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Study: Western-style diet can impair brain function
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I'm going to have to eat a lot of milkshakes to forget that article.
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Yeah I'm guessing they mean something like a Vanilla Latte or a Caramel Macchiato, which are loaded with sugar. If you just order a Macchiato or a Latte, you get exactly what you're thinking of.
Absolutely. Have a look at the Starbucks Latte section of their menu. You too can start your day with a milkshake!
Yeah I normally make them hold the pickle relish flakes, just clashes with the coffee and hotdog foam and completely overpowers the beverage
Clearly I'm not living my fullest Starbucks life. The most elaborate thing I order is a flat white or nitro cold brew.
Ever considered to make food healthy and to maintain food costs for children's lunches to such a low cost. Meant the food they are eating might be disgusting, tasteless, or lack of a better point not being consumed and just thrown/toss away.
Not to mention schools go by a calorie count system that's flawed. Many kids still go hungry because they aren't eating enough calories. Especially more athletic kids who need the extra energy.
When I was in High School and the Michele Obama food changed what we could eat. The lack of salt, or even any sort of fat in the milk we had to consume was disgusting. A lot of people just threw everything away. Not to mention there was hardly any options like a salad and if there were, I wasn't eating enough from the course meals or alternatives.
You weren't allowed to buy a second lunch, there weren't any snack machines to try and eat more. The only thing you could do was pack a lunch that would fill you. But most families (or at least mine) didn't have food to even pack a lunch.
And sometimes schools just outright refuse people to pack a lunch. Or if there is someone with a allergy there were so many restrictions for other students on what they even can bring. Because of one student.
The American School Lunch system is a disgusting joke. It's another point of how capitalism is literally starving kids because we as a society is too cheap and ignorant of children. And we never give a platform to fucking students to even talk about these issues.
I think some dumbfuck European "researchers" watched Honey Boo Boo and assumed that's what everyone in the US eats.
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Nonsense, everyone knows that an 90 pounds 5'0'' librarian has the same caloric needs of a 250 pounds, 6'8'' pro basketball player. 2000kcal is an universal constant.
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What does this mean? How do you not mix carbs and fat? Wouldn't rice/pasta with meat be considered mixing carbs and fat?
American diets consists of mainly toasted sandwiches and milkshakes.
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Modern Asian diet consists of the same shit. Not everyone here walks five miles up a hilltop to eat rice wrapped in seaweed for lunch...
In stunning reversal of previous research, scientists determine that unhealthy foods are bad for you.
Cool that the food reward hypothesis of obesity is making major media headlines.
It's highly researched since the 1960s. Basically the hypothesis is that a combination of highly palatable qualities of food when combined break down the body fat homeostatis system in our bodies (more body fat, more leptin hormone, less hunger, and the inverse of all 3). There are limited controlled human studies but it's fact with other mammals studied like rats. In the 1970s they observed that rats will ignore healthy food next to them, traverse a maze of electric shock during the day (their sleeping time) and overeat human junk food and become obese whereas in absence of junk food they eat and maintain a healthy weight. No calorie counting, no higher thinking, just biology.
A lot of people may be "well, duh" but the implication is that obese people overeat because they're hungry all of the time because the food is fucking up their hunger. Most dieting is based on willpower and planning, when really the focus should be on eliminating hyperpalatable food, at least for kids, and educate adults.
It's highly researched since the 1960s. Basically the hypothesis is that a combination of highly palatable qualities of food when combined break down the body fat homeostatis system in our bodies (more body fat, more leptin hormone, less hunger, and the inverse of all 3). There are limited controlled human studies but it's fact with other mammals studied like rats. In the 1970s they observed that rats will ignore healthy food next to them, traverse a maze of electric shock during the day (their sleeping time) and overeat human junk food and become obese whereas in absence of junk food they eat and maintain a healthy weight. No calorie counting, no higher thinking, just biology.
A lot of people may be "well, duh" but the implication is that obese people overeat because they're hungry all of the time because the food is fucking up their hunger. Most dieting is based on willpower and planning, when really the focus should be on eliminating hyperpalatable food, at least for kids, and educate adults.
if the effects are reversible then how do I sign up to a waffle & milkshake based 'Western Diet' research gig for a few weeks? I'll do it so you don't have to!
Oh man... if this study is true, I am going to be so dumb by the end of Mardi Gras with all the Popeye's fried chicken I'm planning to ingest on various parade routes...
Does alcohol counter the effects? Because I'll be consuming lots of that at the same time...
Does alcohol counter the effects? Because I'll be consuming lots of that at the same time...
There is no typical Western diet, the West doesn't only consist of America, the Scandinavian have their own diets, the Greeks have theirs, the Spanish have theirs and so on.
I'm Dutch and I don't know anyone who eats like this.
I even doubt this diet is typical for America alone.
Related studies go into more nuance.
For example, a lot of frozen healthy meals that are ~300 calories and decent in macros have a lot of flavor enhancers and like 1g of salt which also results in increased hunger. It's why a lot of obese people struggling to lose weight end up eating 2-3 of these meals.
For example, a lot of frozen healthy meals that are ~300 calories and decent in macros have a lot of flavor enhancers and like 1g of salt which also results in increased hunger. It's why a lot of obese people struggling to lose weight end up eating 2-3 of these meals.
Not super surprising.
And yeah maybe they should have said American instead of Western.
But yeah American chains and American foods in general are awful. Loaded with sugar, processed to hell...
Also lol @ everyone in this thread being all indignant. Don't kid yourselves. We have fast food threads all the time. Last time we had a tofu thread... lolol. Half the people here eat sushi with fucking CREAM CHEESE.
The current American diet is total shit. Be it a class issue, socioeconomical issue, whatever.
And yeah maybe they should have said American instead of Western.
But yeah American chains and American foods in general are awful. Loaded with sugar, processed to hell...
Also lol @ everyone in this thread being all indignant. Don't kid yourselves. We have fast food threads all the time. Last time we had a tofu thread... lolol. Half the people here eat sushi with fucking CREAM CHEESE.
The current American diet is total shit. Be it a class issue, socioeconomical issue, whatever.
