Why are americans so fat? (srs)

>Europeans countries
>Turkey
ffs

Yes. Most non-major cities in the US are like this. It's just parking lots and highways.

It's a cultural problem. Fuck anyone who blames the food. You can't blame the bullet for your suicide - you put it in your head. You can't just blame the availability of calories for people choosing to be lardasses. The issue is that Americans just don't give a fuck about their health or waist size and the culture is too fucking permissive of that flabby bullshit. The obese should be treated as imbeciles who harm the society with their ugly unhealthy bodies. But people just say I go to work, pay my taxes, and don't hurt nobody so it's none of your business.

> it da fud falt !!1

>no interest in preventing these health problems because there is little profit in that
Doctors literally talk about diet and exercise at every annual checkup. Do you want your doctor to hold your hand at the grocery store?

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It's very common in cities that were designed or that expanded after cars became widespread-- I hear that Dallas/Ft. Worth is like this for instance. Numerous suburbs and towns have zero sidewalks and bikepaths are uncommon or non-existent in many areas. That's what I was referring to in part when I mentioned "obesogenic" enviornments. There's a decent amount of writing on the topic, but there's a huge chasm between the research and the implementation of potential solutions (in large part due to corparate interests.) It's unlikely we see a decline in obesity rates anytime soon (or ever) as they have risen dramatically since the 1990's.

> the path waasn't paved so my legs didn't work and I had to eat those gorditos
> it was on sale so I had to eat it!

unironically jews and the agricultural and chemical countries they own. Plus most Americans are borderline retards.

Every developed country on earth is becoming fatter than it was 20 years ago... even historically trim Japan claims their youth are getting fat. The big reason that ties everything together is "convenience is the devil", cheap and convenient fast food or processed garbage, less walking in general as convenient tech allows us to get fat and lazy.

The US as the "last remaining superpower" was just ahead of the trend, but it's happening everywhere.

This, every fastfood joint has a 5 for $4 deal and Americans fucking love high fructose corn syrup

Treating it as a moral failure won't fix it at a large scale. You have to keep in mind that a solution has to affect even the most stupid, nutrition-ignorant people. Even if it is the people's fault, the availability of the food still proliferates the issue.

No surprise that areas that were built by people who love nature, Colorado, Montana and California (before they ruined it) are the healthiest states as people actually fucking go outside for enjoyment.

>Treating it as a moral failure
That's some mealy-mouthed bullshit

Making food less accessible 1) won't happen and 2) is an absolutely retarded solution. Are you going to outlaw the sale of prepared foods so that people must go and cook all their own meals?
> muh no child left behind
toplol my guy.

Can't stand the cold and not going to Cali. Where can I move that has good healthy culture? Is there a spot in like Tennessee or some shit?

>Dallas/Ft. Worth
Really? I've heard a lot of praise for that area to being the biggest metroplex in America. Something about high rise laws and mixed use buildings has allowed that area to grow exponentially. I was planning on posting up there because the gun rights seem decent and it's a large city, the two things I'm looking for.

Yes
Well Britain IS fat.

Otherwise it's the points above. The average American drives about 100% more than the average European.

Most American cities are not designed to be walkable. Food is dirt cheap in the US and portions are larger by default.

In many parts of the US, walking further than from your car to the store is entirely optional and many cities aren't even designed to allow people to walk from place to place. You just have stores in seas of asphalt. Suburbs may have sidewalks in them proper, but then those sidewalks don't connect anywhere outside that suburb and there's such a distance between the suburb and anything else it's not like you'd bother.

Exercise then becomes totally optional.

Basically unless someone takes active steps to reject the status quo (refusing to eat most foods marketed to them in the portions sold, signing up for a gym and deliberately devoting time to it on a regular basis) they get fat.

Europeans are poorer and gas is way more expensive and parking sucks but cities are walkable or bikeable. So the default is to get places by walking there or by walking to public transportation.

That's huge for preventing obesity.

Then Europeans are poorer and food is more expensive. The bumbling American by default drives over to Starbucks for a 40 oz coffee milkshake, burger and fries at McDs, huge appetizer and dinner and dessert at Applebee's and snacks in between. Le bumbling europoor walks over to le cafe for le espresso and le scone, walks to the park because their apartment is tiny, gets le sandwich mixto and wine for lunch, then walks over to le cuisine for unt tiny dinner because they are le poor.

>Can't stand the cold
Well unfortunately all the fatties and invalids crowd the warmer areas for that very reason. You're SoL for healthy communities if you aren't able to handle the cold.

What good are sidewalks if they don't go anywhere except to parking lots? This is a photo of downtown Houston at the height of automobile domination. Some of these lots are now buildings but it's still crazy how much of downtown even today is for car parking.

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No culture, and thus no culinary culture.

>no culinary culture
Take that back!

