Comment by JumpCrisscross
18 hours ago
> when I point this out, people often get mad. They feel they aren't obese
We’ve normalised being fat.
18 hours ago
> when I point this out, people often get mad. They feel they aren't obese
We’ve normalised being fat.
Still remember my first time ever setting afoot in USA, Newark airport coming from Norway, in 1999, going to a tech conference.
I saw more grossly obese people at that airport in the first ten minutes than I had back home in probably the previous year. It really stood out to me.
It must be your general dietary makeup and lifestyle. All that corn syrup. Also, I don't see any reason why it would have gotten better since then.
Just calling a spade a spade from an outsider's perspective..
> must be your general dietary makeup and lifestyle. All that corn syrup
It’s not just America [1].
Norway’s obesity rate runs at roughly half America’s [2]. But the trend across the world is increasing rates of overweightness, obesity and--most worryingly--child obesity.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_obesity...
It's been a minute since then, I've been in Australia for the past two decades as well - and yup, the trend is bad almost everywhere.
Having read (well, listened to) Attia's excellent OUTLIVE, I've reversed my own (slowly turned bad) trajectory by switching my diet to the basics - all home made meals, making my own breads, lots of milk and eggs, meats (not in excess), exclusively extra virgin oil and pure butter in my cooking (zero blends/veg oil etc), and not buying any (sugar) snacks - combined with exercise. Oh and no alcohol for the past few years either - sacrifices had to be made. :-)
Luckily my own kids are showing zero signs of obesity, they are very healthy.
People hate fat people. Everywhere I look, everyone is obsessing with diets and weight. People go to unhealthy extremes to try to loose weight, then predictably fail and cycle.
Disordered eating is a norm and being ashamed is a norm.