Eating Healthy

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Also im pretty sure that most fat people are fat from drinking shitty sugar filled crap instead of water. Also the zero sugar artificially sweetened shit fucks with ur insulin making u fatter. Just drink water.

There's a multitude of (often chronic) health conditions that create sticky weight gain, or weight that simply does not go away through diet and exercise. Add in the challenge for women and minorities of healthcare discrimination and you've got a recipe for overweight people who simply aren't able to lose the weight no matter what they try, and doctors blaming the weight before testing for endocrine disorders (oh and of course financial challenges in accessing healthcare in the first place)

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A couple of years ago I started looking at the sugar contents listed on labels. Ho-ly crap. How does a pint of strawberry milk contain over 100% DV of sugar? Why does my PB&J consume 2/3 of my daily sugar budget? Its honestly sickening once you start keeping track of these things and I'm not even doing more than just trying to reduce my sugar intake and loosely monitor how much I take in

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Living healthy is just the slowest way to die.

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Don't forget all the added salt in everything too. Doesn't affect weight but does affect internal health which is then compounded by weight gain.

Basically our food industry is trying to kill us while our healthcare industry makes money off it.

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People who cut all the sugar - all the carbohydrates - from their diets do stop being fat

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hyperpalatability is insidious. Healthy foods are delicious and packed full of flavors that the vast majority of people have never had the pleasure of experiencing - because all of your palates have been utterly fried by highly refined pseudofoods that are packed full of added sugar, salt, and fat.

My biggest vice is still salt. I have mostly been doing a decent job of reigning it in, but on one occasion recently I ate a bag of chips. Then a few minutes later had a plate full of home-cooked whole grain noodles with a variety of vegetables, in a light savory sauce. It was a meal I knew should have been gourmet, but because I had just consumed significantly more salt than I was used to, I literally could not even taste what I was eating.

Food is very much like drugs. There is a real addiction to it, but if you can work through the difficult beginning stages and commit to getting and keeping the junk out of your life, it becomes all upsides. Longer lifespan, better "healthspan" (ie., less suffering and chronic disease), and contrary to popular belief, food becomes more enjoyable.

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There's just no substitute for salt. The trick is to have a little bit in every meal and not too much, but it really is a flavor enhancer.

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Maybe your veggie dish just sucked and you had to fool yourself into thinking it's gourmet by not eating anything decent so that it tastes good in comparison?

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There are absolutely alternatives, that are particularly important for people with high blood pressure, and anyone wanting to potentially lower their risk of stomach cancer. If you get your salt in the form of miso, it appears the soy counteracts the harmful effects of sodium. Even more, there are potassium-based salt substitutes that have already been shown to have huge benefits for mortality risk. Currently I use an iodized 66% potassium salt. It's every bit as good as regular salt, and I think this kind of stuff needs to be in every home.

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I was shocked to find HFCS (and a bunch of other sh*t) in SOY SAUCE in the USA! WTF?

Sorry, but if you look at real soy sauce in Asia, it has like 4 ingredients - water, soy, maybe some alcohol (from the fermentation?), and 1 or 2 that I forget. USA soy sauce (that I looked at) has like 10 ingredients.

Looking at labels (on Amazon) now, Kikkoman seems to use the traditional recipe - no HFCS. But, La Choy soy sauce does have HFCS in it.