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The US Army is the Cause of Overweight People - 8/6/2015 4:32:13 PM

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http://popularmilitary.com/how-the-u-s-army-is-to-blame-for-making-america-fat/

Whether it’s a meal from McDonalds, a snack bar you take with you to work or that always reliable juice box you pack in your kids’ lunchbox, you can thank – or blame — the U.S. Military for much of it.

Many of the foods that we eat today, which have become part of our modern culture of convenience, were invented for soldiers.

According to the new book, Combat-Ready Kitchen: How The U.S. Military Shapes The Way You Eat, “many of the packaged, processed foods we find in today’s supermarkets started out as science experiments in an Army laboratory.”

Seeeeeee I knew it all along.

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RE: The US Army is the Cause of Overweight People - 8/6/2015 6:02:19 PM

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http://popularmilitary.com/how-the-u-s-army-is-to-blame-for-making-america-fat/
Whether it’s a meal from McDonalds, a snack bar you take with you to work or that always reliable juice box you pack in your kids’ lunchbox, you can thank – or blame — the U.S. Military for much of it.
Many of the foods that we eat today, which have become part of our modern culture of convenience, were invented for soldiers.
According to the new book, Combat-Ready Kitchen: How The U.S. Military Shapes The Way You Eat, “many of the packaged, processed foods we find in today’s supermarkets started out as science experiments in an Army laboratory.”

Seeeeeee I knew it all along.

So, can I start a class-action lawsuit against the Federal Government for "making" us fat?

No one is forcing any of that stuff down our throats. We are choosing to ingest it. It's not the US Army's fault. They found solutions for problems they faced. We aren't facing the same problems, but are still using those solutions? That's not their fault. That's our fault.

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RE: The US Army is the Cause of Overweight People - 8/6/2015 9:20:03 PM

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Yup besides I like Army food. LOL I even liked b, c, and t-rations LOL

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RE: The US Army is the Cause of Overweight People - 8/9/2015 6:35:58 AM

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Military and NASA have both funded attempts to make light, cheap, nutritionist rations for situations where low weight and long shelf life are needed. From the "desecrated vegetables" of the Civil War to modern MREs; packing the most calories into the smallest package is the goal. Things that we enjoy (or are inflicted with) that originated with government contracts include:

Beef Jerky (Ok, this one was waaayyy back but still originated as military rations)
Dehydrated soups (or dehydrated anything)
Canned meat products (Spam, Corned Beef, Bully Beef, and chipped beef for making foreskins on toast)
Freeze drying (Freeze dried shrimp and freeze dried cottage cheese work. Freeze dried cole slaw is only fit for being an abrasive compound.)
Evaporated Milk
Condensed Milk
UHT Stabilized Milk
Powdered Milk (Hawaii and Guantanamo both have "milk factories" not dairies. They reconstitute the powdered milk and put in traditional containers. Turns out adding a bit of coconut oil restores the mouth feel of whole milk.)
Powdered Eggs (Should not be served without the next entry)
Powdered Cheese (Yep, that's what is dusted on Cheetos and comes in a #10 can to make Navy Cheese Sauce)
M&Ms - originated as a non melting candy for field rations in the Africa campaign during WWII

A lot of government money has contributed to developing better storage methods for rations. Back in 1986; the U.S. Navy got to be guinea pigs for the first of the gamma sterilized meat products. That one is a winner. Steaks stored at room temperature with a five year shelf life and none of the cell damage that causes frozen meat to be so tough. Too bad paranoia keeps it from being available to the general public.

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RE: The US Army is the Cause of Overweight People - 8/9/2015 7:50:27 AM

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Yeah People don't realize that the military isn't all about breaking things and killing people. It does lots of good for the general public.

Military medicene is another great short of progress

http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/milmedhist/chapter3.htm

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RE: The US Army is the Cause of Overweight People - 8/9/2015 7:58:41 AM

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A lot of government money has contributed to developing better storage methods for rations. Back in 1986; the U.S. Navy got to be guinea pigs for the first of the gamma sterilized meat products. That one is a winner. Steaks stored at room temperature with a five year shelf life and none of the cell damage that causes frozen meat to be so tough. Too bad paranoia keeps it from being available to the general public.

