nein51 said:
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Redbrickbear said:
Especially for folks that went to college in say the mid 1980's or earlier, the student who was actually fat was rare.
Walk on a major campus in 2023 and there are fattys everywhere.
My dad went to college in the 40's. In his yearbooks there are NO fat people. None, they aren't rare,
they didn't exist.
America radically changed just in about 25 years from 1990 to the 2010s in terms of obesity
Still not sure what to make of that
Too many people not moving enough during the day and living off a diet of fast food and mocha lattes.
When I was a kid, on a nice and sunny 73 degree day, I'd see other kids out playing or riding bikes, the neighbors watering or cutting their lawn or outside playing pitch with their kids. Now-a-days, the neighborhood is a ghost town. Kids inside playing video games, parents hiring guys to mow their lawn, parents not throwing the ball with Jr.
Sad state
I'm sure that is a small part of it but people didnt go to gyms or workout more in the 80s. The food is what has changed and a major part of that was when McDonalds moved away from frying the fries in beef tallow and changed to seed oils. That coupled with the move away from cane sugar to high fructose corn syrup and we have out of control obesity. Europe has banned these type of things but we have lobbyists here that want to keep these things going at the detriment to the health of everyone.
Yea, I come to the conclusion that it is the food.
People in Europe are not living much different from Americans these days....internet, fast food, etc.
And yet they are a lot skinner.....it has to be the food. Seed Oils, processed sugar, etc.
Except euros walk orders of magnitude more than Americans. We drive everywhere and they don't.
1. That really is only true of densely packed urban environments…and even then they use a lot of trains. So it's not like they are walking 30 miles a day in exercise.
I've been to Rome, London, Paris….I was not getting a ton of exercise just walking 1-2 blocks to the subway line.
2. Europe has actually become more car dependent over the past 30 years than it was in the past.
"Americans drove for 85 percent of their daily trips, compared to car trip shares of 65 percent in Europe."
Even the ones that dont use cars use Vespas and motorbikes. Everyone in Rome and Paris has them…that is like a car but without protection.
You get not exercise walking out your door and driving that around all day.
3. Again, the food is the only thing that can not be accounted for.
When I was in Europe I basically ate all day every day…gorged myself…came back home and I had lost 5lbs
It was strange