- Treat food as medicine
Can't wait to pay $1800 for an orange.
- Focus on quality of calories, not just quantity
They're just gonna fuck up SNAP so everyone can only buy Prime Fresh™ Veggie Straws, DANNON™ Greek Yogurt, and Planters™ nuts
- Expand access to dietary and lifestyle counseling
Congratulations, citizen. Your yearly doctor's appointment is now a Zoom meeting with a diet counselor.
- Support food entrepreneurs
Bruh.
- Increase the number of new farmers growing healthy foods using regenerative farming techniques
Galaxy brain, rotating the subsidies on a yearly basis, so every year the only vegetables grown are Corn, Rice, Soybeans, and Wheat. Barely functioning nutrient cycling.
- Make school meals free for all students
:shrek-troll: Like that's ever gonna happen. What a load of *flush*
- Establish a federal 'food czar'
Clearly we need more government czars to promote synergy.
It'll be entrepreneurs buying semi-expired food and food with lower safety standards that's sold at like a 10% discount despite being bought at like 15% the cost. And sold via a distributed Uber-like Van system.
We already have those new companies that sell "ugly" produce so the consumers can feel better about avoiding food waste. IIRC a lot of that produce used to get donated to food banks and the like, so it fucked over the poorest as well.
This would be cool news if the US wasn’t ontologically evil and physically incapable of doing good things. Who knows, maybe americas branch of the slow food movement has been housebroken and recuperated enough they’ll play footsie with some of the concepts. Or maybe this is the PR for a huge set of farmer buyouts so America can avoid the petty boug farmer unrest happening in Europe :shrug-outta-hecks:
Czars have a great historical record of efficacy and not getting overthrown by their own people.
It'll be an ass wiping company with 5 middle managers for every one ass wiper and the ratio of CEO-to-ass-wiper pay is 467 to 1.
What if we disrupted the ass wiping industry by wiping our asses with NFT's?
Focus on quality of calories, not just quantity
At least they're finally admitting it's not as simple as "calories in calories out bro". The type of food you're consuming (protein, carbs, fats) also matters a ton for body composition. It's how bodybuilders can have a BMI that's technically overweight or obese, while having a low body fat percentage. Because they exercise to stimulate the muscles (most important), and eat like 150+g of protein a day. They also take anabolic steroids but still, there are plenty of natural/ no steriod bodybuilders that have an "overweight" BMI of like 26 or 27 but low body fat percentage.
Calories matter a ton, and most Americans probably need to eat less calories. And obviously our bodies don't break the second law of thermodynamics, if you eat more you'll gain weight. But it's not just that.
Another part that often goes under mentioned is that it's much much easier to eat less calories when your food is less calorie dense and more satiating. Try eating 200 calories of strawberries in a sitting without feeling sick of them and wanting to throw up. Meanwhile you can eat 600 calories of chips watching TV and barely notice.
Long ago you had to eat the plant to get at the sugars and yummy bits, now we just extract it and make it into tiny treats that simulate food.
So my lungs are fucked up from COVID still, so I live a pretty sedentary life style (even more so than before the pandrmic), should I just replace most of my diet with vegetables and like, maybe a little fish as well as just eating less to stay a little bit more healthy? I was planning on biking everywhere but until my lungs recover (if they ever do) I'm not sure if I can handle that
It depends on your goals, if you want to lose weight, or gain muscle, etc. Most important thing is finding a diet, with regards to the type of food, the amount of calories, macronutrient split, that fits your goals and that you can stick to. If a healthy
pescatarian diet with a reasonable calorie deficit is that for you, then go do it.Just don't do anything too extreme like a super low carb or fat diet, or a really massive calorie deficit. That's where people go wrong.
I dont particularly care about my appearance, I just feel that lugging around less would be better for when I actually have to do cardio-like activities.
Yeah then it sounds like a good idea, just make sure you don't become deficient in any micronutrients and stick within reasonable macronutrient splits.
Go ahead my blue bug!
The correct answer is to figure out how many calories you actually need, and then mostly eating that many calories just fruit, vegetables and a bit of meat. Then get as much exercise as you can fit in edgewise.
For what it's worth, I've found intermittent fasting to be very effective at both increasing health and losing weight. The discussion usually centers around amount of calories and what macro and and micronutrients you're getting. But timing is a very important piece of the puzzle in how your body ends up storing and using those nutrients and burning carbs or fat for energy. You can get vastly different results eating the same stuff depending on if you have it with 3 meals a day interspersed with snacks or if you eat for only (for example) 6 out of the 24 hours in a day and fast for the rest.
It sounds hard, and can be at first, but I've found it's relatively easy to adapt to. Your fat to carb ratio also makes a big difference with this too.
They're going to tell people they should be glad to eat less, it's healthier, to mitigate the coming famine
Nothing to see here jack! Nothing to do with the high-fructose corn syrup in everything
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I'm a huge fan of the "Double bucks" thing that some farmers markets and stores are doing where you get double the money if you're on SNAP/WIC/Section 8/etc for fruits and veggies. It's a really cool system but it's relegated to charities instead of a government program unfortunately. Although, I suppose if the government took over, they'd use it as an excuse to cut down payment amounts too.
If the government implements this, they can treat fruits and vegetables just like medications, too! Doubling the price. :neera:
Although, I suppose if the government took over, they’d use it as an excuse to cut down payment amounts too.
I hear the click of a ratchet somewhere
god forbid the government pick winner and losers in the market, or incentivize people to eat anything other than the corn mush that gets subsidized on the supply side. wouldn't want to be paternalistic.
It would be better just to give people real money and remove sales taxes on vegetables.
California kept their free school lunch program that started during the pandemic
America must protect its Entomophagy entrepreneur she-roes and allow them to #disrupt
Yes American diets are fucked and yes I think it's solvable with government policy.
I have exactly zero faith that the US government can achieve that tho because it would make the agribusiness money sad
a tiktok influencer would make a better food czar than the suit they'll end up using.
maybe this metaphor would be good for showing liberals why our healthcare disgrace is fucking stupid!
They don't care.
Food Czar
Yes, let's name they guy in charge of food policy after the antisemitic failson who ended up getting himself shot because his people starved.
