[Help] ok question for usa! Updates to this post /post/288381-ok-question-for-usa Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:18:04 +0100 Reply from littlenick /post/288381-ok-question-for-usa#reply-5092374 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqz1oj…

]]> littlenick Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:25:26 +0100 Reply from NoGifts /post/288381-ok-question-for-usa#reply-5092371 People’s blame of the obesity on a lack of personal willpower and discipline reveals our country’s deeply puritannical roots. Thus, a lack of moral purity leads to punishment.

10,000 year of evolution training our bodies to store fat for lean times, and an environment that doesn’t provide us the opportunity for that much physical activity as we go about our daily lives, and plentiful provides a perfect situation for weight gain. Evolution has programmed us to store fat but hasn’t kept up with our environment. In fact, if we allowed nature to take its course, obese people would die young and not reproduce. Natural selection would begin to select for people who weren’t that predisposed to being obese, and over generations we would be healthy and thin again. Of course, we would be at a great disadvantage when global warming caused famine started and we couldn’t store fat for the lean times like we used to.

]]> NoGifts Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:24:27 +0100 Reply from littlenick /post/288381-ok-question-for-usa#reply-5092348 Here. This is for you to emphasize the stereotype!

Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqz1oj…

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]]> littlenick Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:11:18 +0100 Reply from katlover1 /post/288381-ok-question-for-usa#reply-5092345 i’m pure blooded American (whatever that may mean) and i’m not fat nor have i ever been :P i think there’s an abundance of cheap unhealthy food and most people don’t have the ability to say no to it.

]]> katlover1 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:08:59 +0100 Reply from Jr. /post/288381-ok-question-for-usa#reply-5092273 [quote Arkia Valkair]My guess is that people get addicted to fast food from a young age, and then never break that addiction later in life because it would cost them more money/take more time to actually try to eat better. Just look at what is being served at schools. I remember back in Middle School we could buy Tacos, Pizza, Hamburgers, huge things of fries, and they all probably came from some local fast food chain. Didn’t help that the cafeteria also had vending machines that gave out soda, candy, and bags of chips. Then in High School where we had about 30 minutes to eat a lunch, and with an open campus this resulted in everyone going to Papa Johns, or some Chinese place that was in that area. Maybe stop by a vending machine to grab a Monster or whatever other ultra sugar drinks there were.

So, yeah that’s probably the best explanation I can come up with on the spot like that. Maybe I’ll do a little research if I feel like it sometime.[/quote]

Wow, you much have gone to a richly rich school. My school (Catholic)had only one vending machine and that contained cigarettes for the teachers….lol
That’s remarkable that you had all that food in your school.

]]> Jr. Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:42:34 +0100 Reply from aeolian mode /post/288381-ok-question-for-usa#reply-5092272 We eat garbage, dont excercise, dont care anymore….We are a fat country, but some of us stay slim, but that is the exception..

]]> aeolian mode Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:42:34 +0100 Reply from NoGifts /post/288381-ok-question-for-usa#reply-5092269 We’re not at the top of the list http://www.infoplease.com/world/stati…
but a few things come into play. 1) we’ve moved from an economy with a large percent of physical labor to work that doesn’t take as much physical exertion so lack of exercise is important. Being wealthy means being able to buy things to make your work easier even at home 2) We have enough money to afford a lot of food, unhealthy or not 3) Our population is aging and older people are generally fatter than younger people. 4) We’ve go a whole industry called advertising dedicated to making us buy all kinds of things, like foods, that we don’t need.

]]> NoGifts Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:41:39 +0100 Reply from Arkia Valkair /post/288381-ok-question-for-usa#reply-5092249 My guess is that people get addicted to fast food from a young age, and then never break that addiction later in life because it would cost them more money/take more time to actually try to eat better. Just look at what is being served at schools. I remember back in Middle School we could buy Tacos, Pizza, Hamburgers, huge things of fries, and they all probably came from some local fast food chain. Didn’t help that the cafeteria also had vending machines that gave out soda, candy, and bags of chips. Then in High School where we had about 30 minutes to eat a lunch, and with an open campus this resulted in everyone going to Papa Johns, or some Chinese place that was in that area. Maybe stop by a vending machine to grab a Monster or whatever other ultra sugar drinks there were.

So, yeah that’s probably the best explanation I can come up with on the spot like that. Maybe I’ll do a little research if I feel like it sometime.

]]> Arkia Valkair Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:29:02 +0100 Reply from Jr. /post/288381-ok-question-for-usa#reply-5092227 I would say a lot steriotypical. Just because you watch the news about obesity in America, and see a bunch of fat ppl in the news clip, doesn’t mean everyone here is. The statistics is, 1 fat to every 50 skinny. So you see, it’s not that bad. You should know that the news blows everything out of proportion just for you to watch it. Try not to be so gullible.

]]> Jr. Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:20:40 +0100 Reply from littlenick /post/288381-ok-question-for-usa#reply-5092222 Yes, we are “phat!” And we love it too!

]]> littlenick Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:19:13 +0100 Reply from Anonymous /post/288381-ok-question-for-usa#reply-5092190 haha… well it is a valid question… although a little stereotypical lol.

umm… well not being from the usa i would not know… maybe it has to do something with the fact that most famous fast food chains started there?

]]> Anonymous Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:06:23 +0100