If you moderate your carb ("carbohydrates" being a sciencey way of saying "sugar") intake (which, for most Americans, means a drastic reduction) and have a decent amount of protein in your diet, you can lose a lot of useless weight and not drop over dead from heart disease. You don't have to become a Atkins carbophobe, even. Your average American takes in tons of useless calories through junk and soda and other crap that they really don't need. Cut it out and you'll be healtier.
Also, if you wanna lose weight, excercise. It takes effort, but it actually works.
Another big problem with the diet of people in this country is that the meat we eat comes from hapless critters that have been force-fed grains and antibiotics in astounding amounts. Most folks seem to be under the delusion that this is to make the food better for us, but in reality it makes the food much much worse for us - but it makes it a lot cheaper to produce in mass quantities. It's not so much that red meat is so terrible for us - it's that post-WWII, feed-lot produced, icky nasty red meat is bad for us.
And, no, I'm not a freaky health nut who smells oddly like granola and compost, a Luddite, or a member of the LFFNP (Lunatic Fringe Food Nazi Party)...but I do pay attention.
If you moderate your carb ("carbohydrates" being a sciencey way of saying "sugar") intake (which, for most Americans, means a drastic reduction) and have a decent amount of protein in your diet, you can lose a lot of useless weight and not drop over dead from heart disease. You don't have to become a Atkins carbophobe, even. Your average American takes in tons of useless calories through junk and soda and other crap that they really don't need. Cut it out and you'll be healtier.
Also, if you wanna lose weight, excercise. It takes effort, but it actually works.
Another big problem with the diet of people in this country is that the meat we eat comes from hapless critters that have been force-fed grains and antibiotics in astounding amounts. Most folks seem to be under the delusion that this is to make the food better for us, but in reality it makes the food much much worse for us - but it makes it a lot cheaper to produce in mass quantities. It's not so much that red meat is so terrible for us - it's that post-WWII, feed-lot produced, icky nasty red meat is bad for us.
And, no, I'm not a freaky health nut who smells oddly like granola and compost, a Luddite, or a member of the LFFNP (Lunatic Fringe Food Nazi Party)...but I do pay attention.
-Jn-
Efreeti Sophist