Why Is Europe Healthier Than America?

[@farallimacha]

This is American management. I witnessed this in Europe, when one of local companies was taken over by US corpo. Turns out that you can make Butter Biscuits without butter. Just palm oil and "natural" butter flavour. Greed,greed,greed.

[@loudtim265]

Mmmm beaver butthole glands taste just like butter. So great. 😵‍💫

[@Yabberfrat]

It's so sick! We got to stop poisoning ourselves!! MAHA !!

[@rantional8180]

Why does everyone have cancer all of the sudden? Lol....study after study is showing an alarming amount of otherwise young and healthy people are getting cancer.....i know, because I was one of them....i played semi-pro hockey and was a rock climber and mountaineer, was diagnosed with late stage 3 cancer at 34 and almost died...they ran a bunch of genetic tests, did a family history background check and a deep dive investigation on my at John Hopkins/UW medicine, came back as no discernable reason and the official review was "environmental reasons" ....which is a nice way of saying they don't really know but there was nothing physiologically wrong with me.....if i hadn't been an athlete in say the top 5% of health, I probably would have died.

[@Yabberfrat]

@@rantional8180 yeah everyone needs to be asking that exact question! So sorry for all your ordeal 😭

[@stephensullivan1011]

No, no, no. You just like that response. It's much more nuanced. Freedom, availability of corn, and a lot of other factors play into it. But yeah it doesn't seem good..

[@Yabberfrat]

We seriously got to stop poisoning ourselves! It is so so gross. MAHA!!

[@AlbertKirilov]

Good luck on the way to there, hope You get there sooner

[@raysearch-iu3fr]

It's also better here in Canada. For instance, our Heinz Ketchup ingredients: Tomatoes, sugar, vinegar, salt spices. Check your label in the US... loaded with high-fructose corn syrup!

[@sthlmsSouth]

It’s the globalists who poison ya. And nobody can do anything about it. Companies like Nestle shouldn’t be allowed to exist

[@sleeplessbard2519]

It's not hard dude

[@raysearch-iu3fr]

@sleeplessbard2519 Yup. Stay away from the drive thru!!! Lol

[@smz7182]

Keep the population busy dealing with personal problems instead of social problems!

[@drew4910]

they use cane sugar for coca cola or fanta in romania and in 60% less quantity, and it tastes just the same if not better than the corn syrup

[@nathantaylor1685]

It tastes better for sure

[@bayardpelton6190]

Of course but it cost more to make

[@williamfoote2888]

HFC is sweeter than sucrose. You use less HFC than sucrose. The taste is indistinguishable.

[@Visforelvenshireling]

I could feel it. I was lucky enough to get a job in Japan for a few years. During that time I stopped having heartburn. I had had lowkey heartburn for as long as I can remember. It was so normal that I didn't notice it until it was gone. (Yes my exercise and veggitable intake both increased while living there, but I ate more bread, and I just couldn't give up sweets but they didn't do the same damaging things to my body.) Now that I am back to the US I am working to keep my lifestyle from going backwards.

[@vorpal120]

I feel you. It is not only expensive but the healthy stuff is also harder to find. I use imported high quality olive oil as my only cooking oil or the skin of the fresh chicken and only turn up the heat enough to cook food not to burn the oil. Also, I only use veggies and cook my own meat. I don't deep fry. I steam or poach.

[@juliusfucik4011]

Heartburn is really rare, except for in the US. I never understood Americans just think it is normal to have it.

[@swissherbgirl2917]

I think it is difficult to eat healthy in USA. I am worried for my Twins who want to visit USA by December. I am used to Australien and even European Food. There is definitely a huge difference. But I surely don't have Coke or Pepsi in my house. I make my own fruitjuices

[@DarranMacken]

There are 19 ingredients in mcdonalds fries alone that are banned In the eu mcdonalds says alot

[@pauldowie5706]

It's all about MONEY!!!!!

[@DarranMacken]

@pauldowie5706 it's about making the public sick so they then require medication also that's where the money is

[@MrDavidznuff]

Quit eating Macdonalds. It's your decision. Stop blamming others for your choices.

[@elinawilken5813]

@@MrDavidznuffdont wanna assume anything but there‘s a documentary about fast food/ unhealthy life choice placements. Resulting in poorer areas getting overflooded with them. Try to avoid McDonalds when theres one at evry corner you live. I have one at mine (Germany) and i only manage to Not go there cause my supermarket is 50m from my Home on the other side of the road. And not a big car Shopping Ride away. Wanna take it further? If i wanna diet and go to McDonalds - i just Drink tab water from our House. Try that in america? (Not a general blame but we hear storys on our side of the ocean)

[@svenadam1692]

@@MrDavidznuff Oh, that solves any problem right? As if that issue was limited to McDonalds. It continues at your food store. True, if you are a nutrition nerd you can avoid lots of things. But not everybody has that background.

