re: More Fatties Than Ever Before in the United States of Inevitable Diabetes

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so you've been to a lot of countries where the standard of living is exceptionally below ours...you're not listening. the painting of a skinny and healthy world versus the fatty fat fat united states is just so fricking stupid.

and the idea that skinny=healthy is just absurd.

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We're arguing different things.

I think is ridiculous that you place the blame of obesity in America on our prosperity. Its lazy to say that just because we can be fat, we are fat. Its a systemic cultural failure. We value our time more than health. We'd rather eat fast food than go to the healthy aisle of the supermarket or farmers market and cook dinner.

The other reason its absurd is because there are more obese countries that have economies in terrible shape and huge unemployment rates. They too have the same systemic cultural failures as the US. I never said the US was the only fat country, that must be something you assumed.