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Odd comment considering Americans are literally dying due to a refusal to regulate in certain areas - employee rights, healthcare, gun laws, obesity etc. Small

• rootusrootus 7y ago
  How does regulation help with obesity? And if it does, why are Europeans very nearly as fat as Americans?
  • blub 7y ago
    The US is very lax on regulation concerning unhealthy foods. Sugar's the usual suspect, but things like livestock antibiotic usage and other sins come to mind.
  • tpush 7y ago
    > [...] why are Europeans very nearly as fat as Americans? They really aren't "very nearly". According to [0], US' obesity rate is 36.2%(highest of OECD) while the EU country with the highest obesity rate is UK with 27.8%. Every other EU country's rate lies below that, e.g. Germany is at 22.3% [0] https://obesity.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=006032 https://obesity.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=0060...
    • rootusrootus 7y ago
      As with everything, it seems, it depends on who you ask. The WHO shows some overlap. Some US states have high obesity, some low. Some European countries are above some states, even if the US is incrementally higher overall. Oregon, for example, is just a small amount higher than UK. Greece should be higher than UK IIRC, but I did not memorize the table. Nobody with a 1 in 4 obesity rate is in much of a position to point fingers, it's pretty clearly a global problem. I see no reason to suggest that regulation is helping anyone. Food culture is probably the biggest single factor.