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Yes, let’s blame it on moral failure rather than the destruction of walkable spaces, endangering as many outdoor spaces as possible with 3-ton emotional support vehicles, portion sizes at restaurants and grocery stores that are double of other countries because going anywhere requires committing to driving 15mins both ways and parking, and having fuck all for a health care system.
Don’t forget putting sugar/HFCS into everything (in Hungary, we call them cookies), and the toxic gymbro culture of “everything or nothing” mentality when it comes to sports/workout.
Or we could blame it on a food industry that soaked up all the researchers and marketers who got unemployed when we cracked down on cigarette advertising
People are, for the most part, stupid and/or* lazy.
So they’ve gotten fat.
“Walkable spaces!! 😭😭”
🙄
Yes, and stupid and lazy people don’t want walkable spaces. Neither, it seems, do you. Curious.
Then why haven’t they gotten fat equally?
Because not every metabolism is built equally? I ate like shit and barely exercised for 10 years working as a programmer and my weight stuck at 180lb/82kg the entire time. Nowadays I get a lot more exercise and still eat like shit and weigh 170. My buddy watches his food intake properly and takes a walk every day, and he’ll gain 10 pounds just by looking at a tray of cookies, bounces over and under the 200lb mark constantly.
Your individual anecdotes are irrelevant. We can see obesity started to increase worldwide in the 1950s, especially in America.
There are other causes but it was partially due to the rise of more heavily processed foods.
We can, broadly speaking, link obesity to a person’s economic status, as having the time to exercise and prepare/purchase healthier foods is a luxury.
We can also link this to the ris of car dependent cities as people walked less.
Countries with more regulation against unhealthy food and more walkable infrastructure have less obesity.
Blaming obesity on laziness is just short-sided.
It‘s not that different today. Back then it was people paying directly. Now ads on TLC pay them.
They didn’t have junk food!
Or cars, and most (afaik?) labour was manual.
Also more parasites as well.
This guy is probably 20lbs of tapeworms.
He would’ve been advertised by the travelling circus (freak show) as the world’s fattest but they had no way to know who in fact was the world’s fattest.
This guy looks EXACTLY like my neighbor. Fuckin creepy
You live next to the world’s fattest man? Amazing!
Is your neighbor about 155 years old? 🤔. Could be him!
And this is the tallest waterfall on earth!
You’re implying there’s some gaslighting going on but Europeans really don’t see the American body type of… wider than taller, despite how piggy they are.
My old man was a drunk and enjoyed food immensely, did not diet a day in his life. And when he drove a sort of train for the Moomin theme park and saw some American tourists, he was utterly shocked.
We’ve round diabetics in Finland as well, but honestly the fattest ones I’ve seen barely come close to this guy.
Based and waterfallpilled
Fair point, but are we sure he was actually the world’s fattest man, or was that just what the carnival barker that sold the tickets put on the sign?
American way of life. Would you like a straw with your 2 liters soft drink?
I went to look up our soft drink sizes.
McDonald’s large is 30 fl oz (890 ml). The Super Size, discontinued in the mid 2000’s, was 42 fl oz (1240 ml).
The 7-Eleven Big Gulp is also 30 fl oz, but it’s not the largest size offered. The Super Big Gulp is 40 fl oz (1180 ml), and the Double Gulp is 50 fl oz (1480 ml), down from its original size of 64 fl oz (1900 ml).
There are bigger sizes, like the 7-Eleven “Team Gulp,” an entire US gallon (128 oz, 3.8 liters), but it’s marketed as being for multiple people to share.
Fattest man to have been photographed in 1890.
Food technology has come a long way
That is pretty crazy right there.
I think I might go do some sit-ups
Average day at WalMart.
I don’t see a fatness certificate detailing BFI.
There are people like these today that are sodium intolerant, and their body retains gigantic amounts of water just to deal with that.
I’m talking people that are way, WAY above the average sodium consumption of 2300 milligrams daily.
They don’t know they are intolerant and gain abrupt amounts of weight ( 30 lbs or more in days ) just due to water retention
These are people whose maximum sodium intake should be less than 500-50 milligrams daily
Imagine what that much salt makes to a body
- in the USA
