Social Why Americans are so Fat

[Joe_Armstrong]

I think food companies put cheap fat and sugar rich stuff in most foods,
while in Europe there are more regulations for that

 

[JohnMandick]

We should do an exotic fruit thread. I swear someone is going to say grape.

 

[Fury]

I think food companies put cheap fat and sugar rich stuff in most foods,
while in Europe there are more regulations for that

*Prepared and packaged foods

 

[lowlife]

Those areas still have fat people LOL

nah bro I lived in San Diego for years, they don't have fat fucks like the fat fucks I've seen down south and in the midwest. I'm talking about 400 plus.

 

[lowlife]

the other day at the grocery store I saw this fat lady cruising the fat scooter with her child following behind in her own fat scooter. amazing times we live in.

 

[Osculater]

nah bro I lived in San Diego for years, they don't have fat fucks like the fat fucks I've seen down south and in the midwest. I'm talking about 400 plus.

Ok, like SÜBBWs?

 

[triptych]

I think food companies put cheap fat and sugar rich stuff in most foods,
while in Europe there are more regulations for that

I work and live in Europe most of the year and I can safely say that the regulations are there, but few food companies follow the rules for processed food !!

 

[pugilistico]

When I was in Thailand, eating breakfast at the hotel, a woman was saying to her husband "I wish we could get this at home"....it was a mango.

They were British though.

I never had a mango (among other fruits) until I went to Thailand either. It blew my mind the first time I had a real mango. As an atheist I thought if gods exists, this is definitely a gift from the gods to us humans.

 

[Fury]

I never had a mango (among other fruits) until I went to Thailand either. It blew my mind the first time I had a real mango. As an atheist I thought if gods exists, this is definitely a gift from the gods to us humans.

Oh, I loved mangos ever since I was a child.

Maybe more people just need to hit the produce section of the store and look around. Some good stuff there.

 

[pugilistico]

That's wild that you don't find the zero versions tasty. What's the longest period you've gone without consuming any sugar whatsoever?

I noticed that when I completely stopped eating sugar for long enough of a period not only did I stop craving it, when I do eat it I don't even like it. It's too sweet.

Why not drink herbal teas without caffeine?

Years ago I quit drinking soda (and alcohol) altogether for a month after my first shroom trip. Don't know why but I did not feel like drinking it at all but then got hooked again once I had a coke for dinner one night lol. I've quit alcohol altogether now but soda I am proper addicted. I can't say why because I don't crave any other sweets whatsoever. I can don't care for cake, sweets, icecream, and I don't really eat shit like fries except sometimes when I get stoned. But coke I always crave. I tried to substitute it with sparkling water + lemon/lime but sparkling water is more expensive than coke so it didn't last that long.

In some tropical countries I substitute coke with fruit smoothies but I realized they dump sugar into those as well. But I do drink a lot less coke there for simple logistical reasons. If I drank 2 liters of coke a day in the states, I'd drink a liter or less of it in Thailand, and they put less sugar in coke in these countries too I realized.

In the US a can has 39g of sugar, in Thailand it's like 21g or something. In some countries it's even less so I end up not drinking it as much because it doesn't taste the same. So it could be another reason why despite drinking so much coke, I'm not getting fat because I'm not getting as much sugar abroad.

 

[pugilistico]

Oh, I loved mangos ever since I was a child.

Maybe more people just need to hit the produce section of the store and look around. Some good stuff there.

That's crazy that you had mangoes. I didn't see a papaya or a persimmon at my local walmart until I was in college. At the time people were looking at persimmons all confused because they thought it was a weird tomato. I also never understood how to eat a papaya or tell when it's ripe until I went to Southeast Asia many years later.

 

[fica]

I think food companies put cheap fat and sugar rich stuff in most foods,
while in Europe there are more regulations for that

reason why americans are fat and people around the world are less is portions. in rest of the world portions are smaller so body get used to that and adict it self to that in america portions are bigger and body addicts to that so even if you would eat at home you would still want full plate that in other plate would be twice as big as theirs

 

[Fury]

That's crazy that you had mangoes. I didn't see a papaya or a persimmon at my local walmart until I was in college. At the time people were looking at persimmons all confused because they thought it was a weird tomato. I also never understood how to eat a papaya or tell when it's ripe until I went to Southeast Asia many years later.

I grew up in the Northeast, I didn't see a Walmart until at least my early teens.

I've still never been to a Walmart that had a full food (with fresh foods) section here. I know there are a few but most Wal-Marts are not. All the other supermarkets were entrenched here by the time Wal-Mart came.

Also, persimmons are pretty confusing. It's just one of those things.

