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In reply to the discussion: Weight gain in the American population 1960-2000 [View all]workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Standard America Diet. Go to any grocery store and try to find food without some form of sugar in it. Most of the time its HFCS.
We need to eat like humans did thousands of years ago because our bodies still operate the same as then and the absolute flood of sugar the average person gets everyday in this country is killing us all.
Why eating like we did 20,000 years ago may be the way of the future
Part of the problem is that virtually everything we thought we knew about eating is wrong; the current health crisis is in no small part caused by widespread and pervasive food confusion - and much of driven and reinforced by the modern food industry. As counterintuitive as it might seem, we now know that saturated fats are good and that salt has been unfairly vilified. It's becoming apparent that whole grains are extremely unhealthy, and that sugar is far, far worse than we previously thought, a conclusion that has led some experts to essentially describe it as poison.
http://io9.com/5917339/why-eating-like-a-caveman-may-be-the-way-of-the-future