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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][url=https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/why-it-was-easier-to-be-skinny-in-the-1980s/407974/]Why Was It Easier to Be Skinny in the 1980s?[/url]

[i]A new study finds that people today who eat and exercise the same amount as people 20 years ago are still fatter...[/i]

Something is definitely up with our food supply.

I watch my diet pretty stringently here in the States -- no grain, no starch, no sugar -- because otherwise I'd be thirty pounds heavier.

And then I go to Europe on holiday and eat ALLL the grains, starch, and sugar -- sometimes while on road trips, so no walking or real exercise -- and I come back a couple of pounds [i]lighter.[/i]

I don't know what, exactly, but there's something very, very bad in our food supply.[/quote]

Funny you mentioned that. But the British negotiations for Brexit alliances are ongoing and their farmers are raising a stink about accepting U.S. standards for food production.

Normally I'd tell them to suck it - but maybe its more than just 'chlorinated washes' that they're worried about.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9733299/britain-must-accept-chlorinated-chicken-us-trade-deal/[/quote]

Obesity is skyrocketing in the UK and across much of the EU too. Britiah women are definitely on the heavier side. Its booming among Spanish and Greek kids. Obesity is also skyrocketing in Australia, in India, in the Middle East. So something other than American raised food is clearly at play here. [/quote]

Perhaps but it is pretty clear that we lead the civilized world in obesity so whatever epidemic is spreading across the globe, it started here.  I travel extensively outside of this country and nowhere (other than GB) do you see the tremendous amounts of obesity that you see in the US....it is actually quite startling.  [/quote]

Mexicans are actually the fattest. You also need to spend time in the Gulf states (UAE, Qatar, Saudi, Kuwait) to see the prevalence of obesity. It's mushrooming among well off Indians. So it's just a question of people catching up to the Americans.

[b]As an experienced traveler I've noticed that where we go in a specific country distorts our perspectives of that country. An European coming solely to NYC and San Francisco will have a very different impression of America than someone who travelled to the midwest and suburban Texas. Most American travelers aren't going to suburban England or suburban Germany, which have plenty of heavy people, they are mostly going to urban areas, select small towns and mountains/beaches, which, when you get down to it, is not that different from comparable places in the United States.[/b]

Having said that, Americans on the whole are definitely heavier. But the point remains that other countries are also getting heavy too. [/quote]

Yes, this. As someone with family in Central Europe - a rural part of it, no less - they are just as chubby as their American middle class counterparts. A lot of the middle aged women are probably around a size 14/16, which I think is typical for the US as well. The men have rounded bellies too.

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I was just going to say this--I have family in rural France (in a place where tourists don't go) and they are bigger and broader than their Parisian counterparts. Same thing with rural brits vs. their London counterparts.[/quote]

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