[@veronika1533]

Profits over everything!

[@notcrazy6288]

Yes yes we get it. This statement applies to everyone, including government and all of us as individuals. Now we need good policy instead of turning this issue into yet another stupid Socialism vs. Capitalism battleground where nothing productive ever gets done.

[@musictherapy141]

💯 If RFK and Trump do not correct this, it never will. Ban Roundup .And shutdown GMO in our food supply.

[@MattH-cq3cs]

… it’s like ur health care … Profit

[@_theoriginalb4handles_Genflag]

The reason is the US government subsidizes the high fructose corn syrup industries and discourages real sugar from being used in the US.

[@Big7Jo]

I witnessed this when I worked in the US in 2018. Here in South Africa I will normally drink 1 teaspoon of sugar in my coffee. In the US I had to drink a tablespoon to get the same taste. You could also taste the difference in the chocolates.

[@wesleyfrankenofficial]

Check the differences in ingredients within Fanta. The ingredients the US have are actually banned in the Netherlands. There are many more examples like this.

[@BrianHamil]

You're assuming the Netherlands is right. I would posit that everyone is wrong.

[@denisovanhybrid9610]

@@BrianHamilsome are more wrong than others

[@wesleyfrankenofficial]

@@BrianHamil You really think the Netherlands and many other European countries all came to the wrong conclusion that some of the ingredients are harmful for the body? Like I’ve said, there are plenty more examples.

[@BrianHamil]

@@wesleyfrankenofficial Everyone said the Covid vaccine would stop the spread of transmission and that was wrong. Just because a lot of people believe something, doesn't mean they're right. But sure, just blindly trust European governments because they've never lied before.

[@crackzy3798]

​@@BrianHamilThat is stupid

[@joes3376]

We have high fructose corn syrup because the corn lobby lobbies for tariffs on imported sugar.

[@jeremyscherbert7336]

It is also subsidized here making it the cheaper option. In Europe sugar is cheaper

[@stevenlake5278]

Both are extremely unhealthy I don't need any refined sugar.

[@battra92]

@@jeremyscherbert7336 in Europe a lot of sugar comes from beets. Still straight up sucrose.

[@TarnishedNation]

Damn

[@jeremyscherbert7336]

@battra92 "sugar" is generic, sucrose, glucose, and fructose. Refined sugar is usually sugar cane or beets based everywhere. Glucose syrup can be made from lots of stuff, and is basically corn syrup from stuff that isn't corn is also available all over. High Fructose corn syrup is the one people fear, they change a ration of the Glucose to fructose which tastes sweeter than glucose.

[@edwardcarney7569]

Recent trip to New York, case in point! Never have I suffered with the extreme bloated sensation that I experienced in the US. Loved NY but it was a relief to get back to UK food. McD’s etc is even different!

[@ianbrooks4516]

The basic line of thought is: in America it’s banned when it’s proved unsafe, in Europe is allowed when it’s shown to be safe. Now that’s not exactly right, but its a fundamental difference is food safety philosophy

[@jeremiaha5167]

TBH Refined sugar is not a massive improvement from fructose syrup. I'd advise people to stop drinking sugary carbonated liquid poison in general

[@Soulerous]

To expand on this: Cane sugar is half glucose and half fructose combined into a disaccharide called sucrose. Your body splits these apart during digestion. High-fructose corn syrup also has both glucose and fructose, but they are not chemically bonded together. Thus means it gets absorbed into the blood stream even faster, which is bad. The ratio also tends towards 45/55% glucose to fructose. Fructose, by the way, is a mitochondrial toxin and is approximately 7 times more fattening than glucose. Sucrose tastes better and doesn’t spike your blood sugar and insulin quite as much, but the difference is small. Both are very unhealthy.

[@juankplaysomething]

This true, I would add that edulcorants are even deadlier and have an impact of a psychological level too.

[@jeremiaha5167]

@@Soulerous , I appreciate you taking time to write this all down, but I'm familiar with it all (Health and nutrition nut). I still stand by what I said. Is refined sugar better than syrup? Yes. But I would advise avoing it all together. Lesser poison is still poison. I'm also a strong believer that eating whole fruit affects the body vastly different than consuming isolated fructose

[@Soulerous]

@@jeremiaha5167 I was agreeing with your point and adding to it for others who might read.

