The average American woman now weighs 166 pounds — as much as a 1960s man

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Oil Stain

Mine weighs 114.

What is that in stones?

[VladtheImpaler]

Originally Posted by Northendzone

The bigger the cushion, the better the pushin

Turn it up to 11.

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by Northendzone

The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin

The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand

[VladtheImpaler]

Originally Posted by Reaper

The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand

Or so I have read

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by Cameron Swift

I grew up on the other side of the pond. In my 25 years there, I can count on one hand the number of 300lb people I've ever seen there. It amazed me when I moved over here. You could spend an hour in any food court and find just as many obese people. And I'm talking about the people who have ankles bigger than my thighs. That kind of obese.

Overeating and getting little exercise are obvious culprits. But from what I've seen, it's almost impossible to get truly obese unless you have a relentless intake of sugared beverages. In the parts of the U.S where obesity is common, it's normal for people to drink 4-8 cans of pop a day. So while Europe might have its share of people who eat fatty foods and never exercise, there isn't a culture of drinking litres of pop a week, so you don't see nearly as much obesity.

[WhiteTiger]

Originally Posted by troutman

what is that in stones?

82

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by peter12

My woman weighs around 115 lbs.

Yeah, but did she cost more than your shoes?

[GirlySports]

I wonder how the average has changed in regards to the early 80s when high fructose corn syrup became widely available.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by WhiteTiger

82

8.1429 stones

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by Duruss

Yah they do Queen wrote a song about it.

Seriously who else would know more about shagging fat chicks than Freddie Mercury?

[stampsx2]

I just took my first trip to the u.s. in seven years. We were shocked how many overweight people there were. Even 15 year old kids that could barely walk. We spent a lot of time trying to figure out why it's so bad down there. Is it all from sugar? I don't know. So many people there leaning back to walk.

We came back to Calgary and what's the first thing we see? People going for a run. I have a better appreciation for Calgarians and fit people.

[jeffporfirio]

We saw Burker King billboards announcing Whoppers for breakfast in Orlando last summer.
A bit too much maybe?

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by stampsx2

I just took my first trip to the u.s. in seven years. We were shocked how many overweight people there were. Even 15 year old kids that could barely walk. We spent a lot of time trying to figure out why it's so bad down there. Is it all from sugar? I don't know. So many people there leaning back to walk.

We came back to Calgary and what's the first thing we see? People going for a run. I have a better appreciation for Calgarians and fit people.

You realize Canada is in the top 10 got fattest nations and actually relatively close to the US?

[RubberDuck]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyIAMFUuoEI

[northcrunk]

Originally Posted by stampsx2

I just took my first trip to the u.s. in seven years. We were shocked how many overweight people there were. Even 15 year old kids that could barely walk. We spent a lot of time trying to figure out why it's so bad down there. Is it all from sugar? I don't know. So many people there leaning back to walk.

We came back to Calgary and what's the first thing we see? People going for a run. I have a better appreciation for Calgarians and fit people.

I think it has to do with the portions. Everything you order is HUGE. I couldn't eat half my plate most of the time when in the USA. That combined with so many resteraunts who have meal challenges and it's become a sport for them.

[keratosis]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

Seriously who else would know more about shagging fat chicks than Freddie Mercury?

Pretty much anyone who wasn't gay?

[stampsx2]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

You realize Canada is in the top 10 got fattest nations and actually relatively close to the US?

Yup and Alberta is well below average compared to Canada and the u.s. I'm guessing Calgary is well below average compared to other canadian cities.

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

You realize Canada is in the top 10 got fattest nations and actually relatively close to the US?

As the map above shows, there's actually a significantly lower incidence of obese Canadians. These things tend to cluster by geography and class, but you'll see far fewer obese people walking around the streets of Calgary than you'll see in most American cities, especially those in the midwest and south. Low-income rural Newfoundland or Saskatchewan might be a different story. But even those are comparable to the U.S. states with the lowest rates of obesity.

[AcGold]

I'd say the blame is on the food industry, depleting nearly everything of nutrients while pumping animals with hormones and putting corn syrup in everything.

Even if you want to be svelt it's incredibly tough these days, go to most grocery stores and the majority of "healthy" foods have little to no nutrients because the soil is exploited beyond repair so to eat anything half decent tasting you need to cover it in cheese and salt or just go to a fast food place. Carrots don't really taste like carrots, broccoli doesn't taste like broccoli so of course people will get fat off unhealthy food. I'm nearly 100% a healthy eater and it is so tough to do even when motivated.

I hate when people go to the cliché rhetorical fat shaming defense. It's not about fat shaming, it's about overall societal health.

[wittynickname]

Originally Posted by AcGold

I'd say the blame is on the food industry, depleting nearly everything of nutrients while pumping animals with hormones and putting corn syrup in everything.

Even if you want to be svelt it's incredibly tough these days, go to most grocery stores and the majority of "healthy" foods have little to no nutrients because the soil is exploited beyond repair so to eat anything half decent tasting you need to cover it in cheese and salt or just go to a fast food place. Carrots don't really taste like carrots, broccoli doesn't taste like broccoli so of course people will get fat off unhealthy food. I'm nearly 100% a healthy eater and it is so tough to do even when motivated.

I hate when people go to the cliché rhetorical fat shaming defense. It's not about fat shaming, it's about overall societal health.

Going along with this, there's also the issue that you can buy enough ramen and mac and cheese to feed a family of four on for the money you'd spend on one fresh head of broccoli or a couple of lean chicken breasts. Add in to that, you have the food dessert issue--vast areas without a grocery store, with many people incapable of getting to and from a grocery store with bags full of healthy food. Plus you have families where both parents work, thus no one really has time to make healthy food for their families, and when you have a single mother or single father, usually working 2 jobs just to get by, even cheap foods--potatoes, beans, etc--aren't really a good option because there just isn't time to prepare them.

Fresh, healthy food is harder to obtain, more expensive to buy, and time consuming to prepare. Junk food is cheap, quick and easy. When you have a huge amount of the population struggling to get by with embarrassingly low wages and thus limited free time, you're going to get people who eat a lot of processed junk just in order to survive.