Average 10-year-old has eaten 18 years' worth of sugar
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Average 10-year-old has eaten 18 years' worth of sugar
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Re: Average 10-year-old has eaten 18 years' worth of sugar
#2Unpopular opinion, but part of the problem is that stupid people are more likely to have kids, and especially many kids. Stupid people become stupid parents.
Re: Average 10-year-old has eaten 18 years' worth of sugar
#3Unpopular opinion, but part of the problem is that stupid people are more likely to have kids, and especially many kids. Stupid people become stupid parents.
Associations of candidate genes with psychological traits and other traits studied in the social sciences should be viewed as tentative until they have been replicated in multiple large samples. Failing to exercise such caution may hamper scientific progress by allowing for the proliferation of potentially false results [… which may lead to] incorrect perceptions about the state of knowledge in the field, especially knowledge concerning genetic variants that have been described as “genes for” traits on the basis of unintentionally inflated estimates of effect size and statistical significance.[0][1]
[0]https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095679761143552...
[1]https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/intelligence-is-inherited-...
Not just unpopular, not supported by science.
Re: Average 10-year-old has eaten 18 years' worth of sugar
#4Unpopular opinion, but part of the problem is that stupid people are more likely to have kids, and especially many kids. Stupid people become stupid parents.
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Re: Average 10-year-old has eaten 18 years' worth of sugar
#5Unpopular opinion, but part of the problem is that stupid people are more likely to have kids, and especially many kids. Stupid people become stupid parents.
I'm sure anyone born from anyone is capable of learning about sugar. The sugar industry should at least be partially blamed considering how hard they try to make it look like sugar is not a problem. Also making it more confusing for the consumer by labeling it different things.
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#6One thing I have been working on recently is cooking, especially from scratch and attempting to keep it healthy. One big thing I have noticed is that a lot of food (once cooked) has a very short shelf life (usually days), and if you have something with few ingredients, it requires quality ingredients.
For prepackaged/premade foods, one would want food to stay good for longer than days once cooked/made, so it can be transported to a store, kept at a store for a while, purchased, stored at a home until eaten. Or even at a restaurant/fast food place, the same thing applies. A lot of those places have a significant amount of premade food.
Applying that same concept for profit, if the food is to be cost effective, lesser quality ingredients are needed.
It seems that to have the food be cheap and stay good for a while, this is what happens.
Re: Average 10-year-old has eaten 18 years' worth of sugar
#7This is an overly dramatic way of saying that the average 10 year old has consumed 1.8 times the current sugar recommendation.
Average 51-year-old has read 4 years' worth of books
Re: Average 10-year-old has eaten 18 years' worth of sugar
#8All this money, time and effort in an attempt to market new low sugar cereals, these are the same company’s who: 1. Have been marketing their product as part of a balanced breakfast for decades, and 2. Continued increasing the amount of sugar while actively lobbying against any attempts to regulate marketing their sugary products to kids.
Here is an idea...get rid of the sugary cereals and sugary milk entirely and feed your kids bacon and eggs for breakfast, with water.
Re: Average 10-year-old has eaten 18 years' worth of sugar
#9Unpopular opinion, but part of the problem is that stupid people are more likely to have kids, and especially many kids. Stupid people become stupid parents.
What an insane oversimplification. Look around, the tech industry is filled with incredibly smart people that don't take care of their bodies.
Overcoming bad lifestyle habits is a challenge for many, especially those who inherited those habits as children. But we can absolutely do better than "fat == stupid".
Re: Average 10-year-old has eaten 18 years' worth of sugar
#10Unpopular opinion, but part of the problem is that stupid people are more likely to have kids, and especially many kids. Stupid people become stupid parents.
I'm sure anyone born from anyone is capable of learning about sugar. The sugar industry should at least be partially blamed considering how hard they try to make it look like sugar is not a problem. Also making it more confusing for the consumer by labeling it different things.
If anything, the "unpopular opinion" that nobody likes to acknowledge is that advertising works. Really really well.
People love to complain about a "nanny state", but an alternative is often closer to a syndicate (?) state than anything else. We would like to think people would make choices that are healthy for them. Evidence seems somewhat overwhelming that they do not.