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Ah yes, every single one of them. And none of the people in any other country.
by atmartins 5y ago
Ah yes, every single one of them. And none of the people in any other country.
- nostrebored 5y agoAmerican culture is staggeringly unhealthy. Denying this is impossible.
- rootusrootus 5y agoNot sure we're alone. Take the UK, for example. 2/3 are either overweight or obese. Better than the US? Sure. But what a weak victory that is.
- nostrebored 5y agoI'm definitely biased by living in the southern hemisphere for almost half a decade. The places I've lived are visibly healthier than the US. People have less chronic health problems, take fewer sick days, etc.
- rootusrootus 5y agoI imagine a lot of that depends on where in the US you go. I live in an area that is statistically similar to Europe. If your idea of the US is south and east, it will be considerably different.
- nostrebored 5y agoI've lived in major cities in the southeast and the west coast. The west coast of the US is still extremely unhealthy. Learning how unhealthy the culture I grew up in is has been a gradual process. Shock moving to the west coast, and then shock at each of the subsequent moves around other parts of the world.
- ALittleLight 5y agoI think it is pretty easy to deny. The CDC breaks out obesity by demographics[1]. White adults have an obesity rate of ~29%. This is the same as other predominantly white/Anglo countries like Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom[2]. Maybe 29% is staggeringly unhealthy, but it isn't American culture to be that overweight. Being overweight is fairly widespread and not unique to America. Probably it has more to do with lifestyle changes (e.g. cars and working at computers) and diet changes (rise of processed and fast food). These things have disparate impact on racial groups, e.g. hispanics and blacks are considerably more overweight than whites. America having more hispanics and blacks than places like the UK, the US seems like it is more obese. 1 - https://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/NHIS/SHS/2015_SHS_Table_A-15.pdf https://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/NHIS/SHS/2015... 2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_obesity_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_obesity_r...
- varelse 5y ago12th most obese nation in the world, I'd call that staggeringly unhealthy given our GDP: https://obesity.procon.org/global-obesity-levels/ https://obesity.procon.org/global-obesity-levels/ Also, 46th in life expectancy: https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/ https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/ Happy with those numbers? I'm not.
- anon84598 5y ago> it isn't American culture to be that overweight > hispanics and blacks are considerably more overweight than whites Are these people not American?
- varelse 5y agoThose implicit biases can be pretty explicit...
- artfulhippo 5y agoYou may want to edit this comment. It reads as though you don't think Hispanics or Blacks count as American. I don't think you intend to express this racist sentiment, but it's easily inferred from the text as written.