The hardship diet: losing weight the Cuban way

Mokey41

Wow, I love how you guys can take an observation that by eating less and doing more people lost weight and had less disease and make it into a whole directive on government policy. It didn't say that they promoted forced starvation just that eating less and doing more could actually improve your health! An average of 5 kgs or 11 pounds per person isn't exactly the same as a concentration camp. Lighten up!

LoraF83

It could be worse, they could be eating Monsanto everything and dead of cancer before they hit 50. Like here.

Yes. Starvation and living under a brutal tyrannical reign is such a step up from living in a land where food is plentiful and your leader's can't shoot you in the head in a dark alley.

:noway:

And because everyone here dies of cancer before they hit 50.

Everyone.

SpeSHul_SnoflEHk

When your country's dictator is starving you and then someone comes along and thinks "This is actually good for you!" - that's messed up. Just knowing friends who got out of Cuba and knowing they left because they were hungry and their government wasn't providing them enough of the basics - that kills me. This article is awful.

Of course this would have nothing to do with your country's imposed embargo...

Since this was done in 1960 and I wasn't even alive yet... I guess they couldn't ask me if I supported it before they went ahead and did it. Because, you know, normally every single person in America is asked before the government goes and does something.

You aren't?

Colombianchick29

WOW very interesting. thanks for sharing

Colombianchick29

Wow, I love how you guys can take an observation that by eating less and doing more people lost weight and had less disease and make it into a whole directive on government policy. It didn't say that they promoted forced starvation just that eating less and doing more could actually improve your health! An average of 5 kgs or 11 pounds per person isn't exactly the same as a concentration camp. Lighten up!

^^^I agree!! MFP always finds a way to turn threads ina completley opposite direction.

firstsip

I love Cuban food.

jamk1446

It could be worse, they could be eating Monsanto everything and dead of cancer before they hit 50. Like here.

Yes. Starvation and living under a brutal tyrannical reign is such a step up from living in a land where food is plentiful and your leader's can't shoot you in the head in a dark alley.

:noway:

And because everyone here dies of cancer before they hit 50.

Everyone.

Not me. My head just exploded. I didn't have time to get cancer apparently.

SpeSHul_SnoflEHk

It could be worse, they could be eating Monsanto everything and dead of cancer before they hit 50. Like here.

Noone is forcing anyone here to eat Monsanto everything here. If you don't like it, you cn opt to buy your own farmette and grow/raise your own food. I think the forced starvation is a little worse than GMOs in our food.

Also, the verdict is still out on whether or not the GMOs are carcinogenic. I could go on, but I don't want to hijack.

SpeSHul_SnoflEHk

It could be worse, they could be eating Monsanto everything and dead of cancer before they hit 50. Like here.

Also, OMG. I only have 5 years left before the cancer eats me.

Jude_V

In the UK we called it rationing - the same phenomena could be observed here during WW2 - when we grew our own vegetables and many foods were in very short supply or unobtainable (or only on the black market). As a nation we were probably never more healthy (apart from being bombed of course).

Unfortunately there is a similar phenomena when rationing stopped and the levels of obesity, diabetes and weight related illnesses went up - because, as we all know - when you've been starving for a while you tend to over eat once you have access to fat filled, carb loaded foodstuffs...

SpeSHul_SnoflEHk

Wow, I love how you guys can take an observation that by eating less and doing more people lost weight and had less disease and make it into a whole directive on government policy. It didn't say that they promoted forced starvation just that eating less and doing more could actually improve your health! An average of 5 kgs or 11 pounds per person isn't exactly the same as a concentration camp. Lighten up!

But someone else brought the concentration camp argument into the mix. It wouldn't be right to just leave that sitting there unchallenged.

DavPul

It could be worse, they could be eating Monsanto everything and dead of cancer before they hit 50. Like here.

By "here", are you referring to the USA, where we have something like the 5th longest life expectancy in the world?

JenniferMary_9169

It could be worse, they could be eating Monsanto everything and dead of cancer before they hit 50. Like here.

Also, OMG. I only have 5 years left before the cancer eats me.

I only have 6 1/2 years left....time to start on the bucket list...

fayeonherway

Wow, I love how you guys can take an observation that by eating less and doing more people lost weight and had less disease and make it into a whole directive on government policy. It didn't say that they promoted forced starvation just that eating less and doing more could actually improve your health! An average of 5 kgs or 11 pounds per person isn't exactly the same as a concentration camp. Lighten up!

While I see where you are coming from...You need to see where others are coming from also.

Have you ever lived under a dictatorship and had to obtain food via ration cards? Or your daily intake was not by making a conscious effort to eat less but because you and everyone else around you had no choice in the matter?

If you have then let's talk.

Mokey41

I'm not questioning that it was a bad situation just that the article wasn't saying anything one way or the other about the politics of it just that eating less and doing more leads to better health. Everything doesn't have to be about righting the injustices of the world! A simple topic had to be turned into a heated debate about what government did what to who. Like before, lighten up.

Alex

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