[@vnh7477]

Yep, the glycemic index of HFCS is only marginally higher than table sugar at 68 vs 65, which is not surprising given that the latter is only a disaccharide. My concern is that by scapegoating HFCS, people will ignore the overall danger of simple sugars.

[@shellyoliver6173]

When I did a rust test with a knife I found out in the woods that had years of rust on it and it cleaned it all of in less than a week, i stopped drinking coke.

[@rodjacksonx]

So you left a rusty knife in a solution of WATER and sugar for days, and instead of the water combining with the iron to rust the knife more, it actually got sparkling clean and rust-free? Cool story, bro.

[@tmog1000]

@@rodjacksonx This is true. Test it for yourself.

[@FritzKrieg888]

@@tmog1000 He's to lazy, rather call people liars aka cool story, bro!

[@FritzKrieg888]

@@rodjacksonx Lots of people use coke as a toilet bowl cleaner, and yes coke does clean rusty tools. You could just look it up instead of being a cool story, bro d bag

[@rodjacksonx]

@@tmog1000 - Yeah, that test failed when I was in grade school. "It'll clean your pennies!!" No, the soda just went flat in a few minutes, and the pennies just got wet and sticky. How about you do it again and post a time-lapse video?

[@k.s783]

Yes, you can tell a huge difference in European desserts, sweets and baked goods as well. European desserts don’t have the artificial tasting sweetness that many American cookies and cakes have. I could easily do a blindfold test and tell the difference between a store bought American cake vs a store bought European cake. Also, you can’t even buy birthday cakes in grocery stores in Europe unless they have a bakery in the store. Here in the US, most cakes have so many preservatives they last for weeks and are therefore sold in many grocery stores regardless if they have an in-store bakery or not.

[@braddo7270]

I'm British and love america and american things, but WOW you can taste the difference in our foods... europeans can actually taste the chemicals in american food. For example I can't even eat hersheys chocolate because it has like a stomach acid aftertaste... we dont "clean" our eggs because we don't need to, and because of that we don't even refrigerate them, we don't pasteurise the same, farm the same, chlorinate our different meats... we need the natural process to pick up ALL of the minerals and nutrients and local bacterias that help us thrive in our environments and keep gut health and immunity high. I would NOT be a fan of we swapped to an american trade deal currently, just because of this. I physically can't eat it 😂

[@pamelamohn5931]

I am American and can taste the chemicals also. I read the labels on everything. I have a list of things that will make me put about 90% of the processed products I pick up back on the shelf. I eat mostly meat, eggs, cheese, sourdough bread and Irish butter these days, along with a little bit of fruits and veggies seasonally. Coffee, tea, and water. I drink organic coffee from Aldi's, but my husband drinks coffee he gets from Rural King and it seriously tastes like a cup of chemicals and in my opinion tastes nothing like coffee.

[@wckd4u]

Don't disagree with you but Hershey chocolate was a bad example. It is made with soured milk which has a component called butyric acid. It's in parmesan cheese and in vomit. It's definitely an acquired taste compared to a creamy milk chocolate found in Europe. But I like it!

[@braddo7270]

@@wckd4u it tastes like vomit though, either way 😂

[@braddo7270]

@@pamelamohn5931 that's super smart! Although I don't know how you keep track of them all! I've seen the American ingredients lists and quite honestly it's terrifying 😂 I'm not familiar with "rural king" but I'm so shocked that you guys have Aldi! Go there! Always! Here they have the healthiest yet cheapest foods. Their food is mostly shipped from either Scandinavia, Europe or here, in england. I'm sure Ireland too now though. 🙏 stay healthy! All the best. 💙

[@alvarofernandez5118]

Some Europeans refrigerate their eggs actually. Egg refrigeration has nothing to do with chemicals though. We wash the eggs to get the bird poop and dirt off, which removes the protective membrane but reduces the possibility of E. Coli contamination from the chicken. So once you wash off the membrane you need to refrigerate the eggs. Otherwise you'd better wash them when you're about to use them. The corn syrup is to pay off corn farmers. I am more concerned about additives than corn personally.

[@freespeech7747]

Sugar, seed oils, highly processed food, alcohol, are all bad for us, but in America everything is synthetic or genetically modified, which is even worse.

[@TheJtyork420]

Name 1 piece of evidence that gmo's r in anyway dangerous?

[@michaelhoudecki3657]

Sugar isn't bad. Maybe a bunch at once, but sugar isn't bad for you...

