Hog hell eric schlosser biography
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Fast-Food Nation: The Speculate Cost Emulate America's Diet
By Governmental Magazine Bestow winner Eric Schlosser
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Super Size Me
Andy said:
Why are Americans so fat?
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Because humans and their ancestors, for like 2 million years, lived as hunter-gatherers (spell?) who, when they had food every day for 7 days in a row, thought that the gods were extremely pleased with them. So of course they developed these mechanisms to store every spare calorie as fat. And of course they were doing a whole freakin lot of exercise every day.
But now we're eating at least 3 meals a day, every day, thousands upon thousands of calories. With no exercise to speak of. And the calorie storage system (fat) did no disappear over night.
Still wonder why modern people are fat?
kingchicknstrip said:
People don’t realize that they have to make a life style change that involves exercise and the correct diet.
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It's amazing how many people ignore this.
antipathy said:
here is a BMI calulator for you morbidly curious (and morbidly obese)!
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Just a simple BMI means nothing. I know people who are 6'0", 200lb and are paramounts of health and athletic prowess. Oh, yeah, they have, like, 7% body fat.
By that silly BMI calculator, they would be dead by tomorrow
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THE NATION
“Slow Food Nation”September 11, 2006
Article 1: A Forum
Article 2: Hog Hell
Article 3: Hard Labor
Introduction: Slow Food Nation
by ALICE WATERS
[from the issue]
This article can be found on the web at
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060911/waters
It turns out that Jean AnthèlmeBrillat-Savarin was right in 1825 when he wrote in his magnum opus, The Physiology of Taste, that "the destiny of nations depends on the manner in which they are fed." If you think this aphorism exaggerates the importance of food, consider that today almost 4 billion people worldwide depend on the agricultural sector for their livelihood. Food is destiny, all right; every decision we make about food has personal and global repercussions. By now it is generally conceded that the food we eat could actually be making us sick, but we still haven't acknowledged the full consequences--environmental, political, cultural, social and ethical--of our national diet.
These consequences include soil depletion, water and air pollution, the loss of family farms and rural communities, and even global warming. (Inconveniently, Al Gore's otherwise invaluable documentary An Inconvenient Truth has disappointingly little to say about how industrial food contributes to climate change.) W