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post 1683660323 05-30-2023, 10:18 AM
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Why Aren't Italians Fat When Their Food Makes You Fat?

Italians get fat af as soon as they land in AMerica. but they are all thin in the motherland despite eating dairy and wheat all day long.


Why is this?
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Because they eat sensible portions and don't have the FDA food pyramid.
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post 1683660543 05-30-2023, 10:22 AM
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Originally Posted By monster0ultra⏩
Black genetics are good for leanness. They're half black.
do you erase your black ancestry as soon as you sail over to Murica?


post 1683660603 05-30-2023, 10:24 AM
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Originally Posted By cobhc⏩
Because they eat sensible portions and don't have the FDA food pyramid.
they eat bread, cheese, tomato sauce, meatballs, day in and day out
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Originally Posted By CockSalesman⏩
they eat bread, cheese, tomato sauce, meatballs, day in and day out
They eat a lot of fish and white meat. Their pasta portions are light and they usually make them with fresh tomatoes/herbs/spices.

They don't eat carbonara and chicken parms there all day.
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post 1683660693 05-30-2023, 10:26 AM
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They eat in moderation. Their food selection is overall still healthier than ours. We also are obsessed with sugary drinks with nearly every meal, which is the majority of excess calories that we consume. Even coffee has become a sugar drink.
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post 1683660773 05-30-2023, 10:27 AM
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You apparently have never been to Italy.

The dairy is raw and pure. The meat is almost all grass fed and organic. The veggies and fruits are also mostly organic. They eat a lot of fish. They shop daily for their dinner and not fill up a pantry full of garbage. Stuff like chips and soda cost 3-4x what some apples and oranges do. And they walk, a lot to where they want to go.

Source: been many times, have family in Vincenza.
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post 1683660833 05-30-2023, 10:29 AM
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why would wheat make you fat lol
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Originally Posted By Ratfish⏩
why would wheat make you fat lol
you eat wheat yes?

you are fat yes?
post 1683660983 05-30-2023, 10:31 AM
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It has nothing to do with the food and everything to do with their genetics.

I spent 3 weeks in Italy, walked 10 miles a day and came back 15 pounds heavier...

The first three or four days I was definitely doing the tourist "eat everything in sight" but after that it was a normal diet.

Pasta, wine, bread will pack on the pounds for anyone that doesnt have elite tier genetics.
post 1683661113 05-30-2023, 10:34 AM
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Originally Posted By Scarrdbutsmartr⏩
It has nothing to do with the food and everything to do with their genetics.

I spent 3 weeks in Italy, walked 10 miles a day and came back 15 pounds heavier...
italian genetics


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Smaller portions plus walking.

They walk everywhere and a lot of places are very hilly.

There's also a lot of crap in our food including "healthy food" and Italians eat more fresh food.
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Are you kidding? Southern Italians are fat as f/ck... The central and northern Italians are the tall, thin ones.
Everything I post is satire.
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Originally Posted By monster0ultra⏩
Black genetics are good for leanness. They're half black.
They're not. Sicilians have some Arab in them, that's about it. Northern Italians are largely Celtic and Germanic in origin.
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Originally Posted By CockSalesman⏩
italian genetics


There are trash genetics everywhere but the average Italian is fairly decent looking and skinny. In my personal opinion the Italians are one of the better looking populations I've seen and I travel globally... The Italians, Spaniards and Easter European genetics are dialed in for the most part.
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Moving to the US, or importing the US diet makes everybody fat/obese. Samoa used to be one of the healthiest places in the world, then they adopted the US imports & ended up as one of the least healthy in the world. Same with Fiji, Tonga, Cook Islands etc.

People from the UK who go to the US are amazed at the huge portion sizes-even though our plates have become significantly larger in recent decades. Americans when they come over here are shocked by how 'small' our portion sizes are.
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One or 2 hogs but it appears to be true, mostly lean HBBs. A lot of them smoke. Probably have a big dinner but not a lot throughout the day and a lot of walking
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If you saw how small their portions are you would LOL.

I was just in Italy. For them, a bowl of pasta is a small cereal bowl not filled to the top. THAT is a dinner to them.

Breakfast is one small pastry. Their coffee comes in one size, which is smaller than the smallest size at Starbucks.

There is also an unusual lack of 'sides' for their meals.... Like if you go to a sandwich shop for lunch, they don't have chips/fries.... Just the sandwich. I don't remember seeing a 'combo meal' at ANY of the places we ate.

Getting back to the USA, you are disgusted by how much the fat fuks here eat. It's completely unnecessary.
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Originally Posted By monster0ultra⏩
I always scratch my head when small portion size comes up as a positive. Why would you want a smaller portion and pay more for less food? Also, even American portion sizes are small.
A US small is equivalent to our large.
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Originally Posted By HMFIC_BROWSIN⏩
If you saw how small their portions are you would LOL.

I was just in Italy. For them, a bowl of pasta is a small cereal bowl not filled to the top. THAT is a dinner to them.

Breakfast is one small pastry. Their coffee comes in one size, which is smaller than the smallest size at Starbucks.

There is also an unusual lack of 'sides' for their meals.... Like if you go to a sandwich shop for lunch, they don't have chips/fries.... Just the sandwich. I don't remember seeing a 'combo meal' at ANY of the places we ate.

Getting back to the USA, you are disgusted by how much the fat fuks here eat. It's completely unnecessary.
i ate at an authentic italian restaurant over the weekend, can confirm. portions were for ants.
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They like the sunlight, spend time a lot with family and friends and in a lot of cases they're traditional, even though they won't admit it.

This all keeps the stress down and healthy hormones up.
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Originally Posted By CockSalesman⏩
you eat wheat yes?

you are fat yes?
yeah but it's wheat beer
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The American food supply is just straight poison. All our food is sprayed with dogchit that every other country bans, and loaded with added syrups and inflammatories. Even if you ate the exact same diet in the US vs somewhere like Italy, you would be fatter living in the US. This is a problem with immigrants to the US, even when they keep their old eating habits, they still experience unexplainable weight gain immediately after moving here.
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They're very careful about portions. They have lots of unwritten cultural rules about eating, like pasta shouldnt be more than this, bread should only be this size etc.

Also very frew italians have cars and their cities are very pedestrian oriented. So people walk a lot during their day to day lives.
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They don't put heavy cream in their pasta like v Americans
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Originally Posted By CockSalesman⏩
i ate at an authentic italian restaurant over the weekend, can confirm. portions were for ants.
As it should be.

Americans eat as if they're all hippos. It's disgusting and embarrassing.

If Americans simply adopted the idea of 1-course-meals every time they went out to eat, they would lose weight.

What I mean is, if you go out to a burger place, just get the burger, nothing else. If you go to a steak house, get steak, nothing else. Etc etc.

The first coffee I got in Italy came in a Dixie cup, by the third day, I was totally used to it, and wondered why Americans think they need so much more than that.
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