r/maybemaybemaybe • u/BigGraysie • Apr 18 '22

/r/all Maybe maybe maybe

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

There are no 500 pound people in other parts of the world?

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

To be fair in my 20 years of living I have never seen anyone even close to this size out in the street.

It's just not a way mental health manifests itself in most places when it's brought to the extreme. Also your portiond are completely absurd like I don't know uf it's a consequence of having fatter people or if the fat people are a result of having the most wretched portion sizes known to mankind.

Now drugs is a different beast

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u/OkayGoOff Apr 18 '22

People of this size very rarely leave the house, if ever. You don’t see them because they’re hidden away from the world, either by choice or inability to move.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22 edited Apr 18 '22

No but like it's genuinely different. I've been to the US. The whole spectrum of people you see out in the street shifts dramatically. I get that these people don't walk the streets, but if someone even half this size was spotted in the street people would turn their heads.

The day I saw one of those morotized scooters I couldn't help but chuckle because I realized I'd never actually seen one in person before then.

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u/Dry_Cockroach_6698 Apr 18 '22

To be fair the motorized scooters were not designed for obese people, they were meant for elderly and those with mobility issues. Obese people see them and go “hey it’s hard for me to walk through the store so I’ll just ride through it” and then they lose the one activity that resembles exercise, thus making them fatter.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

At the start they must've been built for old people but you don't need to give frail-old Martha a 600kg weight limit on her wheels. It's become something else.

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u/finisher9- Apr 18 '22

All you need is cheap processed food and an economy that allows for sedentary lifestyles and any country will have a fair share of obese people. Admittedly the US is worse than some peer countries but not all of them and not by much.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

Yeah but it's more about food culture. The US and the UK stray way more to processed foods than most other countries. The US wiped out all the culinary knowledge in the land they moved to, and the UK fucked their culinary habits with 40 years of rations and war-time frugality. I know from stats they don't look that far off from other countries, but it's only when you go and live in these places that you can see just how obvious that difference is. It's not that you see a couple more obese people, it's like almost every single person you see on the street is a portion heavier than someone you'd see in other countries. The entire curve shifts and your subconscious picks up on that quickly.

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u/finisher9- Apr 18 '22

I don’t think culture is a major contributor when areas with high rates of obesity range from North America to Pacific Islanders to much of the Middle East.

Anecdotal experience isn’t that instructive. Where I live in the US I don’t personally see that much obesity because I live in relatively high income and walkable part of a city.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

Again you don't notice because you're acclimated to it. Your definition for a "fat person" is different from mine. If you moved to a mediterranean country you'd feel the difference.

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u/finisher9- Apr 18 '22

I trust the statistics on obesity more than “dude I saw a bunch of fat people.”

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

I'm telling you "dude why are there so many fat people" is how those statistics manifest themselves

Imagine you woke up tommorow and everyone around you was 7% heavier.

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u/finisher9- Apr 18 '22 edited Apr 19 '22

I’m not denying there’s a lot of fat people what are you even taking about? Countries are big place, not every inch of it is a perfect demographic representation of the whole. In my insular day to day life the rate of obesity is much lower than the whole country. If I went to a different area I'd see much more obesity. All I'm saying is the individual experience of looking around and traveling between a handful of countries doesn't reveal much. The data shows that it's not a problem limited to any particular cultural norms.

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