HOM MANY PEOPLE IN THE WORLD COULD BE FED BY ALL THE  UN-NECCESARY CALORIES OBESE AMERICANS EAT, 2K Min.?
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I hear you.  We Americans need to stop consuming so much (food, energy, products) and thinking only about ourselves and start thinking of others.  You're probably right when you say that so many around the world could be fed if we would just stop eating so much and learn to share what we have.\n\nOn the other hand, obesity is not just about eating.  It's about people using food to heal their emotional and psycological pain.  The problem with that is it's so temporary.  Whereas learning why we have the problems we have and how to solve them would be a tremendous turnaround in our society.\n\nIn spite of all the self-help books and talk shows out there, we are getting worse and worse.  We keep trying to heal ourselves, when what we really need to do is connect with the One who can heal us.
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Americans choose quantity over quality when it comes to food.. everything is super sized. A lot of us do not sit and enjoy a meal, we eat while doing other things, like driving, watching TV, etc., which makes us eat more without thinking. Also, it is not a coincidence, I'm sure, that we have more cars here in  USA than most places, which makes us get less exercise. The worship of thinness here in USA is contradictory to what we as a nation look like. The standard of thinness that is worshiped here is so unnatural and extreme that some people give up s thinking it unattainable and let themselves go even more than if it were a normal  weight standard set.
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More than 1000 calories.
604856
Iam an American. In the last two months I ate two cows, a pig, ten chickens, 12 lbs of shrimp, 2 dozen oysters, 15 lbs of fish, two chocolate cakes, luncheon meats breads, pastries. Gallons of beer a liquid refreshments, 100 hours of movies and television on my super large screen tv in my nice $18000. home in the sweet sweet American coutry side.\nDrive my sedan anywhere I want anytime I want at the lowest petroleum rates in the world. I vote for the leader of our country without fear of being killed, voice my opinion with out fear of repression, pay tax money I know is going to help morons like you And I have a big huge fat American *** and you can kiss it!
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hmmm.  the most money hungry people i've observed are all morbidly obese, middle aged , bald, psychopathic white republican "christian" males.  the most obvious among them being: jerry falwell( a total disgrace, also, to the leo sun sign, since he's an abject coward), dennis hastert, rush limpbow, and dick cheney, to name just the very tip of the iceberg.
197846
The diet craze doesn't help anyone because everyone wants to lose weight with the minimum amount of work.  The only way to slim down America is for Americans to get off of thier lazy asses and do some work.
121670
People feed themselves, and it's no secret that McDonald's serve alot of high fat foods, and people go there of their own free will.
381773
2/3 of the population is overweight or obese.  You tell me if that's a problem.
130367
We don't _require_ 3 meals. The amount of enegy that a healthy active person needs is about 2000 calories. If you eat all those at once, well, that's it. The 3 meal custom is a cultural way of keeping our lives "organized" (i.e. establishing fixed hours for eating, sleeping, etc), and also a social ritual for many people. Other people nibble at bits of food all day long and are perfectly well-fed anyway; in fact, some diets suggest eating 6 smaller meals a day in order to keep the digestive metabolism working and burning energy continuously.\nOther apes' behavior includes searching for food and eating during large parts of the day... I guess the availability of large amounts of food in modern occidental society also favors the custom of eating large meals.
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Americans in particular and the other "leading nations" would have far more issues with it than the other "developing" nations, I think. A huge problem would be the loss of refrigeration. Some (not all, by any means) Americans don't know how to cook without their fridges keeping the food nice and safe for them, don't know how to do anything but throw it in the microwave for a few minutes until the little machine says the food is ready to be consumed. These people might be able to adjust, but it would be a long, hard road.\nAlso, what would happen to jobs? Most of us work on or with computers. Well, those would have just become the world's most expensive paperweights!! Some things would still be perfectly normal, though: school would still be in session, but classes might be held outside to make use of the light; cars would still run, but would gas stations?\nI think it would be a hard adjustment, but as a culture, we could succeed.\n\n~~Naomi
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No one is starving in the united states. We have food stamps, soup kitchens, homeless shelters, churches, canned food drives, welfare checks, and all sorts of other handouts. We also have the richest and most generous population on earth. Whomever is starving is a crack addict or is too lazy to beg the government for my money, or is making good money pretending to be poor and begging on the streets for booze money.\n\nI repeat: No one is starving in the United States.\n\nHowever, I agree with the premise that we send too much aid overseas, when that aid is stolen by aggressive governments who fund terrorism and butcher thier own people an buy weapons with the money sent for aid.
804654
there are 2.2 lbs in every kg.
346170
DON'T DO THIS!!! The last thing you need is to export the idea of conspicuous consumption to a place where having enough to eat is an area of major concern!!!
503366
Apparently, sleeping less is one great way to increase your longevity... (see source)\n\nI don't agree with the comment regarding living in a 'First World Nation'. Currently, 1 out of every 6 children in the United States is obese. Maybe he meant "don't live in Texas".
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Not trying to be funny but are you asking a question or just sharing what someone else said & want comments or what? Im gonna assume you want comments so here's one: UGH!!! Like u said, its someone looking for attention. The average persons stomach probably wouldnt HOLD that much food! He'd die just from the salted pork (high sodium) & the seafood (high iodine content). He's full of sh!t....literally!
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65% of adult US population is overweight, 31% of adult population in the US is obese.
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Today, 64.5 percent of adult Americans (about 127 million) are categorized as being overweight or obese. Each year, obesity causes at least 300,000 excess deaths in the U.S., and healthcare costs of American adults with obesity amount to approximately $100 billion.\n\nRecent studies on the epidemiology of anorexia have suggested an incidence of between 8 and 13 cases per 100,000 persons per year and an average prevalence of 0.3% using strict criteria for diagnosis. These studies also confirm the view that the condition largely affects young adolescent females, with females aged between 15 and 19 making up 40% of all cases. Furthermore, the majority of cases are unlikely to be in contact with mental health services.\n\nWhile it was once thought that obesity was largely due to genes, it is not the case so much today.  Many people are eating for more reasons than sustaining hunger; psychological or mental disorders play a part, lack of activity, inadequate nutrients replace the nutritional value the body needs (i.e., fat burgers, fried foods, etc.).\n\nWith so few reporting their anorexic condition to the medical field, it is difficult to gauge numbers that would be in comparison to obesity to measure hospital costs, etc.\n\nPersonally, I think both conditions are problematic but would say that obesity is a bigger problem due to the NUMBER of individuals it has plagued.  WIth insufficient data to compare, it seems though, unlikely, that there are that many suffering from anorexia (by viewing physical appearance) than that of obese people (there seem to be more and more waddling around these days - and they are younger than before).