Young people in other countries are remarkably thinner than Americans

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Anonymous wrote:Their cities are walkable, they have paid time off as part of their jobs so they can travel and stuff, and their food isn’t as processed and crammed with additives. This isn’t rocket science.

You can walk in the US too. Or you can exercise in other ways. We also have plentiful foods that are not processed or have additives. But people would rather be lazy and eat crap. This is a choice

Europe is more pedestrian friendly, of course there are big cities in the US as NY, where people walk a lot. But on the whole America is bulilt around cars. When I came first to the USA and lived in a smaller city of Wisconsin I had a culture shock because I couldn't just step out of the door and walk to a store, the bank, the doctor, the swimmingpool or a restaurant. There was also no public transport. And I couldn't go for a walk because there was not a single pedestrian in the streets and as a pedestrian you seemed suspect. Kids in the european countries I know walk or bike to school or they take public transport, which means, they at least walk to the station several times a day. In the US you can of course walk just for walking. In Europe the everyday live is more walkable, many everyday activities can be done without a car. You don't have to spend extra time for walking.

It isn’t the walking. Americans eat a very large quantity of crap food. By choice. That is your answer.

Why are you so determined to blame individual Americans? Why not support changes that would help push Americans towards better choices? Do you care about fixing the problem, or feeling smug and looking down on overweight ppl?

[Anonymous]

If you hate America so much, why don’t you just move back to your little European country?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Their cities are walkable, they have paid time off as part of their jobs so they can travel and stuff, and their food isn’t as processed and crammed with additives. This isn’t rocket science.

You can walk in the US too. Or you can exercise in other ways. We also have plentiful foods that are not processed or have additives. But people would rather be lazy and eat crap. This is a choice

Europe is more pedestrian friendly, of course there are big cities in the US as NY, where people walk a lot. But on the whole America is bulilt around cars. When I came first to the USA and lived in a smaller city of Wisconsin I had a culture shock because I couldn't just step out of the door and walk to a store, the bank, the doctor, the swimmingpool or a restaurant. There was also no public transport. And I couldn't go for a walk because there was not a single pedestrian in the streets and as a pedestrian you seemed suspect. Kids in the european countries I know walk or bike to school or they take public transport, which means, they at least walk to the station several times a day. In the US you can of course walk just for walking. In Europe the everyday live is more walkable, many everyday activities can be done without a car. You don't have to spend extra time for walking.

It isn’t the walking. Americans eat a very large quantity of crap food. By choice. That is your answer.

Why are you so determined to blame individual Americans? Why not support changes that would help push Americans towards better choices? Do you care about fixing the problem, or feeling smug and looking down on overweight ppl?

Because it is an individual problem. All grocery stores sell fruits, vegetables, whole grains, eggs, oatmeal..all the things needed to eat heathy. It is a choice to bypass them

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Anonymous wrote:Their cities are walkable, they have paid time off as part of their jobs so they can travel and stuff, and their food isn’t as processed and crammed with additives. This isn’t rocket science.

You can walk in the US too. Or you can exercise in other ways. We also have plentiful foods that are not processed or have additives. But people would rather be lazy and eat crap. This is a choice

Europe is more pedestrian friendly, of course there are big cities in the US as NY, where people walk a lot. But on the whole America is bulilt around cars. When I came first to the USA and lived in a smaller city of Wisconsin I had a culture shock because I couldn't just step out of the door and walk to a store, the bank, the doctor, the swimmingpool or a restaurant. There was also no public transport. And I couldn't go for a walk because there was not a single pedestrian in the streets and as a pedestrian you seemed suspect. Kids in the european countries I know walk or bike to school or they take public transport, which means, they at least walk to the station several times a day. In the US you can of course walk just for walking. In Europe the everyday live is more walkable, many everyday activities can be done without a car. You don't have to spend extra time for walking.

It isn’t the walking. Americans eat a very large quantity of crap food. By choice. That is your answer.

Why are you so determined to blame individual Americans? Why not support changes that would help push Americans towards better choices? Do you care about fixing the problem, or feeling smug and looking down on overweight ppl?

