Yes, because before this, your Pizza's contained Toothpaste instead of Tomato Paste. Thanks to Congress, your vegetable intake has increased.

Remind me why people are being so stupid over this? Anyone could tell you that yes, a Cheeseburger with a slice of tomatoes, onions and a few pieces of lettuce does, in fact, have vegetable content. Only an idiot would say that because those toppings add up to a single serving of vegetables, Cheesburgers magically become more healthy.

HunterX11

United States1048 Posts

November 25 2011 00:55 GMT

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On November 25 2011 08:11 WolfintheSheep wrote:

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Actually, these guidelines do state that the toppings add up to sufficient nutrition. Even if you hate children, you should just abstain from having any instead of trying to stunt the growth of other people's children.

TheDraken

United States640 Posts

November 27 2011 21:28 GMT

#344

On November 24 2011 12:33 Snackysnacks wrote:

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Did exclude "AMERICANS" from my statement. I'm well aware that half the posts in this thread comes from my country bashing upon itself.

Are you perhaps trying to say this to prove im a stupid American or something? Or that I am blind just like the rest of my country?
That was not needed, Yo.

bro. calm down.

of all the things people bash our country for, this one is the most well deserved. not sure if you have some special respect for congress, but i sure as hell don't. this just goes to reaffirm the fact that america is run by yahoos. sure you can defend them and say that they're calling the content of the pizza a vegetable, but for fucks sake it's greasy tomato paste full of salt and sugar. the bigger point of the article is that there is nothing "vegetable" about a pizza, but congress doesn't give a shit because they're congress.

Artifice

United States523 Posts

November 27 2011 21:35 GMT

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It doesn't really matter, when you give kids a choice they eat shit anyway, you could have a smorgasbord of fruits and vegetables in a highschool cafeteria and one pizza oven, and there would be a line a mile long for pizza.

Tewks44

United States2032 Posts

November 28 2011 04:19 GMT

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From what I understand pizza was already considered a vegetable, and this article says that the requirement for pizza being considered a vegetable should not be altered. I don't see why this article is a huge problem for some people. I'd imagine most people on here would never consider Pizza a vegetable regardless of what the silly politicians and lobbyists have to say about it. I do, however, think this article highlights a continuing problem with health standards in the U.S. Apparently a greasy, cheesy piece of flat bread can be considered a vegetable as long as you smear some tomato paste on it (funny, because the government has previously classified tomatoes as a fruit, but that's beside the point). With that mindset I can eat fast food all I want as long as there's tomatoes and onions on my burger! It's a difficult situation. Ideally I would say kids need to be better educated on the effects of eating unhealthy food, but let's be honest, they're kids and pizza tastes good. It's tough to convince mature adults not to pig out on unhealthy food, why should we expect kids to behave better?

WolfintheSheep

Canada14127 Posts

November 28 2011 07:08 GMT

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On November 25 2011 09:55 HunterX11 wrote:

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Are you serious? So because Congress changed the guidelines, you're telling me that you're going to feed your kids Cheeseburgers and Pizza all the time, because it contains one serving of vegetables?

I don't need any help seeing that a slice of tomato, pieces of lettuce and onions add up to a half-decent amount of vegetables. Just like I don't need any help seeing that a Cheeseburger's nutritional value does not change because Congress changes some numbers on a guideline.

If 2 Tablespoons of Tomato Paste genuinely do contain the necessary nutrients to be considered a serving of vegetables, then eating 2tbsp worth of Tomato Paste inside a Pizza means you ate a serving of vegetables. If you, or anyone else, needs their hand held by Congress to clarify that having one serving of vegetables does not constitute a healthy meal alone, then there are far more serious issues than some numbers on a chart.

KaiserCommander

Mexico290 Posts

November 28 2011 08:01 GMT

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On November 20 2011 00:56 FallDownMarigold wrote:

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Not arguing with you, but I actually learned that obesity is not a major contributing factor to rising health care costs in the US. There is a good bit of evidence that it in fact only accounts for a negligible increase in rising health care costs in the US. The primary factor in rising health care costs in the US is over consumption of medical technologies/treatment and health care products.

Actually... you're wrong, in World (more notable in US and México) the factor that contributing more to incrase the money that heatlh care sistems need is chronic-degenerative diseases all related to obesity 'cause they hit economical stability in LONG TERMS way. So diseases like diabetes, hypertension, left cardiac failure are consecuences of obesity and costs goverment the 70% of money given to health care in purposes of treatmen... that amount is still rising...

Fount: I'm a medic...

Redn3ck

United States18 Posts

November 28 2011 08:10 GMT

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On November 20 2011 00:50 eshlow wrote:
U.S. Obesity health care costs currently exceed $147 billion.

But Congress thinks they are saving money by classifying pizza as a vegetable so they don't have to pay more money to get healthier foods in schools.

Makes sense to me.

Nothing the government does is smart thats why we need less of it much less.