Why are Americans so Obese?

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i definitely think americans should smoke and drink more. and use crack. that's what makes you skinny. to hell with this "food."

http://thetrack.bostonherald.com/images/more_track/whitea01102006.jpg

More like 18 months ago maybe.

1: Learn another way of cooking which isn't deep frying
2: Stop making portions big enough for 3 people rather than 1
3: Learn to appreciate other tastes apart from salt and sweet.

I thank you.

"herpes makes you obese?"

Depends if you let the other on top or not.

haha!

That's why I don't really buy packaged foods much anymore, manufacturers seem to put high fructose corn syrup in everything. And it probably is one of the worst things you could eat.

Tuomas, you could just eat half a package and the rest later on in the week. :-) Not that I do this, I can never stop until the last piece is gone. :-(

FRIED TWINKIE TO THREAD.

http://www.kozyshack.com/

jaymc, I have my rep to maintain. Holy shit! New flavor!

Calories 383
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 21g 51%
Cholesterol 129mg
Sodium 1116mg
Total Carbohydrate 1g
Protein 45g

roasted:
calories 200 from fat 40
total fat 5gm
sat. fat 1 gm

higher yes. . . but geez the whole thanksgiving meal's over the top. we had roasted and fried and I ate more of the roasted b/c I personally like my meat drier.

I wish I had already uploaded my xmas pictures and I could post the one of my brother carefully lowering the bird into the 3 gallon pot of boiling oil. It was dramatic.

if you happened to be, say, a working single mother of two, I can see how it might be a little hard to find time and energy to invest into exercise

None of those hurdles are huge ones -- you can get around them with a little effort

I'm not quite understanding why you qualify these with "a little." It's very hard to change habits! It's often very hard to find time to exercise if you work all day and have a commute and have to cook dinner and run errands and clean around the house and everything else! I am often completely exhausted at the end of the day and I just have myself to look after. Not to mention, where do you go to exercise? Now, if you live in an somewhat unsafe neighborhood, or even a relatively safe one, do you go out walking or running by yourself after dark? I certainly think twice about doing that. You pay to join a gym? How do you find the money and the time? When do you drive there? How do you schedule that when you have kids to take care of when you get home from work? It really isn't easy at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapeseed

So that may explain why our Mcdonalds healthy choices stuff, for example, really *are* reasonably healthy.

just for profit/convenience, since the oil lasts however many times longer/it gives foods however many times as long a shelflife

yeah, I just assume, now, that most fish & chip shop fryers, etc, use the hydrogenated oils, etc. I mean, they probably keep using the extra-long"life" stuff twice as long as recommended, as well, so, haha

why wouldn't they? there hasn't been enough of an uproar about it, here, yet

I think, maybe, marks & spencer or someone has said they won't have hydrogenated oils in any of their foods, which is fine, if you can afford to do all your foodshopping there

Our culture is basically completely set up at this point to make it seem impossible to live a healthy lifestyle if you weren't put on that path at a very young age, that's true, but it's completely deceptive except for in the most extreme of cases. I was glad you kind of went with the term "a little effort"!

wtf with that show Honey We're Killing The Kids, btw.

those aged images are so ridiculous. and potentially traumatizing for the poor kids.

Yeah, totally, I agree that it's not that much effort that's required. But then again "a little effort" is all it would take for people to do any number of noble things -- be healthy, read more, spend more time with their kids, work harder at the office, whatever. I mean, it's "a little effort" in a pile of competing priorities. So I guess what I'm trying to defend against here is the idea that people are just being lazy and unwilling to put forth that tiny bit of effort. I feel like we should at least keep in mind that lots of people have their time and energy stretched out a bit as it is (having kids must be a huge change on this front!), and so I can at least understand why it would be hard for them to make lifestyle changes.

But yeah, like I said, that's not so much about people like me or most of the people here, and much more about that example "single working mother" -- which for the record I don't think is that unrepresentative a role in America! Oh and just to be clear: I'm not saying this stuff is the root of the problem. The roots of the problem seem to be systemic stuff about modern food and modern lifestyles, stuff in the world around us that we more and more have to take conscious steps to adapt away from.

Anyway yeah, I'm not trying to say that it's so hard and arduous -- and really, doing the opposite with "simple easy steps" cheerleading is probably better for helping people get stuff done. I just don't want to underplay the difficulty of it. (I'd feel like a hypocrite, too: I'm certainly not obese, but I don't think I'd find it very easy to really change my diet and exercise level! And I'm unmarried, childless, economically stable, and all that other stuff that should make it easier for me than anyone.)

I'm sure they watch the show once it airs! What if some impressionable little kid gets set in his mind that he's going to grow up to look like an unemployed pedophile. His self-image could be wrecked for life!

Eventually though, thru patient food education and try try again, he got them all eating well. The scary part really was one family who volunteered, at home, to switch to a normal healthy diet of fruit/veg/meats and no junk. Within days, one of the kids labelled as ADDish was all calm and happy. WITHIN DAYS. What in gods name is in the crap kids eat that this suggested it turns them into asthmatic/ADD/allergic messes?

1) My wife pointed out to me the other day the fact that buffets are "all you can eat" which has a different meaning from "eat til you're satisified," or even "eat as much as you want."

2) I saw an onion personal ad from a young woman whose quote was "I'm into exercising and eating healthy but I also like to relax"

w/r/t (1): many buffets now carry the slogan "all you care to eat"

"If you should choose to eat a variety of things until you are reasonably full rather than ordering an entree, we offer that service" two for one Tuesday at the Golden China #1 Super Buffet.

"Waste Not Want Not" Puritan ideal meets lassiex-faire Capitalist cut-throat concept = fat, confused kids

hurting, stop reading the personals, i doubt your wife would like that.

I was reading the Onion once at work and an older customer came in. She saw my monitor and told me, "Oh, the Onion, how fantastic! My son met a wonderful woman on that site and they're getting married in the spring!" When she left, she told me, "I hope you meet someone wonderful!" I'm pretty sure she thought it was just a personals site. Made me smile.

Years ago this boss/supervisor woman at this place I was temping at made the sweet gesture of taking me and these other guys who were working on this project there out to lunch. She chose a buffet place(N.B., she herself was obese).

We're basically a gaggle of scrawny college students, so we repeatedly go up to the buffet and heap up our plates with whatever is on offer. At one point, we observe a guy go up to the buffet thing, pile some stuff on his plate, begin to eat it as he's walking back to his seat...and actually finish it before he has a chance to sit down, thereby inspiring him to make yet another run back to the buffet.

I always think of that moment when I think of Americans, obesity.

That's kind of poetic, like a fatty perpetual motion machine.

would marry this onion girl

http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/wdyt_photo6.article.jpg

sexyual personaae

dell -

Stop spying on me.

via James Wolcott, Movie Dialogue That Sounds Ironic in Retrospect:

"It's one thing I envy you Americans--you're all so thin. How do you manage it?"
--Juliet Mills to Jack Lemmon in Billy Wilder's Avanti! (1972)

"cigarettes my boy!"

"I'm into exercising and eating healthy but I also like to relax"

That's like saying "I'm into laughing and dancing but I also like to relax."

usually "i'm into exercising" in a personal means "I want to have sex with a lean person "

"I'm a bit of a control-freak health-nut, but if you get me off, I tend to loosen up a bit."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bomkgXeDkE

"I'm into exercising and eating healthy but I also enjoy some of my life"

"hi mom"

death gulp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uArqI-LHXU

lol As if "more ice please" is ever a problem. They put as much ice into drinks as they can, because it means less soda.