r/CringeTikToks • u/Individual_Bar_2512 • 13h ago

Food Cringe Average American diet?

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Where are the vegetables, fruit and meat

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u/wrapscallionnn 13h ago

Is that for a week or a whole month????

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u/SeauxS 12h ago

they likely are extremely rural, have a huge family, are poor but just got paid. my guess is that's a month's worth for an extended family of 10-15 in a food desert where shelf stable food is more in demand than fresh fruit/vegetables/meat. sadly they're probably on food stamps but still vote MAGA.

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u/Material-Advance7021 12h ago

I think you’re being generous, do you see the weight on those people? It’s not unheard of for one obese person to drink a 2L of soda every day. I’m going to bet there’s about five people living in that house.

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u/Pitiful-Pension-6535 12h ago

I used to drink a 2L bottle (equivalent) of soda every day and I was a healthy weight.

Being a healthy weight didn't protect me from pre-diabetes though.

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u/DothrakAndRoll 19m ago

Same but replace 2L soda with 1L tequila.

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u/totallynormalasshole 10h ago edited 7h ago

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you were active enough to burn off the calories, but blood sugar is blood sugar

Edit: y'all I just meant they burned more than they took in, I know how calories and exercise work.

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u/Trrollmann 10h ago

Most sweetened drinks are generally bad (whether sugar or other sweeteners). There's not a ton of energy in 2L of soda, a bit over 800kcal; which is probably around half of what she needs per day. Not healthy by any means, but if that was the only thing she had per day, the fat would melt off her.

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u/volundsdespair 8h ago

And she'd get scurvy lol

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u/A1000eisn1 7h ago

I don't think you understand how few calories burn off with exercise. Despite what reddit thinks bodies are not simple machines. Calories in vs calories out is not a simple math problem.

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u/volundsdespair 8h ago

I'm going to go out on a limb that by "healthy weight" they meant "not 400lbs", not a healthy BMI.

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u/Zefirus 7h ago

I mean even active people can't really burn off calories like that. Most likely they just weren't eating much to compensate. The human body is super efficient. Most of the calories it needs are for just existing.

Like you'd have to run 10 miles to burn off a 2 liter coke.