Quote: (08-05-2013 12:18 PM)Fatass123 Wrote:
I was in USA last year and i noticed that too. But it's not like that in Europe. I think it's all about food culture. Also a point that you should not miss is that people prefer low carb and low fat food. But for me the biggest reason is that USA doesn't have a food culture. It's just a mixture of other food cultures which i think is not good.
Fantass: You are suggesting these dietary matters probably in a similar light as OP, in that you are suggesting marketing ploys of processed food, and in reality it would be best to focus on ways to eat whole and natural foods. Low carb and low fat are not the same concepts... and likely they are opposites - the low fat phenomenon is baloney marketing from mainstream food industries trying to sell you junk to kill you. As soon as they cut out the fat, the substitute with sugar or some sugar-like substitute or grain such as soy, wheat or corn.
On the other hand, low carb has the potential power to remove you away from these various processed food. that is if you recognize the difference between eating real low carb through natural and whole foods rather than eating something from a package claiming to be low carb or "healthy"
Take milk, for example, it is most nutritious in its raw and whole form - probably straight from the cows teet would be best - but none of us are going to have those kinds of fortunes of getting our food directly from farms and farmers b/c we live in cities and maybe farming life has become much less practical in the modern rush of the city.
In any event, milk gets processed and its fat gets reduced or removed and flavoring gets added as well as the rBGH (growth hormone) crap, and thereafter its nutrition value becomes somewhat equivalent to drinking a soda (coca cola).
Westin Price has a lot of good links about information concerning whole foods (by the way I do not really agree with their being o.k. with eating grains... but there is open debate on the topic of grains and the extent to which we should eat them), and the below link to westin price links to a milk article that is 10 years old but still timely.
http://www.westonaprice.org/making-it-pr...-body-good