^^I agree with you. We have lobbyists and a food industry that pushes cheaper to make, heavily processed foods. look at our tv commercials, what is put on the ends of aisles or at eye level at the grocery story. The junk food/fast food empires of America have USDA, Congress and everyone else in their back pocket. Read the history on why corn syrup quietly crept into our foods, replacing cane sugar. Making money in capitalist America is the number one aim - but yes, Americans have a 'choice'. But really, our government and regulators have failed us.

I like to use the example of my Italian relative who, upon excitement over seeing her favorite spaghetti sauce at the Italian Store read the ingredients. SUGAR was the first one. No added sugar in the Italian shelf version.

We need to push our lawmakers to subsidize industries so that we can purchase fruits and vegetables more cheaply. If you are on a fixed income and see an apple for $1.29 or a bag of fritos for 75cents, I know which one most would choose.

[Anonymous]

American's have a weird relationship with food thanks to a toxic food lobby- they obsess over it counting carbs, or micros or whatever if they DON"T want to be fat. Eating healthy is seen as something you MUST work at because the default is a disgusting diet of processed cheap food. We feed our kids crap when then are little to get them to eat (kids meals) and then wonder why they only want sugar and carb loaded fat bombs all the time. Snack culture - little bags of chips and granola bars distributed at the playground - juice boxes etc. Just GROSS. If your kid is not playing a sport they will get fat on this. Why is it rocket science to just make healthy eating your norm. It tastes SO much better.

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I think the only help or solution that can help Americans at this point is if there were a diet pill that actually worked and was safe. You'd take this pill and no longer feel hunger. You'd eat your lunch and dinner very healthfully because you wouldn't crave food or feel hungry.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Their cities are walkable, they have paid time off as part of their jobs so they can travel and stuff, and their food isn’t as processed and crammed with additives. This isn’t rocket science.

You can walk in the US too. Or you can exercise in other ways. We also have plentiful foods that are not processed or have additives. But people would rather be lazy and eat crap. This is a choice

Europe is more pedestrian friendly, of course there are big cities in the US as NY, where people walk a lot. But on the whole America is bulilt around cars. When I came first to the USA and lived in a smaller city of Wisconsin I had a culture shock because I couldn't just step out of the door and walk to a store, the bank, the doctor, the swimmingpool or a restaurant. There was also no public transport. And I couldn't go for a walk because there was not a single pedestrian in the streets and as a pedestrian you seemed suspect. Kids in the european countries I know walk or bike to school or they take public transport, which means, they at least walk to the station several times a day. In the US you can of course walk just for walking. In Europe the everyday live is more walkable, many everyday activities can be done without a car. You don't have to spend extra time for walking.

It isn’t the walking. Americans eat a very large quantity of crap food. By choice. That is your answer.

Why are you so determined to blame individual Americans? Why not support changes that would help push Americans towards better choices? Do you care about fixing the problem, or feeling smug and looking down on overweight ppl?

^^I agree with you. We have lobbyists and a food industry that pushes cheaper to make, heavily processed foods. look at our tv commercials, what is put on the ends of aisles or at eye level at the grocery story. The junk food/fast food empires of America have USDA, Congress and everyone else in their back pocket. Read the history on why corn syrup quietly crept into our foods, replacing cane sugar. Making money in capitalist America is the number one aim - but yes, Americans have a 'choice'. But really, our government and regulators have failed us.

I like to use the example of my Italian relative who, upon excitement over seeing her favorite spaghetti sauce at the Italian Store read the ingredients. SUGAR was the first one. No added sugar in the Italian shelf version.

We need to push our lawmakers to subsidize industries so that we can purchase fruits and vegetables more cheaply. If you are on a fixed income and see an apple for $1.29 or a bag of fritos for 75cents, I know which one most would choose.

Just like the pharmaceutical lobby has Corneille over our government also, I guess. I mean, if that hasn’t been made clear these past 2 years!

[Anonymous]

*control not Corneille

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Their cities are walkable, they have paid time off as part of their jobs so they can travel and stuff, and their food isn’t as processed and crammed with additives. This isn’t rocket science.

