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Americans eat like they have universal healthcare though.
Obviously this varies but I found myself walking far more in Europe than in the US.
Also, some of the obesity I saw in the States I didn't see anywhere else. It was wild.
Once again, all anecdotal.
american food is poison. nobody can afford to buy and cook fresh food so we are all slowly getting diabetes for picking up processed meals on the way home from our third job that is a 45 min drive each way. obv ymmv but this is america.
No, you just cherry pick expensive ingredients so you can tell yourself that cooking your own food is more expensive. As an extreme example, how much would a pound of oats cost? Surely a fraction of any takeout meal you can think of
"affording" includes the energy and time to cook, and that all assumes nobody in the house struggles with food aversions or similar. you might be able to cook all your food, but not everyone can.
So you're changing the goalpoasts from "nobody can afford to buy and cook fresh food" to "some people don't have the time and energy to cook"
they are saying affordability cannot be measured only with money
yes, thank you. pedants are exhausting lol
You can make oats in like genuinely 6 minutes. Rice in like 10. Spend 15 seconds pouring chickpeas in a bowl of water and snack on them the next day. If you have the time to sit at a drive thru, you,ve got no excuse for either of those. Don't deny yourself your own agency. You absolutely can.
Are those the same people that oppose switching to electric stoves because they supposedly perform so much worse?
It seems like the vast majority of US-Americans oppose this which doesn't make sense if they never cook.
Having recently moved to Europe I've dropped about 20 lbs. That's like 9kg.
The only changes I made were my daily commute is now walking based and the food here is just better. Turns out real food fills you up so you eat less
Whenever I have to visit family in the [US] suburbs, it's a nightmare of driving everywhere. Walking a mile or two every day just living life has health benefits.
I was in Oklahoma and saw a mother and son who both were the size and shape of a door. I was dumbfounded. I’ve never seen anyone look like that.
Came here to say that. Europeans don't eat the shit that Americans shovel in their mouth. If they did, their whole healthcare system would bankrupt within days. It's part of the reason why Americans can't have universal healthcare. We are all terminal
Cost is not why we don't have universal healthcare. Even with how bad American food is, it would still be cheaper to institute universal healthcare.
There's a sub called stupidfood on reddit. The content there is mostly ads for studpidly over proportions of food and sometimes mixed with junk.
What it says it there's a huge market for this stuff there.
Recent example: https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/StupidFood/comments/1po98en/how_to_ruin_steak_in_30_minutes_or_less_in_an_age/