Not a fan of Bill Maher in the least, buuuut....

He really nailed it on this one.

 

I've been waiting for this thread. There is another clip from the same show one of you guys will be reluctantly praising soon enough. I actually thought the above was going to be #2.

 

Do we want to talk about the food industry buying off the government so they can legally lie and tell us food that’s bad for us is good for us?

 

One could argue until we figure out how to become immortal that mortality is the leading cause of death...period. The rest of it is just red herrings to blame it on.

But I'll agree on this point. Until a pound of broccoli coast less than a pound of little Debbie cakes America will continue to eat like shit not because they want to do so but because it is cheaper to do so.

 

Maher and the other big government lovers make no mention of how big government agricultural policy caused this in the first place. Now that they’ve created gigantic market distortions that make it extremely cheap to produce calorie dense but nutritionally void foods they want to cry that it’s all the fault of consumers.

Surely what we need now is a a sugar tax so the fatties guzzling all the incredibly cheap government subsidized sugar and refined carb products will stop eating it. If that doesn’t work we should regulate the companies producing the government subsidized death sugar to stop producing so much so cheaply. If the death sugar producers are in danger of going out of business after that, we should give them interest free government loans because they’re too big to fail.

 

$2.63 per pound.

 

The words he was looking for are “caloric density”.

 

The cheapest way to eat is to buy fresh
meats and vegetables and fruits and
cook a meal and it's the healthiest choice.
Of course, it requires some effort.

 

No.

That’s how I do it. It ain’t the cheapest.

It is, however, the healthiest.

 

+1

People are generally lazy and don't like the way healthy food tastes.

 

If someone is raised on shit, then, they will continue to eat shit.

 

You’ve clearly never heard of Top Ramen.

 

...are you saying that Pepsi, Coca Cola, McDonalds Corporation, Kraft Foods, Sara Lee, Pfizer, Merck & Co. and many other food and pharmaceutical companies may have paid for and funded USDA or FDA testing and swayed results?

Preposterous!

 

I guess weighing in simple calories vs nutrient content just muddies the waters too much as well.

 

Soup beans and cornbread are pretty damned cheap to make.Growing a garden is pretty cheap too.

 

The hell it is! By the time I buy all the plants, till and fertilize the ground, plant everything, water it, weed it, spray it for bugs, then throw away half of it because I can't get to it fast enough or because all my neighbors are sick of my forcing my zucchini on them (hehe), it's cheaper to just buy the crap at the store as I need it.

 

You're a zucchini neighbor?
I hate those guys.

 

A few years ago I went all out, built a big raised garden, and planted a TON of stuff: squash, tomatoes, melons, peppers, brussells sprouts, broccoli, onions, garlic, cabbage, and lettuce. Bugs ate almost all of it except for the squash and tomatoes, which did awesome. Last couple of years I've phoned it in and it's been junk.

 

My biggest problem is how acidic mass food is. Another thing they don't talk about. Just switching to alkaline water 2 years ago, I stopped taking prescription prilosec which I had been on for 15 years. Most bottled water is even acidic.
If you can make your body alkaline, you can’t get cancer.
Another thing is the calories. I’m 6’2”. I always thought I needed like 3,000 calories a day. I eat now around 1500-1800 and walk over 6 miles a day just at work.

 

If you eat high quality food, it’s amazing how many fewer calories you can consume and still function.

One thing that’s difficult though is that it’s a knife edge. When I’m at a very high level of fitness, training a lot and eating clean, a meal with high unrefined carbs can fuck me up completely.