Why are there so many FAT people in USA?

[CreatineGuy]

WHY?

Too much food in each home? They are lazy? McDonalds? Or maybe the USA race is genetically predisposed to store fat?

[Jim_Gunn]

Anyone who has the nickname CreatineGuy, surely already knows the answer to this question!

[CreatineGuy]

With this nick, I can only have the answer of why we have so many muscular and fit people in my country... ;)

[Az A Bay Bay]

hahahahahaha.....lol

[Az A Bay Bay]

so veRy tRue, i can eat all day
but i cud neveR get lik tht.... "(

[tony286]

high fructose corn syrup in Dr Scott Connelly's book he shows a graph and you can see the growth in obesity parallels the growth of use of high fructose corn syrup.

[Jim_Gunn]

Originally Posted by CreatineGuy

With this nick, I can only have the answer of why we have so many muscular and fit people in my country... ;)

You're in America, but not the US, so what ,you must be a Canadian? You still know the answer in any case. People have bad diets filled with processed food with unhealthy ingredients, they overeat and they have little or no exercise.

[MediaGuy]

Shhhhhhh.... ef you start this there's going to be a big US/Canada bullshit debate...

let them get fat and die young... we'll corrupt their children later....

[neewwman]

High fructose corn syrup
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...DGS24VKMH1.DTL

[tony286]

New Hardee's breakfast burrito has 920 calories

By JIM SALTER
Associated Press
Published on: 10/15/07

St. Louis ? The people who brought you the Monster Thickburger and the 1,100-calorie salad are at it again ? this time for breakfast.

The Country Breakfast Burrito is two egg omelets filled with bacon, sausage, diced ham, cheddar cheese, hash browns and sausage gravy, all wrapped inside a flour tortilla.


Hardee's on Monday rolled out its new Country Breakfast Burrito ? two egg omelets filled with bacon, sausage, diced ham, cheddar cheese, hash browns and sausage gravy, all wrapped inside a flour tortilla. The burrito contains 920 calories and 60 grams of fat.

Brad Haley, marketing chief for the St. Louis-based fast-food chain, said the burrito offers the sort of big breakfast item normally found in sit-down restaurants with an added advantage.

"It makes this big country breakfast portable," he said.

In 2003 the chain introduced a line of big sandwiches, including the Monster Thickburger. The 1,420-calorie sandwich is made up of two 1/3-pound slabs of beef, four strips of bacon, three slices of cheese and mayonnaise on a buttered bun.

Even Hardees' chicken salad ? topped with onion rings and crispy chicken ? has 1,100 calories and 83 grams of fat.

The chain does offer some low-calorie options, including roast beef and chicken sandwiches.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington-based advocate for nutrition and health, has called the Hardee's line of Thickburgers "food porn."

Haley makes no apologies.

"We don't try to hide what these are," he said. "When consumers go to other fast-food places they feel like they've got to buy two of their breakfast sandwiches or burritos to fill up. This is really designed to fill you up."

The government's Center for Nutritional Policy and Promotion recommends a daily caloric intake ranging from 1,600 calories for sedentary women and older adults to 2,800 calories for teenage boys and active adults. Hardee's sees its core customers as young men ages 18 to 34, Haley said, though it expects a wider range for breakfast items.

The Country Breakfast Burrito is generally available for $2.69 by itself or $4.09 for a combo that includes hash rounds and coffee.

[pocketkangaroo]

I actually think a big part of the reason is due to the whole "low fat" craze that was pushed down our throats over the past few decades. The government and all the health officials started telling people that fat was bad. Companies went out and made "low fat" products that were stacked with sugar and corn syrup. Everyone thought they were being healthy when in fact they weren't. Fat isn't bad, certain types of fat are.

Another reason is the fact that it's easier and cheaper to eat unhealthy. Fruit and lean meats are expensive. Good meals take time to make. Fast food has gotten so fast and so easy that it makes a tempting alternative. Marketing has gotten savvy, people are confused and uneducated on health issues.

