Smoking and Obesity

[Azathoth]

I actually eat only TV/frozen dinners, microwavable rice, and canned soup (unless someone makes something else for me, ie. fried chicken, potatoes with mushrooms, fried salmon). I'm not going to get fat off of this diet (a bag of rice has A LOT of sodium and up to a thousand calories, but frozen dinners and cans of soup average 250-400 calories), so I'll likely continue with it through college and into my adult life.

The only way this could possibly change is if scientists invented some sort of tasteless block of food-like material that is calorie and nutrient rich in the future.

[A Very Super Market]

A person's metabolism changes as they get older. Besides, eating so much salt will cause other illnesses.

[Azathoth]

A gram of salt in one meal isn't too bad. I'm not talking about cups of soy sauce or sunflower seeds here.

[A Very Super Market]

You don't get it. It isn't about how much over healthy levels you eat, it's how long over those levels you go. Granted, ripping your stomach open with salt would be pretty bad, but the risks of eating too much salt have already been well documented. Besides, all that stuff will give you some serious nutrient deficiencies. American way, I guess.

[Azathoth]

How much salt do people need every day, 3 grams? Come on now.

Nutrient deficiencies? Hell, at least 90% of the population is deficient in at least one nutrient. Where is the link to that study which found more than 3/4 of teenagers in the US don't eat enough vegetables?

[A Very Super Market]

Alright, that would explain America's poor state of health. Is there anything more you would like to say?

[Azathoth]

As if you're that much healthier.

[Aemilius Paulus]

A person's metabolism changes as they get older. Besides, eating so much salt will cause other illnesses.

Yeah, I was about to say that too. Very few men over 35 can keep their figure without controlling their eating habits. My father is one of those few exceptions. Tall, lanky, skinny and wiry he is, with his metabolism burning through anything. That does not, however, keep his arteries clean, and his blood pressure may spike at times. But most others, especially Americans, are quite susceptible to weight gain. Too many pot-bellies/beer-guts in this nation...

[Banquo's Ghost]

The only way this could possibly change is if scientists invented some sort of tasteless block of food-like material that is calorie and nutrient rich in the future.

Maybe you should try tofu.

[Tribesman]

I actually eat only TV/frozen dinners, microwavable rice, and canned soup (unless someone makes something else for me, ie. fried chicken, potatoes with mushrooms, fried salmon).

so you only eat processed food, unless someone cooks you unhealthy food
I mean seriously, fried salmon??????
Why on earth would someone ruin a decent bit of fish?

[Strike For The South]

so you only eat processed food, unless someone cooks you unhealthy food
I mean seriously, fried salmon??????
Why on earth would someone ruin a decent bit of fish?

Why on earth would anyone pass up the oppurtuinty to fry something?

[A Very Super Market]

Mmmm....

[Aemilius Paulus]

Meh, here in the Southern US battered and fried candy bars (Snickers, Milky Way, Twix) are quite common. While fried chicken with fried pickles with fried apple pie and fried ice cream for dessert, washed down with fried coke being a very much possible dish combination. In fact, fried apple pie and fried pickles are quite an old dish.

[Strike For The South]

Meh, here in the Southern US battered and fried candy bars (Snickers, Milky Way, Twix) are quite common. While fried chicken with fried pickles with fried apple pie and fried ice cream for dessert, washed down with fried coke being a very much possible dish combination. In fact, fried apple pie and fried pickles are quite an old dish.

[Beskar]

Meh, here in the Southern US battered and fried candy bars (Snickers, Milky Way, Twix) are quite common. While fried chicken with fried pickles with fried apple pie and fried ice cream for dessert, washed down with fried coke being a very much possible dish combination. In fact, fried apple pie and fried pickles are quite an old dish.

Taken from Scotland, I am guessing.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Meh, here in the Southern US battered and fried candy bars (Snickers, Milky Way, Twix) are quite common. While fried chicken with fried pickles with fried apple pie and fried ice cream for dessert, washed down with fried coke being a very much possible dish combination. In fact, fried apple pie and fried pickles are quite an old dish.

Now that we have established that in terms of culinary prowess the Southern United States is the most advanced area of the world, can we move to the next item on the agenda?

[Tribesman]

Why on earth would anyone pass up the oppurtuinty to fry something?

That is a hard question.
I suppose there can be two possible answers
#1 they can cook
#2 they have taste
Don't get me wrong , there are time when frying is good , if for example I want a fried breakfast that normally involves 3 frying pans.
But for everyday food...no .....for good fish ...definately no...even for chicken ...hell no

[Strike For The South]

That is a hard question.
I suppose there can be two possible answers
#1 they can cook
#2 they have taste

You sir have never had a chicken fried steak with Mashed potatoes <----(you know you want it) and country gravy.

Oh and fried okra to. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Edit to his edit: I can live with that but you still need to try chicken fried steak. You will move here.

[Tribesman]

You sir have never had a chicken fried steak

Sorry Strike , If I buy a piece of steak I don't expect it to have to be beaten to **** just to make it edible.
Plus of course I expect steak to be cooked without the unneccesary application of additonal fat.

[Caius]

Besides, eating so much salt will cause other illnesses.

Hypertension is your enemy and rises with big ammounts of salt in foods.