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We're all killing ourselves
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2019 8:13 pm
by Leisher
Suicide by food.
Serious question: Bad food is killing us far more than tobacco, guns, etc., so why are those things illegal, hot button issues, restricted, and so on, but bad foods aren't?
We're all killing ourselves
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2019 8:28 pm
by GORDON
Better lobbyists.
We're all killing ourselves
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 7:40 am
by Vince
One in five deaths globally -- that's about 11 million people -- in 2017 occurred because of too much sodium and a lack of whole grains, fruit and nuts and seeds, the study found, rather than from diets packed with trans fats, sugar-sweetened drinks and high levels of red and processed meats.
I find this stat highly suspect. I suspect they are lumping all strokes into the "too much sodium" column.
I'm calling horseshit on this study.
We're all killing ourselves
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 9:46 am
by Leisher
Vince wrote: I'm calling horseshit on this study.
Bold stance calling horseshit on a study that says we eat like shit.
We're all killing ourselves
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 9:50 am
by GORDON
ALl I kept thinking of was how life expectancy kept increasing, aside from the recent opiode epidemic.
We're all killing ourselves
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 10:17 am
by TheCatt
Leisher wrote: Vince wrote: I'm calling horseshit on this study.
Bold stance calling horseshit on a study that says we eat like shit.
Yeah... I mean, the numbers are going to be grey, sure, I'll grant that.
But most people definitely eat shitty food most of the time, and it seems reasonable that it's causing disease, shorter life expectancy, etc than a better diet would.
We're all killing ourselves
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 11:24 am
by Vince
TheCatt wrote:Yeah... I mean, the numbers are going to be grey, sure, I'll grant that.
But most people definitely eat shitty food most of the time, and it seems reasonable that it's causing disease, shorter life expectancy, etc than a better diet would.
And I wouldn't deny that. I just think they're skewing numbers to make it a story. I'd like to compare the numbers (real numbers) of people dying from a bad diet to the numbers of people that were dying from starvation 30 years ago.
If we cure everything and people all die from natural causes at the age of 102 except for lightning strikes, they'll be writing an article to scare the shit out of people that 100% of deaths outside of natural causes was being caused by lightning.
Oh, the good old days when all we had to worry about was famine and diphtheria and malaria.