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We each cognize nutrient tin impact however we consciousness — but for galore radical who've traveled abroad, the quality betwixt however their assemblage reacts to nutrient successful the US versus different countries is downright shocking. When u/Temporary-Night-275 shared their acquisition of feeling healthier, much clear-headed, and little inflamed aft conscionable 2 weeks successful Italy, it struck a heavy chord with thousands of others. Their station — which elaborate everything from improved digestion to clearer tegument and a heavy vexation with the US nutrient strategy — kicked disconnected a monolithic thread afloat of stories from radical who felt the nonstop aforesaid way:
1. "I'm conscionable truthful huffy astatine the nutrient successful the US. I near for 2 weeks to Italy. My temper was better, my consciousness was better. I could devour wheat (I'm highly gluten intolerant, and it messes with my autoimmune illness if I devour it, among a multitude of different symptoms) with gluten pills with insignificant bloating. I had immoderate of the champion food, champion wellness feelings (other than musculus soreness from walking truthful much), I've ever had successful my life. It's made maine person truthful overmuch resentment for US food. I mean, adjacent my tegument cleared up rather a spot overseas. I devour beauteous steadfast — I emotion snacking connected veggies. It conscionable makes maine truthful huffy that having immoderate benignant of sweetener is conscionable excessively overmuch here. Sugar, wheat, and immoderate other are conscionable truthful overmuch harder connected my assemblage present than successful Italy. I privation to move."
2. "We conscionable spent a period betwixt France and Italy. I ate a metric ton of carbs, afloat abdominous dairy, sugar, etc. and mislaid 6 lbs. I walked conscionable arsenic galore steps determination arsenic I bash astatine location and spell to the gym 5 days a week lifting heavy."
"Anyway. Good times. I hatred it present successful the States."
3. "I went to Italy for 15 days. We ate similar abdominous Americans connected vacation. Pizza, pasta, wine, treble entrees astatine each edifice due to the fact that we knew we mightiness not ever get to spell backmost — each azygous time we ate truthful much. Lost 17 lbs. I couldn't judge it."
4. "I went to Aruba for 10 days, ate similar a queen astatine five-star restaurants, drank liquor astir each day, and inactive mislaid 4 pounds. We're being poisoned present and without shame. The nutrient manufacture is getting affluent successful speech for our health. Then the healthcare facilities get their cut, too."
5. "I'm an Australian who visited the US past year. I was weirdly excited to effort the nutrient determination due to the fact that the US has specified a large nutrient civilization that I thought it would astatine slightest beryllium truly flavorsome. But I ended up being rather disappointed. It seems similar the nutrient determination is conscionable afloat of 'filler' ingredients with precise small nutrients portion besides lacking successful flavor. The nutrient determination made maine consciousness similar crap and didn't adjacent sensation good."
6. "When I archetypal moved to the US, I gained 60 full pounds. My habits didn't really alteration overmuch but everyone I cognize who's travel present from a antithetic state has a akin communicative to tell."
7. "I person SIBO — immense gut issues. Can't devour wheat among galore different things. When I question overseas I seldom person issues. Just got backmost from Africa wherever I ate everything and was really better."
8. "My brother's SO is from Singapore. They regularly notation however sugary and saccharine everything is successful the US. With wellness trends similar fasting and keto, I astir consciousness similar that speaks for itself. Our nutrient is truthful atrocious present radical take to not devour oregon wholly chopped retired definite foods they merchantability present due to the fact that it volition assistance suffer oregon negociate weight. But the contented isn't adjacent the benignant of food, it's what's successful our food. Other countries person diets that are highly carb heavy, and you'll inactive spot radical that are skinny arsenic hellhole and comparatively healthier. The prime of our nutrient is garbage."
9. "My woman is Filipino but lived successful Singapore for 10 years earlier coming to America. She perpetually expresses her thoughts connected however salty and saccharine each this processed nutrient is here."
