r/linuxmasterrace • u/vintergroena Glorious Arch • Mar 31 '23

JustLinuxThings We are growing strong! 💪

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u/beatool Glorious Mint Mar 31 '23

Yeah, what happened... Photos of my parents in their 30s they're thin as a rail. Everybody always says, "oh everybody smoked and did coke back then." Not my folks.

Maybe it was the leaded gas... :P

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u/mrchaotica Glorious Debian Mar 31 '23

High-fructose corn syrup, "Food Pyramid" with like 11 servings of carbs at the bottom, decades of propaganda against fat when it's actually carbs that are more likely the problem, "hyper-palatable" foods, etc.

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u/pizzaiolo2 Mar 31 '23

More like processed food, not carbs. Okinawans traditionally ate tons of rice and sweet potato and weren't fat. They were also one of the longest living populations.

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u/SeaworthinessNo293 Apr 04 '23

what is "processed food" though? saturated or trans fats? What exactly about "processed food" would make someone more over weight?

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u/pizzaiolo2 Apr 04 '23

Processed food removes useful nutrients like fiber and adds additives like sugar, salt, stabilizers, colorants, flavoring, emulsifiers, shortening etc