why is Gen z so fat and out of shape?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That's a pretty rude thing to say to people who are going to the gym to get healthier. How do you expect them to get in shape? Theyre literally at the gym trying.

No wonder people are self conscious going to the gym, with judgmental b****s like OP criticizing every one they see.

Guessing this is an old dude. My kids are very into going to the gym. Several of the men 40+ do not realize it’s creepy as shit to make compliments and comments to teenagers about their bodies when they are working out. Both kids have very little fat so they looked more toned and I guess jacked for DS than they probably are but both have had old dudes make comments to them.

Tale as old as time - old dudes think they have any business commenting on other people’s bodies.

[Anonymous]

Too much processed food and screen time. Little outdoor activity. Gen Z is nasty and soft. Tubs of cottage cheese. That's what happens when you grow up in froyo, bubble tea, ramen, and Taco Tuesdays.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously, when I go to the gym, so many Gen Z are tubs of lard. This 45 year old dog can deadlift 605 lbs, yet you see so many gen z huffing and puffing trying to run 3/4 of a mile on 5.5 treadmill setting. Man, Gen Z is so fat and out of shape when 40 and 50 year old somethings are in better shape than they are.

Sizeism and “fat-shaming” are forms of oppression, OP.

Jeff really needs to ban you.

Some people need to be fat shamed

You need to be shamed. But it probably wouldn't matter to you.

I don’t get it. It’s not okay to fat shame but yet you all shame any boy who is less than 6ft tall. You can change your weight but not your height.

[Anonymous]

They also smoke tons of more weed and have way more acceptance of doing drugs. It makes them consume tons of more junk food and binge eating scenarios of garbage snacks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just don't understand how people lack any vanity at all whatsoever. It's not just their weight, but people walk around in pajamas, act with no courtesy or kindness. We are all just trash people now.

“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

We wear pajamas but have less institutional racism than when people routinely dressed extra nicely on the streets. Not sure a “dying culture” is a bad thing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's very simple:

Screens
Overly processed food/DoorDash/Starbucks...all the BS "food" that's at their fingertips
We're not allowed to tell our teens to eat less/be more active when they're looking chunky because that's body-shaming

I live in a college-town outside of the DC area and I can't get over how these college kids and what they wear showing off their huge butts and fat bellies. Nobody was walking around like that when I was in college.

One thing I have noticed on this board is the successful, UMC dismissal of the importance of actually preparing real food for one’s family. Way more important for both parents to always be hustling to make as much money as possible. Why bake bread when you can buy it? Why cook a meal when you can get takeout? Why prepare your teenager’s dinner when they can eat a peanut butter sandwich or a bowl of Cheerios. (And this is not meant as a SAHM vs WOHM debate. My parents worked but also prioritized cooking for the family with actual real food. My generation seems to have completely different priorities from my observations.)

So if the kids these days don’t think that what they’re putting in their bodies matters, that’s on the generation before them.

My mom worked part time, she will teach a couple class in the am, take a nap at noon and tutor a few students in the evening, and make dinner.
I work from 8-6pm plus 3 hour commute.

Is this a counter or a justification for feeding your kids crap?

Dp. Give me a break. You don’t need to bake your own bread to eat healthy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Too much processed food and screen time. Little outdoor activity. Gen Z is nasty and soft. Tubs of cottage cheese. That's what happens when you grow up in froyo, bubble tea, ramen, and Taco Tuesdays.

You guys think cottage cheese and Ramen are the problem?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Too much processed food and screen time. Little outdoor activity. Gen Z is nasty and soft. Tubs of cottage cheese. That's what happens when you grow up in froyo, bubble tea, ramen, and Taco Tuesdays.

You guys think cottage cheese and Ramen are the problem?

I think Pp is calling the kids tubs of cottage cheese, not saying they shouldn’t eat cottage cheese. I’m perplexed what his issue is with taco Tuesday — tacos are super healthy. We do ours with grilled fish, beans, grilled veg, homemade guac, chopped mango. Yummy yummy. Don’t come for my tacos.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Too much processed food and screen time. Little outdoor activity. Gen Z is nasty and soft. Tubs of cottage cheese. That's what happens when you grow up in froyo, bubble tea, ramen, and Taco Tuesdays.