10. "I unrecorded successful Canada and thought our 2 countries were beauteous adjacent for astir accelerated food, but everything is sweeter successful the US. And the bittersweet happening is that kids are fixed this sugar-laden nutrient astatine a precise young age, truthful they conscionable accommodate to it. We got donuts with immoderate friends, and the lone happening I could sensation was sugar. I said, 'Wow, these are truthful sweet,' and they conscionable said they were normal. A Canadian donut concatenation present was bought by an American company, and alternatively of cooking caller successful store, they started to bring successful frozen, and everything is present coated successful a heavy sugary glaze. I anticipation we aren't going down the aforesaid path."
12. "Have you adjacent been to Germany? I grew up there, and I curse beauteous overmuch each azygous repast is carb-based. Even if it isn't, immoderate signifier of carb is inactive a large component. I mean, Germany is known for its breadstuff and bakeries. The sheer fig of bakeries you spot successful Germany that merchantability hundreds of breads and different flour-based products is wild. And past I moved to the US, wherever the wide sentiment is 'bread makes you fat,' and seemingly the champion mode to get healthier oregon suffer value is to importantly little oregon wholly chopped retired carbs."
13. "I was successful Mexico a mates of years ago, and my tummy and digestive strategy were ne'er better. I came backmost to the States and instantly went backmost to having a sick body."
14. "It's due to the fact that we usage sugars and maize syrups arsenic preservatives successful astir everything arsenic a handout to the American workplace manufacture (got to fig retired what to bash with each that maize aft all). Things you would ne'er deliberation should person it successful them person tons of sugar. It makes america sluggish and bigger. Combine that with a mode much sedentary manner than European and Asian countries, and it's nary wonderment we're truthful unhealthy."
15. "I had a accidental to spell to Japan and France past year. I had an unthinkable clip with the food. I consciousness similar my tummy is ever truthful delicate and upset astatine location successful the US, but thing bothered maine there. Plus, each the metropolis walking was great. Lost immoderate value some times traveling — contempt eating immoderate I wanted due to the fact that I had 'vacation mindset' and wasn't going to bounds myself. Wild."
16. "One happening that opened my eyes traveling backmost and distant from North America to Asia is however overmuch damn sweetener is successful astir each drinks. Outside of fare soda and achromatic coffee, buying an unsweetened vessel of beverage is astir impossible. Americans and Canadians portion truthful galore of our calories, and those are the easiest calories to not support way of."
17. "My ma (Canadian) has endless gut issues and is gluten intolerant, too. Every clip she goes to Spain, her tummy stays level and she feels great. It's terrifying!"
"To note, my ma ever goes gluten escaped adjacent erstwhile she travels to Spain. She has different gut issues. Being gluten intolerant is simply a driblet successful the bucket."
18. "I spell to Germany often for work. When I'm there, I devour and portion similar a damn pig: cocoa croissants and bacon and cereal each time for breakfast, pizza and kebabs for lunch, large meals retired with a clump of brew each night. Without fail, I've mislaid value erstwhile I get home."
19. "I had the other — I'm a Brit and went to the US for 2 weeks earlier this year. The archetypal fewer days, I recovered each the nutrient tasted so...chemical? And artificial? By the extremity of the 2 weeks, though, I was loving it (and borderline addicted to the sweetener and salt). It was chaotic however rapidly my cognition of it changed. I felt truthful groggy those mates of weeks, too. Couldn't hold to get backmost to boring aged English food!"
20. "I was successful Costa Rica past period — for lone a small implicit a week — but I felt truthful overmuch better. So overmuch energy, much regular digestion. My lifelong conflict with cystic and fungal acne besides cleared up successful a substance of days, lone to instrumentality wrong 5 days of being backmost successful the States."
21. "Americans besides devour excessively accelerated due to the fact that we don't person labour protections to support our luncheon hours, don't person maternity attraction truthful parents are frazzled and over-scheduled astatine meal time, person an 'on the go' civilization (try getting a to-go java successful Italy and spot however that goes), don't person wellness insurance, and don't unrecorded successful walkable cities."
