Astonishing fact: 70% of Americans are either overweight or obese

[EagerBeaver]

McDonald’s just changed the recipe for its iconic apple pie, mainly to reduce the sugar content, and customers are in open revolt with organized protests and riots on tap in the coming weeks:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.bu...s-new-apple-pie-recipe-sparks-backlash-2018-9

Some fast food restaurants are adapting to the changing culinary landscape as the health issues associated with obesity is causing some consumers to be more careful with their diets. It’s a real dilemma because the “true believers” and diehard junk food junkies want their sugar and their fat, and they want it in the heavy dose provided by the old recipe. The original McDonalds fried apple pie was a state of the art junk food item chock full of fat and sugar and there are those who yearn for it still.

 

[sambuca]

Yuck, I don't think I've had a McDonald's apple pie since high school.

I've always seen hard working laborers anywhere in the the world having lunch with the highest caloric intake for the price. It made sense. They worked hard and they needed a cheap, filling meal. Somehow now culture and food availability has produced a world of couch potatoes who are not active but eating high caloric meals.

I don't think this would offend anyone here. I find higher educated people are more likely to stave off obesity.

 

[EagerBeaver]

This article discusses the changing landscape for fast food restaurants in the USA which are coming into some hard times:

https://www.google.com/amp/www.chic...ricans-eating-at-home-20180916-story,amp.html

 

[Carmine Falcone]

McDonald’s just changed the recipe for its iconic apple pie, mainly to reduce the sugar content, and customers are in open revolt with organized protests and riots on tap in the coming weeks:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.bu...s-new-apple-pie-recipe-sparks-backlash-2018-9

Some fast food restaurants are adapting to the changing culinary landscape as the health issues associated with obesity is causing some consumers to be more careful with their diets. It’s a real dilemma because the “true believers” and diehard junk food junkies want their sugar and their fat, and they want it in the heavy dose provided by the old recipe. The original McDonalds fried apple pie was a state of the art junk food item chock full of fat and sugar and there are those who yearn for it still.

I'm gonna play devil's advocate for a brief second here. I'm pretty much a sucker for any apple pastry so an infinitely small part of me understands the "outrage."

But at the same time, that people can be outraged over trying to make food healthier speaks volumes. These yahoos were probably the same people who sided with Sarah Palin and went all in with baking cookies when Michelle Obama was launching her healthy eating initiative. Life is about cause and effect. If you eat shit most of the time, you will look and feel like shit. Most people have the wrong relationship with food. While food for pleasure like apple pie is ok in discrete amounts, there has to be a specific nutritional benefit from most of what you are eating, especially as you get older.

 

[sambuca]

These yahoos were probably the same people who sided with Sarah Palin and went all in with baking cookies when Michelle Obama was launching her healthy eating initiative.

Actually, I was out in the woods hunting moose and cooking it on the grill.