You guys think cottage cheese and Ramen are the problem?

The point is they eat like trash. Every single Japanese person knows ramen isn’t health food. It is a double quarter pounder with cheese. A bowl of ramen can easily approach 1000 calories and have almost 2 days’ worth of sodium. Gen Z will wash that down with a nice large cup of bubble tea too that’s pretty much tantamount to melted ice cream. And that’s in between sitting for hours on their phone scrolling TikTok vids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Too much processed food and screen time. Little outdoor activity. Gen Z is nasty and soft. Tubs of cottage cheese. That's what happens when you grow up in froyo, bubble tea, ramen, and Taco Tuesdays.

You guys think cottage cheese and Ramen are the problem?

I think Pp is calling the kids tubs of cottage cheese, not saying they shouldn’t eat cottage cheese. I’m perplexed what his issue is with taco Tuesday — tacos are super healthy. We do ours with grilled fish, beans, grilled veg, homemade guac, chopped mango. Yummy yummy. Don’t come for my tacos.

Tacos are not super healthy. Have you seen how many carbs, sodium, and cals are in tortilla shells alone? We all know most people are going out to restaurants on taco Tuesdays and getting ‘fish tacos’ which are breaded and fried fish drowned in some kind of creamy spicy sauce that packs a ton of cals, or they’re getting tacos loaded with cheese and fatty cuts of beef and gobbling it down with chips and queso or chips and salsa on the side.

Fat.

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There’s so much garbage food out there it’s ridiculous. Seeing young people eating the trash from Taco Bell and all the big hamburger joints is somewhat nauseating. And the fast food ads on tv, wow. I don’t know how people eat that stuff. I guess if you’re poor you get what you can, but little wonder there are so many fat, sick young folks. Has life expectancy shrunk here?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Too much processed food and screen time. Little outdoor activity. Gen Z is nasty and soft. Tubs of cottage cheese. That's what happens when you grow up in froyo, bubble tea, ramen, and Taco Tuesdays.

Social media is toxic. Phones make toxic social media ubiquitous.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Too much processed food and screen time. Little outdoor activity. Gen Z is nasty and soft. Tubs of cottage cheese. That's what happens when you grow up in froyo, bubble tea, ramen, and Taco Tuesdays.

You guys think cottage cheese and Ramen are the problem?

I think Pp is calling the kids tubs of cottage cheese, not saying they shouldn’t eat cottage cheese. I’m perplexed what his issue is with taco Tuesday — tacos are super healthy. We do ours with grilled fish, beans, grilled veg, homemade guac, chopped mango. Yummy yummy. Don’t come for my tacos.

Tacos are not super healthy. Have you seen how many carbs, sodium, and cals are in tortilla shells alone? We all know most people are going out to restaurants on taco Tuesdays and getting ‘fish tacos’ which are breaded and fried fish drowned in some kind of creamy spicy sauce that packs a ton of cals, or they’re getting tacos loaded with cheese and fatty cuts of beef and gobbling it down with chips and queso or chips and salsa on the side.

Fat.

There is something kind of amazing about an adult wasting away time on one of the most beautiful afternoons in the DMV on the internet critiquing random people’s diets and calling them fat. It tells me everything I need to know about your post and you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s so much garbage food out there it’s ridiculous. Seeing young people eating the trash from Taco Bell and all the big hamburger joints is somewhat nauseating. And the fast food ads on tv, wow. I don’t know how people eat that stuff. I guess if you’re poor you get what you can, but little wonder there are so many fat, sick young folks. Has life expectancy shrunk here?

Do you have a cite to the many fat, sick, young folks?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Too much processed food and screen time. Little outdoor activity. Gen Z is nasty and soft. Tubs of cottage cheese. That's what happens when you grow up in froyo, bubble tea, ramen, and Taco Tuesdays.

You guys think cottage cheese and Ramen are the problem?

I think Pp is calling the kids tubs of cottage cheese, not saying they shouldn’t eat cottage cheese. I’m perplexed what his issue is with taco Tuesday — tacos are super healthy. We do ours with grilled fish, beans, grilled veg, homemade guac, chopped mango. Yummy yummy. Don’t come for my tacos.

Thanks for clarifying. I hadn’t read properly. And just for the record, your tacos sound awesome!