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2013-01-25 07:05 17270775 Anonymous (p.jpg 801x506 49kB)
AMERICANS GET IN HERE Is it true that there is corn in all your food and that's why you become obese ?

2 min later 17270806 TIM Chainz
>>17270775 Have you ever heard of Native Americans?

2 min later 17270810 Anonymous
We do love our corn based products and that may well be a partial factor in astronomical obesity rates but I feel the combination of abundant cheap shitty food and how our culture approaches food in general plays a larger role than corn syrup type things.

4 min later 17270832 Anonymous
>>17270806 Or as the Native Americans call it, maaiiizeeee

5 min later 17270850 Anonymous
that along with the fact that almost every single regularly priced common food item is loaded with bleached wheat flour and Americans are too stupid to reach for a bag of oatz or a piece of meat that isn't breaded and fried in vegetable oil.

6 min later 17270857 Anonymous
>>17270775 Only like 10% of fast food has corn in it

6 min later 17270859 Anonymous
High Fructose Corn Syrup has been linked to obesity rates, since it's one of the worst forms of sugar for the body really, but it's cheap and sweet

7 min later 17270882 Anonymous
>>17270810 I agree; corn, however, is ridiculously cheap, which is why it is so abundant in our food products - mostly in the form of HFCS (or "corn sugar" as they want us to call it). However, corn (being native to the Americas) is abundant here, so selling it is important for our economy. This is why ethylalcohol and bio-fuel research is being more predominantly funded in the 21st century than ever before. You're right, though; our culture does look at food as more of a pastime than a means to survive. We have an entire network based on food (appropriately called the Food Network). We cherish our fast food due to it's convenience, efficiency, cost, and availability. We love our eating contests, and the old American way of "the bigger the better" has only guided us to embrace obesity.

9 min later 17270922 Anonymous
>>17270882 We get food network here in the UK too, i fucking love Diners Drive-Ins and Dives, so fucking based all dat bulking food

9 min later 17270931 Anonymous
>>17270775 Yes. Corn is fed to our livestock. Corn syrup is used in our desserts and candies. Corn starch is in a shitload of sauces and gravies as thickener. If anyone has some sort of vegetable virus that'll kill corn we'd appreciate it. Europe plz.

10 min later 17270938 Anonymous
>>17270922 Precisely the attitude that helps - quite literally - fuel American obesity. Sounds like the American culture has created a greased pipeline across the big pond and found its way into the hearts of the Saxons... Eating shit like this is all well and good, but we can afford to because we work out. We burn calories. We are efficient machines. Most people are not as dedicated...

11 min later 17270952 Anonymous
>>17270882 >I watch the food network shows to enjoy the travel. I watch the travel channel shows to enjoy the food. What's happening to programming?

12 min later 17270975 Anonymous
>>17270931 There are several different kinds of corn, not to mention how easily it grows in American soil. Even during the Dust Bowl, corn was abundant. it's a fine product, really. I love corn. I just hate how they abuse it, process it, and forcefeed it to us.

13 min later 17270990 Anonymous
It's not the corn. Govt policy actually makes sugar more expensive because it puts a tarriff on imported sugar, which the BRs make really efficiently. Also, countries like the UK and Aus are almost as fat as us without the corn.

13 min later 17270998 Anonymous
>>17270952 Dunno bro. No-Cable-Television Masterrace reporting in. I can tell you what's happening with the weather and the series "Arrow". Actually, not really because I don't watch that either...

13 min later 17271003 Anonymous
>>17270938 People over here watch it and say "why are american portions so big?" Seriously, the food looks so fucking big it's crazy

13 min later 17271005 Anonymous
>>17270975 I don't mind actual corn. But I'd rather just some virus wipe out America's stock and we import from Europe. That way it's too use in any form besides how nature intended.

16 min later 17271053 Anonymous (Typical American Woman.jpg 800x479 41kB)
Yeah, definitely the corn.

17 min later 17271066 Anonymous
>>17271005 >nature intended You know its a heavily modified grass, right?

18 min later 17271107 Anonymous
>>17271053 If the Coke was made with cane sugar they wouldn't be fat, moron.

18 min later 17271115 Anonymous (1359138112958.jpg 265x399 9kB)
>>17271053 the fuck is it with fat people and ranch?

19 min later 17271116 Anonymous
>>17271005 I meant too expensive to use in any other form. Crap. >>17271066 By who? injuns?

19 min later 17271118 Anonymous
>>17271005 I liked popped corn. And creamed corn. And corn-on-the-cob. And corn-off-the-cob. And canned corn, candy corn, chicken corndon bleu, but the moment it's processed, it's pig disgusting.

19 min later 17271125 Anonymous
>>17271053 Fun fact: pic related contains a vegetable.

