Hopefully Roatan. I will, unfortunately, have to skip out on the lobsters and conch soup. Even if I wasn't a vegetarian, I don't see how people could go scuba diving one day to look at all the cute little fishies, and then come home and eat those same cute little fishies for dinner!
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cocodrilo
Ha! Ditto that one, Truckstop. They're battling the bulge just as bad as the Americans are nowadays...
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sonichaggis
The answers to your questions cannot be succinctly summed up enough for the purposes on an online forum.
If you are serious about finding answers to your questions (unless, of course, you are merely trolling to give people the opportunity to make trite generalizations) then read:
Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan.
Fast Food Nation by Eric Scholosser
Fatland: How American Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
Enjoy.
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sonichaggis
Yes, it is a great one! I recommend the other two as well, particularly Omnivore's Dilemma.
All three books have very different angles and answer OP's questions in different ways.
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chanol
After having lived abroad for over ten years, three of those in Morocco, I walked into a supermarket on my last trip to the States, and couldn't find ANY REAL FOOD. Even the "health" and "organic" sections were really just monikers for the same chemical laden/genetically modified crap pawned off to people with more cash in their wallets than common sense.
In Morocco virtually nothing we eat is packaged or frozen....produce is bought fresh every day and meat is recently slaughtered and on your table before the day has ended. And we walk just about everywhere. The solution to most obesity problems is so simple, eat right and exercise, every day.
Pro tip
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