Why is everyone so fat?

How do we help?
Me personally, I'm going to pay the jigsaw killer to kidnap me and force me to lose all the weight, or I don't know, he'll just feed me to death, but not in a fetish way, like an ironic way.
 
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I think there are a few reasons:
1. People generally suck at cooking thus eating out is both convenient and much tastier
2. People refuse to eat their veggies and prefer cookies
3. Very little everyday fitness, instead of walking the stairs people take the elevator, instead of walking or biking to the shops they take the car, instead of walking to the train that is 20 minutes away people take the metro/bus. This might not be super many calories but it helps to push the body over the 2000 kcal mark which is important when losing weight
4. People don't get enough of the medium to hard exercising, important not just because it burns calories but it also helps to give a faster metabolism.
5. In the cities, it is so damn easy to get that fast food. You just need to go to a website and then it is at your door in about 30 mins, on the other side, if you live rural then it is an hour if you're lucky that it even exists.
 
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We live in a society that forces us into a depressing rat race. Lots of us are wealthy enough to afford more than enough food. Drug addictions like heroin and meth are looked down upon. Mental health treatment is a joke.
So what outlets are available to make people feel better? How about something we all need to live, so it's generally acceptable to partake in more often than needed? Food.
 
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Liquid calories are sneaky little things people rarely think about. Many also have their preferred soda way too often and like to load their coffee up with cream and sugar. An occasional Mtn Dew is fine and black coffee has calories in the single digits.

This isn't the only reason, of course.
 
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Dom Cruise said:
I think it's because corn is in everything, they made a documentary about this called King Corn.

I don't think it's because Americans ate "healthier" as a rule back in the day, I think it's because of additives and such, although a more sedentary lifestyle doesn't help either.
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This is what I think as well. When I first decided to lose weight ages ago I cut out everything with any corn syrup in it and lost weight by just not consuming that. It's ridiculous how much stuff has corn syrup or similar sweeteners in them.
 
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The Last Stand said:

It all comes back to capitalism, colonization and "anti-Blackness."
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"The obesity epidemic was created by Western medicine".
Well, she's not completely wrong. Insulin, anti-hypertensive medication and cardiac surgeries were all invented by White devils. Without them, life expectancy of salad dodgers would be much shorter.
 
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People like comfort too much.
You need to say "NO" to a lot of things if you want to be fit and healthy, you need discipline, you need dedication, you need to get out of your comfort zone.
Most people aren't willing to do that, sitting on your ass all day and eating tasty processed food is too comfortable, it makes you feel good, at least temporarily.
Forcing yourself to eat healthy food which might not taste as good or physically exerting yourself on a regular basis doesn't.
Most people only like the idea of being fit and healthy, not the long tedious process.

You can see that in other areas of life, even things like entertainment.
How many times you see people bitching and whining about how EA or Activision are horrible companies who make horrible products.... and then they keep paying for those products?
They cry about the lack of good games with fresh ideas but then refuse to look for them.
They're comfortable where they are and that comfort is enough to consume what's right in front of them instead of putting in effort to find something better.
Effort isn't comfortable, effort is hard.
 
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... it's for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
And if you don't like Youtube, https://invidious.site/watch?v=ceFyF9px20Y.
 
Slap47 said:

"Salad is the worst possible thing you can eat for your health"
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The video reminded me of this gem:
In my country, mayo holds a special place in people's hearts, but for entirely different reason. During Soviet era, veggies were hard to find. Stores usually stocked potatoes, red beet, carrots, onions, cabbage and some canned abominations (e.g. pickled green tomatoes). If you were lucky, you could get hold of Bulgarian canned peas. The question is, how to make a mixture of boiled beet, carrot, onions and mashed potatoes edible? Pour mayonnaise on it, it's not like there are any other dressings in stores anyway.
 
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milk said:
I've never understood how people unintentionally get fat. Eating is a damn chore. You gotta stop what you're doing and get off your ass to go make/get food.
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I think they must train hard, and slowly overtime they stretch their stomach, allowing them to consume ungodly amounts of slop in a single sitting. I honestly have no idea. I think Bill Burr did a bit where his supposed cure for obesity is just to "Hunt fat people one day out of the year"

Interesting anecdotal evidence from myself, my perception of sweetness is better than my fatty friend. We were eating the same dessert, and I couldn't finish because it was cloyingly sweet, and I asked them, "how can you stand how sweet this is?" They said, "oh, no, this is the perfect level of sweetness" and proceeded to shovel more in. So I think their perception of sugar has been altered, whether it by their gut bacteria, or something.
 
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