20 min later 17271136 Anonymous
>>17271107 If it was diet they wouldn't be fat as well. >2011+3 >Having regular coke with your 40" pizza >Wondering why you're fat

21 min later 17271157 Anonymous (smoking.jpg 487x530 161kB)
>>17271118 >candy corn >chicken corndon bleu These jokes are too corny.

21 min later 17271166 Anonymous
>>17271053 The problem with America, right here. People that embrace and encourage obesity. It's not just the fact that these ridiculously oversized women are eating what they are eating, but the fact that someone took the time out of their day to capture this on film and eventually post it to the internet. I bet the original had a funny facebook caption like "just another saturday night at moms hrr durrrr". The reality is that these people are frowned upon in real life, but embraced on the internet.

21 min later 17271177 Anonymous
>>17271157 i'm amaized someone figured out my ruse.

22 min later 17271196 Anonymous
>>17271177 >>17271157 please do not ingrain this thread with terrible puns...

23 min later 17271213 Anonymous
>>17271166 Not entirely, they're also "embraced" by their social circles even if that circle is making fun of them behind their backs. Lately we have a culture of not mentioning people's lifestyle choices in a negative light and it's really ruining shit.

23 min later 17271215 Anonymous (1357960824888.gif 200x150 1017kB)
>>17271053

23 min later 17271218 Anonymous
>>17271166 >2012+2-1 >Can't handle a real woman >Can't handle a sassy American woman >Can't handle an American woman with curves >Wants some size 0 model >Can't handle a woman who enjoys her food >Can't handle an independent American woman >Can't handle an American woman who's both healthy and overweight

24 min later 17271232 Anonymous
>thinks corn makes people fat no, people refuse to eat anything but fastfood. all these offices and corporate jobs, they all eat fastfood every single day. that's why they're all fat as fuck. shit, most jobs period. people will blame it on work hours, but it's just laziness. you can prepare your meals in advance if you actually cared about being lean.

25 min later 17271251 Anonymous
>>17271213 Agreed; it's a problem that stems from abolition and women's rights. Our liberal governments have made it so we can no longer disregard one's lifestyle as "wrong" unless they say it's okay. If only it were as much a crime to be morbidly obese as it was to be a pedophile.

25 min later 17271260 Anonymous
>>17271232 What do you think is in the soda, the meat, and the sauces in our fast food? Corn.

26 min later 17271283 Anonymous (Corn-Im-in-Everything3.jpg 600x541 48kB)
Our corn crops are heavily subsidized by our tax dollars and we only really grow one type of corn that has been genetically engineered to be easier to grow. Some type of corn derived ingredient is present in any processed food you buy in America. Also, since its so calorie dense, its fed to our livestock to fatten them up faster and get them to market sooner even though there is evidence to suggest it leads to a higher incidences of e-coli in cow stomachs. To combat that, antibiotics are added into the feed, which leads to drug resistant strains of e-coli. It's even being fed to fish on fish farms now. Dairy is also very heavily subsidized. Check out the documentaries King Corn and Food Inc. to find out more. After you watch Food, Inc. you likely won't want to eat anything ever again. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food,_Inc. YouTube link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oq24hITF TY http://www.kingcorn.net/

26 min later 17271285 Anonymous
>>17271116 Yes, injuns. The base plant still exists and is called teosinte. It's like 2 feet tall and produces ears with like 8 small kernels.

26 min later 17271286 Anonymous (1356696212001.jpg 440x623 80kB)
Am I the only one who thinks it's not just calories in & calories out? HFCS made rats fatter than "normal" sugar, even though the energies were the same. This was just one example.

27 min later 17271290 Anonymous
>>17271232 i'm an american that works 9-5 in an office. I'm there right now. If I eat lunch, I bring it with me. Once a year, I go out for sushi with my coworkers for Christmas. Beyond that, I never eat anything that I don't bring. And I've helped spread awareness in my office so that others are bringing in healthier lunches, even if it is just fruits and nuts.

29 min later 17271346 Anonymous
>>17271285 oh man, i just wiki'd that and laughed so hard: > The last species is further divided into four subspecies: huehuetenangensis, mexicana, parviglumis, and mays > huehuetenangensis > huehuehue

29 min later 17271357 Anonymous
>>17271286 On paper the energy values are the same, when metabolized they're processed by the body differently.

30 min later 17271360 Anonymous (1347933076627.gif 256x188 2035kB)
>>17271136 >2011+3 >2014

31 min later 17271402 Anonymous (llama.gif 156x139 392kB)
>>17271360

32 min later 17271415 Anonymous
>>17271357 Is counting calories just a hoax? Obesity is a business.

32 min later 17271419 Anonymous
>>17271053 The ingredients in pizza are highly subsidized by the US government which is why they can be made so cheaply. This is why Americans put "cheese" on everything, up to and including apple pie. Cheese in quotes, because alot of cheese in America isn't something that most of the world would consider cheese. Cheap, shitty food is the cause of our obesity problems. http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2010/1 1/07/199018/tax-dollars-going-to-subsidi ze-cheesier-dominoes-pizzas/

33 min later 17271425 Anonymous
>>17271260 doesn't matter. saying CORN IS MAKING US FAT because it's in everything is a correlation = causation fallacy.