Mmmm.... Hulk like steak!

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RE: The US Army is the Cause of Overweight People - 8/18/2015 6:48:49 AM

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Yeah People don't realize that the military isn't all about breaking things and killing people. It does lots of good for the general public.

Military medicene is another great short of progress

http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/milmedhist/chapter3.htm

I believe "tang" was created for NASA, could these items have been invented/created without the military?

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RE: The US Army is the Cause of Overweight People - 8/18/2015 12:12:45 PM

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The reason why we enjoy sugary foods has nothing to do with product placement or advertising. That just gets the message that a product exists. Not why we crave it.

Mankind is operating on 'software' that is over a 100,00 years old. Given all the advances in the last hundred or so years, mankind's chemical-bio memory system has not caught up at the same pace. Way back in 'the old days' man kind was just a bunch of scavengers and basic hunters. They for the most part wandered the country side rather than living in fixed communities. The concept of growing food in fields or live stock behind fences had not occurred to them. When they found something good to eat, they would gore themselves on it. Honey to the human brain is delicious. Back then, it didn't come in jars, right? Well, when they came across a beehive, they would risk the dozen stings just to get access to the honey. And they would eat it without a second thought.

And this was taught and conditioned into the mind over thousands of years. Each set of people in each civilization has their sugary foods. Sugar was a product that was highly transferable. It was used in early medicines. An very tasty to consume directly.

That people think we enjoy sugary food due to seventy years of good American advertising is just being an idiot. Which is why we study things in science. This infomation comes from neurosciences on the evolution of mankind. Not every evolution produces good changes to the organism.

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RE: The US Army is the Cause of Overweight People - 8/19/2015 3:55:53 AM

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In the UK this accusation is most likely to get levelled at fish and chips - a dish which would, admittedly, make the average Big Mac and large fries look spartan by comparison. Both fish and potatoes were cheap here: our soldiers went off to fight in WW1 with bellies frequently filled with them - this, at a time when the conscripted forces were made up of men who typically turned up for training undernourished. In WW2 fish and chips were one of the few foods that weren't rationed, again 'helping us to win the war'.

I guess beneath all this is the usual story: a cheap and filling food gains huge popularity during a time when the supercharged calorie count of it is useful and even necessary, but remains popular after that time. For the average skinny kid fighting on the western front fish and chips just about kept you going; for the car-driving sedentary worker today it's overkill in terms of nutritional requirements. Obesity is a frequent result.

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RE: The US Army is the Cause of Overweight People - 8/19/2015 6:59:27 AM

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Mankind is operating on 'software' that is over a 100,00 years old.

Ten thousand years ago the Phoenicians smelted gold,silver,copper and tin.
Ten thousand years ago the Phoenicians operated a mercantile empire that stretched from Baghdad to the straights of Gibraltar.
Hardly "just a bunch of scavengers and basic hunters", but rather not unlike ourselves minus the cell phones and latte's.

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RE: The US Army is the Cause of Overweight People - 8/19/2015 11:30:08 AM

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Why are we having an obesity epidemic? Its simple mathematics, we consume more energy than we expend. The more we eat the heavier we become and the heavier we become the hungrier we feel. Its a vicious circle.

Fifty years ago food was much more simple than it is today. Sugars were not chemically enhanced in laboratories to stimulate the brain during consumption; fats were not removed from natural food sources and chemically tampered with so they could pass the taste test. I recently read a report about how our body recognizes natural food and whilst it happily digests and utilises natural ingredients, the body often doesn't know what to do with chemically enhanced food and so stores it and converts it into fat.

High fructose corn syrup and MSG are just two of the lethal additives that have found there way into so much of our processed food and disturbingly, now we all know just how evil this stuff is, the manufacturers (in the UK) have cleverly disguised there names. Foods sold as 'healthy options' (granola bars come to mind) are anything but healthy but whilst the FIC allow unhealthy food items to be sold as healthy items, nothings going to change and even those trying to make a real effort will succumb to this chaos.

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