[@basedorange7730]

the studies show they aren't bad for you, we as americans just got lazy and don't take care of ourselves. i lift at least 3x a week eat sugar and seed oils when i feel like it (gotta prioritize protein) and i'm in perfectly good health by all markers.

[@michaelhoudecki3657]

@ They are deliberately untested. "Studies show they aren't bad for you" instead of lying, why don't you actually read. Or just not talk

[@michaelhoudecki3657]

@ You will not be healthy for long. Cancer in your 50s if you're lucky. You get that safe and effective in 21?

[@ShawnKitchen]

Four words: United States Corn Lobby

[@arianekelly2633]

Eat more fruits, veggies, lean meats and whole grains. Eating that other crap isnt going to make you healthier if its sugar vs corn syrup.

[@damionlee7658]

The question why you would trust Europe more than America on what can go into food products, really comes down to how each market decides what to allow. The FDA seems to work on a principal of "Allow it until somebody reasonably demonstrates a product may be harmful", where the EU tends towards the principal of "We will allow this product when it has been reasonably demonstrated to be safe". Just because something is permitted in food/beverages in the US but not in Europe, that shouldn't automatically be seen as the US product being dangerous or bad for you. BUT, of the two models of evaluating what is safe for human consumption, the EU's outlook is probably preferable for population safety.

[@ather.rasool]

Not just coke, even the chocolates have the same problem.

[@Tryxxor]

Just dont eat chocolate and dont drink soft drinks. Its not that hard.

[@icestationzebraassociates2460]

US chocolate is (largely) not even classifiable as "chocolate." So much so that US "chocolate" won't kill dogs.

[@Hermes231-wi8gy]

​@@Tryxxor😂 missing the point of this whole conversation. Nub

[@scriptedbeauty1]

I lived in Canada for a year (I'm an American), and I lost 30 lbs -- no joke. I didn't diet or exercise. I ate a lot of McDonalds and Tim Hortons donuts. I still lost a lot of weight by simply eating in Canada for a year.

[@buddyrevell511]

😊😊😊

[@juankplaysomething]

In Peru we have high fructore syrup mixed with edulcorants (Im talking about the "normal" Coca Cola version, which they label as "original taste with less calories"). So yep, they are making populations sick with different recipes according to region. This shift happened in 2020 (plandemic) btw.

[@Frosty1979]

I look at obesity rates and life expectance , then it becoms quickly clear that there is something very wrong in America.

[@stevec9972]

Monsanto 'We need to deregulate the industry' I promise we'll regulate ourselves😢

[@JeremeyHowlett]

It’s because these ingredients cause inflammation and other issues which in turn makes people spend money on medications and other over the counter drugs. The profit margin is big on these types of products. Most recently, many people have been adding more irritants to our food products to bring in more revenue from the other half of their businesses.

[@lukascisar6740]

Wait whaaat? So, not only that people in the US are going to eat some unhealthy food, but they also get sick so the system in their country can benefit from them twice in a row? That's messed up.

[@arianekelly2633]

Right....... man. I gotta say, i dont think a sugar coke vs a corn syrup coke is going to help with inflammation better than just ditching cokes entirely and drinking unsweetned tea, coffee or water.

[@Will-Smurf]

This is true! Much better regulations in Europe!

[@philippe8160]

However there position on the use of aspartame should change. They should ban that shit. While it is used to replace sugar research shows that it can increase the chanse of getting diabetes.

[@jijo007jacob]

The answer is Free Health Care, since the government has to pay for it, they'd rather have healthy citizens. Hence the regulations.

[@svenadam1692]

@@jijo007jacob There is no such thing as "free health care". The Brits pay for it thru taxes. In Germany the government pays nothing, it runs thru a statutory health insurance paid separate from taxes, the so called Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung ( cost me as an entrepreneur about EUR 1000.- a month). In the end, every government should take interest in healthy citizens as even in the U.S. sick people tend to pay less tax on earnings when their work power goes down due to bad health.

[@andrewnelson2631]

I recently saw a video explaining how cane sugar in other countries’ Coca-cola actually breaks down into fructose. So, I guess there is the potential that we have glyphosate while others countries don’t. But, I would guess that we aren’t alone.

[@Eyezick-l5z]

I travel to Germany often and I found out supposedly companies go so far as to have two different varieties of many products: one for the US (where the FDA is a joke) and one for the EU/other countries (where regulations tend to side with the consumer more). Not really a surprise for a country where lobbying is legal Edit: Referring moreso to "paid lobbying" than simply "lobbying" alone

[@lynako2546]

Greed

[@jasonk8775]

Companies lobby to protect themselves from being destroyed by the government. If you get the government out of the economy the companies will have no choice but to focus on quality.

