Social Why Americans are so Fat

[Belaya Smert]

Ultra processed diets without portion control, lack of exercise, work schedules for many mean they value convenience over nutrition. The last being multigenerational.
Poor nutrition habits effect lower income families more and they also historically have limited access to fresh produce inn urban areas where the disparity in income is greatest. Everyone wants to shit on RFK Jr. but a lot of his rhetoric is absolutely correct. We inundate synthetic chemicals you don't allow in Europe and many other parts of the world in our food sources and have for years.

 

[Crazy Source]

Everything comes at a price. I threw out not eating what I want when I want a while ago and don't work out anymore.
The only concession I've made recently is not using cream, butter and cheese in everything every weekend, I became addicted to classic French cooking and it wreaked havoc with my waistline . I was even roasting potatoes in beef dripping for a normal Sunday roast.

Sounds amazing. It's a simple in and out. Calories in, calories out. Have you been getting enough Vitamin D?

 

[TeTe]

Some people really need to use MyFitnessPal or a similar app and figure out how to track macros. It makes calories in vs calories out method very easy

 

[Osculater]

Sounds amazing. It's a simple in and out. Calories in, calories out. Have you been getting enough Vitamin D?

She's getting the D from her husband

 

[Crazy Source]

She's getting the D from her husband

I ain't married, homie. Don't slap my hand.

 

[mozfonky]

i don't really know, but. 1. we plain eat too much
2. our food is poison? I don't know, some people say our food is loaded. I wouldn't know.
3. We don't move very much, most of our jobs are non-physical in contrast with earlier times.


I don't really know, bad habits has to be up there. Bad parenting as in the case of my brother, my ma just let him eat whatever, never told him to go outside, when he was home he lays down, and he's still the same today at 55. His days are simply numbered at 400 pounds, using a cane. I feel like punching him in his head and whipping his ass, i'm so frustrated but that's illegal.

 

[Osculater]

I ain't married, homie. Don't slap my hand.

Go lefty LOL

 

[mozfonky]

Imo food culture is a big aspect of it. It's something that people don't think about because it's in the background. North American parents in general don't know how to cook or prepare anything and they don't appreciate good food because they've never had any. They raise their kids on processed food, fast food, packaged meals, with a bland homecooked meal sprinkled here and there (half-made from packaged ingredients). The kid grows up as a fat ignorant adult who thinks packaged meals for every meal is the norm and the cycle repeats. Society as a whole is like that too, it's not set up for people who want quality ingredients and products, everything is low quality and full of additives.

In some European countries like France or Italy even people who say they "can't cook" know a lot. They say that because in their mind knowing how to cook is a high bar. From childhood they were given an informal education on how food should be prepared, what quality ingredients are, how food should taste, how food should be eaten (at mealtimes, not in front of the TV), etc, by their family. The whole of society is like that, and there's a robust backbone of farmers and artisans who produce quality food that people want. Even McDonalds is forced to sell good shit over there, otherwise they'd shut down because the locals wouldn't put up with it.

As a North American even if you went on a health kick and started eating protein, reading labels and pumping iron your brain is still running the idiot software. You'll never know as much as the Europeans do without even trying. The Euros don't even care about gym culture or "working out" because they've got nothing to compensate for. They're already slim and sort of in shape from walking all day.

you sound like you have no respect for us, I like that, give it to me baby.

I have a musician friend who tours, he's a fat fuck (don't tell him i said that) but he claims that he eats the exact same things in europe and always loses weight. That's what makes me think a factor is what is in our food.

 

[Crazy Source]

Go lefty LOL

Weird....as a kid jacking it I was a righty.....computers came around with the mouse on the right.....I switched. We adapt, no?

 

[mozfonky]

I live in LA the only fat people I see daily are middle America tourists that come with their fat families. I live in an area that is a 20 min drive to the closest drive through fast food place. Fat people are pushed towards lower income areas.

fat people are stupid/poor/ignorant. They also have no self respect, often live in overcrowded apt complexes that I wouldn't live in for free and they make trouble, their idiots.

As much as I was class conscious when i was younger, hating rich people, i'd be around them in a heartbeat today over poor people, it's just a lot less drama and a lot less depressing.

What i often wonder is how these poor morons get through a workday, or maybe they are involved in crime, i don't know. But so many people, probably, i dunno, at least half of everyone I see is lazy and incompetent at what they do. I can't even see some people as even being able to handle a fast food job with all of it's assorted hustle and pressure. That's an ironic thing about capitalism, the hardest, least rewarding jobs are the most demanding in a million ways, be it physical, mental or spiritual.

Also, I do know from personal experience that plain stress makes you not give a fuck about what you're eating.

 

[Osculater]

Weird....as a kid jacking it I was a righty.....computers came around with the mouse on the right.....I switched. We adapt, no?

I'm ambidextrous

 

[Fury]

Some people really need to use MyFitnessPal or a similar app and figure out how to track macros. It makes calories in vs calories out method very easy

Large populations of America don't think about anything beyond what they want in that moment. Not just food. It's much more prevalent in some states or maybe better to say not as much in others.

Obesity map from the CDC

 

[Crazy Source]

I'm ambidextrous

I went left and never looked back.

 

[Osculater]

I went left and never looked back.

 

[zapataxiv]

Large populations of America don't think about anything beyond what they want in that moment. Not just food. It's much more prevalent in some states or maybe better to say not as much in others.

Obesity map from the CDC

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Colorado represent

 

[Madmick]

Large populations of America don't think about anything beyond what they want in that moment. Not just food. It's much more prevalent in some states or maybe better to say not as much in others.

Obesity map from the CDC

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JFC you're trying to flex over 20%-30% obesity rates. You're tucking yourself into the same glass house as the Europeans.

 

[Trabaho]

Natural single ingredient food is expensive and unhealthy processed garbage is cheap ?

My idea of why americans are fat.

Americans don´t walk daily ?

Europeans eat veggies and fruit. I eat them daily. A pound or more a day.

 

[Fury]

JFC you're trying to flex over 20%-30% obesity rates. You're tucking yourself into the same glass house as the Europeans.

jfc I didn't try to flex anything.

"or maybe better to say not as much in others"

Learn to read.

Where did I brag or flex or whatever point you were going for?

 

[Trabaho]

Right at the airport in Croatia I saw americans a few time. My God they look so disgusting. Like barely walking and rotten. So unhealthy. I mean we smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol ect. But Americans are another level of unhealthy. They struggle to walk. Pure lard no muscles. Eat a tomatoe dude.

 

[Yorick the Wiser]

I haven't been to the states in some time…

Make it a longer “time” in the future.

No one here likes you or your long winded, half baked condescending theories. Let me guess, you’re from the UK. Fix your bloody teeth, chappie.