Average American Male 196 pounds, Female 170 pounds...Average adult weight worldwide is 137 pounds...

Genuinely surprised Europe isn't higher

Height is a big factor in weight and many southern Europeans are shorter on average. and if Eastern Europe is included, it's the more impoverished part with thinner people. It's really only WEstern and northern Europe that has heavier and taller folks.

How do we know there isn't just one bloke in nevada or something who is accidentally made of a neutron star? Maybe without neutron-star jeremy the average weight in the states is a svelte 175??

Average is just a made up number which is actually far far far worse:

For every skinny runner who's 136 lbs dripping wet, there's someone else tipping the scales at 256 lbs.

No you don't. Very few people are 6% body fat.

Why was a post linking to to red states being more obese removed by mods?

theunion.com

Terry McAteer: A weird correlation between political party and obesity

I was struck recently by a Fox News report using Center for Disease Control statistics that listed the top 10 states with the most obese percentage of people residing in

Link:www.theunion.com/opinion/columns/terry...

I love the movie Wall E for a lot of reasons. One is they perfectly predicted the future fatness of the human race. One day everyone will just go around on little platforms that carry them everywhere. Where I live, every kid has an e bike. Nobody has a regular bike. It’s already beginning. I love it.

Overall I applaud Michelle's attempt to make his healthier but let's not pretend the laws put in place by her husband were all that well thought out.

Every kid's school lunch should include a vegetable but if you allow ketchup or a pizza sauce to count as that vegetable you've just negated your own good policy.

Had the law required every lunch to include an actual vegetable and actual piece of fruit as opposed to things like ketchup or fruit slices packaged in syrup it would have been a good bill.

My son's private school mandates one raw or steamed vegetable and one piece of fruit in its natural form (such as an orange you have to actually peel or an apple you have to bite into) with every lunch and I think that is good policy.

Only the lazy rely on the government to fix their problems. I despise our governments food and farm policy but I take control of my own health and don't wait for them to fix it. I take control of my child's health and don't wait for the government to fix it.

I also take care of my own economic health and while it's obvious government policy affects things like my investment portfolio I don't sit around waiting for the government to hand me things to take care of me economically.

Could be, but there seems to be tremendous strides being made in weight loss drugs. Not my area of expertise, but let's be real - it's only a matter of time until they have pharmaceutical ways of losing weight. I think there's some now but they are very very expensive, though I could be wrong. But the writing's on the wall - only a matter of time.

Yes, an orange or apple you can vape would probably not be that good.

The gold medal goes to American Samoa.

The average height and weight of American Samoan men - 177cm (5′9) and 103.2 kilograms (227 lbs). The average weight and height of American Samoan women - 167cm (5′5) and 98.1 kilograms (215.8 lbs).

Even give them 4% for what ever method they use that underestimates fat, there aren’t that many 200lb 10% guys walking around. There aren’t enough skinny muscular guys to matter when looking at population averages.

Go walk through Walmart for 10 mins and let me know if you think americas problem is they are too muscular…

Fat belly is obvious trending during Trump rallies.

This is accurate. I saw it first hand. I taught at a public school, and 2/3 to 3/4 of kids were getting free or reduced price lunch. Before they punched in their student ID at the checkout, they had to take a fruit and veggie. I would imagine more kids ate a fruit or veggie bc it was on their plate, but a large amount wouldn't eat it. Left on the bleachers, benches, ground, or in the trash was a massive amount of apples, pears, etc. or spinach, okra, broccoli, etc. daily...... day after day after day.

I liked the lunches enough to buy the meal, and I gladly took fruits and veggies...because it was healthy and easy-right there for the taking.

That's weird - I grew up the 60's. We didn't exactly eat the healthiest as people think we did. Bottled pop & candy bars were a big deal (Pepsi Cola & Snickers 😏). I had them every day. Meals at home were a lot of high-carb dishes. We had spaghetti & baked bread loaded with butter for dinner like every other night. Lol. And I pounded down huge amounts of food as a kid growing up. Pastries were a favorite of mine.

Sure, we didn't have video games & smartphones to mess around with, and with the primitive TV back then, there wasn't too much watch. So, we were outside playing fairly often, riding bikes, throwing the frisbee, etc, but not for hours & hours like people think we did. Hanging out & listening to records in our homes & talking on the old-fashioned rotatary phones was getting popular. Lol.

So, there must be something else going on other than diet & excercise with today's obesity problem. 🤔

Good question! I don't mind down votes or mod-removals, what i do mind is when there is no explanation why.

How are we supposed to learn what's acceptable or not?