Why are americans so fat? (serious topic)

[Bioture]

it's not entirely the fault of fast foods.

In part it's genetics, but largely it's because in america, unlike a good portion of the rest of the world, have an excess of food. That and because fat is cheaper than healthy foods.

[project dragon]

I'd just like to point out how much it sucks to always be exactly 150 pounds (give or take about 5) god damn my metabolic rate, I'd consider throwing more shit (aka food) at it, but I'm even more worried that it would just make it increase in speed while attaching little to none of the broken down materials to my body, much like it does at this point.

I wouldn't mind being 150 pounds.
i'm currently a little over 5'11" and 120 lbs (give or take 5 lbs).
i've been at this weight for about 2+ years... i don't think its healthy.

[Money]

I Blame The Fat People, Unless They Have A Genetic Disease Or Some Shit Then They're Just Lazy.

[Jonesy]

Haha... has anyone else seen those "My child is 2 and over 150 lbs!" episodes on Maury Povich? Freaking mothers feeding 1 1/2 year olds fried chicken and hamburgers and giving them root beer in a milk bottle. So insane.

[genocidal]

Lol Face, normally I skip over Sirius.'s posts because he's so fucking stupid but that was actually funny in its stupidity. Guess that's why you Ruskies lost the Cold War, sucks to be poor.

[Displaced]

if you wouldve asked me a few years ago i wouldve said metabolism plays the biggest part, the rest isn't as important.

but that was before i blew out my knee and wasnt able to excercise properly...

I put on lots of weight quickly, just because i was confined to walking with crutches for 6 months, after that I had a period of about another 6 months where i was just too "scared" to excersise properly (i.e. i didnt play football, rugby or icehockey anymore due to fears of blowing it again)

Then the army beckoned, during which time i was running around, crawling etc and lost a decent amount of weight, now im excercising regularly and losing the rest of the weight i gained after the operation.

Just get the kids out and about, reinstate PE in school, and parents should encourage the kids to play some sports extracurricularly.
Limit the amount of time spent infront of TV or computer, and get them to join the swimteam or something.

[Miku19]

The most effective thing to do is to raise the kids to be sporty BEFORE they get fat. A shame some just can't do it because they aren't sporty themselves.

[Richard Creager]

Displaced, the amount of physical activity you get rather directly affects your metabolism. Of course you would get bigger if you kept the same or even varying amounts less of intake while not being able to do the activities you used to, the metabolism is forced to slow down at the point because you body is not exerting the work that demands the food to be turned into and used as energy.

Project Dragon, yes that is pretty skinny, but that could just be your natural body type and isn't necessarily unhealthy, while the quacks of our wonderful medical industry will tell you differently, the truth is, what is an idea weight is not purely based on a person's height, it is more likely based and resulting from the genes decision of what the individuals weight should be. The mind may also be able to decide these things, but this can but hurtful to the body and metabolism when supposed ideals of weight are shoved into one's face.

Winnie, I suppose 150 isn't bad, but I pretty much wish I could get to 300, and I do bodybuild somewhat, or rather used to but have been slacking while I work on certain things, but if I were at 300, my legs would be soo huge! I'd probably be able to jump onto buildings with such thighs. The thing about pumping myself up though, I still remained at the same weight even though my body became more toned. However this is most likely because of the fact I often do not get to eat as much as I would like (I'm extremely picky about food) or as often as I have the desire or possibly even need to, the thing about it is, I really can't afford to eat as I like because my metabolism is a bit quick as it is, I'm rather scared of causing it to turn lightspeed on me on accident and end up having to piss as soon as I drink something instead of like 5 to 10 minutes later (give or take the time I hold it to take care of something I'd be focused on).

[Liquid Blue]

They took PE out of school? What the fuck? Kids can't play dodgeball now? Kickball?

[Hero*]

If you make ppl addicted to something like sugar, ppl will buy it.

if only that was possible. There is no such thing as a food addiction.

[Pearl Jam]

simple answer:

influence on american lifestyles. we indulge in whatever we want (as stated by the constitution) and some people indulge too much.

i'm 6'1" 175. by no means a monster. i think to just ask "why are americans so fat?" is just fueling a stereotype.

[Kolar]

Efficiency not 'americanization', is fueling people to go for fast food/premade meals over cooked/home made food, people generally don't consider what they eat anyways. Never in the history of our species has food been more available or abundant as well.

[Jonesy]

besides Maury Povich and those 200 lb 2 year olds.... I think that one of the major factors that contribute to people being overweight--is... the portion size of meals. Most people are taught to eat everything on the plate... and restaurants nowadays put enough food to feed an entire family on a single plate.

This is how I lost my weight. I used to be overweight, but I realized that I shouldn't eat so much at one time and I lost about 60 pounds when I stopped doing so. It doesn't matter what you eat, but how much you eat. If you eat 5 bags of carrots a day--you will still be an obese mother ******.

[Izor]

You cant say that its video games cause people in europe play more than most people in the us, particularly in scandanavia where its too damn cold outside to do anything else, and theres nothing to do anyway. I think that its how the culture deals with it. Distort summed it up pretty much when he talked about how they cant even play dodgeball cause they dont want to make people feel bad. The same applies to school system bumping up people who shouldnt really on an academic level be there (No child left behind I believe is the name of that).

America sadly has a zero accountability mindset for everything. Thats why ridiculous lawsuits are filed every other day and usually it seems like people are winning them (MY DAMN COFFEE JUST BURNT ME, ITS YOUR FAULT CAUSE THERE WASNT A CAUTION: HOT ON IT). Instead of someone saying that they shouldnt be eating that unhealthily, they just will place the blame on a company for making a fattening food. That way I guess they don't feel so bad about doing it to themselves. Before this was just a problem with black people blaming the white man for all that was wrong with them, so no one cared, but in the last 20 or so years everyone else in America has started to just blame everyone else for their own shortcomings.

[Da1andonly]

just a quick note; atleast compared to Finland, restaurants in the US use much more "fat" when boiling stuff etc.

And izor, I don't think 25 degrees celsius is that cold..