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Offline St Giles

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« Reply #55 on: December 29, 2025, 08:10:10 PM »
I think there's more sugar and bad fats/oils in American food. I've heard it common for exchange students from Europe to return from America having gained several pounds due to our larger portion sizes and better tasting junk food like peanut butter.
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Offline AnthonyPadua

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« Reply #56 on: December 29, 2025, 09:37:59 PM »
Quote from: Ladislaus on December 29, 2025, 08:00:57 PM
Looking it up just now ... obesity is 17% in France compared to 40% in the US.

There's just absolutely no way the French are simply that much more virtuous than those in the US.  They're know to have much looser moral standards and especially love their food.

Undoubtedly this points to something else going on in these two countries.

EDIT:  same in Italy, 17%, despite their consumption of ample amounts of carbs ... Germany the highest at 19% ... Spain around 15%, etc.
UK Can and Aus also all very high rates. People love to eat big portions here and between meals.
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Offline Pax Vobis

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« Reply #57 on: December 29, 2025, 09:47:35 PM »
Plant oils, msg and corn syrup.  Plant oils being the worst.  The rest of the world doesn’t have this garbage to the level we do. 
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Offline Ladislaus

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« Reply #58 on: December 30, 2025, 12:56:48 AM »
Quote from: St Giles on December 29, 2025, 08:10:10 PM
I think there's more sugar and bad fats/oils in American food. I've heard it common for exchange students from Europe to return from America having gained several pounds due to our larger portion sizes and better tasting junk food like peanut butter.

So you land upon another point.  US Big Food have spent many millions in developing various chemicals that render food addictive.  It's not actually better tasting, but they have found ways to trick your brain into thinking it is.  I'll post some links but they have developed "hyper-palatable ultra-processed foods" (UPFs) that hit what they call the 'bliss point" where it maximizes the pleasure that comes from eating without triggering the feeling of satiety in the brain, causing people to keep eating far beyond what the body requires.  Between that and insulin resistance, they defeat the body's natural off switch that would normally prevent obesity by signalling satiety.
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Offline Ladislaus

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« Reply #59 on: December 30, 2025, 01:07:59 AM »
Just Google "food bliss point". Idea was developed by ... the usual suspect, Jew Howard Moskowitz.
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