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- ohnoerino, on 09/24/2008, -0/+15Let's not forget those awful school lunches.
- niradg, on 09/24/2008, -3/+17Why are you blaming "yuppies and metrosexuals" for eating well? In their "hijacking" of these foods, did they actually hold up grocery stores and steal everything that's healthy? Maybe you need to take some responsibility for your food choices instead of blaming people who are eating right.
- iancgi, on 09/24/2008, -5/+16Thanks for putting so many GMO and high concentrated fructose in our children s meals.
These criminals arent only financially raping the world they are doing it to our biology as well. - nerdyandrew, on 09/24/2008, -1/+10Same thing is happening in Asia, lot of people over there who used to be real skinny are starting to gain a lot of weight along with the health problems.
- suzannethetiger, on 09/25/2008, -0/+8Dugg for “We’re trying to keep her off sugar now. If we continue like this, we’re going to become like Americans, and no one wants that.”
I chortled. - CaptSnuffy, on 09/25/2008, -6/+13Payback for all the stereotypical fat American jokes.
- jasoninoakland, on 09/25/2008, -1/+8"If we continue like this, we’re going to become like Americans, and no one wants that.”
You already ARE fatter than the Americans (75% overweight in Greece, 66% in the US). Too late. - ROBINEW, on 09/24/2008, -4/+11Super Size Me
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-143231584 ... - mrsbrown333, on 09/24/2008, -7/+13it is ironic that the mediteranean diet is now considered gourmet petit bourgeousie fare touted by new york restaurants, as stated in the article, rather then a staple diet of the people. why is it that so many wonderful cultural food behaviours are hijacked by yuppies and metrosexuals who need to endlessly debate the nuances of aged balsamic vinegar. the rest of us can eat cake, i guess.
- geoken, on 09/25/2008, -0/+5For something to be hijacked it's original owners need to be relieved of it's ownership. Last time I checked no "New York Yuppies" had laid claim to any of my grandparents fields and the local grocery store in their village had no shortage of olive oil.
- suprfli, on 09/25/2008, -1/+6Nobody is forcing this food upon the people of the Mediterranean. It's supply and demand. There is demand therefore it is supplied and people consume it. If people truly wanted to maintain their diet and way of life then they wouldn't patronize these food places and in turn they would go out of business.
Personally, I think fast food is horrible but that's why I don't their products, watch their advertisements, eat their food or feed it to my kids. Apparently I'm in the minority and that's very apparent every day when I see other parents letting their 2 and 3 year olds stuff themselves with McDonald's french fries and hamburgers and think there's something the matter with us because our kid eats grilled chicken, drinks water and eats low fat foods. - Daxx22, on 09/25/2008, -0/+5Don't forget to ditch that glass of wine for 6-pack.
- Akairenn, on 09/25/2008, -0/+4You can't blame grocery stores, either. I've had no problems switching to a vastly healthier diet while shopping at Wal-Mart, of all places.
Just because a store offers calorie-ridden crap doesn't mean you have to eat it. It does, however, mean you actually have to learn how to cook, rather than use the microwave for everything. :p - bananasluggy, on 09/25/2008, -1/+5It's kinda sad... the thing we're best at exporting (lifestyle) winds up making people sicker than they were before, while when we adopt their ways, we wind up healthier.
Of course... if the rest of the world winds up fat, Americans will have to compensate by making that version of "fat" seem slim... - Seidoger, on 09/25/2008, -0/+4But what about the morbidly obese?
Im sure US wins. - ptFoe, on 09/25/2008, -0/+3fat Americans will not be alone anymore
- BossKey, on 09/25/2008, -0/+3The snobbishness of good eating is unnecessary. I eat a Mediterranean diet but only because I've figured out how to get a dinner together in 5-15 minutes with little effort, involving vegetables and white meat and such. Heck, I think it's pretty easy, since pasta is easy and veggies cook quickly in olive oil. Or if you're super tired you can just drop them in a pot and steam 'em, it still takes just 5 minutes.
With those timings I can get a healthy dinner together faster than it takes to drive to the fast food place, pick up and pay and drive back, or faster than it takes for pizza to get here. Healthy food can be the fastest of all. And cheaper too, if you price out fast food by volume, nutrients, and auto operating costs per mile. - EnnuiStudent, on 09/25/2008, -0/+3I agree with suprfli.
It's called parenting. I see similar counterarguments to what he's saying from the same crowd blaming TV and video games for societies ills, when they themselves give their young kids money to buy the crap.