[@melvin9211]

Lobbying is legal in every country..

[@buddyrevell511]

​@@melvin9211Not true.

[@Eyezick-l5z]

@@melvin9211 Mostly true, I suppose what I meant was more specifically "paid lobbying," which is much more of an issue in the US than places like the UK / EU.

[@lockman004]

On a molecular basis, you can not distinguish a difference between sugar made from cane, beet, or corn.

[@pauljohnmark]

We are not being “exposed to” it, we are freely buying it. We do have a choice; choose wisely

[@fairydogmother2752]

No that's not entirely true. Ingredients and chemicals in our food and products are given multiple different names to deliberately deceive people from recognising harmful substances. Like the asbestos in Johnson's baby powder, mothers absolutely did not know they were powdering their kids with cancer lol. And it's the same for lots of types of products we use or ingest.

[@luzbel508]

It’s a peculiar thing about human beings: even when they know the road they’re on leads to their own demise, they can’t bring themselves to stop. They cling to what is familiar, no matter how destructive, because there’s a strange allure in the sweetness of surrender. To let go of a bad habit is to let go of a piece of yourself, and for many, the thought of losing that piece is more terrifying than the ultimate cost of holding onto it. The sweetness of self-destruction lies in its finality, its drama, its refusal to compromise. It’s as if some part of us would rather spiral down magnificently than face the quiet, unremarkable uncertainty of change.

[@kathywittenburg1444]

Don’t underestimate the power of addictive additives put in American food….just as bad as nicotine…

[@BartTricas]

Why would you drink it in the first place?

[@jasonk8775]

Because it isn't my fault/responsibility I should be able to want something and then when I get it, I should be able to sue the large companies for growing large by giving me what I wanted.

[@jeremiaha5167]

Word. I'm 40 and stopped drinking carbonated sugar trash when I was still a teenager. It baffles me anytime I see adults drinking it

[@stevelux9854]

Another question is why do we pay for other people to drink this obviously unhealthy poison via our welfare food program - just so we can pay for their medical + pharma for life? Ah, the money.

[@JakeMazurski]

​@jeremiaha5167 I have a co-worker in her late 40s she pops a bottle of coke every morning at 9am. She says its her morning coffee cause it has caffeine. And maybe pops one later in the day as well

[@nomoresunforever3695]

Yea, this is like complaining that the prostitutes in European brothels have less STD’s.

[@davidmarshall6970]

Jordans actual question was “what leads you to believe they’re putting anything less destructive in their foods?” I think globally as a society, we’re facing massive issues with the ppm or parts per million scale used to determine the safe amounts of chemicals allowed into our food.

[@TJayden]

I thought it had to do with the amount of corn grown due to subsidy and how easily it grows, the excess is then turned into corn syrup and sold

[@metalvideos1961]

US used to use Cane sugar just like mexico. they stopped doing that because of the corn lobbyists.

[@MrOffTrail]

It actually doesn’t matter if they use “real sugar” (cane sugar, sucrose) or high fructose corn syrup. When you put sucrose, which is a glucose and a fructose stuck together, in an acidic liquid like Coke, or any other soda, it breaks that link giving you glucose and fructose….which is exactly what high fructose corn syrup is, just a roughly equal mix of glucose and fructose with a little water. You end up with the same thing either way. Don’t believe me? Go get a Mexican Coke sweetened with cane sugar, and test it with a glucose test kit. If it is sucrose, it should test negative. But it will test positive, strongly so. No, the problem is sugar in any form. And lack of exercise.

[@pamelamohn5931]

I can drink a soda with sugar and another with high fructose corn syrup; the one with HFCS will literally make me sick.

[@giovannimelendez8726]

The body cares a lot about details. Little things like eating or drinking a fruit will make your body react differently to things. If your body can taste the difference between one and the other (and you can) the body knows its different.

[@ryanboldt7751]

America’s problem is quantity the intake not quality so much… sir there’s obviously some things that can improve, especially around chemical pesticides

[@svenadam1692]

To be precise: the amount of sugar added. And yes, sitting jobs are hell for health.

[@draftsman3383]

She has a point What Usa sells as bread, we would not feed to our pets in Europe

[@icestationzebraassociates2460]

Almost all of it has so much sugar, it's technically "cake."

[@AprilReigns18]

I don't feed bread to my pets either, and I'm American.