You can walk in the US too. Or you can exercise in other ways. We also have plentiful foods that are not processed or have additives. But people would rather be lazy and eat crap. This is a choice

Europe is more pedestrian friendly, of course there are big cities in the US as NY, where people walk a lot. But on the whole America is bulilt around cars. When I came first to the USA and lived in a smaller city of Wisconsin I had a culture shock because I couldn't just step out of the door and walk to a store, the bank, the doctor, the swimmingpool or a restaurant. There was also no public transport. And I couldn't go for a walk because there was not a single pedestrian in the streets and as a pedestrian you seemed suspect. Kids in the european countries I know walk or bike to school or they take public transport, which means, they at least walk to the station several times a day. In the US you can of course walk just for walking. In Europe the everyday live is more walkable, many everyday activities can be done without a car. You don't have to spend extra time for walking.

It isn’t the walking. Americans eat a very large quantity of crap food. By choice. That is your answer.

Why are you so determined to blame individual Americans? Why not support changes that would help push Americans towards better choices? Do you care about fixing the problem, or feeling smug and looking down on overweight ppl?

^^I agree with you. We have lobbyists and a food industry that pushes cheaper to make, heavily processed foods. look at our tv commercials, what is put on the ends of aisles or at eye level at the grocery story. The junk food/fast food empires of America have USDA, Congress and everyone else in their back pocket. Read the history on why corn syrup quietly crept into our foods, replacing cane sugar. Making money in capitalist America is the number one aim - but yes, Americans have a 'choice'. But really, our government and regulators have failed us.

I like to use the example of my Italian relative who, upon excitement over seeing her favorite spaghetti sauce at the Italian Store read the ingredients. SUGAR was the first one. No added sugar in the Italian shelf version.

We need to push our lawmakers to subsidize industries so that we can purchase fruits and vegetables more cheaply. If you are on a fixed income and see an apple for $1.29 or a bag of fritos for 75cents, I know which one most would choose.

This is a silly example that doesn't help your argument. Sugar (1 tsp to 1Tbsp) is commonly added to tomato sauce to counteract the acidity of the tomatoes. It's food science, not cheaper, heavily processed, bad stuff.

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Anonymous wrote:I've lived overseas quite a lot. I think what happens in some of these countries, I am thinking Eastern Europe/post Soviet space, is that women really do starve themselves (coffee and a piece of fruit for lunch/coffee and cigarettes to tide over, drinking/smoking vs. eating)and then boom, they hit 40 and it's like a switch goes off and all the damage they've done to their bodies means they rapidly gain weight. That's not everyone, of course, but very very many women.

I also lived in Eastern Europe for several years and this is spot on. (It’s been awhile so things may have changed.) But in my experience…Most young women did not have a healthy relationship with food. They smoked a lot to curb their appetite. They starved most of the time. They didn’t do anything athletic or exercise; there was a ton of fat shaming. The trend was to be very thin— not healthy.

This is the crux. Americans think of us as having disordered eating because we watch the quality and quantity of the food we eat. We think of Americans as having a very unhealthy relationship with food because you use food as a band-aid for emotional problems. Americans eat when they are sad, tired, stressed, bored. They always celebrate with food. They eat all the time, sometimes hourly. Food is the legal drug addiction in the US and it shows. I don't think we're very thin. For example, most of my life I've been 120 lbs at 5'7, which is not even at the limit of the NORMAL HEALTHY BMI. If you put me next to the average American woman, who is is 3 inches shorter and 50 lbs heavier, I probably look skeletal. But I'm the normal, healthy one. I'm 46 y/o and I can run 5 miles effortlessly, hike 15 miles easily, and I've never had problems sleeping and my blood work and blood pressure are picture perfect. I got pregnant easily, even at 41 y/o and I carried two perfectly healthy boys to term. I've never had menstrual problems, fibroids etc. I've never smoked and women smokers are still the minority in EE. But even with the higher smoking rates, we still live longer and healthier lives. For example, Greece has a pretty high smoking rate even for Europe and a life expectancy that is 10 years longer than yours. So your addiction to food is worse than smoking.

