Why are americans fat?

Discussion in 'Biology & Genetics' started by spuriousmonkey, Oct 18, 2007.

  1. MacGyver1968 Fixin' Shit that Ain't Broke Valued Senior Member

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    I'm sorry sam, I don't understand. Could you please explain what you meant using smaller words. Them "5 dollar" words confuse me.

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    thanks
     
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  3. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    You cannot compare two people with different economic and social conditions. So when analysing the data, you adjust it, to eliminate the effects of such differences.
     
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  5. MacGyver1968 Fixin' Shit that Ain't Broke Valued Senior Member

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    Thanks for the clarification.

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  7. peta9 Registered Senior Member

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    Actually, i don't think it's about exercise as much as it is healthy food choices. The more fattening foods you eat, the more exercising you need to do to burn it off. Just stop eating fattening foods and just day to day activity such as even walking will take care of the rest. If you sit at a desk all day, then you need to set aside some time for exercise. People who do enough walking on thier job or even climbing a few stairs, running errands, running after thier kids can be healthy if they don't compound the problem with poor food choices.
     
  8. Captain Kremmen All aboard, me Hearties! Valued Senior Member

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    Yup!
    That's it in a nutshell.
    Out of the five cheapest ingredients you can make almost anything.
    Fat, Sugar, Flour, Salt and Flavouring.
    Look on the wrapper of almost anything you buy.
     
  9. mikenostic Stop pretending you're smart! Registered Senior Member

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    That doesn't apply to everyone, Peta. I have a very fast metabolism. I'm 5'11" and weigh about 165-170 lbs. I'm not flabby either.
    My diet is whatever I feel like at the moment. I eat McD's, Sonic, Burger King, KFC, several times during the month, along with Snickers bars and 3-4 cans of Mountain Dew per day. Even though I do eat normal foods, I would say I have a very not nutritious diet.
    And even though I do ride my mountain bike, I don't ride it but maybe once a week. By that token, even though I do ride my bike, it's not enough to warrant me being as thin as I am if I didn't have a fast metabolism.
    I know quite a few people like me with fast metabolisms that can more or less eat what they want and stay thin.
    Yes, I know that's an unfair advantage that people like me have over people with slower metabolisms that gain weight much easier, but we are stuck with the hand that mother nature gave us to an extent.
     
  10. peta9 Registered Senior Member

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    Yes, of course their are people with faster or slower metabolism but I'm talking about in general it does apply. Whether you have a faster or slower metabolism, your food choices can help or exacerbate the problem period. That's just a fact.
     
  11. oreodont I am God Registered Senior Member

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    True: also the differences aren't dramatic. If one has a higher natural metabolism than someone of the same height and age then eat one less cookie a day (or the eqivalent).....that's 10 lbs of extra 'fat' accumulated on the body over a year. you can't have more gas in your car's tank after driving 10 miles unless you put more in and you can't gain weight by not refueling the body.

    It's remarkable fat Americans don't get in shape after watching those floatng blubber butts being hoisted out of the water after Hurricane Katrina: "Send down the big chains,,,we've got another heavy one !"
     
  12. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    Fools! We are preparing for nuclear winter.
     
  13. spuriousmonkey Banned Banned

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    you bunch of trolls. going on and on about diet.
     
  14. Why? Registered Senior Member

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    Non-trolls must eat to.
     
  15. kmguru Staff Member

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    American food industry has done serious research as to what tastes better. So, people go after fast food and restaurants and buffet places. In my younger days, I could eat at a buffet a lot of food in lunch time but could not eat much for dinner. I did not gain. My weight has been steady with +/- 2 pounds for the last 20 years. But I do eat salads, fruits, grains etc a lot too.

    My kids grew up with fairly balanced food and now, even if they eat at the fast food places, they do it in moderation without any coaching. This means that, how one grows up in the early years defines what they will eat in adulthood.

    So, do not expect, it will get any better.

    The other day, I was flying to DC and the guy in the middle seat insisted to lift up the divider. He took 1/4 of my seat too.
     
  16. Exhumed Self ******. Registered Senior Member

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    The food plays a big role. When I moved to the US from Asia I had to adjust my eating habits big time. It's more fattening, more expensive, and tastes worse. Before I moved here I was struggling to gain weight for sports.
     
  17. Nickelodeon Banned Banned

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    I thought food was cheaper.
     
  18. mikenostic Stop pretending you're smart! Registered Senior Member

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    I guess you weren't riding Southwest, were you?

    http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1343085

    If you take up more than one seat, you should be charged more than one ticket. Plain and simple. It's not discrimination, it's common sense.
     
  19. Exhumed Self ******. Registered Senior Member

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    I don't think so. In my case I used to eat in food courts very often and have a something like a satisfying meal of chicken and rice and soup for ~1USD. The memory of this really makes me want to cry

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    My food bill has been higher on average here and I rarely eat out anymore. Maybe it's cheaper than in Europe.
     
  20. Cortex_Colossus Banned Banned

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    Wai,

    It is not the spoon that bends,
    It is I who bends.
    God is in me and thus is you,
    you just need to realize there is no separation between anything
    and information processes cognition as
    where objects exist in time and space and reality does not because it is the set of all sets
    this is why spacetime is invisible from within, because it is nowhere absent
    the dual 2 stage process gives rise to hology
    It is I who bends, thus reality bends.
    It is within reality that I am invisible, formless, odorless, tasteless
    I am the variations of all things as my grammar is self-configuration
    this is like a circle with every point being infinite as my variations
    unbound defines me
    I am ... ?... not
    I am and I am not because I am neither.
    I am neither because I am and I am not.
    I am that = "I" and non-"I".

    8. What is the "I"-object?

    a. The "I"-object is an assumed entity that results from identification of Awareness, which is real, with the "I"-concept, which is unreal. The "I"-object seems to exist, but clear seeing shows that it does not.
    b. You are not an object and You do not exist--You are Reality (Awareness)
     
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  21. Captain Kremmen All aboard, me Hearties! Valued Senior Member

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    Good point.
    American spoons are too big.
     
  22. Sciencelovah Registered Senior Member

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    The OP is:


    or in brief:


    Not necessarily so. If two groups of people think equally hard but one group
    eat more or exercise less, and all other factors (genetic, etc) are equal,
    certainly that group will becomes more fat.

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  23. Sciencelovah Registered Senior Member

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    I suspect that Americans are more fat because they are either:

    • eat more
    • exercise less
    • eat less fibrous foods
    • eat more fatty foods, or
    • less worried about weight

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