US 42.7% Obesity rate
Some other countries
Canada 29.4%
Spain 23.8%
France 17%
Italy 10.4%
The answer is " all of the above " , I see them here and just can't imagine it , the general diet is horrendous , and the acceptance of all this processed crp and fast food , you even see it in questions here " What is your favorite doughnut? " Best fast food chain?
None none and none , just wake up , this stuff is life and death , and then even forgetting that , its how you feel when you are above ground. You are not " A big guy " , you are a sloppy obese fool , be honest with yourself.
Free choice in this circumstance just does not work.
Americans are fat because poison is being sold in stores labeled as food.
If I got rid of all non food items at my local grocery store, no more pharmacy, the junk food gone, the foods with long labeled ingredients gone, the sugar crap gone, the gmo crap gone, the non organic food gone and one of the main problems, meat and dairy gone... AND replaced it ALL with REAL FOOD, there would be no obesity or sickness in general on the most part.
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I went with sedentary lifestyle. That might get these "weight loss is 80% nutrition, 20% exercise" types down my neck, but what do we do when we're sedentary couch potato types?
We tend to snack and eat all day long when we're idle. I'm willing to bet that if the average American were as active as the average Japanese who averages 2 hours a day of walking/cycling as well as spending most of the rest of the day on their feet, the vast majority would not be obese because not only would they be burning more calories but consuming far less.
Here in Japan we still have McDonald's, Japanese fast food joints all over the place (ramen, gyudon, sushi, etc), donut shops everywhere, ice cream shops everywhere, cake shops everywhere, soda machines, candy everywhere, etc, and the ordinary Japanese tends to consume copious amounts of alcohol to make this a common sight.
Yet Japanese get a lot of physical activity a day just from spending almost all of it on the go, on their feet, on their bicycles. The US is the only country I've been to where I've seen my neighbors get in the car, start the car, drive to their mailbox which is only around 20m away, park their car, and then waddle back into their homes instead of just walking 20m to fetch their mail.
So I really think that's the bigger difference between Japan and the US is not the types of processed and fast food available, since they're virtually the same in that regard, but the radical difference in lifestyle with respect to non-exercise physical activity.
Industrial food like fast food, convenience foods, food in school and corporation cantinas... etc. Even half processed ingredients like sauces and spice mixes contain stuff that causes obesity.
Sedentary Lifestyle existed at least in US already after WW2, somehow morbidly obese people were rare 1950ties and 60ties. Everything changed as food industry started to reduce production costs and to increase demand for their products. There is interesting ARTE documentation in French and German language on YT about this topic.
hmmm whats different between the rest of the civilized world and uncivilized america? oh thats right corporation control everything forcing dumb americans to drive everywhere with zero public transportation that promotes walking and cycling everywhere and all types of artificial fillers in all the food making people extremely sick and fat which makes the private health care a shit ton of money off people's sickness and death! fucking morons
It's because you guys add sugar to everything. It's easy to laugh at and blame Americans but they're just normal people like the rest of us. Or rather, us Europeans, we're not any better just because we have less obese people... our food is simply not of such bad quality. If you want to lose weight try carnivore diet, it's the least processed. I eat carnivore/keto and I'm skinny... while barely moving a finger.
Freedom. Americans don't like the government, teachers, health services etc telling them what to do. The more they warn about unhealthy diets the more Americans push back by eating another burger or three for breakfast or giving their kids a whole pizza and bucket of ice cream for lunch.
All Biden's got to do is say "fat is sexy" and sales of lettuce will rocket.
Low quality food, growth hormones in meat are way better regulated in Europe. Corn syrup is banned here. We have similar lifestyles but also more fit. And then to top it all off people from both continents who live in the other continent gain or loose weight despite eating the same. So the only conclusion I have is food quality.
Tons of sugar in literaly any meal.
Cheap fast food. (again sugar and fat)
Soft drinks (sugar)
The furthest the average American walk is from house to car (and you need the car as cities are built for cars not people)
It's both but diet has a bigger impact, and it's not just quantity, but also the content. Even a lot of active, allegedly health-consciois people either eat crap, or don't eat what they should be for better results.
Most grocery stores have bioengineered crap that they sell. Just compare products from the US to the UK and see how many less ingredients there are in the UK products. It's disgusting.
Most likely sedentary lifestyle. It starts in grade school. I look at kids 12 and 13 years old at the beach, both male and female and nobody is in shape. Most are carrying a belly.
u awful diet...
it is not bad... it is AWFUL, lol
Neither. I think it has to do more with corporate America and what is marketed to the American consumer. Americans didn't start out eating 💩. It has slowly been a process that has gotten worse. The unhealthiest foods are typically the cheapest. Why do you think minorities tend to have the worst diet of all? Income inequality!
For the same reason we have so much violent crime... Black people.
I don't live in America, but I think both options are effective. Too much carbohydrate and sugar consumption plus a sedentary life turns a person into a fat barrel. My God! I hope they overcome this problem and have a healthy body.
Bear in mind, before you answer, that we've fallen to fourth in that regard, behind Mexico, the UK, and China.
Bad diets are the bigger reason. I say this because it's far easier to eat in a surplus & gain weight than it is to move more to lose it.
Bad diet. A sedentary lifestyle with the appropriate diet won't make you fat.
Toughy. Both are super bad. And most is the absence of teaching about health and nutrition at a young age.
Overprocessed fast food and obviously lack of exercise
I'm going with sedentary lifestyle on this one.
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