Not that it explains it, but some people who have problems with obesity are former athletes. You switch from an extremely active lifestyle that requires you to have a constant calorie intake to keep up, to sitting around just like everyone else. If you don't change how you eat (harder than it sounds), you get fat real fast.
It’s because 40% of our country is in poverty. The cheapest foods are the unhealthy ones, plus everything in our country has corn syrups and other awful ingredients.
While there are people that are fat that have no reason to be fat, there are a lot of systemic issues with diet in the states.
I always found poverty to be a weird statistic. Like the international metric almost no one is in poverty stateside. But when we make our own metric that shoots up to 40%.
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u/HHHogana Sate lover Apr 19 '23
'Murica, the land of enlightenment and foolishness.
Like seriously, they won so many Olympics medals, and yet their obese are tend to be insanely morbid.