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Told to Eat Its Vegetables, America Orders Fries

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Re: Told to Eat Its Vegetables, America Orders Fries

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Like the meat producers don't do the same thing?

Is there an eatbeef.gov?!

You'd be surprised how much government money goes into marketing agricultural products in general, including various flavors of meat. Strangely, nobody ever talks about cutting any of these programs.

http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/ams.fetchTemplateData.do?tem...

Re: Told to Eat Its Vegetables, America Orders Fries

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The benefit is that you don't become overweight and obese. I lived in Korea for a year and those people know how to eat vegetables. They are filling and low calorie which makes it less likely for the sedentary person to put on weight.

It's not a direct link though. I can stuff my face with nothing but donuts for weeks on end and never put on an ounce of weight. Which is probably as irritating as someone who can't lose weight.

How old are you? Because if you are young, that makes sense. I used to not gain weight no matter what I eated until I hitted my thirties. Now I have to watch what I eat.

Re: Told to Eat Its Vegetables, America Orders Fries

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post #52
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It's not a direct link though. I can stuff my face with nothing but donuts for weeks on end and never put on an ounce of weight. Which is probably as irritating as someone who can't lose weight.

How old are you? Because if you are young, that makes sense. I used to not gain weight no matter what I eated until I hitted my thirties. Now I have to watch what I eat.

32. Still no signs I'll ever change weight... Maybe when I get to 50 :)

Re: Told to Eat Its Vegetables, America Orders Fries

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post #54
post #52

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How old are you? Because if you are young, that makes sense. I used to not gain weight no matter what I eated until I hitted my thirties. Now I have to watch what I eat.

32. Still no signs I'll ever change weight... Maybe when I get to 50 :)

You win ;-)

Re: Told to Eat Its Vegetables, America Orders Fries

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Is there an eatbeef.gov?!

You'd be surprised how much government money goes into marketing agricultural products in general, including various flavors of meat. Strangely, nobody ever talks about cutting any of these programs. http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/ams.fetchTemplateData.do?tem...

What was surprising was seeing the marketing take the form of the Centers for Disease Control offering health advice.
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