Quote (Santara @ Mar 21 2016 01:44pm)

High fructose corn syrup, yo. Thanks, decades of farm bills and the attached sugar tariffs.

Quote (russian @ Mar 21 2016 02:44pm)

Yep. Even though McDonalds is garbage, you aren't gonna get fat on one burger a day. And you'll save some money and time, too. But people don't like feeling hungry, so at the first pangs they go eat more food.

Quote (thesnipa @ Mar 21 2016 12:24pm)

People think i'm fucking nuts when i tell them about grocery stores in the hood that have literally zero fresh vegetables, literal. A few dented cans and you might be lucky. Now can someone get into the bus and ride across town to another grocery store? Sure. But there are very real places that are food deserts.

The biggest tool to fight this dynamic is urban agriculture, from community gardens to indoor home gardens. This of course requires a lot of education for populations of people that know nothing of farming. Luckily it is slowly catching on, New York is seeing an explosion of urban farming.

Quote (Goomshill @ Mar 21 2016 03:36pm)

When did we switch from tens of thousands of years of recorded history of "The poor starving masses" to "The poor who overeat five times the needed caloric intake until they resemble elephants"
Fat people gorge themselves in amounts of food that disgust me regardless of the nutritional content, lets be real here, fatties aren't eating the same portion sizes and magically ballooning due to a conspiracy of cola and junk food companies twirling their snidely whiplash moustaches. They're stuffing their pieholes until they expand to fill all the available space. We aren't discussing skeletal victims of poverty dying in our streets, the underprivileged don't line up for soup and wonder where the next meal will come from, they swipe a card and get five burgers and wash it down with syrup.

Food deserts are just fat apologism. Fat acceptance is an insidious and decadent subversion of cultural norms. Its enabled by political correctness, bleeding hearts and junk science.
We made serious attempts to quash smoking, and becoming at least partially taboo as a result. And its been a relative success. We need to quash obesity even more fervently

Quote (Mangix @ Mar 21 2016 12:46pm)

Lost 20 pounds in 3 weeks eating an angus mushroom and swiss burger for lunch at mcdonalds nearly every day. I just threw the bun away.

Quote (Goomshill @ Mar 21 2016 02:45pm)

bone to pick with the DFL? I'd rather they turned it all into e85

Quote (Mangix @ Mar 21 2016 02:46pm)

Lost 20 pounds in 3 weeks eating an angus mushroom and swiss burger for lunch at mcdonalds nearly every day. I just threw the bun away.

Quote (russian @ Mar 21 2016 02:54pm)

Exactly, people can always eat less. Everyone will clearly lose weight if they eat no food at all, so all you gotta do is find the amount of food you need to maintain a normal weight. It's gonna be more than 0, and less than 100 burgers a day. And it will always be cheaper and faster to eat less of whatever you are eating already.
20 pounds in 3 weeks is pretty drastic though. Typical "healthy" weight loss is supposed to be about a pound a week.

Quote (duffman316 @ Mar 21 2016 01:59pm)

last two times i had food at mcdonalds i got sick :/

don't know how people eat that crap