My 2c is that one should simply look at the diet of lifestyle of the fat people they know, and the obesity problem will become clear.
Tons of soda. Products like Hamburger Helper instead of actually making pasta and sausage yourself. Extremely high volume of food in general. Constant, constant snacking. No exercise. So a massive amount of low quality food and nothing to burn it. Cancer, heart disease, joint pain, diabetes, heartburn, everything else.
Occasionally you run into some outré example like a family I know who eats exclusively home-cooked meals with grass-fed beef and venison yet are all overweight, but I've had lunch with them and that was some of the richest, tastiest food in my life plus all the trimmings. Also, they don't really care about exercising, or for that matter their weight.
I don't think this is complicated. Weight gain is simply calories in and calories out. The only contentious part is the psychological compulsions that cause people to eat amounts of food that they know are bad for them, sometimes while maintaining a sedentary lifestyle, which they also know is bad for them.
I wasn't on an "Asian diet crusade" i was on an "Americans eat too much which is why America has the highest obesity rates in the world " crusade (yes the type of food you eat is also very important but eating too much is also bad. Gluttony is a sin for a reason)
There's a common saying in Japan . "Eat until you are 80% full" Hara hachi bun me 腹八分目
And considering Japan is the thinest first world country ,and the saying came from Okinawa which is one of the longest lived cities in the world so its probably good advice.
You're being a weeb, though. That's all I'm saying
Maybe, but the amount of people that got so angry with me just for saying "gluttony is bad" is really astounding.
Literally nobody got angry with you about that.
You mean the guy who believes "anyone who disagrees with me or finds me annoying is a jew trying to silence me" might not be able to understand criticism?
Shocking!
they did. My main point in my posts were "America has the highest obesity rates in the world because Americans eat too much" (and there's proof that Americans eat too much, America's portion sizes are larger than the rest of the world.) And people got angry with me for that and acted like eating too much food doesn't contribute to being fat
Did you read the same comments I did? People were getting weirdly vitriolic toward Telia in that thread. With the level of animosity in those comments, you'd think Telia kicked their dog and pushed their grandma down the stairs. It was weird. And, it was just about diet and food, which is important, but not the kind of subject to get that caustic about.
Let them die with a Suddenly.
Yes. He is. Getting creepy
Why?
And you're wrong about that, as many people told you.
If im wrong about it then why do so many people shame American women for being fat?
I always hear people say they want the Asian waifu because they aren't fat unlike the American women, but wouldn't that imply its the American women's fault for eating too much?
But people say that its not because Americans eat too much its because the food in America is unhealthy. And if that's the logic then how can we attack and blame the American woman for being fat if its not the American woman's fault, that the food in America is unhealthy ?
This statement in no way contradicts you being wrong about why the average American is too fat.
it is a contradiction. Why shame American women for being fat if its not their fault? What did they do wrong if the problem isn't "eating too much"?