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This definitely concerns me as a dad. I need to keep discipline not just for myself, but to set the right example.
Parents are number one. You rarely see overweight children with normal weight parents
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I'm italian and I visited united states a couple of months ago. In my opinion the biggest problem is that you don't have decent food at affordable prices. Healthy food has nonsensical high prices and if you want something at a human price you don't have much choice except fast food. What a shame.
I don't understand this. Rice, potatoes, vegetables are still cheap here. I guess if you're looking at restaurants, this is true. If you are with a group and have to go eat somewhere, they usually provide healthy options which are not too expensive compared to the unhealthy ones (though sometimes, that's just due to smaller portions). Maybe you have a different experience, having just visited, instead of living here.…
Methinks that if 70% of you population is affected, something is effecting them. It's not just "low will power" even if that explanation makes 30% of people smug.
Public policy, lack of education, overall culture and scale and dominance of food corporations. I'm not surprised with this data. The best example to understand this is to go to your nearest US convenience store. Price of an Arizona Iced Tea 23oz can = $0.99 Price of the average bottle of water 16 oz = $1.50 Any poorly educated individual wouldn't understand the health implications of gulping 70g of liquid sugar when…
People aren't really that ignorant, they make choices, often driven by short term desire. The corporations get this, but I feel like you are using poor as a synonym for stupid. We gotta stop treating poor people like they are dumb helpless animals, it gives them no agency.
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I'm italian and I visited united states a couple of months ago. In my opinion the biggest problem is that you don't have decent food at affordable prices. Healthy food has nonsensical high prices and if you want something at a human price you don't have much choice except fast food. What a shame.
I watched a good youtube video that compared the 7/11-level food available in japan vs america and was convinced that this is one of the biggest issues. What's the healthiest thing you can get in a 7/11 in the States? An apple? One of those shitty packaged sandwiches that has a slice of ham with a mysterious wad of splooge? A hotdog that's been turning on the spit all day? Then you realize this is how it is every ste…
Holy shit, this is the scary part to me: * Percent of adolescents aged 12-19 years with obesity: 20.6% (2013-2014) * Percent of children aged 6-11 years with obesity: 17.4% (2013-2014) * Percent of children aged 2-5 years with obesity: 9.4% (2013-2014)
It will get worse. You rarely see fat children with skinny parents. But a lot of fat parents have fat kids too. Once these grow up it will be more and more likely that their children will get fat too. Also when you grow with a lot of fat people around you you don't even know how normal weight looks. I noticed this last time in Paris. I had completely forgotten how normal weight looks.
Paris is leaner than the French average, but you were probably still seeing a population with a fair amount of overweight people. Just, less overweight than what you're used to.
Seeing Paris 110 years ago would be a shock. (On many levels, but certainly on the average body composition level).
I have a book by Georges Hebert, who was an influential fitness instructor in France about 100 years ago. In it, he has pictures of French peasants shirtless, and some African tribesmen and women. They are in a form that today would be considered "unrealistic".
I can't find any of the peasant pictures online, but here are a couple of examples of the Africans:
https://actionlondaise.blogspot.ca/2016/03/georges-hebert-ce...
http://ayeparkour.blogspot.ca/2012/02/tracuers-of-legend-geo...
(The top photo on the second link is Hebert)
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I'm italian and I visited united states a couple of months ago. In my opinion the biggest problem is that you don't have decent food at affordable prices. Healthy food has nonsensical high prices and if you want something at a human price you don't have much choice except fast food. What a shame.
I would add that many Americans seem totally unaware that junk food is bad for them and for their kids. Even in well-educated families, I would see kids drinking soda and eating snacks all the time. As I understand it, it is also a political issue, food corporation have huge marketing power and any attempts of regulation draw big protests (free will / nanny state arguments).
Want lower blood pressure? Lower your weight.
Want higher testosterone and lower estrogen? Lower your weight.
Want lower cholesterol? Lower your weight.
Lower diabetes risk? Lower your weight.
Healthier gallblader, liver and kidneys? Lower your weight.
Reduce back pain? Lower your weight.
Aid sleep apnea? Lower your weight.
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>"This is directly related to the way American cities are designed. It’s a car centric culture where big houses are far away from each other." New York City is perhaps one of the most walkable cities in the world. It's also a place where you absolutely do not need a car and the majority of residents don't have a car. Yet 34% or New Yorkers are overweight and 22% are obese.[1] The BMI statistic for the EU are none too…
Well, honestly, this comment is only giving more credence to OP, since, apparently, the US average is 70% is much much worse than the 34% of NY. EDIT: Haha, apparently the HN crowd is very quick to point out inconsistencies since the original comment has been up 2 minuites and there are already 3 comments pointing the same thing (and counting)
Doesn't a 25 BMI seem like kind of a crappy metric for "overweight"? That makes my 6'4" brother "overweight" at like 205 which seems nuts. That doesn't feel overweight at all. (Defined in the footnote on page 222)
Not bad for a metric that can be easily computed at home.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/summer-of-sc...
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Healthy food isn't expensive. You can buy chicken breast for $3 to $5 a pound. You can buy a head of lettuce for $2. Oatmeal is dirt cheap. Most vegetables are less than $3 a pound.
I may be wrong, but I think OP is referring to buying it at a restaurant instead of at a grocery store.
I cheat by shopping at the local Korean grocery store instead, prices are much cheaper but you have to sort through the produce to make sure quality is up to par.