• Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    21 hours ago

    I’ve had powdered milkshake u just add water to 🤷

    Traded for an american military ration. It was far too sugary

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      21 hours ago

      Of course it was. It’s American. You don’t end up with an “obesity epidemic” without over sugaring your sweets.

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        20 hours ago

        Nah. You get obesity by explicitly designing your food to be extremely addictive but not filling. Hit those pleasure centers without hitting the fullness cues.

        It’s science, baby!

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        You don’t get an obesity epidemic by over-sugaring your sweets. You get an obesity epidemic by over-sugaring everything else.

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        That’s part of it, but I’m led to understand that the main driver here is poverty. The poor but not starving tend to not have the time or energy (among other things) to cook so they end up reliant on calorie-dense fast food and the like.

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          That actually is a result of the military establishment circa 80s and beyond realizing that giving soldiers food that they enjoy eating (and can carry easily) rather than the cheapest canned goods money could buy in bulk was both good for morale and helped ensure they ate the whole thing (back in the vietnam war a substantial amount of soldiers did not carry all of the cans with them to meet nutritional requirements or ditched undesired components constantly).