Check out the Nutrition Coalition: nutritioncoalition.us. Our obesity crisis started when the government came out with recommendations. Everyone is in everyone's pocket. Ketchup characterized as a vegetable in school lunches? FFS!
Check out the Nutrition Coalition: https://www.nutritioncoalition.us. Our obesity crisis started when the government came out with recommendations. Everyone is in everyone's pocket. Ketchup characterized as a vegetable in school lunches? FFS!
You are correct TC. Ray-Gun proclaimed ketchup as a member of the vegetable group. I believe pickle relish was in there too. Both loaded with high fructose corn syrup. Nice one Ronnie
Nixon feared the 60тАЩs protests. He ordered the FDA and Sec of Ag to make food as cheap as possible. The sugar beet was given wings, and destabilized sugar cane producing countries. High fructose corn syrup too ( Sen Grassley). Nixon didnтАЩt get the protesters like the 1960тАЩs, but we got chronic obesity and diabetes, and cancer. тАЬThe Hacking of the American MindтАЭ is an informative read.
Good old Amalgamated Sugar in Twin Falls. Sugar beet fields everywhere. I used to ride my bike by the plant on my ride to the south hills. Whatever they did to process those beets into granulated sugar smelled really bad.
One of the biggest offenders is high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), a very common sweetener added to loads of foods (maybe most of them, even things like peanut butter). It affects the body differently from real sugar and apparently does not trigger the satiation response, so people feel hungry and keep eating. The rise in obesity in the US (and now around the world) tracks closely to the introduction and spread of HFCS use in processed foods. Our diet is killing us.....
One unintended consequence of this "expansion of our horizons and waistlines" is that the "average" weight for men and women has been inching up (no pun intended, but there it is) so that now people are "average weight" this year who would have been overweight or even borderline obese 40 years ago..... And excess weight (and I am 50 lbs over my desired weight) not only makes clothes fit worse - it also over-stresses the joints and can exacerbate arthritis, as well as lead to other diseases and conditions, a depressing litany of which can be found by consulting Dr. Google.....
The Bride and I are cutting down the meat we eat, and what we do eat is usually chicken or fish, though I do like lean deli-cut roast beef in sandwiches. I got a vertical climber ans will probably die on it..... I admit I do not have a moral problem eating meat - the animals would not exist except to be eaten, but obviously, their being raised and killed for food must be as humane as possible. But eating plants also takes life, just a different form of life. As Euell Gibbons said to Johnny Carson eons ago (I was there when the earth cooled), there is as much life in an onion root tip as there is in a calf, just different life.
Our obesity crisis started when the medical profession, on the basis of no evidence whatsoever, persuaded the FDA that animal fat was bad for us and that it should be removed and replaced with sugar.
I believe that was the Nixon Presidency. Tricky Dick thought making food as cheap as possible would quell social unrest. The answer he got from Ag Sec was to ad sugar to everything. The FDA just gave in. From the book, тАЬThe Hacking of the American Mind.
Check out the Nutrition Coalition: https://www.nutritioncoalition.us. Our obesity crisis started when the government came out with recommendations. Everyone is in everyone's pocket. Ketchup characterized as a vegetable in school lunches? FFS!
I think that one goes back to Ray-Gun.
You are correct TC. Ray-Gun proclaimed ketchup as a member of the vegetable group. I believe pickle relish was in there too. Both loaded with high fructose corn syrup. Nice one Ronnie
Nixon feared the 60тАЩs protests. He ordered the FDA and Sec of Ag to make food as cheap as possible. The sugar beet was given wings, and destabilized sugar cane producing countries. High fructose corn syrup too ( Sen Grassley). Nixon didnтАЩt get the protesters like the 1960тАЩs, but we got chronic obesity and diabetes, and cancer. тАЬThe Hacking of the American MindтАЭ is an informative read.
Good old Amalgamated Sugar in Twin Falls. Sugar beet fields everywhere. I used to ride my bike by the plant on my ride to the south hills. Whatever they did to process those beets into granulated sugar smelled really bad.
One of the biggest offenders is high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), a very common sweetener added to loads of foods (maybe most of them, even things like peanut butter). It affects the body differently from real sugar and apparently does not trigger the satiation response, so people feel hungry and keep eating. The rise in obesity in the US (and now around the world) tracks closely to the introduction and spread of HFCS use in processed foods. Our diet is killing us.....
One unintended consequence of this "expansion of our horizons and waistlines" is that the "average" weight for men and women has been inching up (no pun intended, but there it is) so that now people are "average weight" this year who would have been overweight or even borderline obese 40 years ago..... And excess weight (and I am 50 lbs over my desired weight) not only makes clothes fit worse - it also over-stresses the joints and can exacerbate arthritis, as well as lead to other diseases and conditions, a depressing litany of which can be found by consulting Dr. Google.....
The Bride and I are cutting down the meat we eat, and what we do eat is usually chicken or fish, though I do like lean deli-cut roast beef in sandwiches. I got a vertical climber ans will probably die on it..... I admit I do not have a moral problem eating meat - the animals would not exist except to be eaten, but obviously, their being raised and killed for food must be as humane as possible. But eating plants also takes life, just a different form of life. As Euell Gibbons said to Johnny Carson eons ago (I was there when the earth cooled), there is as much life in an onion root tip as there is in a calf, just different life.
DopamineтАЩs effect I think. Sugar is like a drug.
Our obesity crisis started when the medical profession, on the basis of no evidence whatsoever, persuaded the FDA that animal fat was bad for us and that it should be removed and replaced with sugar.
I believe that was the Nixon Presidency. Tricky Dick thought making food as cheap as possible would quell social unrest. The answer he got from Ag Sec was to ad sugar to everything. The FDA just gave in. From the book, тАЬThe Hacking of the American Mind.