefordisaster

7:11am

Quality of food in general is processed and of poor nutrition

Pretorian

7:17am

It's beyond parody that we have people arguing that eating more fruits and

vagabonder

7:27am

Nate Bargatze:

Icecat

8:07am

who is arguing that "eating more fruits and veggies isn't good health advice." Link?

HarlemCoug

8:10am

RE: who is arguing that "eating more fruits and veggies isn't good health

NGB

8:40am

that link doesn't work for me.. perhaps he deleted it? But one guy isn't "people". It hurts your side of the argument

HarlemCoug

8:51am

Dietary science is, by its nature, imprecise

NGB

9:05am

You keep using strawmen so I'll bow out after this post. I never said the science is "all" bad. You're putting words in

HarlemCoug

9:12am

"I don't trust any of the "science" on this"

NGB

9:27am

that's referring specifically to meat. I don't trust any of the science around meat consumption because I believe the

HarlemCoug

9:58am

k lol

NGB

10:00am

For Harlem but he has me blocked:

Baron

8:15am

All cause mortality is reduced by regular exercise. Strength and cardio. Vo2Max

Recipefordisaster

9:03am

It's true: exercise moves the needle more than diet when we're talking about living longer, but the OP asked about

dilbert

9:49am

because it's not easy to post on CB while running on a treadmill

Pangare

9:18am

Other: The Cold War. Subsidizing farmers to grow corn to help win the CW

Longseason

11:38am

That was the beginning of the corruption of our food

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