[@draftsman3383]

@@AprilReigns18 Let me rephrase then: You can buy food in US supermarkets with paint in it. And I mean litteral paint. Stuff that belongs on a wall, not combined with food. For Europeans, this is a scandal. You should question the FDA a lot more...

[@AprilReigns18]

@@draftsman3383 I've never eaten food with paint because that would never be allowed. People are just insanely paranoid.

[@draftsman3383]

@@AprilReigns18 You are free to believe that. But it does not correspond to reality

[@RobertChambersJr]

Been to Europe. Even McDonald's doesn't make me sick and feel gross after. Spent a month there and when I got back I felt sick eating food here in the US

[@larrykile3190]

You were in Europe and you ate at MCDONALD'S???

[@RobertChambersJr]

@larrykile3190 lol I was there for a month! I had to try it. The menu is different there. Everything about McDonald's is different there.

[@lukascisar6740]

Dude, I would like to know what they add into the American burgers when you feel bad after eating one. Like seriously, what do they do to that food before serving it?

[@christinelinford7487]

Well in South Africa we have something called a sugar tax. If companies make products that have more than a certain amount of sugar in it, they get taxed up the butthole for it.

[@paulmuntean1459]

I think there is a such tax in Europe too. At least in some countries

[@s1lmal1r1on]

As an eastern european I was thinking and feeling what this lady said for many years, and I was wondering why myself also. I am glad I am exposed on food from local villages.

[@trevorjary8393]

She is not wrong and the conversation certainly she is putting forward is surely worth debating..no?

[@lynako2546]

Time to wake up

[@ernestoberger7589]

That is true. I have a friend who is a construction worker. He is an avid Coke drinker. He used to have whole Coca-Cola-fueled workdays. He decided to spend a year in the USA. While there, he noticed he couldn't stand the version of the same fizzy drink sold there.

[@simontist]

The USA is the world's corn hub. 🌽

[@stevec9972]

😂

[@johnhawley3464]

This is one of our major problems in this country we have to do something to stop this!!! Like yesterday

[@CraigTheBrute-s8c]

I believe that coca cola in U.S.A has 50g of sugars.

[@icestationzebraassociates2460]

It's 39, but not far off.

[@b.alexanderjohnstone9774]

Is anyone going to address the elephant in the room? The scandalous removal of the original key ingredient ...

[@N1h1L3]

Fax!

[@MyrkDomolith]

You'd be surprised how much here started as corn. Even the cardboard and some soft plastics.

[@Bemaseated]

We have needed her for some time now. Thank God she exists

[@jaredj631]

They use the cheapest ingredients that they can get locally. Unfortunately locally here is America where GMO garbage is cheapest

[@bretling]

It's due to corn subsidies, not specifically GMO crops in general.

[@jaredj631]

@ whatever the reason they only care about the bottom line

[@rickstevens1479]

Same with Fruit Loops , Canada gets organic color we get color made from petroleum...

[@Genius-ze5dc]

Just dont drink it, no matter where irs made

[@WalterWD]

The more important question is, why do we continue choosing to consume these things? If we continue choosing to consume crap, industry will continue producing crap.

[@jenna8574]

I stopped drinking coke, rrot beer, and sprite about 2 years ago. I can not tolerate coke anymore. It just destroys my gut and leaves a weird taste. I can tolerate sprite. I probably drink 1 sprite a month. I don't miss it. I also got rid of all oil apart from avocado, olive and ghee.

[@nathanwhitfield8517]

I dropped the high fructose corn syrup and replaced it with can sugar pruducts. My satiation for treats is more easily gratified, reducing my desire to consume more AND my indigestion has greatly reduced.

[@StyleViewStudio]

That is why for the next four years Robert Kennedy Junior will make a difference

[@subsidized2778]

Corn is subsidized and everyone is good at growing it. There is so much of it it is cheaper than cane sugar. It just so happens everyone uses seed treatment, weed killer, and fungicides.

[@blazesmith5046]

Corn, corn, and more corn. It's in everything just about. Makes it especially annoying when you can't digest starch

[@mariab7453]

I grew up in Central America and Coca Cola used only cane sugar as their sweetener. I moved to the United States when I was 14 and I was never able to drink Coca Cola again! I couldn’t tolerate the sweetness. It was so disappointing. If I ever craved it, I’d just have a Diet Coke which is less sweet, even though they also use the fake stuff. Or I’d buy a Mexican Coca Cola which is more expensive. It’s such a treat when I travel abroad because I get to order a good tasting Coca Cola!

