Seems like Canada is turning into the USA, really obese.
Well it's the truth...
Well it's the truth...
How do European women stay so thin and pretty? What is their secret?
The BIGGEST (heh) reason is simply that Europeans WALK more... a lot more... and aren't stuck in suburbs where they have to drive everywhere.
Srsly... that's the biggest reason BY FAR.
The average European walks something like 2 extra miles in the average day, compared to the average American.
If you walk 2 extra miles a day AND KEEP EVERYTHING ELSE ABOUT YOUR LIFESTYLE **EXACTLY** THE SAME, then you will be...
... about 15-30 lbs lighter after 1 year, (bigger difference if you're heavier right now)
... about 25-40 lbs lighter after 2 years,
... about 40-60 lbs lighter in the long long term.
Really.
It makes THAT much difference, just to spend about 45 extra minutes a day walking.
How many obese people do you see in midtown Manhattan, where everyone ALSO has to walk everywhere?
... just about none.
You get me.
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The other culprits are...
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Americans eat big breakfasts that are full of carbs, and then (relatively) smaller dinners. They also eat REALLY EARLY -- a lot of Americans don't eat after 6 pm or so.
This is EXACTLY BACKWARD, as far as weight maintenance. A big breakfast will cause huge blood-sugar swings, which will not only make you phase in and out of sleepiness, but which will also make you HUNGRY again FASTER. Worse, that effect is exacerbated by the fact that a big breakfast physically causes yr stomach to expand -- meaning you'll be even hungrier when that food digests. And on a relatively empty stomach, you'll get shitty sleep, too.
Europeans do the opposite -- they eat SMALL breakfasts, with relatively FEW carbs, and they eat HUGE dinners VERY late in the day (*never* any earlier than about 9 pm... and a lot of people don't eat dinner until 11pm or midnight). This is the best way to keep blood sugar stable, fight insulin resistance, and prevent fat gain.
One of many, many studies on this effect:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21475137
Basically, the ONLY people who should eat big breakfasts are people who go out and do physical labor all day long. Americans ONCE did that (when we were almost all farmers and homesteaders), but now the tradition is LITERALLY killing us.
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American restaurants serve portions of infamously huge sizes -- and lots of people eat the whole portion, too. This is as much as a thousand extra calories per person.
If you eat out just once a week, and do this... you'll gain 15-20 lbs in the first year, and 40-50 lbs in the long term.
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French girls ( because I live in France) are usually healthy (except many of them smoke a lot, at least the Parisian ones) .
They are very active, here you can't really afford a car, so you have to walk a lot/ use the stairs in metro stations etc... They also work out in the weekend (usually run).
Fast food is not as common as it is in the US, I mean there are lots of McDonals, but you don't just drive through and eat fast food as often as you do in north America. Also the French education makes kids aware of their health from a very young age.
French ladies are the skinniest in Europe and many of them have hot bodies even in their 70's.
Because their place of birth gives them super natural metabolism abilities which is due to many factors includi...
Fuckin with you, Different cultures... In the US, Everything is bigger.
Like... Just as an example, At Mcdonalds, Look how much bigger the US sizes are compared to UK sizes..
https://i.imgur.com/kPlZL.jpg
Even just, Buying portions of food, Everything is bigger, Your backs of snacks and stuff are what is sold as family bags here.
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Because in the USA, they put "sugar" and "high fructose corn syrup" and "maltose" and "dextrose" and "glucose-fructose syrup" in LITERALLY EVERY FOOD EVER.
And they MAKE YOU FAT.
Europe doesn't put as much crap in their foods, so they don't get fat.
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Exercise and refraining from greasy foods really, but many European countries are now unfortunately in the process of catching up with the USA in that regard so don't praise the day...
In my city, Amsterdam, most people are really skinny because they bike all day long which obviously burns A LOT of calories, my way to university alone is like 30-40min which makes for a combined time of 1-1.5h of cycling every day which is equivalent to around 800-900 calories for someone my size and that's basically almost everything I eat in a day haha. -
Well, I'm from Europe and I live in the US now.
