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[quote=Anonymous]I'm going to be politically incorrect here and I think it part of it is unavoidable for Americans.

I'm a track coach and I originally grew up in Russia. The prevalence of overweight and obesity among Americans is not just the obvious - portion sizes, junk food, sedentary lifestyle etc, but I also notice how the "athletic" and "thin" Americans are still heavier than average university-age young women in Eastern Europe. Our health guidelines are even different. 
For example, take an average, 5'4/163 cm young woman. American medical standards say a healthy BMI is between 19-25. This means she could way about between 108-144 lbs. The athletic women I coach would be around 120. This looks relatively thin on a college campus but it isn't thin. In Russia, an average height woman probably wouldn't weigh more than 50kg or maybe 55kg until she gets married or pregnant. Young women who have not gone through pregnancy yet should be on the thinner side of the "normal" range which includes all women, post-pregnancy, post-menapausal and so on. A 22 year old woman who weighs the same as a "normal weight" 50 year old woman is not healthy.

The harsh truth is that even healthy (Relatively), athletic American women weigh more by nature. Yes, they exercise, they probably eat better than most, they can even try to eat organic, but they are still bigger than women in Eastern Europe. I see a woman run a 5 minute mile that still looks huskier than a European average woman. The fact is that for Americans it is unavoidable. There are chemicals everywhere that are illegal or regulated in other countries. Everything is processed unless you make it from scratch as in you pick the vegetables from your own garden. The air is full of chemicals. They get food in toxic disposable containers and BPA. It even starts from birth - with mothers buying packaged chemical-laden formula instead of breastfeeding. I am so used to being around Americans vs non-Americans and there is something uncanny about how I can pick out the American - it doesn't matter the race, white/asian/black/hispanic, American faces have a more chemically-altered look to them, I can't explain it. American women just don't look young and fresh - they have cellulite, they have acne or facial lines (nothing in between), bags under their eyes, etc... a part of it is that you all work too much... but also, young women putting their bodies under stress when they don't need to. And processed food and overmedication, this is the excess stress that should NOT be a factor at age 25.[/quote]

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