The Founder

Quote: AZDuffman

People fattened themselves up.

Thanks to advertising and convenience and a
lack of telling people how bad this food was
for them. Minorities keep the fast food
joints going and they're the ones with
the most massive obesity, diabetes, HBP,
and heart disease.

Quote: Evenbob

Thanks to advertising and convenience and a
lack of telling people how bad this food was
for them. Minorities keep the fast food
joints going and they're the ones with
the most massive obesity, diabetes, HBP,
and heart disease.

So someone advertises their product to drive sales? Heaven forbid!

People can educate themselves if food is "bad" or not. I don't eat fast food daily but probably once maybe twice a week. I never see minorities there in numbers that would not reflect general society.

Quote: AZDuffman

I don't eat fast food daily but probably once maybe twice a week. I never see minorities there in numbers that would not reflect general society.

I moved up to Washington State from Austin back in 1993, where I had lived for 22 years. The first time my wife and I went into a Taco Bell up in Washington and saw actual white people working behind the counter, we were dumbstruck. Never saw that in Austin. Aren't many blacks in upstate Washington, about the only place I ever see them working now is a Popeyes.

Another thing, I worked at a McDonalds in Austin in 1981-82 for all shifts, and there's definitely stereotyping in what food the minorities order. Black people always ordered hotcakes for breakfast, fish sandwiches and orange soda for lunch/dinner. It was such a disproportionate percentage and obvious, I could practically hit the 'orange soda' button on the register whenever a black person walked in the door. Whites never ordered orange soda. McRib and chicken nuggets were introduced during that time, and blacks ordered those too.

Quote: zippyboy

Another thing, I worked at a McDonalds in Austin in 1981-82 for all shifts, and there's definitely stereotyping in what food the minorities order. Black people always ordered hotcakes for breakfast, fish sandwiches and orange soda for lunch/dinner. It was such a disproportionate percentage and obvious, I could practically hit the 'orange soda' button on the register whenever a black person walked in the door. Whites never ordered orange soda. McRib and chicken nuggets were introduced during that time, and blacks ordered those too.

I have noticed that about the orange soda myself. Like menthol cigarettes, for some reason certain flavors appeal to certain groups more than others.

Quote: Evenbob

Fast food chains have fed millions for
60 years. They have also fattened up
the world to an alarming degree. If
all the new studies on sugar and starch
are true, they are responsible for most
major diseases. Big sugar and big wheat
have been wrongly blaming fat intake on
illnesses, when they knew all along it was
sugar and grains making people sick.

EB setting sugar aside you actually believe the current crap about grains. Everyone of us on this board is here because of grains. Name one major civilization in the world that didn't survive and grow with grains as the main food source. Wheat, rice, corn and other starches are what allowed human civilization to develop.

Quote: kenarman

EB setting sugar aside you actually believe the current crap about grains. Everyone of us on this board is here because of grains. Name one major civilization in the world that didn't survive and grow with grains as the main food source. Wheat, rice, corn and other starches are what allowed human civilization to develop.

Yup
The key to a growing civ is a food source that a few produce to feed many

Quote: kenarman

EB setting sugar aside you actually believe the current crap about grains.

Crap? Really? The science on this is pretty
settled, unless you read 'research' sponsored
by big grain and big sugar. I kicked grains
9 months ago and my health has improved
1000%.

One of hundreds of articles:

http://crossfitimpulse.com/why-grains-are-killing-you/

Quote: Evenbob

Crap? Really? The science on this is pretty
settled, unless you read 'research' sponsored
by big grain and big sugar. I kicked grains
9 months ago and my health has improved
1000%.

One of hundreds of articles:

http://crossfitimpulse.com/why-grains-are-killing-you/

If you stop eating everything "science" says is bad for you, you will starve to death.

Quote: AZDuffman

If you stop eating everything "science" says is bad for you, you will starve to death.

I stopped grains and a list of things
as long as my arm has gotten better.
It's really amazing. No sugar for 40
years, but I had no idea grains were
so inflammatory. I'm on a blog with
over 100K members and have become
friends with a lot of them. The stories
they tell about what giving up bread
and corn and rice and all grains has
done for their health. I was very skeptical,
but 9 months in and I'm a convert.

We're at a point where big grain and
big sugar and big pharma can no longer
control us. They're the ones that started
the low fat craze in the 80's that pushed
us into the high grain diets that have
given us the obesity and diabetes
epidemic we see now. All so they can
sell diabetic drugs and put 14 different
kinds of sugar into every processed
food product. I literally feel like a new
person from where I was just last winter.
Haven't felt this good since the 90's.

Quote: Evenbob

Crap? Really? The science on this is pretty
settled, unless you read 'research' sponsored
by big grain and big sugar. I kicked grains
9 months ago and my health has improved
1000%.

One of hundreds of articles:

http://crossfitimpulse.com/why-grains-are-killing-you/

Did look at your link. Some trainer repeating rumours he heard in the gym. Where is your research EB?