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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Having moved here years ago as a young adult from a country with overhalf the obesity rate as us.  I was shocked at how many big people I saw. But I was also surprised at all the portion sizes at restaurants, sodas, even the kiddie size ice cream cup is a normal size for an aft elsewhere.  Plus add the snack culture, the emphasis on grain products and highly processed, highly palatable salty food, you've got a recipe for disaster.  Before skinny people pay ourselves on the back though, we are not immune to "fat people diseases".  Our rates of type 2 diabetes is half of an obese person.  But half the rate is still too high.  Metabolic disease, while much more prevalent in obese people, still afflicts the skinny ones too.  [/quote]
+1 portion sizes here are *insane*.

I am a petite woman, and in some of the restaurants, the portion sizes from the child's menu would be enough for me.  I went to a nice hotel restaurant after a long flight, and the "children's menu" had  a small steak and salad and potatoes. I asked the waiter if I could order from the children's menu, and he said yes. That dinner was enough for me.  I can never finish an adult sized meal.

DH is from Europe, and when he first came here, he couldn't finish a meal at a restaurant. A year later, he had no problem finishing it.  He gained a lot of weight after living here for a few years. Luckily, he's lost a fair amount of that during covid.

When we go to Europe, I can actually have a 3 course meal, whereas here, I can't even finish my main.[/quote]

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