Pretty much. Some whites can't understand that and assume that wanting a girl that is thick in the right places means they want a fat girl.
Lack of a lifestyle is a bigger factor. When you encourage sloth and sedentary behavior, whether it's in front of the tv, in the office, in front of a computer, or consoling your loved one over the phone all day... it doesn't matter what you eat. I dunno, America is kind of a like a daycare with couples babying each other and chalking down slothy behavior to "maturity" instead of loosening up and living like kids. Miami and San Fran are exceptions, I think all the pretty girls from inland towns like Houston should be told this growing up and be pushed to moving away once they graduate HS or college. More beautiful, active people in one place is better for the race as a whole - it builds culture and lifestyle.
That's the state of the nation - the gays are leading the forefront for cultural change and lifestyle. Being straight means being a boring, on your ass guy occupied with overly masculine activities (hunting, smoking, masturbation, sports) or a gym rat. Montrose/midtown is the 'cultural hub' of Houston and that's a gay area, or was back in the day. After the prosperity of the 90s the country became too robotic - there's only winners and losers, and no respect for anything in between. So people feel shameful when they do things outside of earning money and business-first corporations created a cliqueish, dog eat dog, b****y atmosphere that became the culture. Efficiency and competing with the Jones takes precedence over anything else. Genetically I think most white Americans are Germanic or Irish descendants, and they certainly don't have obesity rates like the US.
Well, it's just that black women have a different fat distribution than white women. An athletic black woman might have toned six pack abs and still have a big behind while a white woman who plays the same sport may have a less toned stomach/arms and larger breasts.
This would cover most of it. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9332421/The-Men-Who-Made-Us-Fat-BBC-Two-review.html Basically, a mixture of politics (ie. surplus corn and what to do with it viz corn syrup which is 1/3 the cost of cane sugar), social, economic and whiz bang marketing.
an interesting read. The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food Some excerpts: Some of the product examples in the story:
To follow up on this post yes I was describing the culture's origins of food since that was the direction this thread was taking regarding acceptance of obesity within a cultural group. Many foods that are considered to be important to various cultures all started as poverty foods. Pigs feet and chitlins were poverty foods as those are less attractive cuts of pork. Same with grits and in Italy polenta. Things like Sauerkraut and Kimchee was peasant food and developed as a way of preserving cabbage through the winter. Given that many of these foods were bland an emphasis on flavoring them with lard, salt, sugar and in hot spices provided a rare luxury in the life of privation.
I don't understand this argument. So 25 years ago Americans randomly morphed into lazier people who are worse parents?
Well, parents of kids over the last 25 years were the first generation to have such an abundance of affordable, tasty crap food available to them. It's probably sheer ignorance more than anything -- they didn't realize how much of an effect their eating habits would have over the long-term. Also more women joining the workforce, so less prepared meals at home. Kids playing video games instead of playing outside. It's all snowballed into an obesity epidemic. But the biggest culprit is still the government and food corporations. Subsidizing corn and using it as filler in EVERYTHING. High fructose corn syrup is in items that shouldn't even need sweeteners (i.e.whole wheat bread). It's got to be tough to be a food producer these days. Either you make it sweet and terrible for the body or nobody is going to buy it, because we are all addicted. It's up to the people to educate themselves and ween their bodies off of the junk, and slowly force the food industry to put out healthy, affordable, and convenient foods because the fact of the matter is that a lot of people just don't have time to cook. I consider myself educated on the subject and healthy, and even I don't have much time to cook while trying to have a social life and stay active -- and that's only working 40 hour weeks.
This is funny because the US has some of the worst food out of all the countries I've been to. The US is fat because the it eats nasty processed foods and has a sedentary lifestyle. Gluttony is part of the issue but I think it's not the most important factor. If you eat a lot of healthier, natural foods and have a good metabolism from an active lifestyle, your body will process foods faster and not get as fat.
This is the excellent book that article is adapted from: http://michaelmossbooks.com/books/salt-sugar-fat/ Explains everything, especially the difference between the US and other countries and the difference between now and 100 years ago.
One thing that I don't think gets enough discussion in the obesity problem is liquid calories. Americans drink a lot of juices, sodas, and so on, and that stuff adds up, especially since soda isn't exactly a filling kind of thing. From what I've read, that's actually a bigger difference within the last 25 years than what we eat. Frankly don't get how people can buy sodas. I don't mind drinking them if I go out to a McDonald's or whatever, but to have them with a more normal meal is just...bleh.
The "big behind" your talking about is muscle, not fat. Big difference between a girl who works out with a six pack and big hard round behind (who could probably squat more than you as well), and a fat blob of fried chicken and tv dinners. Unfortunately, there are a lot more Americans who fit the latter description.
Couldn't have said it better myself between Jim Rome and Mike Gundy: <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/hzqBj8rh03A?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
It's very easy to understand and the process started more than 25 years ago. In a nutshell: Parents don't feed their children the same way they were fed. People who had home-cooked meals nearly every night feed their kids processed, convenient meals and fast food now because it takes less time. Fewer families sit together at dinner time. It's a gradual evolution of American culture. I have several friends that were "relatively thin" as adolescents and young adults who have fat kids. It's not uncommon. The gene pool hasn't changed in 25-30 years. It's the dietary habits. Views on meal preparation just aren't what they used to be. My mother and others of her generation were proud to prepare dinner (and even lunch) nearly each and every day. That philosophy is rare now.
Exactly. Y'all are blaming cars to computers too much. I spend a sheit load of time online and I don't walk as much as my early ancestors. I'm either in the gym every day, swimming, racquetball or doing something similar. I'm less than 10% bodyfat and have a nice physique. I eat the right foods. It's not easy and it makes social situations awkward, but you've got to eat right. It's 80% of body composition, if not more.
Does anyone here know about keto? I've seen a lot of people talk about high fat and low carb diets and apparently this is one of them.
