The men who made us fat
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Some men contributed to my weight gain. Like Uncle Ben and Chef Boyardee. But so did Mrs Butterworth and Auntie Anne.
I was thinking about Ben and his jerk of a friend Jerry0 -
The problem isn't "low fat" foods. Yogurt is low fat. The problem is lack of awareness of what people are ingesting in general. Then you have politicians who fight it whenever we want greater accuracy in food labeling, improve school lunches and get vending machines out of the schools. There's lots of blame to go around.We put drug dealers and users in jail. Both are responsible. Same with food. Those that produce the crap and engineer it to be addicting and those that consume it without thinking contribute to the problem.
The difference being that most drug users know that drugs aren't good for them, a lot of people eatng low fat foods are conned into thinking it's good for them0 -
Nope.
My overeating and sitting my *kitten* on the couch is what made me fat. Since nobody held me down and shoved food into my mouth, I won't watch anything that points blame at anyone else.
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My wife makes me chubby :bigsmile:
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One other part of the program was about this introduction of Low Fat Foods that replaced the fat content with sugar, those members of MFP from the Western side of the pond will know of SnackWell's products. Low Fat but the calories were similar to other products due to their sugar content, there were a lot of products that were marketed under the same banner but calorie content still wasn't good for you.
Andy
I am also responsible for putting to much of the wrong things in my mouth.0 -
No one made anyone else fat....except Kevin Spacey in Seven, he over fed that one guy.....
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Did you watch the programme?I just watched it, found it really interesting, it makes me angry that the big food corporations have no interest in giving people healthy food, it's all about profit, so they found substances to use eg. Corn syrup that is highly addictive and messes with the production of lectin in the body that tells you when you've had enough to eat. They put high amounts of sugar in "low fat healthy" foods, it's obscene
OMG! Because there are just NO Other options...we should starve ourselves.
Seriously...next time you go through the store, LOOK. There are plenty of healthy options. They make crap food because they can. YOU have the choice to either eat it or not. /facepalm
No, and I dont NEED to watch a program. The FACT is you have a CHOICE. Put **** in your mouth, or dont. Not difficult to understand...we as individuals are the problem.0 -
I meant the low fat diet foods and they're just one example, you should watch the documentary if you can, it is interesting, more people in this thread should watch it instead of spouting **** based purely on the title
The problem isn't "low fat" foods. Yogurt is low fat. The problem is lack of awareness of what people are ingesting in general. Then you have politicians who fight it whenever we want greater accuracy in food labeling, improve school lunches and get vending machines out of the schools. There's lots of blame to go around.We put drug dealers and users in jail. Both are responsible. Same with food. Those that produce the crap and engineer it to be addicting and those that consume it without thinking contribute to the problem.
The difference being that most drug users know that drugs aren't good for them, a lot of people eatng low fat foods are conned into thinking it's good for them0 -
Whatever mate
Did you watch the programme?I just watched it, found it really interesting, it makes me angry that the big food corporations have no interest in giving people healthy food, it's all about profit, so they found substances to use eg. Corn syrup that is highly addictive and messes with the production of lectin in the body that tells you when you've had enough to eat. They put high amounts of sugar in "low fat healthy" foods, it's obscene
OMG! Because there are just NO Other options...we should starve ourselves.
Seriously...next time you go through the store, LOOK. There are plenty of healthy options. They make crap food because they can. YOU have the choice to either eat it or not. /facepalm
No, and I dont NEED to watch a program. The FACT is you have a CHOICE. Put **** in your mouth, or dont. Not difficult to understand...we as individuals are the problem.0 -
i urge any person wacthing theese kind of documentries to consider thier opion carefully.
i make no excuises for the fact that they are evil and yes what they do is wrong, but as consumers all we have to do to stop it is not partake and they will look for things which appeal to us.
sadley they found something that appealed to quick and easy side within us and thier profits sored, but we (as in people) allowed it to happen and did not care where are greater conveince came from.
also if you take just one message from these documentries, take the message that large scale corparations are evil and only intrested in profit...because this is not uniqure to the food industry.
