The big difference is THE FAT.
In the rest of the world, they eat real fat - butter, lard, tallow, coconut and palm oil.
In the US, everything is made with Soy, Canola, Cottonseed, Safflower or Corn Oil....and that's not even getting to the Partially Hydrogenated oils. Those are all the oils subsidized by the Farm Bill that gets run through congress and signed by all the Presidents, Jackasses and Pachyderms alike.
Now look at all the processed foods (not just the obvious like the chips, cookies, cakes, crackers, candy, soda etc.), but things like hamburger and hot dog buns, bread, flour tortilla's....they're for the most part all made with margarine aka partially hydrogenated soybean oil. Throw in white flour and high fructose corn syrup...well, you have the trifecta of manufactured POISONS that contribute to obesity. Oh, and don't forget all the deep fried foods in fast food, chain restaurants and even mom and pop restaurants all fry their food in either soy or canola (they buy it in 5 gallon buckets from costco or sam's club) and use that crap to cook most of the food.
American processed and fast foods are all SHEEPLE FEED.
This is why the paleo diet works. Not because it's "low carb" but because you no longer eat all the foods made with all those industrially produced "Franken-Fats" and grains.
Even when the vegetable/grain/legume oils are not partially hydrogenated, do you have any idea how they are manufactured?
The put a large mass of the plant matter (soy, corn, cottonseed, rapeseed aka canola) into a vat and boil it in hexane, an industrial solvent.
YUMMY.
In the rest of the world, they eat real fat - butter, lard, tallow, coconut and palm oil.
In the US, everything is made with Soy, Canola, Cottonseed, Safflower or Corn Oil....and that's not even getting to the Partially Hydrogenated oils. Those are all the oils subsidized by the Farm Bill that gets run through congress and signed by all the Presidents, Jackasses and Pachyderms alike.
Now look at all the processed foods (not just the obvious like the chips, cookies, cakes, crackers, candy, soda etc.), but things like hamburger and hot dog buns, bread, flour tortilla's....they're for the most part all made with margarine aka partially hydrogenated soybean oil. Throw in white flour and high fructose corn syrup...well, you have the trifecta of manufactured POISONS that contribute to obesity. Oh, and don't forget all the deep fried foods in fast food, chain restaurants and even mom and pop restaurants all fry their food in either soy or canola (they buy it in 5 gallon buckets from costco or sam's club) and use that crap to cook most of the food.
American processed and fast foods are all SHEEPLE FEED.
This is why the paleo diet works. Not because it's "low carb" but because you no longer eat all the foods made with all those industrially produced "Franken-Fats" and grains.
Even when the vegetable/grain/legume oils are not partially hydrogenated, do you have any idea how they are manufactured?
The put a large mass of the plant matter (soy, corn, cottonseed, rapeseed aka canola) into a vat and boil it in hexane, an industrial solvent.
YUMMY.