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The only really civilized parts of Appalachia are the southernmost part in Georgia and the northernmost part in New England, everything else is infested by fat hillbillies

>hurr durr houston is garbage, so every city is!!!!!1

Eat shit.

You can't take public transport to dowtown houston because it is infested with disgusting bums who shit and piss on everything. The reason Americans don't walk and use public transportation is because we have so many urban youths, superpredators, and flea-ridden bums scurrying about that it is unsafe and unpleasant to go outside. The parks are basically drug dens.
Foodie culture is the reason japs are starting to get fat
where the fuck is georgia civilized?

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The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

No I propose we execute them and use them for dogfood.

>deep fried butter

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Fuck man I wish I was born in Europe. How tough is it to get a work visa for Europe/Japan/Korea as an American? I'll be working for a radio station and am planning on going EMT to Fireman or Coast Guard soon after. Another option is lineman and land surveyor if they use those guys a lot out there.

The based guy who runs this actually just wants fat people to accelerate their death. Not kidding at all.

The mountains of north Georgia are mostly white with some Hispanic communities such as Dalton in the foothills. It's certainly a heck of a lot more civilized than down in Atlanta.
Beautiful thing is that it's not even a 'shop. They really do sell deep fried butter.

We no longer shame people for eating like pigs and passing on their dangerous diets onto their children. Fat accemptance is a plague on my country.

When will a presidential candidate address the fact that we have too many fatfucks? My money is on Andrew Yang.

well the place is called heart stopper

Because all the food in America is overprocessed garbage full of sugar, fat and salt. It's like that in most Western countries, but definitely not to the same extent.

>hillbillies
>civilized
bring back fatshaming. Japanese companies get fined if a certain % of employees are ove their waistsize limit.
Yang is a limpwristed bitchboi and if he adresses the whale issue it will be out of pure autism
>duh fud made me eat it

The thing is, a lot of our towns are spread out to the point where walking is really inconvenient. I live in a pretty decent size town, but the nearest grocery store is 2.5 miles away going up and down some pretty steep hills. I could walk, it would just take a long time

there's always a fucking line at mcdonalds. ALWAYS

When was the last time a Jow Forums guy even ran for president? The closest is Ron Paul that liked to bike a lot.

Wait a minute so a guy asked why americans are fat then a bunch of guys (I'm guessing americans) started saying Europeans are poor and Americans are fat because they're too superior

That Japanese fining stuff has been debated intensely, it's been almost a decade that "they'll do it next year"... however some companies do it voluntarily so they're prepared for it.

Read the posts clearly, turbonigger.

>Le bumbling europoor
>We’re literally so efficient we can’t contain it.

This is nu-Jow Forums

The fuck are you talking about you french fuck nu-Jow Forums is practically the second coming of krautchan at this point. Jow Forums is basically Jow Forums 2.0 with how often it invades and shits up other boards and threads. Hell the best way to destroy a thread is to just mention europe in any way shape or form and watch as it burns to the ground in a blaze of muttposting

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What country are you from?

Begone, schizoposter

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Polack here, friend of mine was in Burgerland some time ago
He was shocked how difficult it was to find plain old fresh vegetables in a supermarket, in Kurwaland fresh fruit & veggie stalls are the very first thing you encounter in supermarkets, and those stalls are well equipped
Any burgers/travellers care to confirm or deny?

We have a culture whose entire goal is pleasure. Look at the decline of Rome- a lot of Rome’s fall had to do with an overall degeneracy and passion for pleasure rather, which led to a downfall of the entire infrastructure. America is going down a similar path- we’ve become a nation that’s so bored that we make everything about what makes us feel good. For a lot of people, that’s being sedentary, sitting around and fapping all day, and eating junk food. As long as the culture is bored, degeneracy and laziness will follow.

The front of every supermarket I've been to is a vegetable and fruit section. However, many Americans live in a "food desert" where there are no supermarkets or stores stocking fresh vergetables/fruit/anything healthy.

there is a grocery section in every supermarket, perhaps not as big as in europe tho

>food desert" where there are no supermarkets or stores stocking fresh vergetables/fruit/anything healthy.
Holy shit
Stay strong burgerbros

>food desert
Plenty of these are in rural areas (where it's expected to have a far-away supermarket), but look at the ones in suburban or even urban areas. It's kind of terrifying how many factors play into the rising obesity of America.

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Holy shit the deep south and applachia are fucked here.

Where did it all go wrong? I'm sure America wasn't always this way.

