| The Ghost of RubangB said: There are four reasons for the obesity epidemic: 1) High Fructose Corn Syrup. They put it in everything, and it makes you fat. Countries that give a fuck try to limit the amount of it they produce or import. America goes "oh no you can't stop people from selling obesity causing cancerous poison, that would be un-American! Let anybody sell any poison to anybody, and let them lie about it! FREEDOM!" Right now the Coca-Cola company is getting sued because they falsely advertise Vitamin Water as a healthy alternative to Coke, but it has the exact same amount of calories and high fructose corn syrup. It's basically water-flavored Coke poison bullshit. But they can get away with it, due to point #2. 2) People are lazy and willfully ignorant of what they put into their bodies. If you try to tell them it's bad for them they say "get out of my way I'm addicted to genetically modified cancerous fructose-injected meat and bread and cheese and soda RAGHAHGAG!!!" I have met people who eat meat with every single meal, and refuse to eat salads because... "salads are for girls and fags." 3) Bovine Growth Hormone. Monsanto and other companies put this shit into cows to make them bigger and fatter so they can produce more milk. Then they make more milk faster, so they can make more money, which is the American way. However, then the milk has a fucking GROWTH HORMONE in it. So when kids drink it they grow fatter and faster. That's why we have girls getting huge and fat, having giant tits by the age of 10, and some menstruating at the age of 7 or 8. They're not mature enough to understand any of this, but their PARENTS DON'T GIVE A FUCK. People just go "that's weird, I didn't get my first period until I was 12 or 13, but all my kids get their first period at 8 or 9, and I have no idea why. Huh, whatever, what's on TV?" 4) The film Krush Groove came out in 1985, featuring this music video:
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1) B.S ... Excess calories lead to obesity, not any ingredient or component of a food product. The connection between weight gain an high fructose corn syrup can be (mostly) explained by the excessive consumption of calories in beverages that was rare for people before. Today between lattes and pop an individual can drink 50% of their daily recommended intake of calories from beverages; even if these were made with raw sugar there would still be a obesity epidemic
2) Insensitive but otherwise accurate
3) B.S. ... Excess calories lead to obesity, not any ingredient or component of a food product. The relationship between hormones and obesity can be explained because people regularly eat far more meat than they need to (or is healthy for them). For me, a 6ft tall 190lbs man the typical daily intake of meat/protein is 200g and costs (less than) $2, yet people are often eating 500g cuts of chicken/pork/beef a couple of times a day; and are eating 5 to 10 times their daily recommended intake of meat.
