I’m American and I saw four rather spherical individuals on my run today. I would estimate 1500lbs combined. side note: is it just me or are heavier individuals less likely to reciprocate the gesture when you smile / wave while running by?
Really incredible . . . and not in a good way. In 1960, the average weights were 140 and 166 per the CDC. So, 30 pounds heavier. Sad.
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. 🤔
It's portion size. Americans eat about 50% more calories per person daily than they did in 1960. In 1961, Americans averaged 1900 cal / day. In 2010, we were already up to 2600 cal / day.
The real question is why people eat more now than they did in 1961. I think convenience and cost is a big part of it. Food is much more affordable than it used to be, so people can afford to eat a lot more soda and potato chips. Today, you buy 12-packs of soda, instead of 6-packs. Potato chips and every kind of junk food comes in bigger packages, tastes delicious, and is cheaper. More people own two cars, making it easier to shop by car as often as desired rather than by bus or less frequently. For example, my grandparents had one car, so when my Mom was growing up in the 60s, she said her grandma would take the car once every TWO WEEKS to shop on the weekend. Today, my husband and I shop a few times a week and it's super easy and convenient.
Really incredible . . . and not in a good way. In 1960, the average weights were 140 and 166 per the CDC. So, 30 pounds heavier. Sad.
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. 🤔
Pretty sure there were less preservatives in the food used in those days. And portion sizes were smaller. Preservatives and emulsifiers can mess up gut health.
Also, pure fats like butter and lard were used more often than the overprocessed seed oils that you find in pretty much 99% of shelf stable foods that had their natural fats removed. The seed oils increase shelf life but at a huge expense to health.
Pretty sure there were less preservatives in the food used in those days. And portion sizes were smaller. Preservatives and emulsifiers can mess up gut health.
Also, pure fats like butter and lard were used more often than the overprocessed seed oils that you find in pretty much 99% of shelf stable foods that had their natural fats removed. The seed oils increase shelf life but at a huge expense to health.
UPFs (with preservatives and emulsifiers and what not) are the new boogeyman. I’ve never seen compelling evidence of UPFs causing harm when the diet overall is 1) in caloric balance; and 2) micro-nutritionally adequate. Food additives are not toxic and FWIW, FDA approved.
Pretty sure there were less preservatives in the food used in those days. And portion sizes were smaller. Preservatives and emulsifiers can mess up gut health.
Also, pure fats like butter and lard were used more often than the overprocessed seed oils that you find in pretty much 99% of shelf stable foods that had their natural fats removed. The seed oils increase shelf life but at a huge expense to health.
UPFs (with preservatives and emulsifiers and what not) are the new boogeyman. I’ve never seen compelling evidence of UPFs causing harm when the diet overall is 1) in caloric balance; and 2) micro-nutritionally adequate. Food additives are not toxic and FWIW, FDA approved.
The FDA is a massive joke. All the great scientists go to NIH if they decide public sector.
Pretty sure there were less preservatives in the food used in those days. And portion sizes were smaller. Preservatives and emulsifiers can mess up gut health.
Also, pure fats like butter and lard were used more often than the overprocessed seed oils that you find in pretty much 99% of shelf stable foods that had their natural fats removed. The seed oils increase shelf life but at a huge expense to health.
UPFs (with preservatives and emulsifiers and what not) are the new boogeyman. I’ve never seen compelling evidence of UPFs causing harm when the diet overall is 1) in caloric balance; and 2) micro-nutritionally adequate. Food additives are not toxic and FWIW, FDA approved.
So much naivete in your post. Just because something isn't toxic doesn't mean it's not harmful to your health. It means it just kills you over a longer period of time than something that we'd label a toxin...
UPFs (with preservatives and emulsifiers and what not) are the new boogeyman. I’ve never seen compelling evidence of UPFs causing harm when the diet overall is 1) in caloric balance; and 2) micro-nutritionally adequate. Food additives are not toxic and FWIW, FDA approved.
