Why is everyone so fat?

Lichen Bark said:
Interesting anecdotal evidence from myself, my perception of sweetness is better than my fatty friend. We were eating the same dessert, and I couldn't finish because it was cloyingly sweet, and I asked them, "how can you stand how sweet this is?" They said, "oh, no, this is the perfect level of sweetness" and proceeded to shovel more in. So I think their perception of sugar has been altered, whether it by their gut bacteria, or something.
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Also anecdotal but my perception of sweet has changed over time, some things are too sweet to eat too much of. I'm sure if I ate more of them I would adjust back. I've heard it's a thing with getting older but it obviously doesn't seem to apply to some people.

There was a kind of interesting discussion on the tess holliday thread about why there are 10,000 increasingly complicated ice cream flavor combinations that death fats seem to love. Somebody suggested it's because their taste buds are so busted that just plain chocolate ice cream isn't enough and they need like 5 other flavors in there to really get anything out of it. I wasn't sure what to make of it because I like some of the wacky flavors and am not really in that group. What I don't really care for are the sugar bomb combos - stuff like quintuple chocolate fudge cheesecake batter oreo cookie clusterfuck.
 
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melty said:
Also anecdotal but my perception of sweet has changed over time, some things are too sweet to eat too much of. I'm sure if I ate more of them I would adjust back. I've heard it's a thing with getting older but it obviously doesn't seem to apply to some people.

There was a kind of interesting discussion on the tess holliday thread about why there are 10,000 increasingly complicated ice cream flavor combinations that death fats seem to love. Somebody suggested it's because their taste buds are so busted that just plain chocolate ice cream isn't enough and they need like 5 other flavors in there to really get anything out of it. I wasn't sure what to make of it because I like some of the wacky flavors and am not really in that group. What I don't really care for are the sugar bomb combos - stuff like quintuple chocolate fudge cheesecake batter oreo cookie clusterfuck.
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Mint Chocolate forever. Although there's a local Ice Cream chain that makes a flavor called Buckeye Blitz, because Ohio, but that's really just chocolate and peanut butter. Also very good. But that's pretty simple and basic. I think everything is just sweeter these days and it wouldn't surprise me, as most of the Low-Fat type foods just replace the fats with things your body processes as sugar.
 
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melty said:
Also anecdotal but my perception of sweet has changed over time, some things are too sweet to eat too much of. I'm sure if I ate more of them I would adjust back. I've heard it's a thing with getting older but it obviously doesn't seem to apply to some people.

There was a kind of interesting discussion on the tess holliday thread about why there are 10,000 increasingly complicated ice cream flavor combinations that death fats seem to love. Somebody suggested it's because their taste buds are so busted that just plain chocolate ice cream isn't enough and they need like 5 other flavors in there to really get anything out of it. I wasn't sure what to make of it because I like some of the wacky flavors and am not really in that group. What I don't really care for are the sugar bomb combos - stuff like quintuple chocolate fudge cheesecake batter oreo cookie clusterfuck.
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Go a few days without eating anything and sweet food will taste like crap. Really, I promise. You will need to force yourself over your disgust back into your old eating habits.

I went two weeks without eating late last month early this month after getting some bad burns and basically being half-comatose throughout the whole period and I've managed about a spoonful of ice cream since then.
 
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Dave. said:
Because this convenient food also tastes good, it becomes addictive and gives us dopamine hits so intense it can blind us to the damage we're doing to our bodies. People would rather eat a McDonald's hamburger than a salad and a glass of water because the hamburger has way more of an intense and noticeable flavor whereas the salad tastes kind of bland depending on what you put in it. It doesn't also help that junk food can actually ruin your tastebuds temporarily making healthy food taste worse because they're not loaded with sodium and sugar so a healthy salad can taste like nothing if repeated trips to McDonald's continues.
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I could be wrong, but sometimes the burger costs less than the salad. Just adding some lbs into the conversation... I'll leave now.
 
Most would mention the highly caloric fatty proceser foods and sugar. But is worth keeping in mind that even the healthiests of food can make you fat if you simply eat too much of it. Too many lentil callories will fatten you up that doesn't mean lentils are an unhealthy food or that "lentils make people fat". You are just eating too many callories.

The biggest issue i see with people and obesity is not so much which food they eat but not being able to tell how much is too much. The average person overeats even when they go on a healthy food "diet" simply because what they consider a small ration is still too much food for their calloric necessities.