The area around the Atlanta Civic Center was declared a good desert and much time was spent on trying to subsidize the building of a supermarket on that site even though you could see a Publix down the street. Also why is a mile considered an insurmountable distance to go for groceries? It's a fifteen minute walk.

literaly every grocery store I go to in NY has a fresh veggie/fruit section the second you walk in. They're not on sidestreet stalls like some medieval bazaar

American food is fucked. I was astonished by what sort of a nuclear waste they serve you. Everything pre made is fried in oil or pumped full of sugar. Your breakfast cereal that is marketed as "healthy" has a shit ton of sugar and empty carbs in it, your "cheese" is heavily processed garbage, your bread is fucking white bread, you enjoy PB&J sandwiches that are calorie nukes and drink OJ thinking its healthy but is just sugar + water. Every fast food restaurant serves food that is incredibly saturated in fat and/or sugar, your average coffee is half a mug of sugar and other half cream and the pastry you eat is so sugary i wanted to throw up. Im pretty sure the entire continent of NA is addicted to sugar.

This. I live in a city in america and purposefully walk everywhere and I've started losing weight so much more easily. When I was driving everywhere, I would maybe clock 200 steps a day. My friends will want to fucking call ubers for anywhere more than 2 blocks away because walking in just not in the culture or city design here.

Winnipeg is like that sometimes. Absolutely disgusting shithole.

A 10 piece meal costs more than this in Canada

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Because so much of an American's wealth is tied up in their home, people do everything to make sure nothing potentially lowers its value. Some areas will not build sidewalks because they don't want the neighborhood to have foot traffic through it. They think if they do that suddenly the area will be like a skid row with people just milling about and lower home values.

>Increase in sugar in a variety of processed foods/drinks caused by subsidization of corn and lobbing by corporations and sugar industry
>Decline in home cooked meals
>Poor nutrition knowledge

>Poor nutrition knowledge
this. Most people dont care what they put in their mouth as long it fills their stomach and satisfies their appetite

Half of Americans think steak is a good source of fiber
Maybe that's why they think low-carb is healthy

i think the US has the cheapest food in the world
for example in Finland the median monthly income after high taxes is about 2300 euros and atleast 400euros/person goes to food every month

more than half of america thinks froot loops and OJ are healthy

Of course places like Scandinavia will have high food costs since they import almost everything

i cant read this type of stuff as anything but satire and jokes but are americans actually that uneducated about nutrition ?

One thing is fast food, its everywhere.
The other thing is they're retarded with nutrition. Fat is bad so there's almost none in food and what do you do to replace the missing flavor? Add more fucking sugar. And there you have it.
This goes for everything, lot of ingredients and most snacks in europe are pretty fatty, in usa its all sugar from corn.

This has to be bait

nvm fake

This contributes to rising obesity too. In impoverished places fast foods are often cheaper due to large corporations that own them compared to grocery stores that are often owned by relatively smaller companies or independently owned. Therefore grocery stores are often in middle-high income areas. This is why income is often correlated with obesity in US.

Big Sugar convinced everyone that fat is bad the same way as Kellogg convinced everyone that eating cereal that is 70% sugar is healthy and necessary and that you should mutilate your child's genitals by cutting off the foreskin so they couldn't masturbate as easily. Americans hold some pretty retarded beliefs that are entirely based on corporate propaganda

A prevailing theory is that after the Great Depression the USA saw a monstrous leap of quality of life so the "Greatest Generation" raised boomers to desire to show the appearance of wealth at all cost. As American prosperity started sliding down, due to boomers' retarded decision to agree to retarded bullshit like the 1963 Civil RightsZo.nn Act and the 1964 Immigration Act which doomed America to a slow slide to shit... but the boomers still wanted dirt cheap food and didn't care about quality so food developers just made chemical filled garbage to lower the prices at ANY cost.

Southern Appalachian reporting in, we are now infested with obese guatemalans

I would also like to know this, what jobs can I shoot for that will give me a chance? Could I bring family with me?

Had to look it up cuz I was curious too.

>Surveyed 3185
>24% of people could not determine the calorie content of the full ice-cream container
>42% could not estimate the effect on daily calorie intake of foregoing 1 serving
>41% could not calculate the percentage daily value of calories in a single serving
This is probably associated with poor math skills too.

cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2017/17_0066.htm

its not just an american problem. People everywhere are dumb and dont know how to track what they eat

The worst kind of people are those who say shit like "I dont count calories I eat whatever I want". No shit sherlock it shows that you do

High fructose corn syrup to be exact

Europe is in the same boat just 10-15 behind the US. Every developed nation has seen an explosion in obesity rates since the 70s. Stay in your own damn country and work to fix things there, nigger.

This. Most of western europe is fat as well and you really dont want to live in eastern europe.

because we do what we want and dont need a license to buy high-calorie food

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I'm german and I'd say you should go into anything IT related. Just browse through some job offerings online. I always see a shitload of vacant IT jobs. Would be nice for them to have someone good at IT, who is not some bollywood-dude

Bump

Compared to the rest of the modern world, we're really not.

whatever, makes it easier to be better than people. literally everytime im getting breakfast at the deli near work over half the people in the store are overweight.