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Obesity. Americans are so obese that they don’t even recognise anymore that they are fat when they are fat. Every time US based tech people come to the UK or Eu

Obesity. Americans are so obese that they don’t even recognise anymore that they are fat when they are fat. Every time US based tech people come to the UK or Europe for conferences it’s incredibly eye opening what they think is healthy and how they see themselves. Plenty of folks who think they eat and drink healthy and are in a good body condition and all I can see is a big wobbly man with barely any hair on their head drinking diet cokes like water. They think eating Mexican tacos is healthy and eating a big KFC is unhealthy. In comparison to here, we think eating home cooked food is healthy and eating a greasy cheesy Mexican taco is unhealthy fast food and a KFC is just plain disgusting.

throw_pm23 4y ago
I was with you until the hair on the head part. Do you know of any established link between balding and other factors? Is it more prevalent on either side of the pond?
- hennell 4y ago
  Stress and poor diet increase hair loss, most visible in the recent increases in Asian baldness rates: https://www.cnn.com/style/article/asia-men-hair-loss-bald-scn-wellness/index.html https://www.cnn.com/style/article/asia-men-hair-loss-bald-sc... It would be interesting to see a proper study of baldness by country and age over time as I'd imagine much can be put to genetics, but diet and sleep rates etc might increase the speed of hairloss, resulting in decreasing age of bald men, rather then an increasing rate.
- avgcorrection 4y ago
  Of course they don’t. They’re relaying first-person anectdotes. Why would specifically that be sourced with statistics?
10xDev 4y ago
I think you’re really overselling the UK here. 26% of adults are obese with child obesity rising. Every high street is also full of every fast food chain one can think of. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn03336/ https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn03...

throw_pm23 4y ago

I was with you until the hair on the head part. Do you know of any established link between balding and other factors? Is it more prevalent on either side of the pond?

hennell 4y ago
Stress and poor diet increase hair loss, most visible in the recent increases in Asian baldness rates: https://www.cnn.com/style/article/asia-men-hair-loss-bald-scn-wellness/index.html https://www.cnn.com/style/article/asia-men-hair-loss-bald-sc... It would be interesting to see a proper study of baldness by country and age over time as I'd imagine much can be put to genetics, but diet and sleep rates etc might increase the speed of hairloss, resulting in decreasing age of bald men, rather then an increasing rate.
avgcorrection 4y ago
Of course they don’t. They’re relaying first-person anectdotes. Why would specifically that be sourced with statistics?

10xDev 4y ago

I think you’re really overselling the UK here. 26% of adults are obese with child obesity rising. Every high street is also full of every fast food chain one can think of. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn03336/ https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn03...