"I'm not a defender of US nutrient prime — particularly nutrient from mill farms — but this unsighted religion successful European nutrient prime portion ignoring that you're determination connected abrogation is warping this speech to a harmful degree."
22. "I lived overseas for 20 years. Every state I lived successful oregon visited was acold much successful interaction with their historical nutrient cultures and foodways than astir Americans. They valued quality, caller ingredients. They didn't see cooking a chore. And they mostly ate acold little accelerated nutrient and overprocessed worldly than we do. But the bittersweet information is that erstwhile you lone get fractional an hr for luncheon and are moving 2 jobs to marque ends meet, astatine the extremity of the day, you lone person vigor to instrumentality a Hot Pocket successful the microwave and shove it successful your mouth."
23. "Every clip I spell to Europe, my look clears up wrong days. I devour immoderate I privation determination and my tegument is perfect. I cognize it's the food. I person spent months meticulously taking retired each and each nutrient from my fare to spot what's causing it. Whole nutrient groups and idiosyncratic foods. I adjacent did without java for 2 weeks successful desperation since it was the past happening I had near to try. I can't fig retired the culprit oregon culprits. I deliberation it's pesticides, since I don't devour processed food. But I can't beryllium sure."
24. "I've visited the US doubly for conscionable implicit a week. The archetypal clip I visited, I couldn't get implicit the bread. It tasted similar brioche due to the fact that it was truthful sweet. Luckily, we could spell to the supermarket, truthful we could get effect and veg (which was each huge, which was nice). But whenever we did get accelerated nutrient (airports), the portions were perfectly massive. I got a mean repast from McDonald's, and it was bigger than the ample successful my country. The 2nd clip I visited, I was a small much prepared, but aft a fewer days, some my person and I were craving vegetables that weren't greenish beans."
25. "My woman is from Australia and came to unrecorded with maine successful the States. Until she and I got together, I honestly ne'er knew however atrocious our nutrient was. Her archetypal existent infinitesimal was earlier we were married. A person of hers sent a acquisition bundle afloat of Aussie treats, including a tiny jar of Vegemite. She ran to enactment immoderate connected toast and instantly spit it out. She looked into it and realized however overmuch sweetener is successful the bread, which clashed with the Vegemite. We moved to Australia respective years ago, and I commented connected however 'bland' and 'flavorless' the nutrient present is. But the world is, I had to set to overmuch little sweetener and brackish levels."
26. "I spent 3 weeks successful the US, and it took maine 3-4 months to recover. It's the onshore of the free: escaped to merchantability crap to the customers."
27. "Beyond the food, vacations usually assistance a batch with accent too. When I was successful Italy, we walked similar 15 miles a day, truthful I was a batch much progressive arsenic well. We took our clip and it truly cleared my head. It's precise imaginable that immoderate of the stressors successful your day-to-day beingness are besides contributing to these antagonistic tummy issues. But yeah, the nutrient is decidedly cleaner there, too."
28. "Back erstwhile I was moving successful retail (a multinational company), we had cocoa grooming and we were told that cocoa from the US is sweeter than successful Europe owed to their marketplace demands. Also, I mislaid 3 kg during my archetypal travel to US due to the fact that I couldn't eat. The nutrient was excessively dense and fabricated. Plus, these packs of 'easy' mac 'n' food are disgusting. I wanted to springiness it a effort due to the fact that I was craving the 'full American experience,' but I faced an aggravated occurrence of acerb reflux that traumatized me."
Have you noticed a quality successful however your assemblage feels erstwhile eating nutrient overseas compared to the US? Do you deliberation it’s the ingredients, the lifestyle, oregon thing bigger? Share your thoughts oregon experiences successful the comments below!
Note: These stories bespeak the idiosyncratic experiences and opinions of idiosyncratic users. While galore touched connected wellness and dietary issues, this nonfiction is not intended to connection aesculapian proposal oregon definitive conclusions astir nutrient systems successful immoderate country.
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