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Yeah. Growing up I had some childhood neighbor friends from Texas and was shocked at the amount of sugar they consumed and considered it normal.

Even breakfast they would be shaking sugar over their already sweetened cereal.

Bread on a sandwich? Sweetened sugary bread with almost no nutrition.

Tea? Tasted like sugary syrup and they would drink it all day.

It was like every dish had to be sugary and sweetened in some way.

One of them tried some instant Crystal Lite tea that I thought was already overly sweet and they about gagged thinking it was bitter.

My families idea of "iced tea" was brewing real tea, mixing in some honey or minimal sugar, and then putting it in the fridge.

The other one that shocked me is the amount of soda they would consume. Like the entire family of 5 would easily go through a 24 pack or more a day.

I can understand have certain sugary treats on occasion like fun snacks at the annual fair but can't imagine doing that daily.

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NYC is skinnier than the rest of the country.

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Added sugar in absolutely everything. And, you know what they do to make low fat food taste good? Add more sugar and sweetners.

Fat is good for you, it's what your body needs.

Sugar is bad. Your body has zero need for it.

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The don't walk or ride bicycles any more, and eat huge portions of the American crap food that is served to them by their obese host families.

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The don't walk or ride bicycles any more, and eat huge portions of the American crap food that is served to them by their obese host families.

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Stop projecting.

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That butthurt over getting called out and roasted in this thread, huh?

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Google says you have to walk 1 mile to burn 100 calories.  Not sure that's enough to explain it.

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All I know is that if I had a 14 year old daughter in that room, I wouldn't want her to be around this guy, or the others trying to justify it. Gross. Look at it from a different perspective. The amount of hypocrisy in GD is astonishing.

If you knew that a democrat posted it, you would almost certainly call them a pedophile.

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Because they're hanging out with fat Americans

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In this thread, we declare our allegiance to simple answers to complex questions.

All I know is that I can eat like a pig abroad and rapidly lose weight. Come home and everything smells different for a couple days and I slowly return to my pre+trip weight.

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So many of the narratives of what we've been told about why Americans, and the west in general, is getting so fat... seem to run contrary to some of what we observe elsewhere.

Here are some things that have been blamed for obesity.

1. We're fat because we're rich.
Firstly, Im not entirely sure about that. Obesity rates seem to be higher in poorer communities IN America. If that was true, the reverse would be true with wealthier people being fat and poor people being skinny.

Secondly, Japan is a very wealthy country. Yet Japanese exchange students statistically put on quite a few pounds when they come to America.

2. Its all the Junk food!

Having traveled to Asia, believe me... they have junk food too. And its dirt cheap too. In fact, in Asia, people probably eat out more often than they do in America given how there are far more cheap street food options.

3. Its a personality deficiency.

Again, then explain why a Japanese person can be skinny their entire life in Japan... and when they come to America, they get fat? Does their personality just change immediately after coming to America?

Honestly, I suspect there is something fundamentally different about our food. I feel there is far more going on than what "LOL, just make better choices bro!" types want you to believe.

There are still skinny people in America, and so those people will just point at fat people saying "Well I can stay skinny, so its your fault!"
Perhaps. But Perhaps whatever is affecting the rest of society,... just doesnt seem to affect others as much?

I knew a guy who ate Wendys almost every day, for almost every meal. The most amount of exercize he would get is occasionally playing basket ball. He didn't run. He didn't lift weights. He EXCLUSIVELY drank sodas and juices. Absolutely could not drink water to save his life. Yet somehow, he was scrawny (WTF!?). He wasn't living a super active lifestyle. Yet I've known people who led fairly active lifestyles, who still manage to be fat... and didn't come NEAR his level of eating junk food.

There is something really fucky going on in America. I just dont know what it is.
Dont know if its because we've destroyed our Gut fauna, which perhaps in the past would have left us with more of a sensation of satiety throughout the day... and also consuming more of our calories for us?
Dont know if its chemicals being pumped into our food that make us addicted to the food/leave us hungry even after eating massive amounts of calories.
Something they put in the water?

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NYC is skinnier than the rest of the country.

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That alone is a pound of weight a year, all else being equal. And (let me check my fingers....).. over 10lbs a decade.

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Because it is everything nowadays.

I don’t remember the exact numbers but this is close…

In the late sixties the average American supposedly consumed something like 4 pounds of sugar a year. Now it’s like 16 pounds.

And that is added sugar. Stuff we don’t control that companies put in our processed foods.

It’s crazy and the truth really is that high fructose corn syrup is the devil. Not because of what it is but just because of it being in everything now.

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Social pressure in Japan.

Easier to be fat when everyone around you is fat.

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Our food is dogshit. Everything in the center isles of  stores is trash. Everything at fast food restaurants is trash. Almost everything is loaded with harmful additives, food coloring, excessive added sugars and God knows what other chemical concoctions that are being labeled as "natural flavors."

You have to put forth a conscious effort and go out of your way to seek out healthy options, and the healthy options that remain are generally more than double or triple the price.

Real and natural foods that were the staple of American diets 60 years ago are now much more expensive than the dogshit foods. All the unnatural bullshit that has been added to cheapen our food has artificially suppressed the inflation rate. As our dollar has been devalued our food has been devalued in tandem so the effects of inflation don't look as bad, but all those savings on lower quality unhealthy foods wind up costing more down the road in the form of medical bills and lower efficiency from being an unhealthy fat fuck

Combine that with a sedentary life and boom, you have an easily controllable nation of entitled, weak fat-bodies who bear zero resemblance to their forbearers and don't deserve to be called Americans because they have destroyed the country's brand.

Flying from abroad and then setting foot back in an American airport is embarrassing as fuck. Seeing all these fatbodies waddling around is like a giant billboard saying "Welcome to America! We're a nation of weak-minded, unhealthy, lazy, gluttons who have zero impulse control"

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fructose corn syrup

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1.  People aren't fat cuz they eat too much.  they fat cuz they eat too much CARBOHYDRATE.  Eat carbs, your insulin goes up and you are hungry again in an hour. Eat a steak, you are happy and satisfied for many hours.

2.  Asians eat relatively high carb in their home countries, like Japan.  Hmm. Interesting.

3.  Despite higher tolerance for carbs, Asians go to pot when they move here.

Reason:  SEED OILS.

And fast food.  And universal instant access to  high carb shit.  And general quality of everything you eat in our country, I am sorry to say.

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Nope. Sugar.

I lost 40 pounds in 4 months by eliminating sugar. I never tracked calories or fat at all.

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NYC is skinnier than the rest of the country.