You rarely ever see a really fat person in Europe. A bit of overweight and chubbiness in the older generations? Yes. But, rarely ever are they extremely fat. The reasons are likely because European food is more natural, they don't indulge in food the way Americans do, and they walk around more because things are closer by. It also seem to me that they just care way more about their bodies... Some Americans seem to have no qualms about what they look like. -
Speak fo yoself.
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If I had to take a wild guess though, cultural diet differences. -
Well for starters they eat organic foods. They also eat more frequently and take more time to eat. Eating in the US is always rushed and on the go, in France for instance they put aside almost 3 hours a day to eat and it is almost ALWAYs a social gathering. Eating 5-7 small meals a day is actually better for you than 3 big meals. Your body can process the food and metabolize it faster when there is less to digest at one time.
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europeans as a culture walk far more. there are lots of reasons from the convenience and affordability of public transportation, to high gas prices. but if you travel around Europe you'll generally see far fewer cars.
i think that is a huge part of it. Europe, while having fast food, doesn't have nearly the amount we do in the US as well. there's also a lot more fresh foods as opposed to frozen, preserved stuff -
They drink the blood of unicorns over there.
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I feel like obesity is somewhat over exagerated in the U. S. Most of the fat people I see where I am from are older (40s-50s). I don't think it is as big a problem with people in their teens-30s. In my high school we would have exchange students and sometimes people would ask them if America is what they expected. A lot of them said they expected everyone to be fat and they were suprised when they saw it wasn't true. Also many of the exchange students were actually fatter than most kids in the school.
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Where in Europe? Lots of British girls are very fat.
I had a coworker who lived in Switzerland and then France, and she said a lot of women all but starved themselves to stay thin. She instead exercised like crazy - she would do an entire BodyAttack class on her lunch hour and come back to work as if nothing had happened. -
Genetics? Good food, good eating habits, exercise? You're just looking for the skinny and pretty ones, ignoring the ones that are unfortunate looking or fat because skinny and pretty is what you want to imagine Europe as? Maybe their country is embroiled in war and can't get enough food to sustain an overindulgent lifestyle? I don't know, lots of reasons really.
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Less sugary shit, normal-sized portions and cup sizes (our large here is like your Small/Medium), probs better education + health education, healthier school lunches, working out more etc. None of this is really a secret.
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I've heard that many European women post college tend to go on vegan diets. European women also drink lots of water and like to exercise particularly jogging.
I know someone from germany who likes to jog and do kayaking. -
They eat right and exercise. If you constantly shove food down your throat and sit on your @$$ all day then you will get fat. This is for men too in America and Canada there are simply too many over weight and obese people.
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I got back from Europe about a month and a half ago, I noticed they do a lot of walking. Also their eating habits and what's in the food is different as well.
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I think all countries have their full range of people - It is often a case of the grass is greener on the other side of the fence - Maybe the diets are slightly better, fast food and junk food are not as popular on mainland Europe.
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Avoiding trans fats; avoiding sugar; avoiding aspartame (it actually makes you fatter, look it up); and exercising more.
People in Europe do a lot more walking and/or cycling than do Americans. -
They perhaps eat the same things but junk food all over the world even if it's made by the same company has different amounts of sugars and carbs around the world. Especially seen in soft drinks.
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Mediterranean diet, at least where I live. The last time I ate a hamburger was like two months ago. I like them, but I prefer other kind of food.
And I agree with what many said, we probably walk more than in the American countries. -
They eat healthy food, even our Mc Donald's and Burger king in sweden have healthy portions and not that much of a junk food (still junk though) and they exercise and walk a lot.
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Because food portions in the USA are massive compared to other countries.
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less fast food though the uk isn't far behind the states in obesity stats since our diet went down hill
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