And this isn't just a problem in the US. The UK is seeing a huge increase in obesity over the past few years. Canada has also had large increases over the past couple decades. While the US has the highest numbers, other countries are catching up quick as globalization takes over.

[Nismo]

1) bad foods/diet
2) lazy/no exersize
3) medication - all americans are on meds these days and alot of meds cause weight gain
4) environment/bad parenting - kids are growing up fat due to the way their parents are and what their parents feed them, thus continuing the cycle.
5) fad diets/ignorance - fat people think a certain fad diet will cure their obesity. ignorance of nutrition; what to eat/when to eat it.

[LadyMischief]

Have you seen the size of the portions in the US? HOLY HELL! One meal would feed my whole family for days... Insane.

[FredIsMe]

You are what you eat

[Snake Doctor]

Because we're rich bitch.

How many people are there living in Africa that WISH they were fat?

The Romans were fat too....it's a side effect of being the richest, coolest, baddest mother fuckers on the planet TYVM.

[Drake]

Wrong foods + lots of it + no exercise.

The reasons for those are lengthy. But I guess in the end it comes down to individual choice (medical issues aside).

[axelez]

ground beef

[Bro Media - BANNED FOR LIFE]

and other countries don't have so many FAT people?

[Matt 26z]

There are a lot of ingrediants in US foods that simply are not legal in other countries. What does that tell you?

[CreatineGuy]

Originally Posted by MediaGuy

Shhhhhhh.... ef you start this there's going to be a big US/Canada bullshit debate...

let them get fat and die young... we'll corrupt their children later....

[GrouchyAdmin]

Food and calories are plentiful in them their hills!

[CreatineGuy]

Ok, so it's all a big business... and that's why you have so many fat people there.. companies make big cash at the expenses of fat people's health.


"Because of a system of price supports and sugar quotas imposed since May 1982, importing sugar into the United States is prohibitively expensive. High-fructose corn syrup, derived from corn, is more economical since the American price of sugar is artificially far higher than the global price of sugar[10] and the price of #2 corn is artificially low due to both government subsidies and dumping on the market as farmers produce more corn annually.[11][12]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fructose_corn_syrup

[SmokeyTheBear]

mo money mo food

[Kevsh]

Originally Posted by Nismo

1) bad foods/diet
2) lazy/no exersize
3) medication - all americans are on meds these days and alot of meds cause weight gain
4) environment/bad parenting - kids are growing up fat due to the way their parents are and what their parents feed them, thus continuing the cycle.
5) fad diets/ignorance - fat people think a certain fad diet will cure their obesity. ignorance of nutrition; what to eat/when to eat it.

Me thinks pretty much bang-on.
But I'd also ad the "food" manufacturers who keep making bigger and bigger everything. The theory has been proved that if you buy smaller portions you'll eat less - and if everything in the food store is HUGE (and a better bargain, obviously) ... well, see what happens?

[GreyWolf]

The two things the US govt promote/subsidise via farmers is corn and soya ... it's in everything - seriously unhealthy and "fake" and consumed in massive quantities.

Take a look at the shelf space in supermarkets taken up by rows of utter crap drinks - all filled with corn extract and additives. It speaks volumes.

The numbers of farmers who last grew a vegetable/greens is getting rarer tho some know exactly what they are doing and do it very well.

Can be summarized by a prime beef breeder - the guy is a human doc as well as a vet and has some serious walking beef stock. He never injects crap into his herd to enhance their production value, but keeps quoting "Feed them with crap and the end product will be crap - it's that simple". His beef was excellent

[Violetta]

Im sure there are many skinny folks there as well. But yes, I have noticed the increasing amount of fat people...

[slapass]

We eat a lot.

[websiex]

Originally Posted by Lenny2

Because we're rich bitch.

