So what is making people from the USA so fat?
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Restaurants like this one are a pretty good reason as to why we're a bunch of fatasses.
Try and find some pictures of their food and you'll get the full scope of the situation.
Oh, and apparently if you weigh more than 350 pounds, you eat for free at this restaurant.
Restaurants like this one are a pretty good reason as to why we're a bunch of fatasses.
Try and find some pictures of their food and you'll get the full scope of the situation.
Oh, and apparently if you weigh more than 350 pounds, you eat for free at this restaurant.
I went outside in Texas to walk somewhere, but then it was 118 degrees and I got hit by a car because Dallas consists of 100% highways and strip malls. It's pretty horrible.
Why? Because it is far more expensive to eat healthy here. I'm an amateur chef and buying ingredients that are decent to cook a meal is so stupidly costly. What makes a healthy meal really good is good ingredients and they just cost too much. An average american on budget can afford high fat, high sugar meals much easier than health meals. Trying to make spaghetti for example, take a look at your spaghetti sauces that are in jars, find the one with the lowest sodium and is actually healthy for you and it guarantee you it's the most expensive on the shelf.
When I was in high school they introduced Salads, and they were pretty good but they were terribly expensive. More expensive than the full meals of pizza or hamburgers. Then after a few years they were awful, the lettuce wasn't crisp and they had loaded it down with this awful ham, even if you picked the ham off your salad still tasted like a salty piece of pork.
I'm convinced that most people are fat simply because eating healthy is hard when you're on a budget it's a lot more work than eating junk.
When I was in high school they introduced Salads, and they were pretty good but they were terribly expensive. More expensive than the full meals of pizza or hamburgers. Then after a few years they were awful, the lettuce wasn't crisp and they had loaded it down with this awful ham, even if you picked the ham off your salad still tasted like a salty piece of pork.
I'm convinced that most people are fat simply because eating healthy is hard when you're on a budget it's a lot more work than eating junk.
Too much fast food. Not enough exercise. Also, a lot of people skip breakfast which causes them to over eat during later meals.
I'm sorry but this is just a terrible excuse. I don't know where you're buying your food from but fresh vegetables and fruit really are not that expensive. As for healthier options of some things being more expensive, if they are, it's rarely more than 10 cents.synobal said:
I can get buy on 50 dollars a week towards eating healthy food. I live in Canada where most of this stuff is more expensive than in the US.
Not true, fresh fruit and veggies can be stupidly expensive when you're trying to get something that tastes good. Sure you can get the really poor qualities fresh veggies and fruits for cheap but they don't have any flavor.Wakikifudge said:
Just go into your supermarket and take a look at tomatoes, they are always a good example. Your decently tasting tomatoes will be prohibitively expensive while as the cheap ones that don't have any real juice and aren't very well ripened are much cheaper. You ever try to make a spaghetti sauce out of cheap tomatoes? It doesn't work, your sauce tastes awful. Buying quality ingredients to make a tasty healthy meal is more expensive than buying junk or preprocessed food that tastes good.
Most people how ever don't make a tomato based sauce from scratch most buy something in a can or jar that they can build upon for their sauce. Take a look at your canned tomatoes sauces, the ones that are the most healthy for you, IE less sodium less sugar etc are far more expensive than the ones that are less healthy for you. Why? Because fillers and additives can make cheap tomatoes taste fine, and fillers and additives are cheap cheap cheap.
Hell here in the USA they were putting the same meat they used in dog food into most peoples ground hamburger meat as filler. If you wanted fresh ground burger with out the dog food filler you had to have your store grind a select cut of beef for you. Which most would do but your pound of ground beef was going to cost much more than the stuff you buy already ground and had the dog food filler in it.
Eating healthy in the USA is more expensive than not eating health. Don't get me started on trying to eat healthy when you're eating out either it's almost impossible with out going to a restaurant that is geared specifically for health nuts and thus is going to cost insane amounts of money.
For those arguing that eating healthy costs money... Well, thats been argued against adequately, so let me attack this from a different angle:
Take up a sport, go running, do some fucking exercise.
People can eat lots and lots of shitty, fatty foods, but they spend an hour a day doing some proper exercise, they wouldn't be fat cunts. Don't anybody ever try to say they don't have an hour in the day to do phys either - get up an hour earlier or go to bed an hour later, do it on your lunch break instead of going to McDonalds, Run/Cycle to or from work instead of driving (a 12 mile bike ride at a fairly lazy pace takes about an hour).
