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American food is shit. Everything is heavly processed, and usually contains a shitlot of suger. I have recently switched to reduced suger marmalaide, and the difference is they make it with water instead of high fructose corn syrup. it taste just as good and has half the suger. The major problem is, that in america the shitty food places have the advertisement bucks, so they stick in the front of your mind more. We weill rarely rember the place that had a modest price with a healthy portion size, we always rember the place that gives us the most food for the least money.

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those super sized drinks and chips are too much for any human being to safely consume.

There's a bit of a chicken and egg problem here...fast food hellholes would not exist if people didn't go out and preferentially buy from them.

I travel a lot for my job and I cannot think of a time when I've not been able to find something reasonably healthy. Although from time to time I actually do crave a large amount of unhealthy food.

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I travel a lot for my job and I cannot think of a time when I've not been able to find something reasonably healthy.

The big victims are those that don't travel. If you go into the poorer sections of the city here there are no supermarkets, no health food stores. There are convenience stores with way jacked up prices and limited selection of pre-packaged meals...and fast food.

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"Good, fast and cheap: you can only have 2 at the same time".
Some people go for fast and cheap.

One of my forite places when I was working on the road was a roticery chicken place. I would usually get the quater whitmeat meal with masked sweet potatoes... not terriblt unhealthy, but not exactly health food either... it was tastey though... I tried to stay away from most fast food places especailly McDonalds... Another problem with fast food is that you get hungery very soon after eating it

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is it true that schools feed students all that fatty sugary shit?

Not only do schools feed students that fat sugary shit -- there are a lot of school districts in the US that actually get paid by soda companies so they can advertise their products to their students. Some school districts even sign 'exclusive' deals where they will only have one brand of soda vending machine in their schools.

I really liked Supersize Me, I found it informative and very entertaining. A dark comedy and documentary at the same time.

Fast Food Nation is a great book and gets into all the details of the fast food biz...give it a read if you're interested.

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Seconded. I read FFN almost 5 years ago. I used to eat Burger King once a week perhaps. I have had a Whopper meal once since then, about 3 months ago, because i was stuck on a 5 hour journey and the guy driving stopped at a place where that was all we could get. I could have not eaten it, but i was also somewhat curious to see what it tasted like after all these years. I can honestly say if i go another 5 years without eating it, i wouldn't lose much sleep over it.

One thing a lot of people seem to be forgetting - the big fast food chains cater largely to the poor and uneducated. As more people are watching and reading things like Supersize Me and FFN, their market share is declining. McDonalds last year - for the first time in it's history - closed restaurants down. Normally it just expands. Yes there are lazy people who will just want something and want it now, instead of cooking something at home, yes there are people who just like fast food in general, even though they can afford something healthier, but a lot of people see it as a means to live on a restrictive budget, especially things like "2 burgers for 99c type deals" - saying Americans are fat, dumb and lazy is generalistic - and from my experience - generally not true at all.

As others have mentioned, prolification of companies to "sponsor" schools, where the only drinks on campus are soda's with 40g's of sugar for every 350ml of drink. Canteens that serve processed shit. Supermarkets that stock unhealthy junk because it tastes better and keeps for 7 days instead of 3, and is cheaper to source.

The US is blessed with a bountiful eco system and abundant natural resources, allowing for a plentiful food supply. Buying power and economic trade deals massively offset the cost of food imports, and let's not forget the many millions of illegal immigrant workers who keep employment costs down, allowing those savings to be passed on to the consumer, either the supermarket shopper, or the person in the hamburger joint ordering their lunch.

Americans, per capita, ARE the largest and fattest people on the planet, but to try and pin it down to any one thing would be missing the bigger picture of the many contributing factors, socio, political and economic, that account for their size. Also, to say they are ALL like that is a sweeping generalisation and incorrect, and i'm not just talking about the "body beautiful" Californians. I saw plenty of slim/average bodied people in Texas too (although there were people there that were huge too).

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