Known as the Standard American Diet (though Wikipedia calls it the Western pattern diet), it is "generally characterized by high intakes of pre-packaged foods, refined grains, red and processed meat, high-sugar drinks, candy and sweets, fried foods, high-fat dairy products (such as butter), eggs, potato products, and corn products (including high-fructose corn syrup). Conversely, there are generally low intakes of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, fish, nuts, and seeds."
It's generally agreed-upon to be unhealthy, but how to move away from it is a much harder question. Capitalism, food deserts, willpower, etc etc all get talked about. But regardless of whether or not it's a good thing, how SAD is your diet?
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Standard Australian diet
Standard addictive diet
It has global appeal, one of America's big cultural exports is industrialized food!
Sadly (hehe pun unintended but I suppose I'll take it!:-) what gets exported is far healthier than what we keep here - e.g. McDonald's in other countries is actually food rather than "foodstuff product".
At least here where I live, McDonald's is just like in the US and is "food-like product" also. Maybe the egg and beef patty is okay but I wouldn't eat anything else from there.
McDonald's is one of my go to places to eat when traveling. Get a bunch of the all beer burger patties, they are cooked in their own fat, it's fairly clean... Can't eat the bun, sauce, fries, or drink.
I am very sorry to hear that:-(.