Must-read piece regarding Rick Majerus' health

WHY the hell are they putting high fructose corn syrup in bread, ketchup, and everything else it has no business being in? I'd like to see the government step in and STOP THAT INSANITY!
 
Scorpio79 said:
Do the food producers have ANY responsibility for providing non-toxic products?? This is where the gov't may enter the fray, imo. Without some sort of oversight with teeth, these greedy food manufacturers would foist all sorts of poisonous sh!t on an unsuspecting public. Hell, they already do. That's why we need an FDA. This goes waaaay beyond the lack of personal responsibility in this country.
I am not advocating for Big Gov't. I am simply saying that Big Food needs regulation just like Big Banking, Big Pharma, Big Coal, Big Oil, and etc does. Anyone looking to blame the consumer and only the consumer is frighteningly ignorant.
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That's why I have always read the list of ingredients on products. Have done so for forty years. If the list is two or three inches long in tiny print, I immediately put it back on the shelf......

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FRANAMANIAC said:
You mention the lady who lost 75 lbs. Couldn't any drug addict make the conscious decision to stay sober and become clean? A diet and excersise is basically a "plan to stay sober" or "reducing use"
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In some cases, sure. But I think in a lot of cases people aren't NEEDING a Big Mac and fries they just get one because it's cheap, quick, and easy.
 
I will say I am glad that places have started listing calorie content and such on their menus. My son had a basketball tournament in Ames a few weeks ago and as most of you know I have struggled with weight issues off and on, back on the weight gaining trend right now. We had to eat somewhere quick and went to Burger King. Looking at the menu showing that a Texas Double Whooper had like 1400 calories (just the sandwich) I ordered a chicken wrap and a junior Whopper instead and ended up having a meal at under 700 calories. Without that reminder in my face showing me how bad what I was going to eat was I easily would have ate double that.
 
Scorpio79 said:
Do the food producers have ANY responsibility for providing non-toxic products?? This is where the gov't may enter the fray, imo. Without some sort of oversight with teeth, these greedy food manufacturers would foist all sorts of poisonous sh!t on an unsuspecting public. Hell, they already do. That's why we need an FDA. This goes waaaay beyond the lack of personal responsibility in this country.
I am not advocating for Big Gov't. I am simply saying that Big Food needs regulation just like Big Banking, Big Pharma, Big Coal, Big Oil, and etc does. Anyone looking to blame the consumer and only the consumer is frighteningly ignorant.
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Anyone looking for the government to help more than it has already done on this front is frighteningly ignorant. There are thousands of pages of the federal code and the CFR regulating food and labeling. Now sure, I get that you want the Commissar in DC to deliver you fresh organic arugula every day and a few other vegan staples for sustenance like the benevolent leader of North Korea does, but most of us don't. Your paternalistic big government tendencies absolutely sicken me.
 
bighawkeyedaddy said:
I will say I am glad that places have started listing calorie content and such on their menus. My son had a basketball tournament in Ames a few weeks ago and as most of you know I have struggled with weight issues off and on, back on the weight gaining trend right now. We had to eat somewhere quick and went to Burger King. Looking at the menu showing that a Texas Double Whooper had like 1400 calories (just the sandwich) I ordered a chicken wrap and a junior Whopper instead and ended up having a meal at under 700 calories. Without that reminder in my face showing me how bad what I was going to eat was I easily would have ate double that.
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If it was fried chicken, that chicken wrap prolly had a bunch of crap that was way way worse for your heart than the 1400 calorie Texas Double Whopper had. Anything that touches that frying oil is worse than copious amounts of flame broiled beef.
 
okeefe4prez said:
If it was fried chicken, that chicken wrap prolly had a bunch of crap that was way way worse for your heart than the 1400 calorie Texas Double Whopper had. Anything that touches that frying oil is worse than copious amounts of flame broiled beef.
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I chose the grilled chicken option. I can't remember the last time I ate anything fried.
 
Exercise (get off your fat arses), then exercise some self restraint. Quit shoveling it in. Fat glutinous America. I do like chips though.
 
Food addiction is just a symptom of the deeper underlying cause which is delayed reaction type 2 mediated food allergies. We tend to be allergic to the foods we crave and eat on a regular basis.

Alcoholism is a food allergy. Did you ever notice that pastries are the favorite food at AA meetings? It is not a wonder with sugar and yeast being the two foods most alcoholics are allergic to.
 
JonDMiller said:
I think Caar's posts are spot on, and no one is wishing death on Majerus. And Caar is 100% right; how Americans consume food, what the government allows in our foods that other nations do not and the number of chronic health issues associated with how Americans consume food is the biggest health problem in this nation. Not smoking, not drinking, although those things on top of the food cycle in this nation are a double and triple whammy.



White flour, sugars, red food dyes banned in other nations....its just unreal. Corn byproducts in everything, too much red meat, steroids and other chemicals in chickens, beef, milk, etc...and many of the things in food stuffs are intended to create addictions...to create the mental stimulus that you want more.
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Moderation works wonders...
 
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Scorpio79 said:
Correct answer.
Speaking as a fat guy, I can tell you that food is not addictive whatsoever.
Bad habits and poor decisions lead to obesity. It's not about any sort of addiction.

Those of you blaming the gov't or asking for gov't regulation of food to curb overeating probably need your head examined. And you're probably "small gov't republicans", to boot.:rolleyes:
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You're not fat, you're "huggable"!
 
okeefe4prez said:
Anyone looking for the government to help more than it has already done on this front is frighteningly ignorant. There are thousands of pages of the federal code and the CFR regulating food and labeling. Now sure, I get that you want the Commissar in DC to deliver you fresh organic arugula every day and a few other vegan staples for sustenance like the benevolent leader of North Korea does, but most of us don't. Your paternalistic big government tendencies absolutely sicken me.
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