[@nickyv3819]

European countries have socialized healthcare (whether you agree with it or not, and i dont) so the government has an incentive to keep their citizens healthy

[@LubblyVeeDubbly]

Hahaha hahaha 🤣 that is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard 😂😂😂

[@SuperDasbeast]

Lol, number one reason 1 million people go bankrupt in the US, they got sick. The insurance systems you pay into are dog shit. National healthcare works. It's not an accident that France & Japan have the best healthcare in the world and the US ranks 37th. You only have to find Americans who got ill in Europe on KZbin to discover they got exceptional care and it didn't cost anything or very little. It blew their minds. It's not socialist or communist, it's common sense to keep your population/workforce healthy and fit.

[@Tryxxor]

No we dont, we pay for health insurance, it gets taken from my paycheck before i get it, i dont have a choice, its forced health insurance

[@kinghill3423]

Eliminate Coke and the rest of soft drinks completely, we don't need them.

[@mfed3]

Do not buy or eat anything with seed oils and glyphosate. Ever.

[@DrGingerHamster]

I understand her point. But HFCS or Sugar. It's all bad for ya. One might be 'less bad' but still bad.

[@rjsophia3712]

High fructose corn syrup is addictive.

[@Massivecatfish]

Several of my American friends told me how junk the food is there. Really sad to hear cause alot of them are quite dear to me and I hate to think they are slowly being poisoned. 😢

[@CJRock-xn5qf]

It's the amount of sugar consumed, not necessarily the sugar source. Once you're consience of the amount of processed foods and reduce the amount in your diet you'll inevitably reduce the amount of sugar and additives/preservatives. Targeting corn base sugar to be replaced by beet/cane sugar may reduce consumption but due to cost not the sugar source. You'll likely get the same health outcome but not because a volume of sugar is replaced by the same amount of another. But every crusade needs a villain.

[@bretling]

Not all sugars or sugar alcohols are metabolized the same, or metabolized at all, and they can and do have deleterious effects on gut flora and metabolism.

[@MrOffTrail]

@@bretlingif you put cane sugar in a soda, the acid will turn it into glucose and fructose, which is the same as high fructose corn syrup. And even if you didn’t it would in your stomach acid. It ends up the same.

[@ashokdastidar5332]

Please note that high fructose corn syrup is either 45% fructose and 55% glucose or 55% fructose and 45% glucose. Natural sugar is 50% fructose and 50% glucose. The phosphoric acid in Coke breaks down the sucrose to glucose and fructose anyway. There is no difference.

[@calvins1837]

It isnt made with round up which is glyphosate, those are the chemical name and common name.

[@Yabberfrat]

Yeah, whoever edited the video kind of chopped it. She's not saying it's (intentionally) one of the ingredients, she's saying that when the food is tested for toxins and chemicals that should not be there, glyphosphate shows up because it was sprayed on the corn and it makes its way into the corn syrup which makes its way into the Coca-Cola......

[@fabiosantucci6628]

To be fair, the fact that is genetically modified is not the problem. The problem is what the plant has been genetically modified for, in this case "glyphosate", which is toxic for us but not the plant. You could genetically modify a plant for being resistant to a parassite and it will be edible for us, but not the parassite

[@EveryoneIsFightingSomeBattle]

Another reason we need RFK Jr now more than ever.

[@oneanddonetzone3673]

Nobody’s forcing you to buy Coca-Cola. And FYI in a recent study sugar is just as bad as high fructose corn syrup. In fact the study pointed out that there is no difference in how the body treats it. Sorry hope that didn’t hurt anybody’s Mangina

[@chromac2772]

Cause the Europeans don't all look like their ancestry stopped hunting on land and started eating krill

[@leosjoberg9671]

😂

[@bunnyverdier]

these are important questions !!

[@DeRocco21]

the naturalist fallacy.

[@WolfJ]

Reminder, the naturalistic fallacy is only a fallacy if you're not a naturalist. Otherwise, it's a valid deduction from an implied premise.

[@mikenagy938]

The reason they use high fructose corn syrup is because of the tariff put on cane sugar in 1913. The cane sugar lobby is one of the biggest in the country.

[@slimsammyone]

Hemlock is "natural" but iodized salt is man made!

[@pauljohnson3584]

This is an objective lie. In Mexico the Coca Cola uses HFCS. The only cane sugar Coke is exported to the USA to sell in glass bottles at a huge markup.

[@mjs28s]

She might be right but not for the right reasons. The reason she gives is simply an appeal to nature fallacy.

[@stevenkelby2169]

Yep. What planet did Glyphosate come from?

[@derosa1989]

@@stevenkelby2169 the lab, it's a synthetic chemical.

