Why does America have such a high proportion of obese people?!
Question: I know Americans are rich enough to eat a lot but surely they're also intelligent enough to eat moderately and exercise?
Answers: I know Americans are rich enough to eat a lot but surely they're also intelligent enough to eat moderately and exercise?
Outside of the fact we don't get enough excersize we have such an easy access to buy junk food....and we do...and we eat it without giving it a second thought, over and over and over....you get the idea.
because with the nut shell lives most live in its too hard and too tiring to make dinner. its easier to jump in the car and get fast food. better yet just pick it up on the way home... 99.9% of reason
butt hey have so much food in america and it tastes so good!
fast food + laziness = FAT
Too many fast food restaurants and not enough time for some people to cook. Actually, the lower income people are more obese because groceries cost more than those 99cent burgers or $5 pizzas.
I blame Mcdonalds
it's not necessarily that americans eat more, but perhaps eat more fattening foods. we also probably have more sit down activities. but everyone in america is not obsese. also not all americans have a lot of money and junk food is a lot cheaper than healthy food.
We americans eat the way we do because we are lazy. The same way prison drives the business for court systems, jail and prison......The fat food and unhealthy habits we have drives the business for health clubs, nutritionist, 'lo carb foods'. Its a never ending cycle.
because America has a lot have fast food stores and stuff like that. and it also is prolly cuz a lot of ppl visit america so they have more fast food restaurants all around insted of just in certain areas
because the advertisements, and all those adds that say "its so much healthier now"
cos yo momma eats most the food lol
leave them alone.....lol......no really....its because they are comfort eating....as its the depression from knowing that their forefathers.....made a mistake.....breaking away from the british....and making them....so backwards as they are today....with only a rag of a flag to look at
They all have slow metabolism......AND FAST FOOD!!!!!
We don't. That would mostly be media hype. If you go to any American town you will see a variety of fat, thin and medium people - just as in any other country. There are more thin people in cities and more heavy/fatter people in the countryside and suburbs, just as you would see more thin fashionable people in London or Milan, and heavier frumpier people in the surrounding suburbs.
It's part of the "everything is wrong with America" hype. We do have some amazingly fat people, but not everyone is fat. Part of the problem with this perception is that these statistics rely very heavily on the BMI which is a very inaccurate measurement. According to BMI charts, many professional athletes would be classified as obese, as would a curvy woman with a naturally large chest (which is unaffected "fat" not cured by dieting) BMI is strictly your weight to your height, which is a flawed measurement. And then the media, both US and abroad runs with the story...because they love a crisis even if they have to create it themselves.
Everyone around the world is getting fatter due to stress and inactivity - not just in the US. Not all Americans are rich and not all are fat. In fact the very rich are often painfully thin. We also don't all eat at McDonalds.
Because everything that is physical that is entertainment has a liability tied to it. I other countries you can physically participation without suing for injury. Example we sit at an amusement park and say thrill me - I England the amusement park that I went to required manpower on my part to participation. ( BMW racing - sliding down a slide you had to walk the steps - obstacle course like a cop does for training). Lynda's take on the subject.