Why do Americans act like eating healthy is such a commitment

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because we are all fat fucks

We romanticize our eating

>why do americans

fat is addictive

yes user? speak up!

why do europeans wish they were americans?

report it and move on.
OP is obviously american. sure there are jealous eurocucks, but there are far many more trolls who want to watch defensive people be lolcows

Because it means driving to a special store and making a large commitment into unfamiliar food that will actually spoil if not eaten

Because the US food supply contains so much garbage that you actually have to work to avoid eating it here.

Because Americans work far longer hours than most Europeans and often have longer commutes and more stress, leading to less time and energy to dedicate to cooking. Therefore, most Americans tend to eat a lot of fast food or premade/frozen meals.

Fast food and premade meals are loaded with sugar, corn syrup, and fat because it's a cheap way to make food taste good and the people who produce said food are Jews and don't like spending more money than they have to.

Also, healthier food tends to be more expensive in America, which makes it less accessible to the lower class.

eating healthy means cooking and cleaning daily and going to the grocery several times per week

this is a lot of work and very time consuming, especially if you have a strenuous full time job.

fast food is cheap, filling, and obviously quick, american work hours are near slave-like and the average worker has almost no time to cook for themselves, so eating healthy requires 2 very important things, money and time, which the american middle and lower class don't have.

These, and also let us not forget what life is for the gastronomically distressed peoples (flyover chicken fuckers, sister diddling hayseeds, inbred yokels, and other authentic salt-o-the-earth Real Americans(tm) residing in the unexplored wastelands between the Hudson River and the Diablo Range)

If you ever admit to having eaten arugula or avocados, you're an anti-American Islamo-ISIS-Gommunistfascisthomolibrul SJW who will stop at nothing short of the destruction of all Americans and very concept of freedom itself.

Being healthy is a kind of punishment to be temporarily endured under the supervision of a medical professional, any attempt at behaving like a well adjusted healthy person by choice is fucking pretentious as hell and you best choose your next words carefully boy, we don't take kindly to your coastie values around here.

Because guess who's in charge of media?
They make eating healthy look like a huge effort by advertising all the grass-fed quinoa crap. This way some people turn into pseudo-religious zealots who spend money on that shit while the rest are scared away and continue eating fast food like the good goyim they are.

I would wager that that notion has been disseminated by industries who would profit if we felt that way.

a kind of advertising where you focus on the business of everyday life, and the onerousness of actually making food. If they exaggerate these ideas, people will be less likely to make wholesome food, and more likely to buy crap

>eating healthy means cooking and cleaning daily and going to the grocery several times per week
This is true
>eating healthy requires 2 very important things, money and time, which the american middle and lower class don't have.
This is a myth advertising uses to sell fast and convenience food. Sure the average American has less time and money than the last two generations, but he also spends far more time in front of a screen consuming advertising that not only tells him eating garbage is wonderful, but then suggests which medicines he should ask his doctor about when that diet starts catching up with him.

You can be a part of the American middle class and eat a perfectly healthy diet, it'll just take you out of the mainstream, and many folks don't want to put money and effort into something that takes them outside what their peers consider normal.

Also, "boy" in this context is code word for "nigger".

Walk into a grocery store in america and you'll see the raw/fresh food is very very largely outweighed by the processed food. The temptation to buy something you barely have to cook or pay attention to is not hard to understand, even if you love cooking, depending on the person you're going to have days where you just feel like getting some kraft mac n cheese and some tendies, or just stopping into a fast food place which is at just about every corner on your way home.

basically, cooking takes time, thought and energy. multi-tasking and efficiency seems to be ingrained in our american society for whatever reason. the temptation of shitty, processed, pre-cooked food presents you with the illusion of efficiency. although it's bad for you, and it is actually NOT efficient for your body at all, it being there saves you time, and therefore in the short-term it seems like a good choice.

of course there are other class factors to consider, rich, poor, etc. but I'm not getting into that.

We live in a plentiful land, and decadence is the norm.

Most people don't know what it means to be healthy. Some people think eating healthy means only eating low calorie foods which just makes you feel hungry and tired. Some people think eating healthy means eating only animal products. Some people think eating healthy means only fruit.

To get healthy stuff in the supermarket you have to pretty much put blinders on. Just pretend you don't see the garbage that is 80% of what they sell. Same is true for restaurants. You have to just not see most of them because what they serve can't be an option on any kind of regular basis if you want to eat healthy. That's easier if you live in a city and have plenty of options.
>cooking takes time, thought and energy
Yeah, you have to commit to doing it almost every day. Once you're in the rhythm of doing it it's not such a big deal. But we live in a culture where lots of money is made convincing people it's more effort than it's worth. You actively have to choose not to believe that lie.

If that were true, why do American single moms think taking food coloring dyes out will instantly make foods "healthier"?

Because eating steamed and unsalted broccoli everyday gets really fucking old

This.

I lived in a place where anything besides pasta and meat was "rabbit food" or "snob food" The sad thing was only 70 miles away was arguably one of the best culinary cities in the US.

>Implying health has anything to do with eating, or working out, or anything other than feelings

Isn't that obvious? The US was THE early adopter of industrialized food production. And many of the creations of the food science lab were considered perfectly safe until suddenly they weren't. Shit like saccharine, trans fats, FD&C Yellow #5, rBGH... the list is thousands long.

Parent of young children worry, and really there is no reason to assume many of the food additives currently on the GRAS list won't be considered dangerous toxins in a couple years when they're suddenly discovered to be carcinogenic, endocrine disruptive or some shit like that. Hell, I'm no health nut, but I try to avoid buying products that contain ingredients I wouldn't use in my own kitchen. And just doing that means most of what's in the supermarket ends up being shit I won't buy.

>won't be considered dangerous toxins in a couple years when they're suddenly discovered to be carcinogenic, endocrine disruptive or some shit like that. Hell, I'm no health nut, but I try to avoid buying products that contain ingredients


The irony is that many whole unprocessed foods also contain carcinogens, endocrine disrupters and other shit like that. Meats are "carcinogenic" and plants have all sorts of shit to protect themselves that can fuck up humans in large enough quantities. We lose the forest for the trees when we look at single chemicals and their risks.

>We lose the forest for the trees when we look at single chemicals and their risks.
Maybe, maybe not. Naturally occurring toxins in food is one thing, and something we've lived with throughout human history. But food producers adding toxins to the food to make it more profitable has pretty much always been considered criminal. Until the 20h Century, then it was just like, oops,. sorry, we had no idea, but the rest of our stuff is probably OK...

But water is a chemical, therefore any and all chemicals are good for us and if you disagree you're a Jenny McCarthy tier moonbat

So the question is whether you completely trust a profit driven model to provide safe food as cheaply as possible or are more afraid of being called a moonbat?

No, sugar is

Retards. Any chemical that contains Oxygen, Hydrogen and Carbon is addictive. Ban all addictive elements!!!