How many people are there living in Africa that WISH they were fat?

The Romans were fat too....it's a side effect of being the richest, coolest, baddest mother fuckers on the planet TYVM.

Pretty much sums it up...

[Evil E]

Because people are too lazy to care about themselves enough to make the right decisions. They also don't want to admit that they are at the root of this problem, so they just try to blame something else and then sit on their fat ass all day long while munching on gigantic sized portions of highly caloric non nutritive food.

It's just a question/combination of common sense, will power, priorities, honesty with yourself and maturity. I'm excluding the 0.4% of the population who have a genetic disorder from that conclusion. And no, YOU don't have a genetic disorder! Unless your doctor tells you so which is VERY FUCKING rare.

[Mr. Blue]

Originally Posted by CreatineGuy

With this nick, I can only have the answer of why we have so many muscular and fit people in my country... ;)

There's plenty of muscular fit people in America as well...I happen to be one of them and yes Creatine, Whey Protein, and Glucosamine in giant tubs can be found in my kitchen, lol.

As to your question. Business on all ends are propagating misinformation regarding exercise and nutrition. Fast food is basically cheap junk that's loaded with fat, transfat, etc, etc, and people buy it because it's quick, easy, and cheap. How many people stop and ask themselves, "If they're selling this burger for $1, what the fuck are they putting into it that allows this to be profitable still?"

Then the diet industry comes along with a quick fix...one that only exacerbates the problem by offering a fad solution to the problem. People focus on "losing weight" and don't consider the fact that it's not about losing weight, it's about losing fat while maintaining lean muscle. People fad diet, they lose fat and lean muscle...at the end of it they've killed their metabolism, they gain the weight back, only now they have less lean muscle mass.

Let's face it, if you told the average person to workout 6 days a week, do heavy weight lifting, and cardio...eat 6 small meals a day, no refined sugars, etc. How many people would do that? But say, "workout 5 minutes 3 times a week and you'll be thin" and everyone will buy into it.

[citron]

McDonalds

[Iron Fist]

Stupid Monopoly at McDonalds. Someone needs to sue them for making me wanna eat there to win stupid prizes.

[Jet - BANNED FOR LIFE]

Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn

You're in America, but not the US, so what ,you must be a Canadian?

Brillian logic.

Are all americans this retarded?

[Papillon]

Originally Posted by Lenny2

Because we're rich bitch.

How many people are there living in Africa that WISH they were fat?

The Romans were fat too....it's a side effect of being the richest, coolest, baddest mother fuckers on the planet TYVM.

The American way of life created by the boomer generation has become a major cause of illness, lost joy, and death, according to nutrition and health writer Greg Critser in his important and timely book Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World

? 60 percent of Americans are overweight (fat enough to experience directly related health problems).

? About 20 percent of us are obese (so fat that our lives will be cut short).

? More than 5 million Americans are morbidly obese ? so obese that they qualify for gastroplasty, a radical surgical technique that keeps the stomach from digesting food. The American Bariatric Society performs these procedures and reports that there are months-long waiting lists and that its surgeons can't keep up.

? 25 percent of all Americans under age nineteen are overweight or obese.

? Obesity disproportionately plagues the poor. Among Mexican American women from twenty to seventy-four years of age, the obesity rate is about 13 percent higher for those living below the poverty line.

? Diabetes occurs at a rate of 16 to 26 percent in both Hispanic and black Americans aged forty-five to seventy-four, compared to 12 percent of non-Hispanic whites the same age.


Yeah I really wish I was a fat fuck, honest.

[Jet - BANNED FOR LIFE]

Originally Posted by Lenny2

The Romans were fat too....it's a side effect of being the richest, coolest, baddest mother fuckers on the planet TYVM.

Bullshit. Most Roman sitizens had to serve in the Legions, and those people were the most baddest and disciplined soldiers at that time.

They were fit as fuck.