What a sanctimonious twat. I'd rather be pudgy than this unbearable.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the only help or solution that can help Americans at this point is if there were a diet pill that actually worked and was safe. You'd take this pill and no longer feel hunger. You'd eat your lunch and dinner very healthfully because you wouldn't crave food or feel hungry.

We have that now in a drug class called GLP-1 agonists. Although they’re mostly injections, not pills. You may have heard of Ozempic and Wegovy which are brand names for a drug in that class. There’s a brand new one called Mounjaro that’s shown to induce even more weight loss. These drugs will be game changers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've lived overseas quite a lot. I think what happens in some of these countries, I am thinking Eastern Europe/post Soviet space, is that women really do starve themselves (coffee and a piece of fruit for lunch/coffee and cigarettes to tide over, drinking/smoking vs. eating)and then boom, they hit 40 and it's like a switch goes off and all the damage they've done to their bodies means they rapidly gain weight. That's not everyone, of course, but very very many women.

I also lived in Eastern Europe for several years and this is spot on. (It’s been awhile so things may have changed.) But in my experience…Most young women did not have a healthy relationship with food. They smoked a lot to curb their appetite. They starved most of the time. They didn’t do anything athletic or exercise; there was a ton of fat shaming. The trend was to be very thin— not healthy.

This is the crux. Americans think of us as having disordered eating because we watch the quality and quantity of the food we eat. We think of Americans as having a very unhealthy relationship with food because you use food as a band-aid for emotional problems. Americans eat when they are sad, tired, stressed, bored. They always celebrate with food. They eat all the time, sometimes hourly. Food is the legal drug addiction in the US and it shows. I don't think we're very thin. For example, most of my life I've been 120 lbs at 5'7, which is not even at the limit of the NORMAL HEALTHY BMI. If you put me next to the average American woman, who is is 3 inches shorter and 50 lbs heavier, I probably look skeletal. But I'm the normal, healthy one. I'm 46 y/o and I can run 5 miles effortlessly, hike 15 miles easily, and I've never had problems sleeping and my blood work and blood pressure are picture perfect. I got pregnant easily, even at 41 y/o and I carried two perfectly healthy boys to term. I've never had menstrual problems, fibroids etc. I've never smoked and women smokers are still the minority in EE. But even with the higher smoking rates, we still live longer and healthier lives. For example, Greece has a pretty high smoking rate even for Europe and a life expectancy that is 10 years longer than yours. So your addiction to food is worse than smoking.

What a sanctimonious twat. I'd rather be pudgy than this unbearable.

+1

As if ‘not having trouble getting pregnant’ is some sort of symbol of virtue.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Their cities are walkable, they have paid time off as part of their jobs so they can travel and stuff, and their food isn’t as processed and crammed with additives. This isn’t rocket science.

You can walk in the US too. Or you can exercise in other ways. We also have plentiful foods that are not processed or have additives. But people would rather be lazy and eat crap. This is a choice

Europe is more pedestrian friendly, of course there are big cities in the US as NY, where people walk a lot. But on the whole America is bulilt around cars. When I came first to the USA and lived in a smaller city of Wisconsin I had a culture shock because I couldn't just step out of the door and walk to a store, the bank, the doctor, the swimmingpool or a restaurant. There was also no public transport. And I couldn't go for a walk because there was not a single pedestrian in the streets and as a pedestrian you seemed suspect. Kids in the european countries I know walk or bike to school or they take public transport, which means, they at least walk to the station several times a day. In the US you can of course walk just for walking. In Europe the everyday live is more walkable, many everyday activities can be done without a car. You don't have to spend extra time for walking.

It isn’t the walking. Americans eat a very large quantity of crap food. By choice. That is your answer.

Why are you so determined to blame individual Americans? Why not support changes that would help push Americans towards better choices? Do you care about fixing the problem, or feeling smug and looking down on overweight ppl?

Because they refuse to accept any responsibly for themselves. As a starter - price health care for the obese in a separate tier than those who maintain a health weight.

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Anonymous wrote:If you hate America so much, why don’t you just move back to your little European country?

You sound very well educated.

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Anonymous wrote:If you hate America so much, why don’t you just move back to your little European country?

You sound very well educated.

Weak.