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Are citizens of skinnier countries better-educated, then become less-so if they move to the US and (typically) pack on weight? If it's not education keeping ot
by alabastervlog 1y ago
Are citizens of skinnier countries better-educated, then become less-so if they move to the US and (typically) pack on weight?
If it's not education keeping other countries skinny, why would adding more education be the way we get out of it?
(This works for other explanations, too, like "oh they have more willpower"—so do they lose willpower if they move to the US? No, more likely, a complex combination of factors mostly outside individual control are why they're skinnier in their home country and fatten up after moving to the US; more likely, it's harder to be skinny here)
- andoando 1y ago>Are citizens of skinnier countries better-educated, then become less-so if they move to the US and (typically) pack on weight? "skinnier" countries have way different lifestyles, less driving, more walking, less fast food culture, etc. They don't need to be educated on weight loss because they naturally are not prone to it due to these socioeconomic conditions.
- alabastervlog 1y agoYes! One thing that would be pretty likely to work is radically changing our city layouts, patterns of settlement, methods of commute, density of living, food quality, food prices & price structuring, worker protection & time-off laws, and a bunch of other stuff. In the meantime (so... indefinitely, because moving the needle on one of those things would be the work of a lifetime) we now have drugs that can do it.
- ahahahahah 1y ago> keeping other countries skinny Those countries basically don't exist, or rather they just haven't caught up yet. From 1985 to 2016, there are 117 countries where obesity has increased by more that 10.0% (in absolute terms). In no country was the increase less than 1.9% (which was vietnam, where 1.9% in absolute terms is a 10x increase in the percent of people who are obese).