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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I actually think that Americans should be much chubbier if you look at what Safeway, Giant and convenience stores sell. I was an Au Pair many years ago and even though I ran after the kids 45 hours a week, the sugar in foods I ate, made me add a few pounds. I ate all their fruits and veggies because I couldn't digest and didn't stomach well the food they ate: fish sticks, french fries, pancakes, ramen, poptarts, cereal, rice crispies, popcorn, and cookie jar was always full. Most food was some kind of brown or yellow fried crap. 
I don't feel for grown-ups who eat the crap, but I do feel for the kids. I suspect the grown-ups were once kids and it's hard to change habits. Along with crappy food, the places where Americans can exercise are few and far between. They also work more and have less time to exercise.
Whats did I eat when I was growing up? All veggies and fruits that grow in Northern Europe (not a whole lot). I can have a chopped up tomato and cucumber and be very happy with it.I'm the person who eats all the greens (fixings) that are usually as a decoration next to a dish.
I order my bread from Europe through amazon. Not enough black bread, which I think is healthier, here or it tastes like water.
I wish the food commercials weren't on every corner, but rather "one more mile, you can do it!". It feels like being hungry means that you are poor or it's somehow bad to be hungry. I think it's good to be hungry - maybe it means you exercised, and food tastes good on hungry stomach. Also, not enough soups are eaten in US.
When I go to Europe I fill the fridge with all the foods I craved  (lots of salads,special ham, smoked fish), but I'm suddenly just not hungry. I missed the food so much, but the food keeps me full so much longer. Mom always gives me hard time when she has to through out all the food I meant to eat. Another thing, European countries are much smaller. We prefer local food - made in the country, or even better, in the same town.
There are processed foods in stores that have no business even existing. Those foods made their way to  NE Europe when I was a teen. I was 14 when I bought my first Lays chips. Never crossed my mind that it is complete garbage. America wouldn't let their people eat anything like that, would they? I used to crab fresh strawberries, carrots or even rutabaga (ate one fresh for 4 days) for snack. Rutabaga can't compete with Lays usually, but it wins in my book, but only because day care gave it to us as a snack and I remember how happy we all were eating out rutabagas.
 I wasn't a chubby teen thanks to the junk making it there after my taste buds had developed. I am chubbier now that all my friends back at home. Everything to do with the lifestyle and the foods available (or not) here in US.
(Going to snack on box of blueberries. They are 3 for $10 in Giant, but make no mistake, I cannot eat that well every day).[/quote]

That’s what many people say too. That the food they eat in, say, France, keeps them full longer, how they lose weight eating more, how you can’t find junky snacks there, etc.

I know of multiple exchange students who came here and gained weight.  People have bets about this. “Are you going to America? I bet you will gain fifty kilos”[/quote]

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