dmccarty
Super Star Member
We have noticed that when we have traveled to other countries, we loose weight, or worse case, don't gain weight even though we eat more food when traveling. We certainly go to more restaurants when traveling than when at home. On the second trip to Ireland we would eat chips, aka potato chips, every night which we do not do at home. Lost weight that trip....
Holy carp... what do you eat?!? It's damn near impossible to avoid the stuff in the US, anymore.
I'm not a fan of most of Europe's liberal lawmaking, but I do appreciate their stronger stance against preservatives, sweetners, and other chemicals that we allow our food manufacturers to use. Damn near half the stuff we eat every day is outlawed in many other developed countries.
The last trip to the NL there was a WONDERFUL pastry, bakery restaurant that I ate something from almost every day. The city had two market days each week and I HAD TO HAVE the fried fish from the fish seller.


Lost weight on that trip.
When I first heard of HFCS, I thought it was overblown, then I started noticing that it shows up in soooo much food in the US. Years ago, I got a hankering for the little red hot sausages. I had not had them in years, and for some reason, thought about the little hot sausages so I went to a grocery store that would have them in stock. The store had at least six different brands of these little red hot sausages but every one of them had HFCS. Did not buy the red hot sausages. Very disappointed.
Our US food is just too processed and with too many chemicals. I read food labels, and if the label is a paragraph long, I don't buy it. I REALLY want a danish or donut, but when I see a paragraph long label of ingredients, not having it.
People are much thinner in the countries we have visited. There are over weight people but not in the same numbers as in the US. We watch a YouTube channel from the NL and the guy eats a danish each day best I can tell but he is thin. There is just too much $%^&*() in our food. Watching TV shows from 50's, 60's and early 70's people where thin. I really think it is because the food was less processed and people where not eating as much carbs not to mention how much we eat. The Supersizing of meals has an impact.