gravy wrote:It's likely obesity related but why that's surged isn't super clear either.
Lots of theories though, I'm sympathetic to the view that sugar (especially fructose) is basically poison and the shift from low fat foods has seen the sugar content in processed foods increase significantly through adding sugar directly or through simple carbohydrates.
As Darkflame says there's also some evidence that alzheimer's is tied to similar causes now.
Why do people eat shit that's really bad for them? It tastes really nice and high sugar processed foods it actually makes you want to eat more rather than satiate your appetite. It's a perfect product!
It's just a theory but if it is right it'd mean some form of regulation or at least tax of foodstuffs loads of people love eating and in turn multi-nationals having to give up a level of profit. Or pay for the shit they've caused. That kind of change takes decades
I can agree in that , lot of industrial food seems to be designed around these concepts :
- cut down production times and costs
- minimal input, maximal output
- costs over quality
- mega controlled 'standardized taste' no room for natural diversity
I believe we live in times of "totally manufactured tastes" and a "subliminal process" of "sweetification".
Everything is sweet, everything is "rounded to a taste that is ideal" .. lot of stuff that never been sweet is sweet.
For those ( very lucky ) that grew up in different time with real food that came out straight from the garden you know that :
- "real food is quite often imperfect" ( i.e. quite some times it may not taste SO perfectly good as it should )
- "real food is never the same twice", it depends on the climatic conditions of the season
- whatever happened to bitter, sharp, "wild" tastes of things ?
Natural food has fat that tastes more fat, meat that tastes more meaty and 'wild' ( strongly influenced by the animal diet and life ) often the meat
is more chewy than tender but there's a much higher range of subtle tastes and back tastes to things.
Today we live into msg + structure + flavours + sugars + refined fats + else
Often one ends up in eating shit for 'convenience' be this costs first and availability second and time third and cause "despite all you'll still live around 50" or so
probably killed before by other things, in US certainly age is probably not what will end your life first
( forgetting about the 'bad things' work will probably kill you first or made you totally insane first, secondly your debts ).
I agree that sugars and certain things the fuck I know why are pure drugs, even worse than nicotine or else, you eat some stuff it penetrates some of your brain whatever it's just 'can't have enough of this' , nothing about 'hunger' it's about "I love the feeling when I eat it, end", it's pure brain reward more than stomach reward.
What pisses me off/still surprises me it's how much packed of calories even shittest foods are today, it's almost "incredible" you really snack, don't even let's say "eat" something you insert 100 cal like would be "totally nothing", I think you could well be over 2000 cal per day without even having the feel you actually eat anything and still be hungry.
About sugars also a few times I've done what I call "The Gaz experiment" and one thing is TRUE, fook me you note changes after a couple of weeks !
But it's fucking hard if you are a kind of 'sweet addicted' as I am ( the kind of person could die sinking into a vat of custard while still dipping pastry into and eat
).
It's not about "loss of weight" or such but a "strange positive overall feeling" of "my brain is more awake with less sugar" which seems counter intuitive but "something happens" .. and/or not sure it's me so full of andrenaline cause I miss sugar so much
But yeah sugar should be 'a thing in moderation' NOT 'a thing of every day', I can truly be convinced that "in excess" it IS a poison more than anything else, but so a bit of everything as well.
As per proteins well .. personally I'd swap meat for ( fresh ) fish and yeah that you are vegetarian or not lots of veggies are always good for you.
The bottom line is that if you really can't do without some shit stuff at least you should keep a very careful eye over it and try to not overabuse it nor consider it "normal" because shit stuff isn't normal, it's a "forced normality" by the current industry/society but it's not "normal" at all nor it should be.
Ah yes and do more exercise as well, diet is nothing without some exercise, you don't feel well or be well only because you eat well.
