Two-thirds of American adults are either obese or overweight

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Fifteen years living overseas changes you. My som finally got big enough so that I could bring him for a US tour a couple years ago, and I was shocked to see that SEVERAL people had to get around Disneyland on big carts because they were too big to get far under their own power. My brother took me to a restaurant and I ordered spaghetti and meatballs. I'm six-and-a-half feet tall, 220, but I realized there was no effin' way I was going to eat that plate of spaghetti. That should have been a serving plate. And the meatballs were literally the size of tennis balls. WTF are you supposed to do with those? Repulsive excess.
 
When my girlfriend and I go out to eat, we always share a meal. It's not just because we're broke, but because servings are so huge. Even splitting one is pushing it sometimes. Oddly, the exception is the rare expensive place.
 
What's funny is that if most people actually ate food that was good for them (unprocessed, organic, etc), they would probably eat less because it's more expensive.

But you can either pick up a pound of organic, lean beef, whole grain buns and 2% milkfat cheese for, say 15 bucks, or you can grab 4 whoppers for 4 bucks.

If we simply charged more for (or, taxed the heck out of) "bad" foods (those containing unefined sugars, high fructose corn syrup, bad fats, etc) and charged less for (or, gave tax breaks to) the unprocessed, organic farm fresh foods, our country's health would change pretty much overnight.
 
The government's already involved in the sense that the permeation of our food supply by corn fillers, corn sweeteners, corn-fed livestock etc is driven by Federal subsidies for farmers who grow vast quantities of corn that have to then be used for something...

It seems true that something is wrong when for lunch I can walk into Ralph's and buy a half roast chicken for $3.00, then pay $8.00 for a small container of green salad to go with it...government subsidy policies are already part of the process. More accurately, part of the problem.

Chamber005 said:
But you can either pick up a pound of organic, lean beef, whole grain buns and 2% milkfat cheese for, say 15 bucks, or you can grab 4 whoppers for 4 bucks.
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You're leaving out the convenience factor: the person who buys the lean beef, whole-grain buns (which some people shouldn't be eating, either) and 2% cheese (ditto) still has to invest the time in preparing the ingredients into a meal. Is this pig-simple for anyone with basic cooking skills? Yes, but a lot of people lack even basic cooking skills. And the hours that a lot of people work - particularly the low-education, low-wage types who characteristically fare the worst at diet/exercise (along with most everything else) - frequently leave them without time and energy to even cook the burger for themselves.

Anyway, the FoodLift(tm) is cool but I'm holding out for something with a 4-HP motor, steel Archimedes screw and high-volume conveyor tube for greater operating pressures and higher mass-flow (the FoodLift Pro, perhaps). I'm a busy man, you know.
 
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