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Looking at weight gain for immigrants and long-term visitors really shows how hopeless this is to fight individually. It’s not that other countries’ citizens ar
by wharvle 3y ago
Looking at weight gain for immigrants and long-term visitors really shows how hopeless this is to fight individually. It’s not that other countries’ citizens are individually making better choices, it’s that… they don’t live in America.
Something’s just totally fucked about our culture when it comes to food and activity. A few can overcome it, but relying on individual willpower to get us out of this mess is clearly never going to work.
That leaves figuring out what’s wrong with our culture and fixing that (hard, probably multiple generations to achieve) or drugs (available now, doesn’t require coordination to achieve, people who need it can just go get it)
- red-iron-pine 3y agonah. "what's wrong with our culture" isn't hard to figure out -- sedentary lifestyles, car centric culture that preempts biking, walking and activity, and lots of cheap, fatty foods. we're seeing that happen in other countries, too; the US just got there first. rates of diabetes and obesity are getting pretty high in other countries, too. the UK is pretty fat, and much of Europe is heading that direction. behind the US, but it's trending that way. The middle east is fat as fuck, but is mitigated by overall poverty and high temperatures -- life in a sauna helps drop weight. China has seen a surge diabetes, as has several other Asian countries.
- wharvle 3y agoWell, once we ID the problem there’s still the “fix it” part. The fact that so much of the world is heading the wrong way on this is not reassuring that we have any realistic hope of doing that.