Fat People
@kapilgoela123 (134)
India
November 4, 2006 4:07am CST
Are americans the fattest people in the world? Everywhere I look, every other person has a fat muffin top (fat that hangs over their pants or jeans) why is food so plentiful here? food has become an addiction and people are becoming bigger by the minute. I have a hard time understanding, why women and children in africa are starving and the people here in the united states are huge buffalos! We should be ashamed everytime we pick up that big, juicy cheeseburger, or everytime we open the refridgerator, dont we care if people in the world are starving? don't we feel guilty (not to mention fat), What people should understand is that food is to survive. We spend so much time overeating, that our bodies are suffering, why do we have so much availability of food is it that we are spoiled in this country? maybe thats it...... we are so spoiled that we gourge on the good life and the result is, being unhealthy and one day we might be a society where the magority is fat and you are weird or different if you are thin, we may create a new species of big people and it will be passed on generation to generation and then we will have no control over obisity and It will become a way of life, how sad!!!!! If we want to change we should start bysharing some of our bread to the poor.
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6 responses
@Weasel_Sponge (1069)
• Canada
4 Nov 06
Well, you pretty much answered your own question. We have enough food on this planet to feed everyone, everyday, every meal...but the problem is the distribution of these resources. To be brutally honest, the average person doesn't care about the people starving in third world countries, and companies (not non-profit or charities) certainly aren't going to "waste money" to help people who aren't a potential market for whatever product they sell. I know I sound incredibly cynical in this response, but I don't see it as cynicism-I think I'm just realistic.
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@Deltaseccc (505)
• Namibia
4 Nov 06
You know, except for all the phsycological reasons why people overeat and eat "wrong" food, there is another more serious reason.
Since producers have started using all kinds of artificial additives to increase food production, things have started going wrong.
Not so long ago the saying "an apple a day..." was true, now fruits and veggies do not have a fraction of the nutrisional value that it had before, so you are still left hungry, but it does have a lot of chemicals inside it that makes your body and hormones go haywire...
Chicken was always one of the more healthy foods, now it is outright dangerous to eat it. The eggs hatch, the nerves in the feet are burned so that it can not walk and burn of energy, its fut in a small cabbie where it only eats and eats stuff full of growth hormones to make it grow as big and fast as possible, 2 weeks later it weights about 1.2 to 1.8 kg and is slaughtered and lands on your table. The growth hormones go into your body and do not stop working.
Same with cattle/beef etc etc etc
We are fed all kinds of junk and dangerous stuff by the producers of food....
@kaushikg77 (258)
• India
4 Nov 06
There are many fat people in the world. This doesnot include only Americans. Even many Indians are fat. It may be due to over eating, lack of disciplined life style, Hormonal imbalances,etc. Some people eat fatty foods like meat, cheesy food, food containing butter, ghee, fatty oils,etc., without any limit. It adds to the calories and finally accumulate as fat. Even higher sugar content in the food leads to obesity. Higher sugar prevents the digestive enzymes from digesting normal food because the digestive enzymes would start digesting the blood sugar once it enters into the abdomen and other digestive organs, which makes the fat to accumulate.
@juicemilk (2283)
• Australia
4 Nov 06
Yes I believe Americans are the fattest people in the world (obviously not all of them though!), seems to be that American portion sizes are just massive! For example the super size at McDOnalds is ridiculous, noone needs that much food or soda!
