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We fat
by collinc777 4y ago
We fat
- pempem 4y agoso summarizing thus far: - lack of access to affordable care - lack of legislation protecting the populous from crap food
- lotsofpulp 4y agoI am imagining Oreos and Big Gulp drinks assaulting people as they walk past by forcing themselves into their victims' mouths.
- durakot 4y agoImagine a country where second grade kids in mid-western states, myself included, would be led by teachers in class to sing songs that go "pizza hut, pizza hut, kentucky fried chicken and a pizza hut..."
- lotsofpulp 4y agoSounds like those kids need protection from crap teachers, not crap food.
- whatshisface 4y agoImagine ads persuading people and you've got closer to the truth.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoI would not be opposed to taxpayer funded ads for people to eat fewer carbs and more healthy stuff. Show unattractive people stuffing cookies into their face and attractive people eating sprouted mung beans or something.
- whatshisface 4y agoHow would you make that program fair and balanced between all specialty farmers?
- lotsofpulp 4y agoI would not care about farmers at all. Farmers can respond to supply and demand. Society’s goal would be to increase demand of healthy foods, and decrease demand of unhealthy foods.
- whatshisface 4y agoRunning on a platform of doing a big study and deciding policy scientifically is like running on a platform of wanting to spend more time with your family: people will like you for it, and vote for someone else.
- pempem 4y ago???? If you have the opportunity travel to Belgium or Germany and just order a burger. Notice the difference. Its not just "attractive people stuffing their face with mung beans" its literally availability of food and regulation.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoNo one is forced to eat an unhealthy burger. Advertise the unhealthy burgers as unhealthy, increase demand for healthy burger (or healthier, since there might not really be a healthy burger). Advertise the sugar and sodium and carb and sat content prominently.
- ARandomerDude 4y agoSilence, peasant! Silicon Valley and Washington D.C. can run your life better than you can.
- mathverse 4y agoAs a european i only see 2 types of americans. Those that are fat and those that are super fit. Rarely I see someone with just an avg body.
- ARandomerDude 4y agoThis may also be reflective of the demographic of people who are willing to spend money to travel to Europe. We certainly have a lot of fat (and fit) people in the US, but anecdotally most people I know are somewhere in between.
- rootusrootus 4y agoI don't know many people that are either super fit, or super fat. A few of each. Perhaps 99% of my friends & family group is just average people. Could stand to lose 10 or 20 pounds, no doubt, but that's not at all unique to America.
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- mbrodersen 4y agoWhat you think of as “average” is actually obese/unhealthy. It is “average” because of most Americans being overweight/obese. Look at photos form the US taken 40 years ago and you will see what healthy non-obese people look like.
- pempem 4y agoAs an American (who believes they are average but who's to say) I would push you to correlate this with class as well. Stores like whole foods, erewhon, etc. have better produce quite literally and better products. 'good' food is simply more expensive than foods that are fattening. its a policy problem.
- rightbyte 4y agoI really disagree. Walmart is fine and healthy food is cheaper than unhealthy. Walmart sell carrots and potatos too. Way better than my supermarkets at home. The main problem is people on a poor diet buying expensive premade stuff with alot of fat and sugar in it. A policy problem I have noticed however is pizza and hamburgers with soda as every day meals in the school cafeteria, as a choice for the pupils. That is just insane from a health perspective.
- grapeskin 4y agoIn all honesty, this is a huge one. Having gone around Europe a couple weeks ago, I noticed store and restaurant staff would greet some people in English and some in the local language, very rarely seeming to use the wrong language. Sitting on one particularly busy restaurant street, the pattern suddenly became obvious to me: people over a certain weight were always greeted in English. People who were middle aged and not obese were always greeted in the local language. As an American myself, weights I’ve grown accustomed to as “normal” really are inconceivably big by world standards. It made me realize that even though obesity rates may be high around the world, the amount of weight by which they’re obese are completely different leagues.
- rootusrootus 4y agoI don't buy it. Some areas of the US have obesity rates similar to western Europe (and let's be honest, when your obesity rate is 1 in 4, you don't get to brag about it being low). I suspect there are other indicators that an experienced person could use to identify nationalities without requiring a verbal conversation first.
- mbrodersen 4y agoThe problem is not fat. The problem is insulin resistance. You can be skinny and extremely unhealthy (non-alcoholic fatty liver for example).