Why are Europeans, on average, so much skinnier than Americans?

Rick Steves wrote:

Go there. Food is so expensive you cannot afford to train. Only the wealthy can afford the additional food expense to be athletes in Europe. In America the average family can have children participate in sports.

Care to back that up? That may have some validity in parts of Europe, but not in others.

Go there. Food is so expensive you cannot afford to train. Only the wealthy can afford the additional food expense to be athletes in Europe. In America the average family can have children participate in sports.

My experience also. In Western Europe fresh produce is generally expensive and many items are in short supply. In Eastern Europe it's is both expensive when they do have it, but most of the time fresh produce is not available. Only a few items in markets are sold. Meats are very expensive and people buy little tiny scrimps of meats. On the street the standard of living is a fraction of what we have in the United States.

Bullshit sir.

lol

In Moscow and London, to be hip and chic, you want to be seen at McDonald\'s. That\'s how impoverished life is over there. O.K. to visit but don\'t train of work in Europe for God\'s Sakes.

eam wrote:

Is it all the cycling? The cigarettes?

better public transportation.

studies have shown that American cities with better public transportation lead to a general population that is less obese due to the increased amounts of walking necessary to utilize said public transportation.

They are poorer.

Obviously you haven't been down to the local the trailer park lately...more like "Trailer Pork".

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They are poorer.

Fatties wrote:

You don't have to go to Europe. Go visit Canada...

You don't have to go to Canada, go to the affluent areas on the coast of California. There are very few fat (much less obese) people in the area (a suburb of SF) that I live in.