Why are there so many fat Americans?

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I have cut most my food size in half as to compared to what I use to eat. I eat far less then others on holidays. I really need to get back to walking, but need a walking buddy to chat with and feel safe/less embarrased.

still I am slowly gaining weight despite my attempt. I am not nearly as strict as I was when losing wieght but for 6 months i managed to keep where I was till I got more depressed and lost freinds. ie stopped going on walks. I need to figure out a way to remind me to do inside excerises as its not doing them but remembering to do them that is the problem.

that and poor food due to prices is my problem. only fresh food I can afford is potatoes and well they aren't the best thing. I actually can't eat a lot of vegies due to never have had them, i react like its poison and vomit them up.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcQsiWIEsgo[/youtube]Murica still not the fattest!

I thought American Samoa was a US territory. Wouldn't that mean America is number one?

Mexico passed us just a little while back.

Still not good to be in the top 3...

I thought we always wanted to be #1 in everything?

I spied a fried drumstick in Boo's last picture.
I think it's really the lack of exercise.My Uncle E lived to be 98, smoked furiously and everything was fried in bacon grease.He was never fat however and grew a garden up till the year he died,I don't think he ever ate fast food or heavily processed stuff.Once when he went shopping he demanded the bacon with the most fat,none of that lean stuff for him.
My family lived up into the eighties or nineties till they left the farm and got desk jobs.Our life expectancy dropped to the sixties with everyone dying from heart problems.The diet was the same,traditional Southern foods but no one was getting up before dawn to do physical work

I think maybe we are related. My great uncle Ray lived to 101 and smoked like Dale in King of the Hill, plus drank home made corn mash whiskey out the bottle he always carried with him in a little pouch on his belt. It still took 8 years of having lung cancer to put him down. He taught me and my sisters how to build and operate a simple still when I was in middle school. He was convinced the gum'mint was going to try to take everyone's liquor away at some point, and wanted us all to be ready.

Although my dad's side were historically trappers and hunters instead of farmers and ranchers.

^Doing family history I found that my maternal side liked to arrive in an area first,run off the natives who already lived there ,first step,set up a store,then clear land for cattle.

Yes, that's why gym is necessary for urban life.

On my dad's side, they have documented "pedigrees" tracing male lineage back to the mid 1300s over in Britain. Apparently I'm descended from some folks who had no moral qualms about treating the serfs like livestock, which parts of the family seem a little too proud of (especially considering how many of them are below the poverty line and/or proudly illiterate).

They like to brag about how pure the bloodlines are, which makes me chuckle sometimes. My sister had some gentic testing done (we do have some dangerous recessive traits floating around in our genes) and it turns out we have a lot of genetic heritage from Scandinavia and from the Mediterranean, along with a healthy dose of "dirty Irishmen" (as my grandpa likes to say) blood flowing through the veins.

There are some stories about our whole family having trouble keeping weight on throughout the ages until they stopped moving for a living. With my parents' generation, we saw our first cases of obesity (although still not too common).

I still have trouble keeping weight on, even with a (mostly) desk job. Some sort of weird disorder that my medical team can't quite figure out (but it does seem to excite them). I'm on a 8K calories a day minimum diet, with increased minimums for sodium, cholesterol, potassium, calcium, and saturated fats based on some weird blood chemistry. When they first put me on this crazy diet I was almost giddy with the idea that I could eat a gallon of ice cream a day and still have room for 3 square meals. I am at the point now where all the rich foods I have to tuck away make me a little nauseous sometimes. I've actually replaced a lot of the foodstuffs with generic Ensure, which is rapidly becoming more palatable. I can still eat bacon all day, though.

The furthest back I have been able to go so far is 1500's British Isles,I haven't took the time to start digging any further.I did find some cool stuff out,I'm related to Linda Eastman thru Rodger the Immigrant,so Sir Paul's kids are very distantly related.
We didn't get the "hard keeper"genes,we gain weight easy, we get those big breadbasket bellies,either we are really tall or really short but we all have heavy thick bones.
I'd like to get the DNA done someday,it's coming down in price.
You mentioned Mediterranean blood,are you part Melungeon?That would be cool,Elvis and Ava Gardner were.I found Puritans in my blood line.

My people are mostly Germans on both sides who have a problem with slow metabolisms, making us susceptible to weight gain and a tendency toward diabetes. I've never learned which haplogroup I belong to, but I suspect it's either I1 or I2, as I do very well with a Paleolithic/Mesolithic diet of meat and vegetables, but the devil weeds introduced during the Neolithic (potatoes, grains, etc.) stick to me as fat.

There are doctors now who say that the whole fear of grease - from bacon or any other meat - is unfounded, and may even be beneficial for you. I suspect that genetics play a big role in what your body can and can't handle, though.

I've got some German but it's really far back.I tend to put on weight in places like the photos I've seen of middle aged Native and Hispanic women.
Bacon grease,lard and butter are better than the hydrogenated stuff.
The only way I loose weight is to walk every day for about 30 mnts,but who wants to do that now?Its hot and humid.My exercise for this morning was to remove a tire and plug it.It turned into a weird mini adventure,while I was tightening the lug bolts I hear a weird sound from the other side of the car,kind of a high pitched"eeeehhhhhhhh," then I hear the same noise coming around the front of the car,so I get the lug wrench ready to whomp whatever this is.
Then it appears,a big red rooster!!!Someone dumped a rooster off,I guess he walked up the drive becuse he heard my roosters crowing.It'll be even more fun trying to catch him this evening,if I don't the possums will.That will be my exercise later,and if you've ever seen anyone chase a chicken it may be a good workout.

I think a lot has to do with americans sense of VALUE. They search out the highest amount of calories for their money. In Sweden a BigMac with "medium" fries and drink (and that's likely small in america) is 1030 kcal. A bit more than is reasonable as a lunch for a grown man. Lets say that is 7 USD. If the customer can MegaSpecialSize that for 1 USD more and get an extra big fries (470 kcal) and a cheeseburger (300 kcal), a lot of people will do that. Because they get 1800 kcal for just a little more, so better VALUE. Regardless if a grown man needs needs that. They rather store those extra 770 kcal as fat because it is value for money....

A normal meal for a grown man used to be small fries and drink and a cheeseburger, now that is for "kids". Meals have grown over the years and always seem to get bigger because people demand VALUE. Larger soda and fries cost very little for the joint to provide, but gives customers a lot more calories and therefore better value.