The FDA is a massive joke. All the great scientists go to NIH if they decide public sector.
Sounds like you don’t disagree with anything I actually said.
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.
Yes, an orange or apple you can vape would probably not be that good.
The alternative is stuff like orange slices in syrup or dried fruit with added sugar. I was deliberate in mentioning it was real food in its original form.
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. 🤔
It's portion size. Americans eat about 50% more calories per person daily than they did in 1960. In 1961, Americans averaged 1900 cal / day. In 2010, we were already up to 2600 cal / day.
The real question is why people eat more now than they did in 1961. I think convenience and cost is a big part of it. Food is much more affordable than it used to be, so people can afford to eat a lot more soda and potato chips. Today, you buy 12-packs of soda, instead of 6-packs. Potato chips and every kind of junk food comes in bigger packages, tastes delicious, and is cheaper. More people own two cars, making it easier to shop by car as often as desired rather than by bus or less frequently. For example, my grandparents had one car, so when my Mom was growing up in the 60s, she said her grandma would take the car once every TWO WEEKS to shop on the weekend. Today, my husband and I shop a few times a week and it's super easy and convenient.
Where are you getting that stat from? As a kid growing up in the 1960's, our portion sizes were pretty big. In addition to the bottled pop & candy bars we scarfed down, we also ate a ton of chips. I think it was "Lay's" potato chips or something like that, which was heavily advertised on the tube TV. Lol. I'd wolf down a big bag of Lay's like every 3 days or something driving my mother crazy. 🤣
The other thing was my dad was a school teacher & after work he'd plop down in front of the TV watching Walter Cronkite & reading the paper scarfing down chips & a couple of Miller beers. Then came those high-carb dinners that my mother made (spaghetti, pizza, mac & cheese, French fries, mashed potatoes, etc).
And here's the weird thing: My dad wasn't fat by any means & I remember he would go for a short walk, weather permitting, every evening after dinner.
So, there's something else going on here other than diet & exercise. 🤔
I played football and basketball before focusing on running in college and worked my a55 off in HS trying to stay at/near 170lbs....weights, whey, creatine, constantly eating 20 years ago...American women today just exist lol.
The person who mentioned portions is spot on. Just with on vacay at 150lbs with my 100lb fiance (she was doing a triathlon in San Diego last Sunday, lol) and we had leftovers every night from dinner when we ordered our own meals. And shared 1 ordered meal for breakfast & lunch every day. Portion sizes are insane. People mindlessly scarf down absolutely ridiculous portions put in front of them. Couple that with a more sedentary lifestyle, it's a "no duh".
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.
This is a bad cope. The average American man is about 5ft 9in. The average European man including all the South European countries is about 5ft 10in. Yet Americans still manage to pack on 20lbs more weight on a shorter frame. Shorter and MUCH fatter.
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.
This is a bad cope. The average American man is about 5ft 9in. The average European man including all the South European countries is about 5ft 10in. Yet Americans still manage to pack on 20lbs more weight on a shorter frame. Shorter and MUCH fatter.
If not for American tourism, all of your countries' economies would be living in huts.
Really incredible . . . and not in a good way. In 1960, the average weights were 140 and 166 per the CDC. So, 30 pounds heavier. Sad.
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. 🤔
You're right - your cola was full of sugar, not high-fructose corn syrup. Cheap junk food has gotten waaaaay worse, palm oil in everything
196 is crazy, but chicks average at 170 is truly STAGGERING. Holy hell how lazy are people
One of the problems in the USA is they stimulate all their food production with growth additives. Battery steroid chickens and beef.
They pass through to you.
I started in Australia. Put on 20 pounds when I moved to the USA. Lived in the UK eating fresh food and dropped weight. Moved back to the US and put on 20 more pounds.
All with the same diet.
All the while frantically exercising and trying to lose weight.