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Wow... ${expletives}. It is all starting to make sense to me now. Ref what I wrote on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17017920 https://news.ycombinator.co

Wow... ${expletives}. It is all starting to make sense to me now. Ref what I wrote on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17017920 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17017920 : "As a Norwegian, when I visited Boston in 1999 for an Allaire dev conference I saw more grossly fat / obese people in the _hour_ spent switching flights at Newark airport than I had in my (then) home country in the preceding year. I was really taken aback." I never got my now 7y son into juices etc and Coke products are generally banned in our home. He has a very healthy body weight, so that's one fewer thing he has to worry about whilst growing up.

adventured 8y ago
So was the entire point of your post an excuse to do the typical obnoxious Scandinavian thing and brag about how Scandinavians are superior? What else are you saying in the content of that post? Why should I ref that linked post, you quoted all of it, except for this cheap bash: "There's clearly a lot of things the US is not doing right on many, many levels." I'd love an explanation for how all of that adds up to anything other than: US dumb, Scandinavians superior peoples. I mean that's really great, just put it over there in the giant pile of worthless US bashing. You're in Australia and conveniently avoided talking about their similarly extreme 29% obesity rate (the US is at 36%).
SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
I was in Copenhagen earlier this year and I commented to my wife and our friends multiple times on how there were just no obese people anywhere. You Scandinavians are obviously doing something right.
- toxik 8y ago
  Some do, especially in bigger cities. Rural and suburban Sweden for example is getting obese at an alarming rate. But don't worry, the tax payers can foot that bill too I guess.
- jernfrost 8y ago
  A lot of that comes down to much stronger belief in government regulation and initiative. In the US it seems there is an outrage every time somebody suggests some kind of regulation to promote health and welfare. I suspect that outrage is partly manufactured by the sugar and junk food industry though. Copenhagen is also very active in getting people to bike in town instead of driving.
prawn 8y ago
My wife and I were watching Wild Wild Country (events from the 80s) the other week and we commented on how skinny everyone in the cult/commune was. Image in the header here: https://www.elitedaily.com/p/netflixs-wild-wild-country-documentary-series-is-about-to-be-your-new-obsession-8527272 https://www.elitedaily.com/p/netflixs-wild-wild-country-docu... You'd be working hard to find a cross-section of non-athletes/models in the US these days that didn't include a reasonable number of larger people. Sugar lobbyists have a lot to answer for IMO.
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overkalix 8y ago
Interesting. Coming from a Mediterranean country, what shocked me the most was not the extremely obese people (although these really were a lot more common than in my country), but the fact that figuratively everyone seemed to be at least overweight and how common were (inconsequential) conversations about weight loss. And then there was something that infuriated me. I eat a lot but I am pretty skinny (I do a lot of sport and keep a healthy diet), and the usual commentary during meals was how lucky I am for being able to eat anything I want without getting fat. I was always polite but damn... for a culture so focused on the self made man they sure believe in predestination.

adventured 8y ago

So was the entire point of your post an excuse to do the typical obnoxious Scandinavian thing and brag about how Scandinavians are superior? What else are you saying in the content of that post? Why should I ref that linked post, you quoted all of it, except for this cheap bash: "There's clearly a lot of things the US is not doing right on many, many levels." I'd love an explanation for how all of that adds up to anything other than: US dumb, Scandinavians superior peoples. I mean that's really great, just put it over there in the giant pile of worthless US bashing. You're in Australia and conveniently avoided talking about their similarly extreme 29% obesity rate (the US is at 36%).

SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago

I was in Copenhagen earlier this year and I commented to my wife and our friends multiple times on how there were just no obese people anywhere. You Scandinavians are obviously doing something right.

toxik 8y ago
Some do, especially in bigger cities. Rural and suburban Sweden for example is getting obese at an alarming rate. But don't worry, the tax payers can foot that bill too I guess.
jernfrost 8y ago
A lot of that comes down to much stronger belief in government regulation and initiative. In the US it seems there is an outrage every time somebody suggests some kind of regulation to promote health and welfare. I suspect that outrage is partly manufactured by the sugar and junk food industry though. Copenhagen is also very active in getting people to bike in town instead of driving.

prawn 8y ago

My wife and I were watching Wild Wild Country (events from the 80s) the other week and we commented on how skinny everyone in the cult/commune was. Image in the header here: https://www.elitedaily.com/p/netflixs-wild-wild-country-documentary-series-is-about-to-be-your-new-obsession-8527272 https://www.elitedaily.com/p/netflixs-wild-wild-country-docu... You'd be working hard to find a cross-section of non-athletes/models in the US these days that didn't include a reasonable number of larger people. Sugar lobbyists have a lot to answer for IMO.

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overkalix 8y ago

Interesting. Coming from a Mediterranean country, what shocked me the most was not the extremely obese people (although these really were a lot more common than in my country), but the fact that figuratively everyone seemed to be at least overweight and how common were (inconsequential) conversations about weight loss. And then there was something that infuriated me. I eat a lot but I am pretty skinny (I do a lot of sport and keep a healthy diet), and the usual commentary during meals was how lucky I am for being able to eat anything I want without getting fat. I was always polite but damn... for a culture so focused on the self made man they sure believe in predestination.