re: Why is everybody so fat?

Because of buffets and all you can eat joints.

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breads/pasta/whole grains as being 'healthy' for you

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Except for the fact that Italians are not fat and this is basically all they eat.

Its simply eating too much and not exercising enough. Its also suburban life. Ever go to a big city like Chicago or New York, they all walk considerable more than your average suburban person. You walk to your garage, drive to your office or store, park in front 50 feet away, and walk in. Rinse repeat.

If Americans simply walked 10,000 steps or whatever amount a day like most of the world we wouldn't be nearly as fat. Our food is bad, but our lack of daily movement is what's really bad.

Lack of exercise

Lack of cooking at home compared to convenience (pops prepackaged BS in microwave)

Too busy to eat good. Picks up fast food for kids to live on after soccer practice. This is those kid’s reference to food growing up, and it’s passed down to future generations. Not mom in the kitchen cooking dinner, but pulling up to a fast food joint to get dinner.

Food industry in general plays upon human weaknesses in quick, fast, and prepackaged laziness. Look in the average grocery store. It’s dominated by prepackaged shite in the center aisles, with 75% of it containing HFCS and preservatives you don’t need when you shop and cook from the outside walls of the grocery store.


In short, it’s bad eating habits that have crept their way into the American lifestyle, and little exercise. We’re too busy chasing the dollar, and too busy to eat well, and the piss poor choices out there in the market say it’s not changing in some places like it is in other places that tend to get it more. Those cities dominated in chain shite are most often those that have more fat issues than those who eat better, and have places geared to eating better.

Every bit of this is compounded with the ridiculous portion sizes we have become accustomed to.

However, if we were working this shite off, it would be much less of an issue, but by and large, as a population, we are not.

That’s assuming that these fat people are cooking, which they definitely aren’t. They eat out a lot for ease.

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Why is everybody so fat?

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Today, at this moment in time, it is the McRib. That damn thing is so delicious. And the 2 for $5 paired with free drink and fries from the McD app is definitely making me fat.

interestingly i saw fewer than a dozen fatasses in boston & providence over 4 days this weekend. clearly its a southern/midwestern epidemic but the NE and the Rockies/PNW appear to have their shite together

i blame mingo

It's pretty simple.

People are eating a lot more fast food because it's easier to just stop by somewhere to pick up dinner than it is to come home and cook something while helping the kids with homework, getting them taken care of, while also taking care of things around the house.

But I don't think that's the main reason. I think a lot more people have bad eating habits than people use to have. When it came to eating, my parents had a certain philosophy "you don't eat when you are hungry, you eat to keep from getting hungry". Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

You eat a good breakfast (not a big breakfast, but good breakfast), don't wait to noon to eat lunch. The hungrier you are, the more you eat. If you go to lunch when you are in the "I am not all that hungry but I can eat something" phase, you can eat a sandwich, chips, and something else and you are good.

Eat a snack between 2-3PM so that you are not starving by the time you get home. Don't wait til later to eat dinner. It's not really good to eat soon before going to sleep so eat dinner around 6PM.. 7PM...

And stop eating when you are full, not when you have cleaned your plate.

How many people are skipping breakfast or grabbing something unhealthy to eat on the way to work?

How many people wait til 1-2PM to eat lunch then eat dinner later because you still full from lunch so you get everything you have to do done, eat then go to bed?

All of that plays a factor.

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Eat a natural, ancestral diet

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I've often said we need to revert back to the "caveman" days. Hunter-gatherers. Long stretches before you eat again. And throw away the clock. Why is it we're locked into a regulated eating schedule. I think the simple answer is to live with at least a little hunger pain between meals. You're not going to die, for Christ sake. Eat only when you're hungry. When you're not hungry anymore, stop eating!!!

Here's the long and the short of it: there's a huge lack of self-discipline today.