Quote Originally Posted by rory_20_uk View Post
It's sad to think that people need to be "informed" about such basic things as calorie intake. Are these things not on packages of food in the USA? Here one can quickly see that drinking a 2L bottle of e.g. Fanta is in fact a decent percentage of one's daily calories.
Well the picture kind of changes if you're the type of wage slave which has two or three jobs to make ends meet and simply don't have time to prepare proper meals (cause that would make you late for the evening shift). Also I gather that in the USA there's more of a real issue that it is quite possible for people to simply be “out of range” of healthy food (it's simply not sold anywhere near them).

... Then again, in France it is possible to be out of range of tap water that can actually be drunk. It reeks. Like a dirty swimming pool.