Talk:Standard American Diet

message: There's a good article in here waiting to come out, but at the moment it reads like a personal commentary, by an American, on American diets. I'm not convinced Europeans (whatever that term means!) worker substantially shorter weeks or value their food more highly. Here in the UK, there are plenty of people working similar working weeks to Americans, and some factors, such as commuting long distances (60 minutes plus), probably eat into "off duty" time to a greater extent than they do for the average American in a Midwestern city who only commutes for 20 minutes. The diet/obesity issues in the UK are very similar to those in the US, and the British certainly don't place any great pride in their cooking. So while it may be true that family meals are a bigger thing in rural parts of Southern Europe, say, I doubt this argument holds much water in the industrial and commercial centres in England, France, Germany or wherever. Cheers, Neale Neale Monks 22:26, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fact checking 

message: The entire 1st half of "Obesity and the American Diet" deals with "urban flight" as an explanation of the US diet, rather than give specific examples of the American diet.  For example, discuss typical foods and meals eaten regularly in the US, and compare them with "healthier" countries, such as Mediterranan countries and Japan. 
Also, "Obesity and the American Diet" needs to be organized and split into paragraphs!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.102.131.87 (talk) 11:52, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article doesn't talk enough about S.A.D. 

message: I added three much-needed tags. They speak for themselves. -134.84.102.192 09:48, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  tagged 

message: Why does this article read like it's an essay by a pro-McD lobbyist? It seems very persuasive and gives point after point towards it's final conclusion that "fast food alone doesn't cause obesity". This article has nothing to do with "SAD" and should be completely removed or reworked. An essay on how ppl in America need to "move their asses more" has no place on a page about SAD.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.145.112.69 (talk) 18:51, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV 

message: Biased, generalized, and without sources.  There aren't other parallel articles like this.  I think I should be be deleted. Arthurian Legend (talk) 03:26, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Second the motion to delete and/or merge.  I know that a "standard diet" is something which is defined since the FDA does sampling of food products to examine interactions and aggregate effects of food in the US food supply, the Total Diet Study, but that doesn't really meet notability for an article.  The content here, while I happen to agree with the message, is more WP:SOAP than actual information.Somedumbyankee (talk) 19:42, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

text: I was sore tempted to  it.  A Google scholar] search shows me that the term is often used in the medical and social science fields (and a broader scholar search shows about 50% more uses outside those fields).  So there definitely is a real article to be written at this title - but I still was very tempted to to suggest a deletion because of how  poor the content is here.  GRBerry 14:27, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: How about redirecting it to Western pattern diet?  "SAD" is a derogatory term used by alternative/complementary POVs, but I think that Western pattern diet might be the least POV approach for the article.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:09, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: With no other opinions, I've done so.  Maybe someday someone will write something here.  GRBerry 21:35, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nominiate for deletion