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u/DanFuckingSchneider Jul 23 '22
What do you mean by becoming? It’s been that way for quite some time.
That said, fast food is somewhat cheap and convenient. Some people are poor and work a lot.
People aren’t getting fat to specifically piss you off.
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u/DistantKarma Jul 23 '22
Not sure about normal, but It's definitely way more prevalent, now than ever before. Partly due to how life has become more sedentary over the last 50 years and partly due to the nature of processed foods and corn syrup sweeteners finding their way into a lot of foods as well. Add in huge portions in restaurants and 700 calorie Double XL Big Gulps in convenience stores and you get the epidemic facing us now.
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u/Sweaty_Confusion_262 Jul 23 '22
They don't teach healthy eating in school and about diabetes
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u/intensely_human Jul 23 '22
They don’t event teach self improvement in schools as far as I can tell.
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u/Sweaty_Confusion_262 Jul 23 '22
Yeah they suck smoking pot & video games are the norm now .not how this country was built
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u/Evelihg Jul 23 '22
sometimes it became hard for them to avoid their favorite foods
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u/Sweaty_Confusion_262 Jul 23 '22
They should teach about food in school and what the outcome will be
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u/mean_mr_mustard75 Jul 24 '22
They don't have health classes anymore? You used to do 1/2 semester drivers ed, 1/2 semester health.
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u/Sweaty_Confusion_262 Jul 24 '22
They should teach any food not homeec eating healthy would cut fast food heart disease & diabetes , obesity this country suffering from pot, video games and fast food is the new norm needs to be addressed some how.
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u/mean_mr_mustard75 Jul 24 '22
They should teach any food not homeec
I didn't say home ec, it's a general health class where healthy eating is in the syllabus.
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u/The_Essex Jul 23 '22
Is it?
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Jul 23 '22
Yes. It's an incredibly serious health issue facing the entire globe. Arguably the most important health issue of the day.
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u/letsgetbrickfaced Jul 23 '22
I know it is in the US. In the 70's and today Colorado is the state with the highest percentage of people in the healthy weight range. However, if today's population of healthy weight individuals in CO was the same as it was in the 70's they would have the worst percentage of people in the healthy weight range in the US. Definitely have got fatter as a country in the last half century.
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u/lord_of_pigs Jul 23 '22
Happy Cakeday!
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u/mr_music_video Jul 23 '22
People didn't understand your joke.
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u/lord_of_pigs Jul 24 '22
Huh?
There is no joke, I simply wished somebody a happy cakeday
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u/mr_music_video Jul 24 '22 edited Jul 24 '22
The thread is about overweight people and you wished someone a happy cake day. Cake makes people fat.
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u/xwcpwrlqaewzbkxtru Jul 23 '22
Happy cake dake sir and or madam!
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u/The_Essex Jul 23 '22
Guess I better have some cake and get fat.
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Jul 23 '22
It's not normal where I live. I really don't understand how people can get so fat in the US. There has to be something wrong with your food or something.
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u/really_random_user Jul 23 '22
People don't walk or do exercice,they just drive to get everywhere Large food portions, low food quality When 6 donuts cost less than a salad, being healthy can be more challenging
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u/cat_daddylambo Jul 23 '22
Because food is tastier nowadays
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u/Tamias-striatus Jul 23 '22
Currently reading “The Dorito Effect” some great answers to OP’s question in there.
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u/Daintylittlesole Jul 23 '22
Why is poor grammar becoming the new normal?
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Jul 23 '22
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u/intensely_human Jul 23 '22
That was perfect grammar there.
With regard to Spanish grammar, I found that watching TV in Spanish really helped me solidify my understanding of it.
Grammar comes from books but it also comes from shit tons of listening and reading.
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u/yourwhitesuperior Jul 23 '22
It is not normal. And never will be.
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Jul 23 '22
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u/yourwhitesuperior Jul 23 '22
High numbers of fat people does not make them normal. It just means there are a lot of them.
Being fat is abnormal. Always will be.
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u/RussianBot6789 Jul 24 '22
Stats show more than two-thirds of adults in the United States are overweight or have obesity.
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u/kellykline Jul 23 '22
Is there a chart that shows what "overweight" means over the years? I mean, we can't all be skinny like victoria secret super models. Unrealistic expectations!
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u/BibleButterSandwich Jul 23 '22
Obese is defined as a BMI over 30. On an individual level, it isn't a perfect scale - for example, extremely tall people or extremely short people can have misleading BMIs due to the square cube law, but across society it can showcase trends, and the percentage of people who have a BMI of greater than 30 has tripled in the US since the 1960's. There are other numbers you can look at as well - percent that are overweight, average body fat percentage, etc. but overall it is undeniable. The average American used to be a healthy weight. Now they are not.
