Human Stupidity: Irrationality, Self Deception

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“there must be reasons why obesity is extremely on the rise”

One of the main reasons is that the USA has eliminated all other major forms of “void-filling”. Europe (this is where I live), everyone is still a smoker and being an alcoholic is the most normal thing in the world. We’re skinnier coz we use cigarettes and alcohol to fill the void, where americans use food.

Also, americans are more workaholic then ever. Workaholism has a direct relation to psychological eating and binging. The french work 6hour workdays, and have a very relaxed, comfortable culture where they take 2 minutes to chew every and each bite.

Have you ever compared the decrease of smokers and the increase of obesity in the USA? They match perfectly.

“Nor are they as obese in countries that eat more traditional food, like France.”

Actually, read “French Women Don’t Get Fat: The Secret of Eating For Pleasure”. Most of french cuisine (like 99.9%) would be labeled junk-food by the food police. Its nutritionally identical to most junkfood.

The only difference between a french restaurant and McDonald’s is the portion sizes. Nutritionally they’re identical.

They’ve done tests where they give people food from french restaurants and declare it junk-food and people “felt sick on it” and “gained weight”, and where they gave people junk food, but labeled it “fancy restaurant name” and they ate it slowly and lost weight.

A lot of experiments like that are done by Brian Wansink. Check out his book “Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think”.

Its in fact the demonization of junk-food that makes people fatter. It is the forbidden food, and people don’t enjoy it, but cram it… Guilt creates over-eating, and over-eating creates bad health.

There is absolutely no test that shows moderate “junk food” intake has ANY negative consequences. All the studies that show it as being bad, are based on 2 faulty concepts:

1) Lack of diversity… I.e. they have someone eating JUST hamburgers… And the person gets some bad markers of health. Guess what? JUST eating apples for 2 weeks has the same effect.

2) Most of the negative effects shown are overeating-related, not food related. I.E they get people to over-eat, and these people get bad-markers of health. Guess what, over-eating ANYTHING has the same results.

All of this is done on purpose by the vegan lobby, who’s GOAL it is to turn everyone into a vegan and GET MORE REGULATION! But they do it in a roundabout way with faux-studies etc… They’re very similar to feminists, they use the same manipulative tricks and quasi-studies. They use guilting and shaming tactics, appeal to emotions, creating victims and use of children as pawns to appeal to emotion.

Watch the Fat-Head docummentary for more on the ultra-left vegan connection to fast-food demonization, the faked studies and the secret behind it all… More goverment power and regulation. Every single one of these people behind it are radical vegans or marxists dude… They’re the SAME PEOPLE as the feminists, don’t you get it?

Please watch Penn&Teller’s episode on “junk food”, where they rip most myths and b.s. about junk-food and the food police. Its nothing more than marxist anti-capitalist trying to gain power by demonization.

Apply the same skepticism you have for feminists, to the food police, and you will see they’re the SAME people.

I hate to be saying this to one of my heroes, but you’ve failed on this subject and need to do a lot more study… a LOT. Start with the resources I pointed, they’re all available on torrents and such… They’re nice easy starts:

-Fat-Head Doccumentary
-PennTeller BS Season 8 Episode 2 – Fast Food
-Mindless Eating by
-I can make you thin by Paul McKenna
-Why french women don’t get fat

Another two PhDs on nutrition who are blasting the food police, and food demonization:

bradpilon.com
johnbarban.com

After 20 years of study, guess what? Calories are calories are calories. At the end of the day its about over-eating or undereating.

“It is true, with right genetics, and low calorie intake, you can live fairly healthy on junk food.”

That’s the point. There is no difference. If you’re NOT overweight… then… Health is 95% genetics. After genetics, most of the other 5% comes out of psychological factors such as STRESS, which is the biggest factor, and the only a small fraction is what and how you eat, sleep and other minutae details… Most of those are covered if you simply have enough vegetables and food diversity. Yes, having pizza for breakfast and hamburger for dinner is diversity, provided there’s a salad somewhere.

“Now kids are especially sensitive, because bad habits get formed, and young kids with lots of fat cells are predestined to keep them forever. ”

Appeal to emotion and THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN. Its all actually BS if you study it more. So please do. “fat cells predestined to keep them forever” -> have you actually studies this sentence, or did you just take it for granted by the fear-mongers who said it? Do you even know what fat-cells are and how they work?

“Another point is: while the law goes overboard to combat an invented danger (child porn) with draconian measures that violate constitutional guarantees of due process, there is a real deadly epidemic that simply does not get dealty with, where all kind of democratic beliefs about parent’s freedom prevent us from acting.”

That’s the actual end-game. All these dangers and problems are entirely INVENTED by people who’s only goal is more regulation and draconian measures. That’s the big secret. There isn’t even a shred of evidence. Its the same thing as the feminists, its the exact same people dude. They use the exact same fake-studies, appeals, manipulative tactics, anti-corporation, anti-capitalism bashing etc…

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You are absolutely right, kids need to eat healty. We are all descendants of ancient relatives who had no choice but to over eat to store energy when food was not available. The gene that controls this behavior was naturally selected for survival.