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[quote=Anonymous]I am American but I almost never eat veggies ("you don't make friends with salad"), never drink water, rarely work out, and while I don't smoke, I do drink a lot of soda. However I am thin. Here's what I have in common with many Europeans:

- I avoid heavily processed foods. Most of the food I eat is homemade, including all the bread and pasta and meat and other non-salad items I consume. There really are not many preservatives in my diet.
- I walk a ton. Miles a day.
- I tend to eat smaller meals (which is easy because I eat heavy things that are satisfying, like pastries, pastas, rich sauces, etc.) and I don't snack much

It's not purely genetic that I am thin because my parents and two of my siblings are obese. But they eat a lot of processed foods, including "diet" foods. And they never walk anywhere, they live in a part of the country where doing so would be very hard anyway. They do "exercise" but it's like once or twice a week they go to a class or the gym. But in between they are extremely sedentary.

I think idealized American suburban life as conceived of in the 1950s is largely to blame. Families with two cars who drive everywhere they go, meals made from processed ingredients or take out or fast food, exercise limited to what you might do in your own yard or a weekly class (that you drive to). We think a lot of this stuff is a sign of success as a person (the American Dream) but I think it's literally killing people.[/quote]

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