https://allthatsinteresting.com/holodomor-ukrainian-famine
n 1932 and 1933, millions died in the Ukraine. The country was hit by the Holodomor, a famine so terrible that, for the people caught in the middle of it, seeing an emaciated body collapsed on the side of the road had become an everyday sight.
The country became a living nightmare; a place where thousands of starving people had turned to cannibalism to survive. And yet, in the news outside of the Ukraine, newspapers denied it was even happening.
The Ukrainians call the famine the "Holodomor," a name that means "murder through starvation." The Holodomor, they believe, wasn't just a natural disaster, it was deliberately planned to starve them out.
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin had been warned that the country would be hit with a famine two years before the Holodomor started, but he did little to stop it from happening. He was bent on industrializing the Soviet Union. Even with a famine coming, he kept moving workers into the city and out of the farms of the countryside.
When the Ukraine famine started, Stalin actively made things worse. He exported almost two million tons of food out of the Ukraine, pulling away the little food the people had to survive. Then he barred the people there from moving to any other part of the country. They had no food; they had no way to escape – nothing to do but wait and die.
Do you know that the average weight of an American woman today, is equal to the weight of an American man in 1965. In the future, I'd put a surtax on Fast food, half would go to obesity education and the other half would buy out restaurants and replace them with family owned restaurants, with a central food system assisting in all aspects of the operations. We are going g to bring back the relaxed sit down meal. We are going to extend lunches a few times a week.
It’s because our diet is so far gone from what our ancestors ate. Bread and grains are shitty for you and yes I say this as someone who is in the beer industry. Why do you think it is put as the most important food group on the food pyramid? It makes you fat and weak.
What should be at the top is red meat and animal fats. Fruit as well. Carnivore MD and Dr Shawn Baker have tons of amazing information about this. If everyone was on an animal based or paleo style diet we wouldn’t have so many obese people around.
You have free will and I don’t think taxing fast food is in line with liberty. I just think obese people should be treated low priority in the healthcare system and shamed for being disgusting. Kinda like how I don’t think we should give out narcan anymore. If you want to shoot up heroin and trash the city streets and OD you are on your own. What is plagueing society is a lack of personal responsibility. If an obese person like Lizzo drops dead from a heart attack well she did it to herself.
There's a lot of good information in this comment. Another thing I'd like people to learn is to only eat when you're hungry. You aren't going to starve to death if you miss 1 meal. Personally I don't eat breakfast, I'm not hungry in the morning. So many people are flabbergasted when I tell them that. They start stating that it's the most important meal of the day and that I HAVE to eat. Then they start making "jokes" that I'm anorexic. Corporate America has done a really good job brainwashing/programming people into overeating.
Well, Im sure you can make jokes that they're fatties.
I don't eat breakfast either.
You seem cool, I like you.
Now now...we all know it's acceptable to tease and shame skinny people - but turn it around on the bigguns and it's offensive.
INTERMITTENT FASTING it’s the way to go!
You are so right. Eat when you are hungry, stop when you are satiated. Have an eating window that ends in the late afternoon or early evening.
Education is key for all.The food pyramid needs to be tossed out and not only the general public, but ALL doctors and anyone in the medical field needs to be taught the proper human diet. The proper food is the cure to so many ailments in the US population, not pills.
Spot on brother