[StickyGreen]

Seems like no one drinks water anymore these days. Americans sit around sucking down sodas all day as if the sugar in them isn't going to make them fat...

[spunkmaster]

The fat free idiots have caused the problems for Americans.

Fat free means bad taste so they now use sugar to make things taste better.

Fat free milk can have over 50 carbs per cup and the average American drinks four to five cups a day. Kids get fat free milk in school now that fills them with carbs.

Real milk with real fat has ZERO carbs !

We now eat fake butter that is low fat but high sugar and fake oil when real butter is almost all fat but 100% carb free !

Almost everything in the US is low fat but they replaced the fat with sugar so it doesn't taste like shit and now almost everyone is fat from the fat free foods !

[Snake Doctor]

Originally Posted by Jet

Bullshit. Most Roman sitizens had to serve in the Legions, and those people were the most baddest and disciplined soldiers at that time.

They were fit as fuck.

Bullshit, you need to reread your history. (not to mention learn how to spell citizens)

The Romans were the most gluttonous society in history, they ate tons of food, drank lots of wine, and had lots of orgies.

[Snake Doctor]

Originally Posted by spunkmaster

Real milk with real fat has ZERO carbs !

Talk about not having your facts straight.

Whole Milk has 11g carbs per 1/2 cup.

[Beaver Bob]

fat is the new skinny

[2012]

bad diet.
lack of excersize.
just get off your ass ?

bad genes ? mcdonalds ? fast food? ribs? chips? SODA <----

[katushka]

I can't give you the right answer but when I'm at dinner at McD's today, I'll be sure to ask the server for his opinion ;)

[Jim_Gunn]

Originally Posted by Lenny2

Bullshit, you need to reread your history. (not to mention learn how to spell citizens)

The Romans were the most gluttonous society in history, they ate tons of food, drank lots of wine, and had lots of orgies.

Oh come on, you can't be serious. The average poor person in the Roman Empire, like most people in ancient times was short, slender and slightly muscular, perhaps with a little paunch from working manual labor for hours per day and eating moderately healthy food. That's if they were lucky and they weren't existing on the edge of starvation.. You can't compare the exceptional cases of how the Roman senators or wealthy individual Romans ate or lived.

[BradM]

Originally Posted by LadyMischief

Have you seen the size of the portions in the US? HOLY HELL! One meal would feed my whole family for days... Insane.

Yep. It's funny, the US small drink (soda/pop whatever) is the size of a Canadian Supersize.

[BradM]

Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn

You can't compare the exceptional cases of how the Roman senators or wealthy individual Romans ate or lived.

ROFL. I think he just did.

[pocketkangaroo]

Originally Posted by spunkmaster

The fat free idiots have caused the problems for Americans.

Fat free means bad taste so they now use sugar to make things taste better.

Fat free milk can have over 50 carbs per cup and the average American drinks four to five cups a day. Kids get fat free milk in school now that fills them with carbs.

Real milk with real fat has ZERO carbs !

We now eat fake butter that is low fat but high sugar and fake oil when real butter is almost all fat but 100% carb free !

Almost everything in the US is low fat but they replaced the fat with sugar so it doesn't taste like shit and now almost everyone is fat from the fat free foods !

Thank you very much. I've been saying this for awhile. Most fats are good for us. It's the sugar which is making the country fat.

[frostyimpressions]

The American culture has turned lazy. Everything is made for convenience here. Nobody wants to walk a few extra steps from their car, or walk down the block to the store. Nobody wants to take a few moments out of their day to cook a nutritious meal. Nobody wants to take a few moments to take their kids out to the park and just let them sit in front of the tv and play video games. Nobody wants to do any work here, plain and simple.

[halfpint]

I dont think its soley a US problem , We are having the same problem over here in the UK, apparently more and more children are becoming more obese than ever before over here.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/c...re/7046864.stm

[Cyrano]

It's purely genetic, Americans are inherently prone to obesity.

[thonglife]