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How the Government Made You Fat
PragerU ^
| 9/23/2019
| Bret Scher
Posted on 09/23/2019 11:40:08 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: fireman15
Great documentary on Amazon called Fed up. Great info on how the food industry basically caused this by adding sugar to everything. They give some insight as to why your daily sugar recommended percentage isn’t on labels.
Both parties are complicit and are guilty.
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posted on
09/23/2019 12:48:31 PM PDT
by
jntrees
To: fireman15
Ban spoons!
(Oh, wait.... This is just a ping to read more later)
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posted on
09/23/2019 12:53:14 PM PDT
by
Kommodor
(Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
To: Spruce
Beer made me fat.
Stopping beer drinking made me not fat
Ditto
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posted on
09/23/2019 12:53:28 PM PDT
by
MCF
(If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo)
To: fireman15
I was going to argue that we’ve gotten taller.
But we’ve gotten shorter.
Because immigration.
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posted on
09/23/2019 12:55:04 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Epstein proves it's all a charade.)
To: discostu
I think Michelle 0bama re-wrote them all (government nutrition guidelines), anyway, so who knows whether they have any validity?
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posted on
09/23/2019 12:56:15 PM PDT
by
NEMDF
To: DannyTN
I think calling it a cure is almost malpractice. A cure would mean the underlying causes are completely reversed. A diet where insulin is virtually unneeded is a workaround, not a cure.
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posted on
09/23/2019 12:57:18 PM PDT
by
Codeflier
(Tagline for sale.)
To: MCF; Spruce
Just the opposite
Went in USN 1956 at 120 & 5’8, got out in 1964 a 6’ 145 and stayed in the 140 range until I stopped drinking AND smoking in 1990.
Uh if on scales and I get out of truck and off scales they tell me to get back on as they can’t believe the difference (NOT really) but, I did ‘grow’ and grow and grow, OUT, not up...ha ha
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posted on
09/23/2019 12:59:18 PM PDT
by
xrmusn
(6/98"HRC is cast as the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
To: Yaelle
As soon as you carve it up, put the carcass and wings (first eating the wing meat of course) Just the wing meat?
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posted on
09/23/2019 12:59:41 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Elitist Liberals have no idea the hunger and strength of the beast they have uncaged.)
To: Retrofitted
Great post! All comes down to net in vs. net out, but there are a ton of variables in that simple equation that are unique to that individual.
In 30 years, we will be finding out that all this carb elimination led to X.
Moderation is not part of the mindset of many these days.
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posted on
09/23/2019 1:07:46 PM PDT
by
Codeflier
(Tagline for sale.)
To: Kipp
I know this is anecdotal but bears mentioning. My father grew up on a working farm in the Deep South during the 1930s and 1940s.
Despite growing acres of it, my grandmother would never put corn on the dinner table except maybe as cornbread. Corn was something you fed to the livestock to get them fat. Just something to think about.
To: MCF
Beer made me fat.
Stopping beer drinking made me not fat
Ditto
Did you give up drinking, or choose a new beverage?
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posted on
09/23/2019 1:15:19 PM PDT
by
ConservativeWarrior
(Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
To: fireman15
I was normal weight until I turned 53. I quit smoking and gained 45 Lbs. For the last couple of years I eat the same foods but less. I have lost 40 Lbs. I will eventually get that other 5 Lbs. It may take me another 6 months, but with my weight loss I may have the time.
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posted on
09/23/2019 1:20:36 PM PDT
by
Starstruck
(I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
To: Kipp
The men who made us fat...
I cant seem to find it, just getting a couple short clips. Do you have a link?
To: fireman15
The Food Pyramid, which is bad nutrition advice, was published in 1992 by our government. 6-11 servings of bread, cereal, rice and pasta...YIKES!
How many servings of Carbs in that chart?
To: fireman15
"If you eat more calories than your activity level and metabolism can burn and you do not poop the excess out because of inefficient digestive absorption they will be stored as fat." True, but it says nothing about cause and effect and doesn't provide any useful information about how to change things.
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posted on
09/23/2019 1:53:32 PM PDT
by
mlo
To: ConservativeWarrior
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posted on
09/23/2019 1:54:06 PM PDT
by
mlo
To: discostu
Bottom line:
If the National Sawdust Foundation had enough money to throw around up on Capitol Hill, it wouldn’t be long before the government would be advising Americans to eat sawdust five times per day.
The government is just too corrupt to be trusted with the transmission of health advice or science.
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posted on
09/23/2019 1:55:05 PM PDT
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
To: ConservativeWarrior
I didnt officially give it up. Its that I seldom drink it or any booze now. I do like my coffee, Earl Gray tea, and Fresca though.
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posted on
09/23/2019 2:00:48 PM PDT
by
MCF
(If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo)
To: Drango
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posted on
09/23/2019 2:03:02 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: fireman15
"How is it that ever since the government began telling us what to eat, we have gotten fatter and sicker?"
The government told us what to eat in the 1960s, and we were skinny, fast and productive. The reasons for so many people getting fat since the 1980s are lack of exercise, troublemaking drug addicts and their pit bulls inhibiting walking outdoors, too much manufacturing being exported (lazy service jobs), drug abuse, gluttony (sugars, grains,...), fatherlessness, crooked hiring and insurance practices,... There are many obvious reasons that can be summed up as a societal rejection of common sense.
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posted on
09/23/2019 2:21:32 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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