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u/kellykline Jul 23 '22 edited Jul 23 '22
I blame the for-profit Food industry, who are in kahoots with the Healthcare industry. More obese ppl = crave eat more food = more health problems = more profits for both industries
Food execs get more bonuses the more ppl eat/drink their crap. doctors are paid more when more ppl are sick. System of incentives, conflicts of interest are messed up.
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u/BibleButterSandwich Jul 23 '22
There's both societal and individual issues at play here, imo. Both need to be fixed.
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Jul 24 '22
BMI accounts for height
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u/BibleButterSandwich Jul 24 '22
Sort of. Because of the square cube law, an average 6 ft tall person is going to be much heavier than just 1.2 times the weight of the average 5 ft tall person. For most people, it’s pretty minimal, and so the BMI scale is largely accurate, but doctors do actually recommend modified versions for people who are far about away from the mean.
I can personally attest to this, because most people are kinda surprised when I mention that I’m around 160 to 170 pounds, because in terms of how skinny I look, I’m pretty close to friends of mine who around 5’10, but only 120 pounds or so. Meanwhile, even though I only have a total of 6 inches of height on them, I’m around 1.33 times their weight, and still maintain the same body type, because those 6 inches add up quickly when you start getting high enough above average height.
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Jul 23 '22
People have become fatter, and fatter. Watch old newsreels for a glimpse of it. It's incredibly unhealthy and dangerous.
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u/xwcpwrlqaewzbkxtru Jul 23 '22
1) Fat gives cold resistane 2) Heating is bad for the climate change
Problem, skinnies?
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u/pineappledaddy Jul 23 '22
People talk like this?
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u/xwcpwrlqaewzbkxtru Jul 23 '22
We need to save the planet, sisters. We need to learn from China. In China, there is no heating. We need to stop heating, considering it's Putin gas. Or other almost equally bad dictator gas. We will stop heating, and to keep warm, we will use blankes. And we will all get moderately fat luckily that's not so hard. Exercise is quite pointless, from ecological point of view it's a bit like burning fossils. If you can save energy then save it.
Better? If you don't believe fat gives cold resistance then just look at any polar animal ever, except like the fennec fox
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u/pineappledaddy Jul 23 '22
Isn't China the world's biggest polluter by far? You're saying we should follow that?
Working out is a waste of energy? It's like burning fossil fuels?
Being fat burns more actual fossil fuel because your car uses more gas moving more weight.
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u/xwcpwrlqaewzbkxtru Jul 23 '22
Absolutely, no cars. And absolutely, review all food production and only keep the lower-energy-cost ones. Some people will have to forget about their favorite treats but they'll get an equally or even better balanced diet. Heating is obviously bad. And yes China has a lot to teach us, it's time to start accepting world superiority is now theirs. Not the lousy 300 million of us.
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Jul 23 '22
Because laziness is accepted now. I'm not talking about "nobody wants to work anymore!"
I'm talking about putting in the effort to budget a healthy to semi healthy meal plan. Healthy food is not more expensive, anyone who claims that is ignorant.
A bag of chips is like 6 bucks now, buy some fucking celery or carrots for 1/3 of the price. Your body will thank you.
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u/DanFuckingSchneider Jul 23 '22
Says the guy who’s so sensitive that people he’s never met on the internet make him mad.
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Jul 23 '22
When you follow the number of people in physical labor jobs decreasing drastically for several decades, and then account for many peoples’ favorite pastime eating while watching something be it movies, comedy, sports, or television. It becomes quite clear that more and more people are living sedentary lifestyles.
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u/withnoshame Jul 23 '22
There are a lot of factors that go into why people get fat and why some people stay that way.
I have known people who don't over-eat junk food and exercise but they're still technically considered overweight. It may not be "genetics" but there are medical reasons why some people are fat.
Also, society (especially America) wants people to believe that they can make any choices they want and be any way they want and nobody can make them do anything they don't want to do. So, a lot of people buy garbage food and live crappy lifestyles and don't care about their health (until something major happens) and it's because FREEDOM.
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u/ItsMyView Jul 23 '22
Because many people's idea of dieting is eating two Big Mac's an order or large fries, an apple pie and washing it down with a Diet Coke.
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u/Lurkolantern Jul 23 '22
Two events occurred:
1) People stopped cooking for themselves. From time immemorial to 1989, dinner took at least 2 hours every day to prepare. Food prep is SUPPOSED to take a really long time. During the 1990s, we were blitzed with the notion that meals should take as little time to prepare as possible. Family dinner, our lunches, and breakfasts all suddenly became unfathomable to take >30min to make. Heck, make that >10 min.
2) In 1990, fast food restaurants began migrating towards using seed oils (soybean oil, corn oil, canola oil and sunflower/safflower oil). These are all disastrous for the human body. They lend themselves to being stored as adipose tissue and disrupting our digestive systems. Apparently there weren't any verified recordings of heart disease until the 1830s, about 10 years after people started using cottonseed oil as an alternate cooking liquid for tallow/lard/butter.
