People in America, how on earth are y'all supposed to be eating healthy?

[Unit1]

In my lifetime I was twice in America. One time in California and one time in Florida. Both were business trips.

On both counts I have never seen so much food being contaminated with sugar, salt and fat to the point I can't call it food anymore. One of my favorite places to eat out was at Denny's and even in there I see their meals being overloaded with sugar, salt and fat. Even a simple chicken potato skillet has added a lot of sugar in it! Or simple pancakes without any sauces contain lots of sugar.

Don't get me wrong, the food is quite tasty but the amount of sugar, salt and fat i get from it in my mouth disgusts me and makes my tongue slimy (my tongue doesn't get slimy from normal food, that isn't contaminated with sugar, salt and fat). Everything everywhere is overloaded with sugar, salt and fat to the point I kind of prefer to not eat at all unless I really have to.

Bruv... just give me a bag of rice, raw veggies from the farmers market and some pork chops from the butcher and a bunch of spices and some olive oil and I'll just cook and eat that. Yeah, it'll taste like 7/10 but it won't even remotely touch the daily limit for sugar, salt or fat intake in one sitting.

[molonski2]

Its utterly horrendous , and my experience was exactly as yours , and it just shows " free market " out of control , just doesn't work , you even see it in some questions here , which one of these chains? ( errrrrr None of em , ever ) , sometimes you need regulation and USA certainly needs serious action on salt and sugar.

Its interesting you mention Dennys , this one ( my local at the time ) , I spoke to the manager and explained I cannot eat just off the menu , he invited me into the kitchen and I showed the young chef how I needed this cooked and separately , they were great , they explained my order would take 10 - 15 mins longer - no problem , taste completely changed and was awesome , salad was super fresh , the only problem I was completely reluctant to go anywhere else , but I was simply not prepared to put into my system what the average American thinks is okey , so from there it became a challenge as I changed from State to State , but with a lot of work , I managed to make it work.

In the elite end American sports etc , diet is fantastic , but its the mainstream that just must not be considered " normalised " , this stuff is poison , that needs to be understood.

[Unit1]

Yes. We're lucky in Europe that they don't contaminate 98% of food with all that crap. We have more choices here, including exquisite Asian (Thai) meals.

[molonski2]

Yeah , so many great choices here in Thailand and easy to write your own menu.

[Unit1]

I can not turn into upper middle class fast enough. My trades aren't doing so Well lately. Gah. It's gonna take some time.

[molonski2]

Have patience sustainability and reality in asset formation take time.. long term is always the way to build , the concept of fast money is utter bullshit.

[Unit1]

I see.
Long road but well worth it

[molonski2]

Couple of great International based ETFs in Australia now , you'd have same thing in Germany , probably better ones IOO - Ticker Asx as an example only.
This years been great so far net worth wise , despite a couple of problems with tenants.

[Unit1]

Good to know. I'm outta money to invest now. My trades are still pending to yield profit.
I do plan to diversify my capital across several brokers, not just trading CFDs. CFDs are most effective for me though.

[exitseven]

You are right. Americans have a terrible diet. Nobody has the time to prepare a decent meal. Most dinners consist of takeout pizza. I was in sales for many years and I would regularly her a burger or sub and eat it in the car while driving to my next sales call. I try and do better now but it is hard to avoid all the carbs and sugar that is in our food

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[midnightmoon05]

Welcome to fast food nation. I would say lots eat that way…even foods from the markets are bad. Oh… you haven’t seen what they feed kids in schools!! All surgery foods for breakfast!!
Hubby and I get our meat 🥩 🍗 🥚 🥛 🍯 jams, mushrooms…etc…from local farmers.
he tried growing some veggies, tomatoes, potatoes in our garden. Hardly go to supermarkets.
we actually have stores from other countries… like Indian markets, Russian, Korea, Japanese, Italian…etc… so I get some French cookies from these markets and I also look at the labels to make sure it’s not from NJ 😂

we eat very basic…

as well that’s why we spent 2 months in Europe… much healthier for us.
My kids are the wiredos among their friends because they don’t eat the junk food they share in school. Sigh…

[Unit1]

Makes sense. Oh well. It makes me appreciate Europe. I can see why some folks envy Europe.

[midnightmoon05]

Here, one must be smart enough to not eat that and have enough money to eat healthier foods.
There are options here.
In Europe, foods are better. Much harder to become wealthy.

[Unit1]

Yeah!

[molonski2]

@midnightmoon05
Frightening but true..
I'm now convinced after heading down this path myself ( pretty much nothing processed , avoid all sauces and refined sugars ) that the more basic you can keep it the better. Pretty easy here , however you can never quite be sure on the weed / pest control stuff that they use.
You look at the industry created by refined sugar? Yet the product was never actually required.

Someone here , posted a " Thanksgiving feast " they had , every family member was a heart attack waiting to happen , and although Thanksgiving usually has some good stuff , they displayed utterly horrendous battered options , not one thing there I'd allow in my body.

[purplepoppy]

Fat and sugar is addictive. Companies know if they don't put extra in their food customers will go elsewhere.

[OtterMan68]

Americans eat too miuch PERIOD, but dump a ton of sugar and salt into that, and it's worse.

I quit eating refined sugar back in November. I pretty much stick to a Keto diet mon-fri and have fruits and veggies twice a day. I jog 2-3 times a week. Lost 30 lbs

[worldscolide]

Lol that's what you get for eating out at a restaurant, a chain restaurant no less. Trust me home made food is better quality and better tasting. The ones that eat out constantly are the unhealthy ones.

[midnightmoon05]

You two must be good cooks.

[worldscolide]

Trust me on this, we only eat out when there is a restaurant that has something I don't know how to make at home, or when neither one of us has the energy to cook.

It saves a ton of money too.

[Unit1]

I know places (not in America obviously) that don't do that. At least not to such a degree.

[worldscolide]

It's pretty terrible here

[Avicenna]

Eating fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, and fish is a way to do that. I also eat Mediterranean and Thai/Indian, which also helps. It's easy not to eat healthy, but it can be done if you have discipline.

[Dinklex3]

You go to the grocery store and make your own meal, lol.

If I’m looking for “healthy” I don’t eat out.
They do have your small local restaurants that have healthy meals though.

[Jay-_-]

Fr like why people stay asking these obvious questions, like how foreign are they. 😂 (If you foreign my bad 😬 😭

[robhazelnut]

Avoid eating from the vast majority of restaurants, premade "foods" and general grocery hazards like white wheat and sucrose/corn syrup candy.

[silyt_ghoest]

WHY WOULD YOU GO TO DENNY'S FOR A HEALTHY MEAL? that's like going "why aren't there any chicks in here?" IN THE MEN'S RESTROOM.

[Rangers]

You have to resist temptations and walk past all of the unhealthy foods

[Unit1]

right on

[Jay-_-]

Because you are capable of making your own food 🧍🏽

[Jay-_-]

We have semi freedom 💀

[jahaims]

By learning about health then acting on it.

[handsomelad70]

That's why most Yankees are fugly.

[Rangers]

Then it's a good thing I'm not a Yankee, I'm a good ol' rebel

[handsomelad70]

@Rangers Most "Rebels" have three teeth.

[Rangers]

Well, I have 32 teeth

[handsomelad70]

@Rangers Congrats, boyo !!!