Americans are so fat

Part of it is all the sugar and shit the manufacturers add to food. Government has to act. It won't solve the whole problem but it will help. Prepared, processed foods are the devil but they're also the reality and have to be managed. I say this as someone who tries to avoid added sugar in particular and has the luxury and income to cook around it. But I'm not going to pretend it is easy or quick and as a realist I accept a lot of parents can't manage meals like I do. Government has to act on the bullshit and sugar manufacturers are cramming into foods.

And one further point, manufacturers and retailers have to stop making it so easy for people to harm themselves. There is no need for supersize anything or anything like it.

Not just Americans either, UK, Australia and NZ has porkers aplenty too.

Much of the West needs to put the fork down

That's an over simplifcation. This is a problem with responsibility all around.

In case you hadn't noticed, OP, the rest of the world is catching up. People are getting fatter everywhere. Portions are crazy, sugar is everywhere and people are eating and drinking their feelings. Generally life is sucking right now, and food is another addiction.

Well, I am fit and trim in LA so not all Americans! And, probably others who are health conscious and treat their body well.

I'm British and had no idea where we came in the obesity scale (especially compared to the U.S.), so I looked it up! Here are some highlights..

1. Nauru 12. United States 14. Saudi Arabia 18. Egypt 22. New Zealand 26. Canada 27. Australia 29. Mexico 30. South Africa 36. United Kingdom

This shit tastes good what do you expect?

R7 mostly island countries in the top 10. They have tiny populations but I guess I would think island people would be healthier.

R7 thats a really interesting list, not just for the countries at the top, but the ones right near the bottom too - Vietnam, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, India.

TIL the Middle East has a huge obesity problem, even Syria is fatter than the UK, Kuwait is above the US and Jordan and Saudi are just below

I thought the same R9 and R10. In fact, the whole list surprised me - I thought the U.K. would have been much higher and New Zealand much lower. It's thrown me to see them the other way around, especially as I've just seen an NHS diet and exercise advert full of big people!

This is true. I have chatted with guys who claim that being 5'10 and 220 lbs is average. If you are 5'10, you should not weigh more than 155 lbs.

What of it, OP?

It’s because people are lazy, have no self discipline, refuse to take personal accountability, and cannot be trusted with anything (including their own health). Our culture has turned to shit.

R7 that was 2016. The 2021 results should the UK as number 5.

OP = Ariana Cunt Grande

You HAD to post that just when I laid down on the bed with a bag of cheese puffs and a special commemorative edition magazine devoted entirely to Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee, OP? You had to?

Thank ghod I selected the DIET Pepsi.

R12 - 5'10 and 220 lbs is average, statistically speaking, because there are so many fat fucks out there. Doent make it healthy though

At 5'10 according to the NIH BMI calculator someone is at the middle of normal BMI range at 155 pounds, which is from 129-174 pounds for that height. How healthy any individual is within that range will depend on how active they are, someone might be right at the top of the normal range but if they are doing 2-3 hours exercise a day a lot of that will be muscle mass.

Ratio of waist to height is a better measure anyway

This chart on Obesity Rates of various countries was published yesterday in the New York Times in the context of an article on Covid underlying conditions.

Hey, US is number one, but it's not like Canada and Britain and Australia are miles and miles behind.

My nephew is 5’ 11” and 230 pounds. He plays high school football and it’s all muscle. He has hardly any body fat.

Yes R20- BMI is useful for population studies. A high BMI doesn’t mean a person has too much body fat.

The epidemic cannot be ignored, and I mean this literally while shopping at Walmart. At every turn & in most aisles, I spot a great big fat person. What's worse is that they often travel in packs and are difficult to navigate around, especially with those huge shopping carts.

r20 pics?

And that is pre-COVID data @ R20; I can't imagine how many tons have been added during the pandemic.

R15 where did you get the 2021 info from?

R23 don’t make hose you down 😆

5'10 and 220 lbs is a huge fucking revolting whale. Early death from diabetes too. Well deserved.

I think it's really bizarre to be concerned with what OTHER people are eating.

Why not just run your own plate and MYOB (no, I'm not overweight at all).

R27, come on. You know that you’re the one that deserves death. Everyone says so…

It’s mostly due to the American (Western) food system. We produce much more (processed) food than we need in part due to farm subsidies (what do you do with too much soy, corn and potatoes). Well you make food like stuff full of sugar salt and fat. The proof of the cause is in the parallel history post WW2 of food industry growth and processing production and obesity prevalence. In 1970 about a quarter of Americans were overweight and obese. Now 67%. We have a type 2 diabetes epidemic as a result along with increases in other obesity related problems from heart disease and cancer to orthopedic surgery.

Yeah, because folks ate lots of fried food, lard and baked goods using real sugar, milk and butter before WW II. And no one in my family back then were overweight. Not based on the pictures I have seen.

We are eating ourselves to death while the rest of the world starves

I am 5' 11. If I weighed 165 pounds I would look emaciated. Its all relative to your general build.

R33, so instead you look fat.

People who work out should eat more calories so gain muscle but just eating more because you're taller makes you look fat.