Physical activity is what humans are made for. People who don't make time for it are basically traitors to their own species evolution.
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I've just cut out a 5 paragraph rant about the burden fat people put on the NHS in the UK, but I decided it's not relevant in a thread about American obesity.
For the record, I think Britain is nearly as fat as America these days. It really, really pisses me off.
Take up a sport, go running, do some fucking exercise.
People can eat lots and lots of shitty, fatty foods, but they spend an hour a day doing some proper exercise, they wouldn't be fat cunts. Don't anybody ever try to say they don't have an hour in the day to do phys either - get up an hour earlier or go to bed an hour later, do it on your lunch break instead of going to McDonalds, Run/Cycle to or from work instead of driving (a 12 mile bike ride at a fairly lazy pace takes about an hour).
Physical activity is what humans are made for. People who don't make time for it are basically traitors to their own species evolution.
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I've just cut out a 5 paragraph rant about the burden fat people put on the NHS in the UK, but I decided it's not relevant in a thread about American obesity.
For the record, I think Britain is nearly as fat as America these days. It really, really pisses me off.
That subcategory contains: 3 TV shows, 1 non-profit organization, 1 documentary about an awareness march, 2 initiatives by Michelle Obama plus one subsection of those by Beyonce, and the main page on obesity in the US. You may publicize everything, but that was a poor example (just letting you know).Freechoice said:
OT: The US is just ahead of the curve, other western nations are growing fatter as well.
Due to industrial farming (vegetable or animal, doesn't really matter) the USA has waaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy more resources than are necessary to live. Further, as consumer-driven society, most of the companies in the USA are driven to by goods from other countries. Other countries are generally happy for the income (saying nothing of whether their lives would be better or worse without the USA in them). Humans are wired to eat food when they can and we have a lot of food around (incidentally this isn't an excuse. Humans are very good at rewiring themselves).
Further, across the globe the USA is viewed as the top dog. Citing problems with the USA is citing problems with the entire direction the world is headed. If it was an international headline that people in Spain were overweight, it wouldn't have the same effect.
Oddly enough, though people blame the "deep fried" whatnots and large amounts of sugar, if the USA went entirely vegetarian, residents would probably be just as overweight since there would be even more food around. All the land currently used for cows would be used for vegetable food production instead and none of that food would be lost in the process of raising animals.
Incidentally, all of these opinions represent only the current state of the world. It is certainly subject to change in the future, and naturally has been different in the past.
Further, across the globe the USA is viewed as the top dog. Citing problems with the USA is citing problems with the entire direction the world is headed. If it was an international headline that people in Spain were overweight, it wouldn't have the same effect.
Oddly enough, though people blame the "deep fried" whatnots and large amounts of sugar, if the USA went entirely vegetarian, residents would probably be just as overweight since there would be even more food around. All the land currently used for cows would be used for vegetable food production instead and none of that food would be lost in the process of raising animals.
Incidentally, all of these opinions represent only the current state of the world. It is certainly subject to change in the future, and naturally has been different in the past.
Stereotypes. They're so full of calories and trans-fats these days.
This, basically. I'm saying this as a British person. British. Do you understand how hard it is for me to be the bigger man (no pun intended) and not mock Americans, here!?Dags90 said:
The cost difference in healthy foo compared to crap food. Soda is cheaper than juice and all natural means more expensive. It's just not cost effective to eat healthy.
It's pretty simple: high-calorie foods are more readily available than ever and people lead increasingly sedentary lives.
There are other factors too, an interesting one I once read is the fact that most people never have to deal with the cold any more given how we all have central heating.
It's not just the US though, it's most of the western world. The US is leading the way though (although the rest of us aren't all that far behind)... I guess maybe the ridiculously large portion sizes you guys seem to have access to and all the high fructose corn syrup in everything could be the reason for that.
There are other factors too, an interesting one I once read is the fact that most people never have to deal with the cold any more given how we all have central heating.
It's not just the US though, it's most of the western world. The US is leading the way though (although the rest of us aren't all that far behind)... I guess maybe the ridiculously large portion sizes you guys seem to have access to and all the high fructose corn syrup in everything could be the reason for that.
Sugar mainly fuctose and carbohydrates. Almost everything has sugar and fructose in it. Soda being the worst offender. I'm serious if you stop eating and drinking sugar (that includes fruit juice) for about 2 or 3 weeks you'll lose five to ten pounds even if you don't exercise.