I have some extra tin foil if your hat ever gets lost.0 -
Children don't....and only now am i able to sort out the damage.
Did you watch the programme?I just watched it, found it really interesting, it makes me angry that the big food corporations have no interest in giving people healthy food, it's all about profit, so they found substances to use eg. Corn syrup that is highly addictive and messes with the production of lectin in the body that tells you when you've had enough to eat. They put high amounts of sugar in "low fat healthy" foods, it's obscene
OMG! Because there are just NO Other options...we should starve ourselves.
Seriously...next time you go through the store, LOOK. There are plenty of healthy options. They make crap food because they can. YOU have the choice to either eat it or not. /facepalm
No, and I dont NEED to watch a program. The FACT is you have a CHOICE. Put **** in your mouth, or dont. Not difficult to understand...we as individuals are the problem.0 -
I read about this and thought it sounded interesting and have it recorded to watch at some point (probably when the euros are over!).
Of course it's ultimately each persons choice what they put into their body. But as someone has already said many people have no idea about what they are actually eating, so if a program like this helps to make a few people stop and think that can't be a bad thing. I do usually find with these sorts of shows you have to take some of what is said with a pinch of salt though!!0 -
nope I havent seen it. thanks for putting the link up im gonna check it out.0
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Children don't....and only now am i able to sort out the damage.
Did you watch the programme?I just watched it, found it really interesting, it makes me angry that the big food corporations have no interest in giving people healthy food, it's all about profit, so they found substances to use eg. Corn syrup that is highly addictive and messes with the production of lectin in the body that tells you when you've had enough to eat. They put high amounts of sugar in "low fat healthy" foods, it's obscene
OMG! Because there are just NO Other options...we should starve ourselves.
Seriously...next time you go through the store, LOOK. There are plenty of healthy options. They make crap food because they can. YOU have the choice to either eat it or not. /facepalm
No, and I dont NEED to watch a program. The FACT is you have a CHOICE. Put **** in your mouth, or dont. Not difficult to understand...we as individuals are the problem.
well I dont know about you but i'm almost 30 and when I was a kid my mom cooked fresh local veggies and real meat. I was in great shape untill I got on my own and started eatting crap myself and not doing much of anything. thats 110% my fault. Now my kids my wife and me. We eat "real" food. So go ahead and blame your parents since thats what your doing but you still had a "choice" to be more active wether in school, playing outside, so on... I know people who eat nothing but mcdonalds,taco bell and pizza and play sports, work out and arent overweight at all. they bust there A** to not get that way with what they eat. are they healthy? maybe maybe not but they are in shape,active and not overweight like most of us on here were or are. Blame otheres + dieting doesnt go hand and hand very well......0 -
I wish people would stop going on about the title. It's not about blaming someone else for the weight you gain.0
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I've watched "Food Inc" which posited what appears to be the same arguments. I have no love for people who make a profit off of making other people miserable, even if individual will is involved. I know it's anathema in America to judge people who pursue profit at all costs but that's where I stand. I think it's morally wrong to make money by exploiting people's weaknesses.
I meant the low fat diet foods and they're just one example, you should watch the documentary if you can, it is interesting, more people in this thread should watch it instead of spouting **** based purely on the title
The problem isn't "low fat" foods. Yogurt is low fat. The problem is lack of awareness of what people are ingesting in general. Then you have politicians who fight it whenever we want greater accuracy in food labeling, improve school lunches and get vending machines out of the schools. There's lots of blame to go around.We put drug dealers and users in jail. Both are responsible. Same with food. Those that produce the crap and engineer it to be addicting and those that consume it without thinking contribute to the problem.
The difference being that most drug users know that drugs aren't good for them, a lot of people eatng low fat foods are conned into thinking it's good for them0 -
I agree and unfortunately it happens a lot
I've watched "Food Inc" which posited what appears to be the same arguments. I have no love for people who make a profit off of making other people miserable, even if individual will is involved. I know it's anathema in America to judge people who pursue profit at all costs but that's where I stand. I think it's morally wrong to make money by exploiting people's weaknesses.