But in a way, I can see the marketing point of view. But not further than a very very slight influence. In some european countries, it's actually illegal to target a children's market in advertising campaigns for ethical reasons. Add Greece to that list soon, if it's not there already. - MoFoKeR, on 09/25/2008, -0/+3now eat your fast food while watching our sitcoms in your big comfy couch for the full american experience.
- RobotBuddha, on 09/25/2008, -0/+3My main complaint is that most of them don't eat well. All the people I've known on trendy diets don't know anything about nutrition, stuff their faces with enough calories of their 'health food' in a day to feed the sized person they want to be for a week, and then sneak candy and alcohol on the side. I don't mind trendiness, I mind people who use their diets as an excuse to be *****. .
- inactive, on 09/25/2008, -0/+3Welcome to the fat side!
- nihilville, on 09/25/2008, -0/+2Isn't it kind of strange... Not even too long ago, being fat was seen as a symbol of wealth ("fat cats" and the like), now it's rapidly becoming an indicator of poverty (and yes, I'm generalizing here)... As the rich can afford personal trainers, gourmet restaurants with "Mediterranean" style cuisine, organicly grown vegetables and free range meat keeping them _fabulously_ skinny, the overworked working class, forced to work two jobs for minimal pay end up too tired to do much more than bring home a box of KFC or some Big Macs at the end of the day.
- EnnuiStudent, on 09/25/2008, -0/+2“Some diet,” interjected her father. “We’re trying to keep her off sugar now. If we continue like this, we’re going to become like Americans, and no one wants that.”
Yet they persist! - larsonsm, on 09/25/2008, -2/+3I think you missed his point.
- MrMayBeBanned, on 09/25/2008, -1/+2My aren't we naive....
- inactive, on 09/25/2008, -3/+4Its impossible to beat USA in their new national sport.
- m0llusk, on 09/25/2008, -1/+2That statement is a contradiction because supply and demand is forcing this food on kids along with pervasive advertising and availability.
- rheaume, on 09/25/2008, -0/+1/sarcasm
- suldar, on 09/25/2008, -0/+1Eating too much isn't really the problem. The quality of the readily available food is the real issue. Even if you avoid eating fast food it's hard to get decent food at a grocery store. The land we grow our vegetables on is being overused and we make up for this by using fertilizer from unhealthy animals. The meat comes from animals that eat unnatural diets and are pumped full of chemicals. You either have to devote a huge amount of time finding decent quality food and a large amount of time preparing meals or take the easier route and eat crap. I would happily pay more money at the grocery store for better quality food if it were widely available.
- inactive, on 09/25/2008, -0/+1Oh, no...
McDung must die! - MrMayBeBanned, on 09/25/2008, -1/+2Actually it is. Eating less is pretty much proven to increase lifespan.
- iancgi, on 09/25/2008, -1/+2No one is telling them truth about whats in it either.
- badave, on 09/25/2008, -0/+1I imagined you saying that in a Mark Wahlberg "The Happening" voice...
- BossKey, on 09/25/2008, -1/+2It isn't pure supply and demand, since the food conglomerates know that effective marketing stimulates demand and therefore they aggressively push effective marketing. From the consumer side, that means effective marketing can *distort* demand. Meaning just because the public demands something doesn't mean it's right.
- catxors, on 09/26/2008, -0/+1It's interesting that Greeks seem to be trying the same plans to bring back healthy eating that have already been proven to fail in America. I guess when it comes to health, if there's no treatment that works, people will always use ones that don't work.
- roubenhw, on 11/10/2009, -0/+1Mediterranean people don't need fast food, the already have a healthy diet http://www.themediterraneandietplan.com/
- yijie84, on 09/25/2008, -0/+1 I can't image eat fast food or feed it to my kids so frequently...not only nutrients you fat things~~
- Finsternis, on 09/25/2008, -1/+2Michael Pollan has been saying it for years. Read his "In Defense of Food." The people who make our food are poisoning us. Think that sounds like a whacko conspiracy theory? Read the damn article, it's all right there. They were healthy until they started eating like we do. But, hey, go ahead and ignore it, dismiss it, pretend that eating ***** doesn't make you unhealthy. Have another meal of chemical glop and HFCS. and have fun dying young of preventable disease.
- TheMachine1, on 09/25/2008, -1/+2Getting fatter is a global phenomena. When unlimited food is available and people do not need to do a lot physical work for it people will usually get fatter.
- kublerross, on 09/25/2008, -3/+3who cares? we need larger corporate profits
- idiggitall, on 09/25/2008, -1/+1Extra tsatsiki sauce please!
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