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Originally Posted by raymr
A jar of this showed up in our house after last weekends party. We didn't know what to do with it since we don't use many prefab products. Well it obviously comes out of a lab because it has the same consistency whether hot or cold, and nothing in nature is so smooth, creamy, and.... addictively delicious! There's no doubt in my mind that this sauce is just one more thing that's adding to America's growing obesity problem.
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America's growing obesity problem is a sitting on our assity problem.
At one time I was "fit" (although according to all of the charts I would still be considered "obese" at my h.s. running and lifting, basketball and track weight). My diet hasn't changed since high school (food or alcohol-wise
) but my activity level has decreased. As a result I'm far closer to 300 than the 245 I used to be.
I ate all kinds of junk food as a kid, not at home (because my mom never bought it) but at some friends' houses (their moms worked so she'd stock the cabinets with the stuff so they'd have it during the day). But the difference was we spent the days riding our bikes, playing pick up basketball or baseball games, running around causing minor mayhem, playing demolition derby with a couple grocery carts (2 "drivers" and 2 "pushers" run full speed towards each other, the pushers let go just before impact-undoubtedly one of the sources of my inability to pay attention
). Despite our less-than-healthy summer diets, we were all on the skinny side.
Take that same $h!t diet and plop in kid in front of the tv/video games all day and you get round kids. My kids' diets aren't remotely 100% healthy but they are forced outside every day after school until dinner time, doing the stuff I used to do (sans the grocery carts). They all fall into their ideal range for weight.
Take the activity out of the equation and we all see the result. The food police telling us what size soda we can buy or how much more we pay for a "junk food" item via sur-taxing, all in the name of lessening the obesity problem rather than addressing the activity side of the equation.