Ban junk food

If people didn't even have the option of the junk food aisles in grocery
stores, they'd not get obese.

On Jul 26, 7:42 pm, "Manco" wrote:
If people didn't even have the option of the junk food aisles in grocery
stores, they'd not get obese.

You can get fat on healthy foods just as well as junkfoods..
Its the CALORIES, not just what you eat, but how much you (over)eat.



joanne

joanne wrote:
On Jul 26, 7:42 pm, "Manco" wrote:
If people didn't even have the option of the junk food aisles in
grocery stores, they'd not get obese.

You can get fat on healthy foods just as well as junkfoods..
Its the CALORIES, not just what you eat, but how much you (over)eat.



joanne

That's not totally true. Junk food has no nutritional value, whereas organic
peanut butter(while high in calories) does.

"Manco" wrote in message
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joanne wrote:
On Jul 26, 7:42 pm, "Manco" wrote:
If people didn't even have the option of the junk food aisles in
grocery stores, they'd not get obese.

You can get fat on healthy foods just as well as junkfoods..
Its the CALORIES, not just what you eat, but how much you (over)eat.



joanne

That's not totally true. Junk food has no nutritional value, whereas
organic peanut butter(while high in calories) does.

Doesn't matter. A thousand calories is the same to weight gain (or loss) no
matter where it comes from. All calories come from fat, sugar (carbs) or
protein.

"Manco" wrote in message
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If people didn't even have the option of the junk food aisles in grocery
stores, they'd not get obese.

Do you really think there is a way to exert that sort of control over
people? It didn't work during Prohibition. We do not seem to be making
great headway in the war on drugs. People are still smoking despite ruinous
taxes on cigarettes. Besides, how are you going to stop people from making
their own junk food? The same flour that is used to make bread can be used
to bake cookies and cakes. Apples can be eaten fresh, but can also be baked
into pies. And it takes longer to bake a potato than it does to make french
fries.

On Jul 26, 7:42 pm, "Manco" wrote:
If people didn't even have the option of the junk food aisles in grocery
stores, they'd not get obese.

Not so many would get fat, that's for sure, but you can still eat good
food and get overweight. Also, it is only junk food if you eat a lot
of it. Eating a candy bar once in a while might be good for a
person...help them regain blood sugar after a workout for example.
There is no consensus on what junk food is, but to me it is food high
in added sugar or salt or fats.

I'm afraid the best we can do is look out for ourselves and train our
kids about food....along with smoking, alcohol, the internet,
strangers...etc. dkw

"joanne" wrote in message
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On Jul 26, 7:42 pm, "Manco" wrote:
If people didn't even have the option of the junk food aisles in grocery
stores, they'd not get obese.

You can get fat on healthy foods just as well as junkfoods..
Its the CALORIES, not just what you eat, but how much you (over)eat.

True, but if it were *less available* we would be less likely to eat it.
Like in Germany, fast food in the outlying areas is very scarce. You just
don't eat it, because it isn't there. Meat is really expensive, so you
don't eat alot of that. Food is pretty expensive, so you don't get all
extravagent buying Costco sized amounts. Plus, packages of food are
microscopic compared to here, so you eat less to make it last longer.

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"Manco" wrote in message
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joanne wrote:
On Jul 26, 7:42 pm, "Manco" wrote:
If people didn't even have the option of the junk food aisles in
grocery stores, they'd not get obese.

You can get fat on healthy foods just as well as junkfoods..
Its the CALORIES, not just what you eat, but how much you (over)eat.



joanne

That's not totally true. Junk food has no nutritional value, whereas
organic peanut butter(while high in calories) does.

Doesn't matter. A thousand calories is the same to weight gain (or loss) no
matter where it comes from. All calories come from fat, sugar (carbs) or
protein.

Yup. And that's what joanne was saying (correct me if I'm
wrong)--nutrition aside, you can eat a 1000 *extra* calories in "Evil
Debbies" or 1000 *extra* calories in peanut butter. If it's over what
your metabolism can handle, you'll gain.

It isn't just "eating junk food makes you fat." It's OVEREATING any food
makes you fat.

Amy (overeating broccoli)
168/115/...

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On Jul 26, 10:13 pm, "em" wrote:
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joanne wrote:
On Jul 26, 7:42 pm, "Manco" wrote:
If people didn't even have the option of the junk food aisles in
grocery stores, they'd not get obese.

You can get fat on healthy foods just as well as junkfoods..
Its the CALORIES, not just what you eat, but how much you (over)eat.

joanne

That's not totally true. Junk food has no nutritional value, whereas
organic peanut butter(while high in calories) does.

Doesn't matter. A thousand calories is the same to weight gain (or loss) no
matter where it comes from. All calories come from fat, sugar (carbs) or
protein.

Only /excess/ calories are roughly equal. It matters a lot how your
first thousand calories (i.e. essential calories) are allocated. If
you eat nothing but a thousand calories from sugar, the effect (on
your body composition, and of course other aspects of your health)
will be different from eating nothing but a thousand calories from fat
or protein. On the other hand, if you've already eaten 5000 calories
today, then it probably doesn't make much of a difference what the
next thousand comes from.

On Jul 27, 8:45 am, "determined" wrote:
True, but if it were *less available* we would be less likely to eat it.
Like in Germany, fast food in the outlying areas is very scarce. You just
don't eat it, because it isn't there.

It's not there because the prevailing culture doesn't have eating
habits which require it to be there.

Merely removing fast food from a culture that is accustomed to it
won't do anything, because people will go out of their way to continue
eating the same way.

Fast food is quite easy to slap together at home, by someone who has
few cooking skills, because it's designed to be made by totally
unskilled labor in very little time.