re: America's Obesity Epidemic Reaches Record High

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All those stupid Facebook Tasty videos where they add shitloads of butter and cheese aren't helping.

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Actually cheese and butter are good for you. The real problem, actually, is what we consider good and bad foods. Our belief that fat is bad, is based in old outdated flawed data. There is a large study on reddit, where 135,000 participants took place, and it was shown that carb heavy diets increase mortality.

Who would have thought all that sugar would be bad? Turns out Keto is the right way to go, or some similar low carb diet. Also most people think they are eating healthy by eating breads, bagels, pastas, etc, when in fact those are loaded up with carbs, which is processed into sugar by your body. You can get more sugar from a bowl of pasta than a candy bar. Wonder why we have a diabetic epidemic as well?

Then you can add Drs to the list, as many of them give out shitty advice on foods. My Aunt is 180lbs or heavier and is fat. She probably 50-55 yrs old as well, but she keeps saying that her Dr told her she was in good health, and didn't need to lose weight. Me and my dad could no believe that, as she could lose a lot of weight. ALthough I think the Dr liked having her to keep coming in and buying his drugs ($$$$$$).

While Drs know a lot about the body, many are lacking in the nutritional side of things, and what is the best diets. Some are in the know, but many are not.

Also you can throw in the FDA guidelines as a factor in why we so fat. You got to remember that all or most schools will follow their recommendations.