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minus-squareRentlar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoCombine: urban layouts that are made to dissuade walking or cycling anywhere (thanks to automobile manufacturer lobbying), along with poor food health guidelines, along with corporate shrinkflation and reduction of quality ingredients in favour of fats and empty carbs. along with a piss-poor healthcare system that dissuades preventative checks and treatments and you’ve got an American obesity epidemic.
minus-squareFireRetardant@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoPlus, sugar became so ubiquitous that its in everything. People consume more than they might think. Nearly every big brand food has sugar from breads, to frozen meals, and of course loaded into various drinks.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoI wondered why Europeans kept calling American bread cake until I looked at the ingredients on your average pseudo-wheat loaf of bread. High fructose corn syrup is like the third ingredient. Followed closely by “cellulose filler,” aka, sawdust.
minus-squarejerkface@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoSugar doesn’t cause diabetes. Diabetes affects your ability to process sugar but sugar is not the cause.
minus-squareFireRetardant@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoBut sugar does contribute to obesity, which influences diabetes.
minus-squarejerkface@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoMore likely obesity is an inevitable consequence of diabetes and the diet that leads to it.
minus-squarelntl@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agofwiw, car usage may be related to elevated “fast food” consumption. less cars, less drive-thrus, less McOzempic
minus-squareawwwyissss@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoAnd transnational corporations developing and heavily marketing intentionally addictive junk food, especially to children. Also it’s not just American.
minus-squarespacecowboy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoNo, but America is really good at exporting its sickness to other countries.
minus-squareRentlar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoI’m not giving Canada a pass, many of these are present here, but the U.S. is the only developed country that matches ALL of the above.
Combine:
and you’ve got an American obesity epidemic.
Plus, sugar became so ubiquitous that its in everything. People consume more than they might think. Nearly every big brand food has sugar from breads, to frozen meals, and of course loaded into various drinks.
I wondered why Europeans kept calling American bread cake until I looked at the ingredients on your average pseudo-wheat loaf of bread.
High fructose corn syrup is like the third ingredient. Followed closely by “cellulose filler,” aka, sawdust.
Sugar doesn’t cause diabetes. Diabetes affects your ability to process sugar but sugar is not the cause.
But sugar does contribute to obesity, which influences diabetes.
More likely obesity is an inevitable consequence of diabetes and the diet that leads to it.
fwiw, car usage may be related to elevated “fast food” consumption.
less cars, less drive-thrus, less McOzempic
And transnational corporations developing and heavily marketing intentionally addictive junk food, especially to children.
Also it’s not just American.
No, but America is really good at exporting its sickness to other countries.
I’m not giving Canada a pass, many of these are present here, but the U.S. is the only developed country that matches ALL of the above.