Big $ugar

Farmer'$ $ubsidies

Big Beef

Video Games

Handheld devices

There's a tablet or supplement for every ailment for problems caused by inactivity and shitty diets

DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!/ I DO WHAT I WANT! (which is sitting, eating, binge watching, and shit posting)

Some people have large builds. How many US and Euro footballers are of huge dimensions but aren’t obese, but muscle bound?

Obesity has very much become a class marker in the U.S. these days.

Schools that cater to the upper middle classes worry more about anorexia than about obesity, while it's an epidemic in working class areas.

I remember when I was a kid, my parents took us to Disney World and even my (very straight) brother was asking "why are there so many fat people here?"

[quote] Some people have large builds. How many US and Euro footballers are of huge dimensions but aren’t obese, but muscle bound?

That's a minute few people. Americans in general aren't musclebound gods.

Same here R33. I'm 5'11" and 215 pounds. I need to lose about 10-15 pounds of COVID fat, for sure. But I have a lot of muscle from my years in the gym. I could not imagine being 175 pounds though. I wouldn't feel healthy. I felt and looked my best when I was 190.

Careful, R39! R34 is about to call you fat, sight unseen.

R39 You need to lose 65 lbs, tubby. Then you'd be a normal size. Not gigantic.

I just went to my eye doctor's office for a checkup, a large clinic in the southeast. EVERY person working in that office, except for the doctors themselves, looked like they just stepped out of a Botero painting, all of them are bloated porkers. It's UNBELIEVABLE. Is it Diet Coke? They all guzzle it all day long...it's really incredible.

Sure it's our diet- too much we don't make from scratch- but it's also our reliance on cars. All the walking you do to catch public transport inadvertently helps keep us thing! Public transport free suburbs or small towns = fatties.

I decided this year to cut out junk food and keep my sugars as low as possible for 3 months. I'm 35 days in so far. It took not even 2 weeks for my body to go back to its proper shape. But not only that, my stomach feels normal for the first time in years.

I won't stop eating fun food after this 3 months, but I want to rewire my brain so that I can eat a piece of chocolate or whatever, and not gorge. I'm extremely lucky I have the metabolism I do, but I know that slows down as you age and I don't want to push it.

The media does nothing but push the vaccines...but if you're really concerned about your health, lose the weight.

R45 = Joe Rogan

[quote] I thought the U.K. would have been much higher and New Zealand much lower.

I bet it’s the Hokey-Pokey ice cream.

It’s mostly the big giant black women that cause the US numbers to be so skewed.

“How fat are we?”

The interesting thing about obesity is how nonfat you can be and still be obese.

A younger colleague of mine recently mentioned on a Webex call that he got the booster early because he’s obese. He’s not even fat — I saw him in our office a week before he told us that.

I have always thought of obesity as extreme fatness. Nope.

r12, bitch for who! I’m 5’10, 195, and completely healthy and fit. It’s called MUSCLE.

Lord some of you Marys need to weight train and stop eating like some Hollywood waif and running on the treadmill a few times a week to stay “thin.”

Bitch you ain’t Emma Roberts.

[quote] It’s mostly the big giant black women that cause the US numbers to be so skewed.

Go to Florida or any mid-Western states to see how prevalent it is in white people.

In fact, whenever my partner and I talk about obese people, we use the term Floridians because the obesity we've seen there is crazy. Once we saw a family: father, mother, son, daughter--all looking like weebles

[quote] bitch for who! I’m 5’10, 195, and completely healthy and fit. It’s called MUSCLE.

You type fat

The average American make pant waist size is 38.

That's DAMN fat.

American make, but what about American MODEL?

Somehow the world convinced itself that words like curvy (women) and big (men) didn’t mean FAT. I’m seeing so many overweight models in mainstream ads, and I know it’s meant to be inclusive but it’s just normalizing being overweight.

American portions are huge and many of us work too many hours at sedentary jobs. My coworkers who are trying to lose weight wonder why the scale is not moving, yet they continuously start their day with a load of carbs and go out for sumptuous lunches in afternoon. If you are sitting at desk at all day you have to limit your calories to a minimum to see any results.

5 10 and 180 with a 32 inch waist is not fat. Those numbers have always been whack.

British people are lean, OP?

You're all a bunch of fat frumpy curmudgeon toads with horrible teeth. Get real.

I'd say blow me, but my fully erect American cock is going nowhere near your meat grinder chompers.

Oh and by the way, you can have Corden back.

LOL, BMI numbers did not take into account that people would be lifting weights and bulking up--not Muscle Mary bulking up, but just normal amounts of muscle.

I am 5'10.

130 lbs is considered the low end of normal BMI for my height.

I weighed 130 lbs my sophomore year of high school and my arms were the size of toothpicks and my ribs jutted out.

There are some states that elevate the average - Southerners are fat as fuck. Can't understand that in all the heat. Midwest is no better.

I guess when there's absolutely nothing to do - EAT. Most of the better cities have far fewer fat people.