Watch a fattie go "hell naw!!1 " when a nutriotionist shows them the size of what it should be a normal lunch compared to what they are used to. People who are used to rationing correctly and exercise can actually give themselves treats fairly often and eat delicious foods without turning deathfat. Of course theres extremes, the inbred who drinks 3 lts of mountain dew a day is something else, but i think most people know thats not right and stikk a lot of them are overweight.
 
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doc I've worked with blamed inactivity, soy, corn, and to a lesser extent sugar
soy's all sorts of shit
not moving a lot does a lot
he felt corn and corn syrup had particular aspects about how it breaks down and fucks with your system so it's like hyperdoublesugar
also any time they say "vegetable oil/protein" but don't say which veggie assume it's soy (and corn in the case of oil)

tbf before I was bicycling around all the time because lolpoor I noticed that I started losing some weight after cutting out stuff with soy and corn, but now that I'm biking I can eat whatever and don't really worry much about that sort of thing
 
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Mint Chocolate forever. Although there's a local Ice Cream chain that makes a flavor called Buckeye Blitz, because Ohio, but that's really just chocolate and peanut butter. Also very good. But that's pretty simple and basic. I think everything is just sweeter these days and it wouldn't surprise me, as most of the Low-Fat type foods just replace the fats with things your body processes as sugar.
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Okay, sugar bad, but what about SALT? Finding processed food without a handful of salt is just about impossible.

Underestimated Nutria said:
Go a few days without eating anything and sweet food will taste like crap. Really, I promise. You will need to force yourself over your disgust back into your old eating habits.
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One fun thing about that phenomenon: after boycotting sugar for a while try eating a candy bar or some such, instead of delicious treat you just taste its garbage ingredients, and it is repulsive.

Sugary foods are an addiction like any other though. I swear they're harder to quit than any tobacco or even crackmeth.
 
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Canoodler said:
It doesn't help that sugar makes food taste good.
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Only if you're addicted. Like the guy above me said:; go any length of time without consuming garbage, and you'll eventually begin to see what all this stuff tastes like, which is dogshit.

Most noticeably is probably tea and coffee. I can't stand the shit with even an ounce of sugar now
 
Inventor of the Telephone said:
Okay, sugar bad, but what about SALT? Finding processed food without a handful of salt is just about impossible.
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Sure, too much sodium isn't good, but if you're busy stripping fat out of everything, you have to find some way to make food taste like something. You can find "health food" type that's light on salt and they usually taste like garbage. Your body needs some level of sodium though and iodized salt is a good way to also get iodine to your thyroid. Is it any real surprise that we strip salt, especially iodized salt, out of everything and people suddenly start having thyroid problems?

Don't know that it's entirely connected, but it seems like something that could be.
 
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PCOS in women is a bitch. If my body weighed what I ate, I would wear teen's clothes instead of the smallest plus size in the lady's section.

Also, ever since I have been taking vitamin D supplements my weight went from 200 to 159. I struggled very hard just to lose a couple of pounds without vitamin D supplements. I was barely eating and exercising a lot and still obese. Like WTF body. I think that vitamin deficiencies can play a role in obesity too.

Also, when it comes to human evolution, our bodies do not believe that this is the current year with a fuckton of calories, so it holds on to every single, unburned calorie.
 
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Inventor of the Telephone said:
Okay, sugar bad, but what about SALT? Finding processed food without a handful of salt is just about impossible.
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I'm not convinced salt is actually that bad. I think having hypertension from obesity is the problem and salt just gets a lot of the blame. But it's worth looking into more.

In general it seems like a shitton of modern ailments are mainly caused by being overweight but the media and medical sources like to emphasize they can happen to anyone, which may be technically true, but it's a misrepresentation. Think about all the "young healthy" people who die from COVID who are 300lbs but the media mysteriously never mentions that. It happens with all sorts of stuff, like sleep apnea. It's hard to sort through because the media likes to scream ANYONE CAN DIE from x until you sort through a bunch of studies or just anecdotally notice that's not quite true.
 
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Everybody needs to exercise, natsoc style. Quit worrying about eating, it shouldnt matter of you burn the calories anyway
 
Society convinced people that smoking was "unhealthy" and "not cool." I say, look at people from the 60s, 70s, 80s. They're cool, they're thin, and they're smoking like chimneys. Really makes you think....
 
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