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by maerF0x0 4242 days ago
The "drive out of the city to buy" still is a form of disincentive/tax. Its just paid to the oil companies instead of schools :(

I also like how the myth of fatty food causing obesity is repeated a few times in the panelists. Clearly not experts on nutrition or its effects on the human body.
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d2vid 4242 days ago
If you watch Jude's video, she says she bicycles to Daly City to buy her cigarettes because they're too expensive in SF, and threatens that she'll just start doing that for soda too.

Get people to bicycle an hour for cigarettes and soda? That's a public health official's dream.

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pistle 4242 days ago
It also shows you how little someone might value their time. If I take a 20 minute walk or ride to get something which could be had 1 minute away, I better be able to save a whole lotta bills.
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DanBC 4242 days ago
> I also like how the myth of fatty food causing obesity is repeated a few times in the panelists. Clearly not experts on nutrition or its effects on the human body.

Do you really believe this or is it some kind of satire?

edit: not snarking, I genuinely can't tell if parent thinks fatty food does not contribute to obesity. Obese people aren't obese just because they eat far too much sugar. They're obese because they eat far too much sugar, starch, and fat. It is ridiculous to think that the amount of fat in an obese person's diet has no influence on that person's obesity.

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maerF0x0 4242 days ago
tldr; i was commenting on the false claim that composition of food causes obesity vs the number of contained calories.

From what i've read, ive taken a few points:

fatty food does not cause or contribute to obesity. Total intake does.

1000 excess calories of fat and 1000 excess calories of sugar will roughly cause the same weight increase.

1000 calories of fat is far more satiating than 1000 calories of sugar and therefore leads to lower future consumption of calories. 1000 calories of the former may take 4 hrs to become hungry, whereas 1000 calories of the latter may take 1 hour to become hungry, for example.

Saturated fats a no more correlated with heart disease than other forms of fats.

Some of the science is linked here: http://www.dietdoctor.com/science

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ebbv 4242 days ago
The parent to your comment is probably someone who has bought into the keto (read: re-named Atkins) diet.
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maerF0x0 4242 days ago
more Low Carb High Fat (LCHF) than either keto or atkins (they're not the same) .

See http://www.dietdoctor.com/science

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