ravensteve1961 said:
Why you think people in russia live longer and more healther than americans?
The average lifespan is Russia is falling, and is much lower than the average lifespan for Americans. The Japanese rank longest in lifespan, and BTW, they have McDonalds there too, and many traditional Japanese foods have a significant ammount of salt in them. Cuba has a shorter life expectancy than USA, but not by that much.
ravensteve1961 said:
Cause when the old U.S.S.R was the goverment at that time youre not allowed to put stuff in canned foods like sugar n salt. The K.G.B can execute people who put other stuff in foods.
You don't like it when someone gives you a ticket for driving very dangerously by speeding, but you want people executed for adding salt, which is an essential mineral! Some people need added salt, to get enough! My sodium is always only just high enough when I am checked, because my diet is so healthy in other ways, that I am medically advised to
add some salt to things so that I can get enough!
ravensteve1961 said:
Theyre people in china living 90+ year old because of stricter rules in health.
There are people living that long in most countries. We have McDonalds in New Zealand, and all of my Grandparents brothers and sisters all lived past 90, some past 100. We don't have to sacrifice our freedom of choice, and live in fear to make it to old age.
ravensteve1961 said:
NO it doesn't! While we're at it, how about you learn that there is more than one type of DIABETES, so you can't go around generalising badly like that?
Type 1 diabetes has nothing to do with bad lifestyle choices, it is an autoimmune condition, where th body mistakes a virus for the islet cells in the pancreas and when trying to kill off the virus, it accidently also kills off the insulin producing islet beta cells. Then the person doesn't make their own insulin anymore and has to inject insulin to replace it to stay alive. It was formally known as Juvenile diabetes, because the onset is usually in babies, kids or young adults. (RS I know what I'm talking about, I have this myself!) Even babies only ever fed breast milk can still develop this type of diabetes, it has NOTHING to do with what they eat!
Gestational diabetes happens when a woman with a genetic predisposition to gestational diabetes, becomes temorarily diabetic during pregnancy due to the pregnancy hormones etc making her insulin resistant.
Type 2 diabetes (which is the one you are thinking of, but is really only one of the types of diabetes, not all diabetes is type 2 RS, please be specific and distinguish between them!) is caused by a complicated combination of factors, including a genetic predispostition, the lifestyle problems associated with type 2 aren't the cause for all people with it. Many of those that do have diet and lack of exercise contributing to them getting type 2, would still have got it if they were more fit and ate healthier, but just not as soon. It's a complicated disease, with many other causitive factors, and really isn't as simple as restricting essential nutrients to prevent people enjoying foods, so consuming excessive portions. There are also other types, LADA, and MODY are other forms of diabetes.
ravensteve1961 said:
Salt causes high blood pressure and heart attacks.
No RS, it's only one of many factors in secondary hypertension. All people & Animals need salt for life and health. The body can't manufacture either, but we need them, that's why they're called "essential" nutrients. Developed countries dedicate most of their salt to chemical production (in industry, NOT foods), developing countries often use most of their salt for human and animal nutrition needs! Hypertension (high blood pressure) is when your blood pressure frequently goes over140/90. For
most cases of hypertension there is no identifyable cause, that's called essential hypertension and this is 90-95% of cases. Some ethnicities have a higher genetic predisposition towards it too. In other cases there is something identified as causing BP to rise, that's called secondary hypertension (only 5-10% of cases). Some of the causes of secondary (the less common type of hypertension!) are:
Medications (things like appetite suppressants, cold preparations, and migraine medications)
Habitual alcohol use/alcoholism
Excess salt in the diet
Obesity
Stress or anxiety
Arteriosclerosis
Coarctation of the aorta
Pain
Renal artery stenosis
Drugs such as alcohol toxicity or cocaine
Renal disease (kidney disease)
Look at all those other causes RS, not just high salt intake, and this is for the less common type of High BP, the other just happens anyway.
Heart attacks have many, many causes. I had a friend in highschool who died of a heart attack... caused by anorexia! She didn't eat anything and her heart couldn't take it. No salt or sugar in her diet to cause that massive heart attack RS!
ravensteve1961 said:
Plus theres no mc donalds in the middle east nations nether .
Yes there are. In fact there is McDonalds in many countries around the world, there are even official webistes for the mcdonalds in many countries, all of these do (yes I checked for you):
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Columbia, Croatia, Cprus, Czech republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Oman, Paraguay, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Qutar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uruguay, USA, Yugoslavia. Go and look them uo! There are plenty of middle east countries with mcDonalds there... grab your atlas and check!
ravensteve1961 said:
I cant put sugar in pepsi ,, coke or dr pepper.Those are the laws id like to see on the books.
There are already sugar free versions of many softdrinks, so you can make a choice! There is diet coke at all McDonalds too.