I meant the low fat diet foods and they're just one example, you should watch the documentary if you can, it is interesting, more people in this thread should watch it instead of spouting **** based purely on the title
The problem isn't "low fat" foods. Yogurt is low fat. The problem is lack of awareness of what people are ingesting in general. Then you have politicians who fight it whenever we want greater accuracy in food labeling, improve school lunches and get vending machines out of the schools. There's lots of blame to go around.We put drug dealers and users in jail. Both are responsible. Same with food. Those that produce the crap and engineer it to be addicting and those that consume it without thinking contribute to the problem.
The difference being that most drug users know that drugs aren't good for them, a lot of people eatng low fat foods are conned into thinking it's good for them0 -
If there were one complaint I would have to make about these forums is how judgmental people can be. I was told once to stay away from forums because they're poison. I see what they mean now.0
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Nope.
My overeating and sitting my *kitten* on the couch is what made me fat. Since nobody held me down and shoved food into my mouth, I won't watch anything that points blame at anyone else.
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Nope.
My overeating and sitting my *kitten* on the couch is what made me fat. Since nobody held me down and shoved food into my mouth, I won't watch anything that points blame at anyone else.
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It was on BBC 2 on the 14.6.12 at 9pm
It's not really pointing the finger.. The first episode is about the invention of high fructose corn syrup and other new foods eg. frozen foods, but it focuses more on the cultural changes in the world around food. Such as snacking and eating more pre-prepared food. Also about how there are a lot of us that have no idea about food and what is in it. There is also some science in it, about the physical and mental affects on the body. I think that it was pretty well rounded. (is not good at explaining it)
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It's such an interesting topic. After the food shortages and hunger of WWII, processed and corporate food was supposed to be a boon to housewives especially. As children of immigrants, both of my parents and lived through the Depression (in US) . So, at one time, everything that is being critiqued now was seen as innovative and helpful. I actually remember being told that sugar would give you extra energy! (I'm 49 now so that was a while ago).0 -
yes... and ben & jerry , the nesquick bunny , colonel sanders, dr. pepper,sara lee, mrs fields....*kitten*...Some men contributed to my weight gain. Like Uncle Ben and Chef Boyardee. But so did Mrs Butterworth and Auntie Anne.0 -
I made myself overweight.0
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Sounds interesting, you're right that our food and acceptance of huge portions is out of control as well as how society has changed to allow for morbidly obese people to feel like there's nothing wrong with being that over weight.
You can tell who read what you're actually talking about and who didn't lol. ^^^^0 -
You remind me of a lecture in my Rhetorical Criticism course (I'm a grad student of communication studies). One of the area's of expertise that this professor specializes in, is environmental criticism. That area of course relates to agriculture. Anyway, according to this professor HFCS is one of the top invention along with figuring out how to effectively refine oil that has done the environment and human race some of the most harm in the last roughly 150 years. While the corn industry likes us to believe it's the same as corn sugar, it does have a higher tendency to be stored as fat. As it's become used in more and more foods, and have made foods possible that weren't 50 years ago, it has effect our health.
Granted self-control is a factor, when it comes not to eating too much. However, being fully aware of how different products react within the body is a significant part of the battle.0 -
No one made you fat but yourself. I guess you could put some blame on who raised you...if you were an overweight child. Even then, it's still really ones own responsibility.0
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the woman that made me fat..and is now trying hard to make me unfat lol0 -
When I saw the title of this my immediate reaction was to think how dare people blame others for their own weight issues! But after reading the explanation of the programme's content, I will be watching out for it if it comes here to Australia.
Having highly processed foods increases the likelihood of us gaining weight; eating fresh, home prepared, etc the "old fashioned" way before these various food processing were invented is the way to go.
I heard something interesting the other day about bread - this may have been mentioned in the programme? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorleywood_bread_process0
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