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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Edit: we've had to ask you this before.
This has nothing to do with being nationalistic or not. It’s a statement of fact.
It just looks like at least in the US, if you go to the nearest grocery store to buy food or you eat out, and your goal is to decrease caloric intake, you’re playing against a stacked deck, is all I’m saying. You either need to spend extra time, effort, and money to find better places, or overcompensate by exercising extra time.
If you had posted something more like what you wrote here, I don't think I would have referred to it that way or posted a moderation response. (Btw this is a not-uncommon phenomenon: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...)
It's not just America.
"Obesity in India has reached epidemic proportions in the 21st century, with morbid obesity affecting 5% of the country's population" [1]. (It's about 7% in America [2].) Meanwhile in China, "the incidence of overweight and obesity among school-age children...was 15.5% in 2010, rising to 24.2% in 2019 and soaring to 29.4% in 2022" [2]. Same story in Vietnam: "The prevalence of overweight among children aged under 5 years increased from 5.6% in 2010 to 7.4% in 2019. For overweight and obesity among children aged 5 to 19 years, prevalence rose from 8.5% and 2.5% in 2010 to 19% and 8.1% in 2020, respectively" [3].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_India
While you may interject that privileged classes used to have larger portions and better quality food without having to work so much at all times, it somehow coincides with fatty bellies being a status symbol in many locales. Being obese used to be a sort of privileged class mark.
Combine that with forever chemical use in packaging, pesticides in non-organic produce, our food supply chain is killing us.
I buy eggs from reputable regenerative free range, non-vegetarian fed chickens. I order my poultry and beef from regenerative farms across the country who are verified organic + grass fed + grass finished.
I bake my own bread and cook 95% of the meals I eat at home.
It costs an arm and a leg and isnt convenient but I feel much better.
Huh, apparently this originates with Joe Rogan [1].
In any case, I'm happy you found something that works for you. But you can find the quality you're looking for in restaurants in any Tier 1 city and most wealthy suburbs. (We absolutely have an issue with poorer communities having a choice between canned and fast food, in essence.)