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Pretty simple. Fad diets, carbs, fast food, big portions. Sums it up right there.
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[QUOTE=admin;5770947]TOPIC: Why Do Americans Have Such A Hard Time Keeping The Fat Off?
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Why is it that after all of the studies on how to lose fat, all the articles in magazines and newspapers on how to lose fat, all the diets and supplements for losing fat, and all the constant media attention on how to lose fat... Americans still can't lose their fat and keep it off?
Why do most Americans have a weight problem? What would you tell all overweight Americans if you had five minutes on national television on the subject of getting in shape and staying in shape? What are they doing wrong?
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Because there is so much bad sh*t in our food, even ones that are supposed to be healthy by having "low fat" or "fat free".
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cuz they poor and bad food be cheap
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[QUOTE=admin;5770947]TOPIC: Why Do Americans Have Such A Hard Time Keeping The Fat Off?
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Why is it that after all of the studies on how to lose fat, all the articles in magazines and newspapers on how to lose fat, all the diets and supplements for losing fat, and all the constant media attention on how to lose fat... Americans still can't lose their fat and keep it off?
Why do most Americans have a weight problem? What would you tell all overweight Americans if you had five minutes on national television on the subject of getting in shape and staying in shape? What are they doing wrong?
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Huge Portions, Little Activity, Super Industrialism
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Coz they often have an intimate relationship with food. Teach them to treat food as fuel and that might be able to solve America's obesity.
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They Don't
Americans don't have a harder time, than any other population, keeping fat off. Genetically there is nothing "extra" keeping the average american from staying fit. There are more resources to get fat, but there are just more lazy and ignorant people in the U.S. than most other countries.
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For example i live in san antonio (one of the fattest cities in the country). Breakfast tacos and soda are apart of everyone's daily diet. The portion size's restaurant's serve, lack of physical activity, etc. I believe can make it nearly impossible to stay in shape unless you dedicate yourself to the lifestyle. I honestly don't even think it's possible to maintain a healthy lifestyle while eating out. The idea of food and nutrition is so warped it's almost like it is a big secret. It's sad especially when i see little kids (5-7 year olds) look extremelyyyyyyy overweight and i see their parents cart filled with soda, chips, cereal, etc. Little do they know the set backs and future trials they are putting their own kids through. i honestly consider it child abuse.
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You have to look at the past to understand why we're in the condition we're in now.
lots of excuses about over-eating, laziness, etc., but compared to other cultures, it isn't necessarily true. a lot of the myths are unfounded.
For example, people equate wealth with obesity, but statistically, 50% of the most obese nations have poverty rates of 50% or more. Also, the US does have a very high obesity rate, but it also has a very high fitness rate compared to other countries.
Our government implemented a farming program to produce <b>calories</b> as efficiently as possible at a time when malnutrition was a huge concern, and this has manifested itself in the mass production of simple carbs, almost exclusively in the form of grains.
However, we are now (or should be) very aware that quantity =/= quality - these are "empty" calories, absent of essential macro and micro nutrients.
If you were to examine this change in diet in respect to grand scheme of the human race, evidence shows that at the time we changed from hunter/gatherers to settled farmers, the human lifespan and general health actually began to decrease; if one were to abstract the human diet to a clock, the time the human race has been farming and consuming grains as a primary source of food accounts for just 1 minute.
There are approximately 20,000 varieties of food that are currently under cultivation - of that, the average American grocery store sells 60; of that, the average American only purchases 12; and of that, the primary ingredient in 60% of those food items are processed carbs.
You'd imagine that countries such as France, who consume high quantities of alcohol, dairy and meat should (under contemporary American conceptions of what is "healthy") should be very unhealthy...but they are not.
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most americans are fat and lazy thats why
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To me it's because of emotional eating - which leads to apathy, then a downward spiral in which the soul source of one's pleasure in life becomes the consumption of extremely high caloric food.
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Very simple. Most of them don't even workout. If I would have a chance to say something to them on television, I would say: "Go regularly to the gym and WORKOUT! Be active, run, run and again run!"
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Yeah.
US and Canada have poor eating habits and relatively few people interested in working out (in my experience).
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I honestly feel that people just don't care enough about their health to lose the weight, or don't have the motivation to do it. That was the case with me, until freshman year in hs, when I got rejected for the first time. Joined a gym, started lifting/cardio, lost ~50 lbs, and started playing football. Tbh if I'd never been turned down, I'd probably be bigger than I was before because I'd have had no motivation to do it.
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lots of things as already mentioned...
Also IT COSTS A LOT TO EAT CLEAN IN THE US! Kinda goes back to the 99 percenters, etc. If you struggle to survive financially you are going to buy food that is economically feasible... i.e crappy carbs that come in a box or can. It doesn't help that average portion size in restaurants is about 5 times the size it should be, which in turn makes folks think that is normal, etc.
NYC had it right a little while by limiting the size of soda anyone can buy at one go... too bad that law didn't stay around long and spread.
Maybe now that Obama care is here to stay forever, more stuff like that will start happening nationwide as more folks start flipping the bills for healthcare costs that this type of supersized crap is causing.
It also doesn't help that PE classes are like only a few months out of entire educational lifetime for most, etc. Should be an annual thing that is taken yearly by all, etc.
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Temptation, Temptation, Temptation. Food everywhere and it all looks and smells sooooo good! How can the average person help themselves! Fast food giants just another type of crack dealer!
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I am not sure because I don't live in America but when I lived in Canada I came to know that American food portions are twice as big. In my opinion, Canadian portions are already too big so I can just imagine how much big it must be in America.
Though I have heard that the problem has gotten worse in Mexico.
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i think it is becuse all of the fast food and un healthy food people eat out to much
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Contrary to popular belief I believe Americans do eat well-balanced meals.
Eg. Eat a quarter pounder burger (cheese or no cheese) gives you everything you need in the meal (except for the excess sodium.)
I just think that Americans tend to eat Too much of everything without the corresponding excercise/activity that will burn it/ equalize it off.
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It's been said, but I think it has to do with the price of quality food. That and the fact that a lot of american's don't know any better.
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It's more, tastier, and more ready to eat food. I live in Holland but when i go to America every year, i gain weight. Here in Holland we get very small portions and it's not even cheap, more things taste less good (maybe less MSG and salt) and when i walk in the supermarket in Holland, there is more food that you must cook first/not ready to eat.
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Americans are very lazy. They would rather go to a fast-food restaurant and get a quick, unhealthy meal instead of spending time preparing something healthy and nutritious.
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[QUOTE=TaylorT25;1152293703]Americans are very lazy. They would rather go to a fast-food restaurant and get a quick, unhealthy meal instead of spending time preparing something healthy and nutritious.[/QUOTE]
+1.
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[QUOTE=DoctorHitch;1152008123]It's more, tastier, and more ready to eat food. I live in Holland but when i go to America every year, i gain weight. Here in Holland we get very small portions and it's not even cheap, more things taste less good (maybe less MSG and salt) and when i walk in the supermarket in Holland, there is more food that you must cook first/not ready to eat.[/QUOTE]
i guess Holland has a low obesity rate?
i wish more countries were like that...
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Its called "High Fructose Corn Syrup" And its killing everyone in this country. Not just making them gain weight....
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Everything bad for you is so easily accessible and we are either to lazy or to preoccupied holding down a 9 to 5 that we hate to take time out to take care of our bodies.
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Coz junk food is easily available