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Originally Posted by masraum

About 15 years ago, I had a colleague that was very close to the sponsor family that he had done foreign exchange with in France.

Per him, they had always been a healthy sort of thin, not fat or chubby. They went on an 8 week vacation to the US, and he saw them at the end of the vaca. He said they were all chubby after having been in the US for 2 months eating our food.

I have no doubt that the quality of the food that we eat is mostly crap, too much premade, fast/instant food that's full of crap besides food.

Hell, when I got out of college and was living on my own in an apt, I saw some Wonder Bread in a store, and on a whim, I bought it. I remembered when I was a kid in the 70s seeing commercials for Wonder Bread that made me want it, but my mom never bought it for me.

I got the bread home and made a sandwich or two out of it, but it was bad. I didn't like it. I let it sit on the top of the refrigerator for about 2 months. At the end of the two months, it was not only still soft, but also had no mold growing on it. I figure it's got to be bad when mold won't even eat it.

Our portion sizes are huge compared to other places. I know the local prime rib joint the petite size is 8oz.