The cost of healthcare is going to bankrupt us. They replaced fat with sugar. People were thinner when there was fat and not much sugar in the food. And we rely on fast food too much. We don't cook at home anymore.

R62 Smoking also helped keep weight down. Not only was it a slight appetite suppressant, it also paired well with wine or coffee/tea. I wonder if, all things considered, the obesity epidemic is worse statistically than smokers in terms of longevity and health issues.

The epidemic of obesity is more horrifying than the Wuhan pandemic, yet fat people are screaming rabidly at the virus.

[quote]Smoking also helped keep weight down. Not only was it a slight appetite suppressant, it also paired well with wine or coffee/tea. I wonder if, all things considered, the obesity epidemic is worse statistically than smokers in terms of longevity and health issues.

I suppose though, if you decide to smoke, another person can still be affected as a non-smoker. So even if they choose not to, second-hand smoke can affect them and make them sick. If you decide to be a glutton, well, that really only affects you.

Interesting question though!

[quote]Smoking also helped keep weight down. Not only was it a slight appetite suppressant, it also paired well with wine or coffee/tea.

It's an American shithole way of solving a problem - to substitute smoking addiction for food addiction and then double down with alcoholism.

Get 👏🏼 rid👏🏼 of👏🏼the👏🏼corn👏🏼syrup👏🏼!!!

Install convex mirror in every home to show people they are really really obese.

Americans are so fat.

Has anyone here ever had sex with a fat person? I’ve always wondered what that’s like. I won’t even have sex if I’m more than 10 lbs overweight. Gotta draw the line somewhere. Lol!

But seriously, fat sex must be weird. No way can a fat person easily jump on top and stay there to long? How do fat men get on top of their fat wives and manage to even connect? And the sweat stuck in between the fat folds must be a truly horrifying experience.

I know I sound like a cunt, but I’ve never had a gunt!

R67. Stop. Clapping. Like. A. Fool. !!!

R45/ R46 its true that losing weight will likely do more for your chances of surviving covid, certainly more than just the vaccine alone. The vaccine does help too, ideally do BOTH, but if someone is really obese losing weight will do a damn sight more good than any vaccine.

R69 I did it once when I was young. I dont rightly know why. I do not care to repeat the experience

In the South, as well as in many suburbs across America, public transportation is scarce, unless you’re in a big city like Atlanta, or a heavily traversed tourist trap.

The suburbs do this INTENTIONALLY, in order to keep black folks out of there. So that means all the white people in these spots become fat AF by their 25th to 30th birthdays. Yes. The South is riddled with fat men and women who are obese, but don’t forget that the South is also riddled with plenty of white fools who are also fat AF. As a matter of fact, I was literally surprised AF whenever I saw (VERY FEW) people who obviously worked out regularly.

Out here in LA, slim, and/or muscular bodies are the norm, but not in the south. In the American South, being thin and staying thin is RARE.

The town I lived in had a church in almost every corner, and the only things that were in more abundance than churches, were fast food drive thru-s and country cooking restaurants.

It was gross, and I’m sorry, but I’m happy to be out of there. Many gorgeous and even stunning areas out there, with amazing real estate, but the south is filled with a bunch of shitty people who focus on FOX News and FATTY-SUGARY FOOD 24/7.

I've been to a few of those places, R72. All the inhabitants want to do is stuff their faces, hate people who aren't Conservative, and go to church in Sunday so they can pretend they aren't horrible. Anyone who has any interests or goals that conflict with those three things seemed to treated with hostility.

Then they wonder why people don't like them.

When farms got bought by corporations, it destroyed the food supplies. Letting bean counters run them on top of that. HFCS is cheaper than cane sugar and honey. Our livestock is fed with corn and not grass. Add that to the growth hormones they inject them with. What do you expect?

Excuses. If you aren't a homeless scumbag, you can choose what food you buy. Just because of the billionaire fucks owning everything doesn't mean you are guaranteed to be a revolting fat Chrissy Metz type girl.

Not excuses r75! We’ll agree to disagree.

Enough with the HFCS nonsense! It's not a silver bullet issue for fuck'ssake.

People eat too many calories and are too sedentary. All food with HFCS would have cane sugar instead if they banned it and people would consume it all the same. I KNOW you read an article about HFCS in 1987 and it really stuck, huh?

It's snacking.

NOBODY snacked before 1970.

Here's a video of Disneyland in the 1950s. Move the cursor to about the 6 minute mark. You'll see most people are thin. What the chubbies on DL would call "dangerously thin". That's how distorted things have become.

As a kid in the 70s and early 80s, in my neighborhood we only had one kid who was hugely fat, a white girl named Trianda. I can only imagine how many are hugely fat these days. There was also only one hugely fat teacher named Miss Grimston. Us kids could never tire of imagining her falling over and killing ten poor kids. We never laughed so hard at that fat bitch.

[quote] What the chubbies on DL would call "dangerously thin".

🤣

Fat people are repulsive

B U M P

TRUMPPPPPPP SOOOOO FATTTTTT

When I die I want to be fit.

What are you doing about it, OP, besides shallow virtue signalling?