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suziedemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 10:39 AM Original message |
Americans are fatter than Europeans because of CORN! |
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Wetzelbill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 10:41 AM Response to Original message |
1. Change the Iowa caucuses!!! |
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ChairmanAgnostic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 10:42 AM Response to Original message |
2. a-maizing. |
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porphyrian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 10:43 AM Response to Original message |
3. OUTLANDER!!! -n/t |
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Squatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 10:44 AM Response to Original message |
4. Europe's got its fair share of fat people... |
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BanzaiBonnie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 10:47 AM Response to Original message |
5. My husband and I recently instituted a change in our our eating |
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ayeshahaqqiqa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 10:50 AM Response to Original message |
6. This is very true |
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Akoto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 10:51 AM Response to Original message |
7. Americans are fatter because of portion sizing. |
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JBoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 12:29 PM Response to Reply #7 |
17. Portion sizes definitely larger |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 10:52 AM Response to Original message |
8. Stop drinking soda. I lost ten lbs by quitting. Diet sodas don't work. |
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suziedemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 11:44 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. I did stop about a year ago. Replaced with Pelligrino, then flat lemon water. |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 11:57 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. I have tea in the morning, coffee in the afternoon. I always |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 11:11 AM Response to Original message |
9. We digest sweetened corn syrup differently than sugar. nt |
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Elspeth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 07:37 PM Response to Reply #9 |
28. Do you have a link on this? (Thanks) |
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lildreamer316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 11:19 AM Response to Original message |
10. Sorta off-topic, but related: CLA has helped me lose cellulite. |
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suziedemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 12:13 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. That's great! I'm going to start paying attention to that. |
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lildreamer316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 05:32 PM Response to Reply #15 |
22. Our faves: |
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Eurobabe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
12. My guess is it probably mostly GMO corn too in the US |
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Hamlette (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 11:50 AM Response to Original message |
13. Pollan talks about it in one of his books, not just corn syrup but corn itself |
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windoe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 12:19 PM Response to Original message |
16. We're being fattened up for the 'Rapture'- |
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suziedemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 12:30 PM Response to Original message |
18. Now that I think about it, ... |
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AlCzervik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 12:34 PM Response to Original message |
19. i stopped eating processed carbohydrates, my life has been about bad carbohydrates |
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GrpCaptMandrake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 12:41 PM Response to Original message |
20. Let's narrow this a bit |
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NMDemDist2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 12:42 PM Response to Original message |
21. HFCS is evil |
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Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 06:57 PM Response to Original message |
23. Oh, please. |
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suziedemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 08:59 PM Response to Reply #23 |
30. I don't have a car where I live and I walk everywhere. |
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Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 09:24 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Are there outliers? Sure. |
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suziedemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 10:31 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. But I don't think it is just HFCS. I think it is also the missing CLA in our dairy products,... |
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lies (69 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 07:19 PM Response to Original message |
24. ummm |
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spinbaby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 07:28 PM Response to Original message |
25. You could be onto something |
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distantearlywarning (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 07:29 PM Response to Original message |
26. I noticed the same thing when I visited Europe this summer. |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 07:34 PM Response to Original message |
27. It's all pretty much how we choose to protect our industry... |
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derby378 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 07:52 PM Response to Original message |
29. At your precinct conventions, you know what to do... |
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