Thailand had a few things that I'd never tried, like durian, but Seychelles had a lot of fruit that I'd never had before or was a different variation of something that I'd had here.

 

[GSP_37]

Pffft, lightweight! Corn on the cob is where it is at

If true, you'd see corn on the cob used in the many crooked weiner TV commercials, not carrots.

 

[Joe_Armstrong]

I think that is true and also its way more common to walk to places or take the bicycle for short routes while ive heard that in the US its not even possible in a lot of places to walk. But we are catching up to you guys. People cook less and less and consume fast food way more frequently than in previous times.

Yes, many more delivery guys now in the streets than 10 years ago

 

[eddymotto]

the other day at the grocery store I saw this fat lady cruising the fat scooter with her child following behind in her own fat scooter. amazing times we live in.

not going to see that at a Erewhon

 

[lowlife]

not going to see that at a Erewhon

that's like the other extreme lol, I need something in the middle.

 

[EnthusiastCultivator]

Not American but visited US a few times, Miami and New York to be exact and found the stereotype to be wrong. Maybe city life results in more walking?

 

[Renard]

Years ago I quit drinking soda (and alcohol) altogether for a month after my first shroom trip. Don't know why but I did not feel like drinking it at all but then got hooked again once I had a coke for dinner one night lol. I've quit alcohol altogether now but soda I am proper addicted. I can't say why because I don't crave any other sweets whatsoever. I can don't care for cake, sweets, icecream, and I don't really eat shit like fries except sometimes when I get stoned. But coke I always crave. I tried to substitute it with sparkling water + lemon/lime but sparkling water is more expensive than coke so it didn't last that long.

In some tropical countries I substitute coke with fruit smoothies but I realized they dump sugar into those as well. But I do drink a lot less coke there for simple logistical reasons. If I drank 2 liters of coke a day in the states, I'd drink a liter or less of it in Thailand, and they put less sugar in coke in these countries too I realized.

In the US a can has 39g of sugar, in Thailand it's like 21g or something. In some countries it's even less so I end up not drinking it as much because it doesn't taste the same. So it could be another reason why despite drinking so much coke, I'm not getting fat because I'm not getting as much sugar abroad.

If you're curious there's an interesting rabbit hole regarding a contract that Coca-Cola made with Microsoft for a billion dollars. At first glance you'd think MS would have no reason to partner with a food company for that much money, it doesn't make sense. But it does, it's just that most people don't understand how the world really works. It has to do with the Internet of People / the Internet of Bio-Nano Things. What does coke have that's worth a billion dollars? An "in" into your body. An addiction to coke isn't necessarily just a sugar or caffeine thing.

Anyway, you don't need to understand or even believe in the small details, just know that switching to something else is smarter - actually, dumber... which is smarter. For example a small business who sells full sugar cola isn't going to have weird contracts with tech giants. Try to move your "addiction" somewhere else first. You can worry about full discontinuation later. To the extent that you can't move your addiction, that's the "magic" Coca-Cola effect, but keep trying.

 

[ChosenOne]

This has become a comical projection from non-American westerners onto Americans to feel better about their own expanding waistlines. Notice to Europeans: be quiet, look in the mirror, you're fat as fuck, too. Just because you're a little less fat doesn't mean you're in a position to cluck your tongues. Some highlights:

Prevalence of obesity in the Adult Population, 2022

• Argentina = 26.3%
• Australia = 30.2%
• Brazil = 28.1%
• Canada = 26.2%
• Croatia = 30.6%
• Czechia = 26.0%
• Germany = 20.4%
• Greece = 28.0%
• Hungary = 31.7%
• Iceland = 21.2%
• Ireland = 28.3%
• Mexico = 36.0%
• Netherlands = 14.5%
• New Zealand = 33.6%
• Norway = 19.1%
• Peru = 27.3%
• Poland = 27.5%
• Qatar = 43.2%
• Sweden = 15.3%
• Russia = 24.2%
• Saudi Arabia = 40.6%
• Ukraine = 23.6%
• United Arab Emirates = 32.1%
• UK = 26.8%
• USA = 42.0%

Now here's what those numbers should look like:

• Japan = 5.5%

For perspective, when I was a kid, when Europeans first began relentlessly mocking us for being a bunch of fat fucks, in the early 90's, the prevalence of American obesity (in 1991) was 12.0%.

only half tongue in cheek, but you could blame America for a good percent of that in foreign nations too as they brutally use various trade agreements with other regions to absolutely force them to take the worst of the foods that are ballooning American waste lines, with the threat of otherwise shutting down aspects of trade with them.

It is truly disgusting that nations who determine 'X is really bad for our citizen health and we are not going to allow it in our country', and then the US used trade to break them on that.