What's making people in the U.S so fat?

I think it's because they eat mcdonalds every day.. fried food.. only the U.S though.

The people.

The accessibility, and cheap cost of fast food. Fightingfan

Fast food? Yes...

McDonald's everyday? That's just an exxageration.

Seriously.. I came back to U.S for a few weeks from Hong Kong.. and I was like holy **** people are really fat.

[QUOTE="Fightingfan"]The accessibility, and cheap cost of fast food. WiiMan21

Yeah makes sense

The large intake of calories, and lack of burning them off :P.

I'd say that the lack of time to make proper meals, combined with the accessibility and low cost of fast food. For kids my age who don't have a lot of money to go around, fast food is an enticing option. Lack of exercise is an issue as well, at least around here. Phys. Ed isn't required once you get to high school, and even then it's a joke.LZ71

It's not fast food. It's portion size. People eat larger meals than they have in the past. Forunately, the obesity epidemic is purely limited to the US. Other countries aren't seeing major problems with it. . . .

Fat people (for the most part) make themselves fat by eating crappy food and not exercising. It is their own damn fault.chathuranga

1) Lack of education about food, it should be common sense but not everyone knows that eating fast food and other junk every day isn't healthy.

2) Fast food is located in very convienant areas, and it's dirt cheap.

3) Many people in the US are lazy and choose not to excercise, on top of this many people also have a mindset that "I was born this way". They use this as an excuse for not taking self responsibilty, they say they can't change and are just naturally obese. Which is just false, while some people may have natually larger bodies and weights than others, obeasity is a whole other matter and is NOT natural at all.

I am a thin American, part of this is due to my hight metabolism but also because I take good care of myself. I am a spiritual person and The Bible says "your body is your Temple", that's a lesson I live by and apply to my life.

Our bodies are a gift from God meant to be enjoyed and taken care of, to absue it with either drugs or being unhealthy is morally wrong in my eyes. Just my opinion though.

It's not fast food. It's portion size. People eat larger meals than they have in the past. Forunately, the obesity epidemic is purely limited to the US. Other countries aren't seeing major problems with it. . . .

sonicare

Hahahaha

i blame high fructose corn syrup... NO where else in world besides u.s.k2theswiss

The people.

Communist_Soul

If you burn more calories than you use then it is impossible to get fat. So fat people are lazy unless the have a major medical problem it should not be a problem. I am in good shape but I just started a crossfit program and I dropped 8 pounds in a week. At the same time I was eating crap late at night a major non-no.

If you burn more calories than you use then it is impossible to get fat. So fat people are lazy unless the have a major medical problem it should not be a problem. I am in good shape but I just started a crossfit program and I dropped 8 pounds in a week. At the same time I was eating crap late at night a major non-no.

noscope-ak47

Food.

I thought it was obvious?

i blame high fructose corn syrup... NO where else in world besides u.s.k2theswiss

[QUOTE="k2theswiss"]i blame high fructose corn syrup... NO where else in world besides u.s.wii60_3

lazy...overeating...

1) Lack of education about food, it should be common sense but not everyone knows that eating fast food and other junk every day isn't healthy.

ShadowMoses900

Thyroid problems. [spoiler] Not serious. [/spoiler] -Toshy-

I don't know, but really it doesn't matter all that much. It's just a trend society, particularly the US, is going though, and will more then likely pass given some time. Just do your thing and don't worry so much about other people, or use it as leverage to think you are better then everyone else.

The sodas and candy if you ask me, too much sugar...

junk food is less priced fast food is easy for dollar menu and most people are just lazy in general

[QUOTE="noscope-ak47"]

If you burn more calories than you use then it is impossible to get fat. So fat people are lazy unless the have a major medical problem it should not be a problem. I am in good shape but I just started a crossfit program and I dropped 8 pounds in a week. At the same time I was eating crap late at night a major non-no.

The_Zoid

Food.

I thought it was obvious?

Lack of exercise and the fact that the bad foods are the cheapest and easiest to get

Australia surpassed the USA in average pounds overweight. USA is about 5 pounds. AUS is about 6. USA fat jokes dont make much sense. There are so many people... of course youre going to see a lot of fat people. Lots of fast food chains here, too.

It's not fast food. It's portion size. People eat larger meals than they have in the past. Forunately, the obesity epidemic is purely limited to the US. Other countries aren't seeing major problems with it. . . .

sonicare

this, there sadly should not be a thousand calorie big mac, a 64 oz soda and etc

[QUOTE="The_Zoid"]

[QUOTE="noscope-ak47"]

If you burn more calories than you use then it is impossible to get fat. So fat people are lazy unless the have a major medical problem it should not be a problem. I am in good shape but I just started a crossfit program and I dropped 8 pounds in a week. At the same time I was eating crap late at night a major non-no.

noscope-ak47