[@stevenkelby2169]

@derosa1989 Oh yes? What planet is the lab on?

[@TreverWhipbuilder]

Argument in a nutshell- Nothing in nature can be bad for you!!!!!! Reeeeeeeeee!!!! Too bad farming is literally genetic engineering and has been since the dawn of time. Inexpensive food is a pretty good problem though.

[@stevenkelby2169]

@TreverWhipbuilder Yes, it's not an argument at all. That's our point.

[@themodfather9382]

It's so sad that it's so hard for these people to understand something so simple. That goes for just about anything actually

[@larrylaing3839]

I know this for sure MacDonalds coffee in the States is just awful and delicious in Canada?

[@jennyzarate7086]

Personally I prefer the mcdonald's coffee to the Starbucks coffee. Love their cream.

[@adventurer3645]

@@jennyzarate7086 Can one or more of you spell McDonald's correctly once?

[@jennyzarate7086]

@@adventurer3645 ??? Here🍼🍼

[@Realist28]

​@@adventurer3645 Hello Karen. 🥱

[@DorianShope]

The high fructose corn syrup is an addictive additive designed to get you to consume the product more than you normally use. So by getting you addicted to their products you buy more.... your health reflects this

[@l.k.1111]

I have always wondered why the nosy expensive place is pushing the cheapest worst ingredients. 😮

[@thomasko8729]

fun fact most produce is licensed out to farmers to grow, if you grow a monsanto patented crop and you produce seeds from that crop those seeds are monsanto property and if you replant them you could be sued millions for violating Monsanto's patent.

[@justin5litre]

Switching from high fructose corn syrup to regular sugar in soft drinks isn’t going to help the obesity epidemic. Good try tho.

[@aaronb3600]

……why are you asking this to a non American Psychologist???

[@Realist28]

Because Jordan Peterson is stepping up to the plate to speak for anybody and everybody. Is that an answer you wanted to hear ?

[@michaelfendley810]

If we had a food administration and a drug administration, two different entities problem solved

[@Techergheu]

To summarize : 1. Healthcare Systems 2. Lifestyle Factors 3. Diet 4. Social Support 5. Cultural Differences.

[@abubenadem]

I read an interview years ago by a Coca Cola executive who stated that he doesn’t allow his children to drink it and never has it in his house!

[@justme-in2jb]

I remember when the FDA banned children's toys from China because of the lead paint, must have been holding out for a better deal for the group. When they switched from glass to plastic is the one that rings true to me, it, never been the same.

[@damm7123]

In Europe, we have tighter regulations that do help us. I understand people don't like regulations, but in the EU, the regulations can force companies to make sure their products aren't dangerous for the people. We need less regulations in some sectors, but in food and drink we need those regulations so the big companies don't cut corners to make more money and harm people just for money

[@jackofblades6736]

Companies pay people to promote or look away at these ingredients. 10000 ingredients in US vs. 400 in UK.

[@carolmurray5799]

I lived in UK for almost 15 years. The food there was "clean". My husband and I both felt like the food here in USA is "dirty".

[@dcphillips1991]

Just remember guys, it's possible for both people engaging in a conversation to be wrong.

[@domakesaythink2]

Coke switched to high glucose syrup AND to phosphoric acid (formerly only used to remove rust from ships) to save money

[@jonarebergheim7958]

In Europe health care is financed by tax. So the government's have more restrictions of additives to try save costs on health. It contributes to make the loopholes for lobbying little smaller to promote of additives that will make big pharma happy on your missery

[@paulianas]

My personal experience in Mexico was that I wasn't able to find yoghurt without sweeteners or sugar. I searched the entire section. Same thing with bread. Is it the same in the US?

[@iamjustsaying4787]

A few years back, I was visiting Ireland and I asked the waitress if the beef was grass fed. A true Irish woman, she looks at me rolling her eyes asking “what else would a cow be eating now?” I told her that she would be shocked to learn what is fed to cattle in the States. She was.

[@AC-fn5uz]

Because here in the US we have a tariff on any sugar imported. It was to protect the American sugar industry from devaluation due to foreign imports. Therefore, we found the best replacement since there was a limited amount of sugar in the United States was to be high fructose corn syrup. Which is absolute crap. Many years ago the corn growers association tried to have corn syrup reclassified as corn sugar.

[@logowatchman]

This is what RFK Jr wants to fix. Support him!

[@Fab666.]

Add this to the other slightly important detail of around 100x more fast food restaurants and you will be onto something

[@chivalryisdead6440]

Gotta watch the entire interview.