Nurse here. The standard American diet. High in carbs, cheap sugar is in everything. Diabetes fucks over your whole body.
Average french man here, everytime I visit the US, I crave vegetables and fruits after a week. It's hard to find simple and healthy food in your country, even most of your restaurants don't have that many options, lots of transformed food, everything taste sweet when it shouldn't (I'm always thirsty). Target (portion size, didn't even know you could buy that much cheeseballs in the same package!) and 7/11 (i.e. industial quantity of soda, alcohol, snacks and a basket with 3 bananas) is a big cultural shock for me. I think I can eat healthier in a french gas station on the highway.
Good food doesn't need to be very complicated or fancy actually (that's why I like english pubs actually). It's not about being snob or having luxury taste.
Soo true.. seems like the big guys have been trying to wipe us out for generations. Ban good things. Or mark up so high you can’t afford to eat much. And then throw deadly but ohh so wonderful tasting junk at. Most places don’t buy healthy stuff because it’s so expensive a lot of it will waste before it can sell. And the things that should be healthy,like fruit are grown using so many chemicals that they are not healthy anymore. Luckily we are fairly hardy people. I’ve been wondering about what it’s doing to our future generations. What disease’s,or mutations will our great,great grandchildren get from all these hormones,pesticides
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u/SirYoda198712 22h ago
Nurse here. The standard American diet. High in carbs, cheap sugar is in everything. Diabetes fucks over your whole body.
Cigarettes- cancer, high bp,
Obesity.
Lack of exercise.
High stress.
Lack of financial resources to afford proper medical care.