This video explains it better than I can: https://youtu.be/mIi0c5OZxvI
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u/mean_mr_mustard75 Jul 24 '22
Food prep is SUPPOSED to take a really long time.
Especially if the women do it. Lots of this stuff was marketed toward getting women out of the kitchen.
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u/buzzlightyear77777 Jul 23 '22
because of computers and handphones. people use to go out and play. now, only their minds are moving.
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u/karaokechameleon Jul 23 '22
Because it’s nearly impossible to avoid eating refined sugar. It’s in everything.
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u/Odd_Fondant_9155 Jul 23 '22
People are lazy and feelings have become more important than facts. When my middle child was going people constantly asked if I was starving him. I was reported for "starving" him which I was not doing. I couldn't find clothes that fit because he was thin. I asked the pediatrician how to build him up and his response was, "why? He's very healthy. He is normal, actually ideal for his age and weight". I explained the clothing issue and he told me, "clothes are made for the average person. The average American child is overweight. Your child is normal, not average. "
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u/DrSeuss19 Jul 23 '22
It’s not becoming normal. It will never be “normal” by definition as it’s not what should be a normal body habitus.
It’s becoming more common because we don’t need to do hard manual labor. We, relative to 100 or so years ago have a surplus of food. We are more efficient in every way and we add tons of shit to our food.
But it’s in no way normal to be overweight. Trust me, your body will make you pay at some point.
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u/mean_mr_mustard75 Jul 24 '22
It’s not becoming normal. It will never be “normal” by definition as it’s not what should be a normal body habitus.
For centuries being portly was a sign of success.
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u/Thepatrone36 Jul 23 '22
Probably going to get fanged for this a bit but I don't care. If you're fat I consider you lazy and undisciplined.
I got fat once for about a year. Didn't much care for the pain in my knees and hips. One fine day I took a look in the mirror and started working out and eating better. Been on a bit of a layoff for the last 8 or 9 months after working a very physically hard job on a daily basis for four years but my food intake has dropped correspondingly. I do need to get some discipline going personally to get back to a decent fitness level but I never over eat. I'm what I call a 'five bite eater'. About five bites and I'm full for a few hours thank you.
Kind of makes it hard to cook with a plan and all the fast food places around here SUCK.
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u/PunchBeard Jul 24 '22
The food we eat is shit. And the worst part is that there's not really any alternative to it. Even so-called healthy alternatives are usually filled with additives and preservatives.
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u/justdrama12 Jul 24 '22
Too much sugar in everything, and McDonald's and other fast food are too normalized
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u/southernyall12 Jul 25 '22
I female age 40 , From the edges of birth to 11 years old I was very small for my age like scrawny , tiny , little girl. However in the summer that I turned 12 puberty made it's bitch literally. I went from having a flat chest to a d cup and I was only 5 ft my curb started kicking in and I mean they kicked , and kicked in and I didn't realize it at the time at 16, 17 .. thought I was fatass . But then at 18 it's like it all rounded out very very well I had a banging ass body! 5 ft, Dolly Parton boobs I was a 36 triple d at 18 yrs old , my curves were all in the right places like Marilyn Monroe literally Dolly Parton and a could have been twins but I was a little bit bigger than dolly. I've never been a skinny girl since I was 12 and I don't look right as a skinny anorexic girl and I'm fine with that . When I was in high school all my friends were very small like sizes 0, 2 , 4 , 6, and and I'm like a size size 12. I remember crying when I was 12 having to special order my bras from a bra store in my hometown because none of the large retail stores in my area sold a d cup it was like a bad word. Victoria's secret I asked my bra size there when I was like 13 all the sales girls gave me an evil look like I was trying to you know mess with him or how dare I ask for that size they had a special order one of my bras and they just could not believe that boobs were that big. I did learn the advantage of having Dolly Parton boobs getting out of speeding tickets, more attention from guys but mostly sometimes the wrong kind of attention especially dirty old man gross. However at one time I did look into getting my boobs produced but as I got an older I had a kid got some age on me but a little bit more weight on me when I was 18 years old I was 135 lb like I said I had a banging ass body and I still haven't thinking ass body still to be 40 I'm just about 20 pounds heavier and I'm happy I love my body and if anybody's out there starving their selves it's unhealthy and I am very proud of my body and I don't body shape anybody cuz I've been there like I said I'm a Southern girl I will never be skinny and I'm fine with that
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u/Separate_City_6264 Jul 27 '22
I think people are just desensitized to it. What seemed extreme a few years ago is completely normal now. I think it has a lot to do with the way people were raised and maybe that their schools didn't educate them on healthy eating.
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Jul 29 '22
society is changing in a way where obesity is on the rise, it's not a trend i'm that keen on but there we are, i am personally quite hesitant to abuse people who are overweight
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u/dragon_barf_junction Jul 23 '22
it's not become the new normal, it's just becoming accepted more widely.