33 min later 17271435 Anonymous
>>17271286 Stop relying on rodent studies to draw any conclusions about carbohydrate metabolism. There are big differences in the way humans and rats/mice metabolism CHO. The big one is that their de novo lipogenesis pathway is many times more active than ours - meaning overfeeding carbs will cause very different effect on body fat than in humans.

34 min later 17271446 Anonymous
>>17271419 forgot my second link http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/us/07f at.html?pagewanted=all

34 min later 17271458 Anonymous
>>17271425 Then why are Europeans who live similar lifestyles not developing obesity? Fast food is simply healthier outside the US.

35 min later 17271463 Anonymous
>>17271419 that's really interesting. I never knew. Thanks, man.

37 min later 17271509 Anonymous
>>17271458 They are developing obesity, they just started later.

38 min later 17271529 Anonymous
>>17271509 Ha! Euros second to America YET AGAIN. Are they even trying anymore?

38 min later 17271530 Anonymous
>>17271458 you sure you know what you're talking about? last time i checked the UK was obese and climbing.

39 min later 17271560 Anonymous
>>17271283 Food, Inc. Trailer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2sgaO44_ 1c&list=PL2B9EA111CE4421F8

40 min later 17271576 Anonymous
>>17271530 Maybe not the UK, because I know their diets are poor even without the fast food.

42 min later 17271612 Anonymous
>>17270775 I always eat 200g of sweet corn with my salmon and black beans and I'm not obese. Calories in - Calories out, you stupid trolling fuck. Not even American, here.

43 min later 17271632 Anonymous
>>17270775 yes there's corn syrup in everything

43 min later 17271634 Anonymous
>>17271576 The rest of Europe is fattening too. The childhood obesity numbers for Greece and Spain are terrifying. The north of Europe isn't as bad, but It's getting worse all the time.

43 min later 17271637 Anonymous (medya[1].php_mn=5.jpg 450x282 5kB)
>>17271530 >UK >In Europe Dave judges you

44 min later 17271656 Anonymous
>>17271632 Even in... where? Surprise me!

44 min later 17271659 Anonymous
>>17271166 These people are ridiculed on the internet more than they are embraced. There are definitely communities built around "fat pride", but there are positive communities for tons of negative traits. There are positive communities for pedophiles, but they're still overall ridiculed more than embraced. Fat people are embraced in fat circles, but I would disagree that they are "embraced on the internet" because the majority of people still frown upon them.

44 min later 17271672 Anonymous
>>17271509 retard remark of the day

46 min later 17271698 Anonymous (no.jpg 451x326 39kB)
>>17271530 UK is not part of euro thanks m8

46 min later 17271708 Anonymous
>>17271659 Understood, but it's so much easier to frown upon a singular fatty in real life than it is an army of fat keyboard warriors. It's women, man... fat bitches are responsible for everything wrong in this world.

50 min later 17271799 Anonymous (i_hug_that_feel.png 500x461 42kB)
>>17271708 >It's women, man... fat bitches are responsible for everything wrong in this world.

54 min later 17271869 Anonymous
I am from Europe and I was in the US for a month last summer. During that time I gained 10kg and I didn't really eat that much more in quantity, then I do here.

55 min later 17271888 Anonymous
>>17271869 Ah, you must have caught the Fat Virus. Those 20kg you tacked on will never come off, not even with surgery. It's part of your genetics now.

56 min later 17271934 Anonymous
>>17271637 >UK >not in Europe r u retardd m8?

58 min later 17271966 Anonymous
>>17271888 I'm just saying that food is a lot more fattening in America for some reason.

1 hours later 17272009 Anonymous (cheryl-cole.gif 408x225 1843kB)
>>17271966 Clearly, our calories are superior.

1 hours later 17272085 Anonymous (250px-Brak-The_Brak_Show.jpg 250x245 14kB)
>>17271118 I like Snoopy, I like Droopy, I like Charles Nelson Reilly I like Hee-Haw, Fat Albert, and I also like corn I like cornflakes, corndogs I like corn bread and cornstarch I like the band Korn and popcorn, I like all kinds of corn ALL KINDS OF CORN!

1 hours later 17272113 Anonymous
>>17272085 >corndogs THE nastiest shit.

1 hours later 17272125 Anonymous
>>17272085 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zi5FdRTV 5M&t=0m26s

1 hours later 17272184 Anonymous
>>17270975 >implying the people affected by the dust bowl grew corn

1 hours later 17272500 Anonymous (corndog.jpg 249x202 9kB)
>>17272085 I don't know why, but I've been craving corndogs for a while now. It sucks because I have to wait for our county fair to come back in the fall to get a decent one instead of the frozen shit you get everywhere else.

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