Why do Americans deny being fat, well lots of them do?
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Maybe because most Americans are so Fat now that they see everyone around them as normal. How funny! In America we have different categories of being classified as fat, kind of like how the Eskimos have different names for snow. Weird huh?\n\nYou have your:\n\noverweight/chubby/big boned person\n\nFat/Obese\n\nExtreme Obese\n\nMorbidly Obese (300 lbs and up)\n\nThis is so crazy!
703991
well maybe i have to admit ( i am 1/2 korean and 1/2 black) many americans are fat, but in s. korea, they eat rice, other healthy stuff and probably 2-5% koreans are overweight. In the U.S., more than 30% of the population are overweight. ( i think)
1074081
yeah but its because there is so much junk food and tv shows to watch that people just get really get fat.  only a few people care, those few that r thin, and the fat ones dont really care because everyone else looks the same way.
650744
yes americans are fat and lazy and should have a greater respect for foreigners and their contribution to your society
1048430
We have many cultures and traditions. But the one thing that can be said of most of us is we are rebelous. If the trend is to be extreamly fat then half of us will take it to the extream the other way and become fitness fanatics. \n\nLook at politics here the more conservative half of the population is the more extream the other half goes liberal. \n\nWe divide and argue about everything, coke/pepsi\nChevy/Ford, city/country.\n\nWe are diverse but united in being rebelous. It is in our history. We drink coffee because you all drink tea. We race horses the opposet direction as you do, just to rebel. We even drive on the different side of the road, just to rebel. \n\nWe are a country of contradictions and we would not have it any other way.
847421
yup, most of them are fat.
403856
I completely agree, I may not have said it like that, but I do agree. My husband and I have talked several times about how you don't see elderly obese people. I used to work in a retirement facility. In the building I worked in we had 50 residents. 1 was overweight. She was also one of the youngest people living there. You don't see them because they don't live that long! \n\nI don't know why people can't see that allowing yourself to become incredibly overweight is what is causing their health problems. I can name four people off hand in my extended family that are severely overweight. Among those four they share kidney disfunction, cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep apnea and asthma.\n\nYeah, being overweight doesn't cause health problems...right!\n\nAnd in response to the person who said fatness is a disease...NO IT'S NOT! That's an excuse! Being overweight is a disorder called "Eating too much and not exercising".
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because either they have a problem like belimia or anorexica or they just feel fat and sometime they feel presure to have the "perfect body" when there realy is no such thing. we do live in a world where if you have eny excess fat on your body it is not model perfect.
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Those who are not fat, can't know what it is like to be fat! Therefore they don't understand that fat people are NOT lazy, ok a few are, but the majority are not.\n Someone does not wake up one morning and say, \n"I want to be fat! I think that it would be cool to be ridiculed and called lazy and ugly! I would like to have joint pain and back pain every day! Get short of breath just by walking up a flight of stairs! Can't enjoy nature by taking a hike with my friends, that just sounds soo cool!" \nSome people it is easy to loose weight, some people it is hard, and some people can't! We are all built different.\nIt is easy to judge when you don't understand, and have not experienced it for yourself. Just work on it and you will stop if you want to!\n\n\nloj
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Because Most Americans have lost respect for their own country and their own bodies.  They don't respect themselves or anyone else.  They are lazy SOBs who sap money from the gov't because they are too lazy to work and then taxes go up so I get less for what I work for.  I worked in places where people use their food stamps for chips and dip and their cash allowances for beer and cigarettes.  IT'S SICK!  Forget their kids...forget why they even were allowed that money in the first place.  DISRESPECT, LAZINESS, AND SELFISHNESS are all the reasons why America is less fit than probably any other country in the world.  \n\n***Sorry...this is a touchy topic for me, if you can't tell...I've got stories and stories about this too...
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None of them. If they did, America would not have an obesity problem because everyone overweight would be taking it.
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Even Americans are mortified to see themselves and their neighbors be so huge. Check out WalMart sometime. Criminy. \n\nI think that people tend to do what they have seen done before them. Look at the impossibility of the 4 minute mile. Once the barrier was broken, there were many more that came right after. \n\nWhen one sees truly huge people, it is easy to think of ones self as "not too fat." I'm not as big as "that" person, so I am not so bad. \n\nAmericans don't all do things as a group. We live in an enormous country. We tend to do things that our families and neighbors do. There is very little true necessary activity in this nation anymore. Farming is done with machines, clothes are washed in machines, dishes are washed similarly, no ironing is truly necessary, food is microwavable and served up instantly in fast food restaurants. \n\nOur lifestyle, in general, seems to be one of needing more hours in the day. Most people are working couples, kids get second place to the parents' jobs. There isn't much time for family life, and for personal recreation, much let alone kayaking, cycling, mountain hiking, and volksmarching. \n\nThe hectic lives many Americans lead does not lend itself to healthful living. \n\nAnother thing to consider is that most Americans are not rich. Most Americans work very hard to try to "keep up with the Joneses." There are images of monied perfection that we try to attain, and it takes 2 jobs and not much time for anything else. The people who you see as jetsetters, ski bunnies, and driving great cars and living in fantastic homes are the top of the economic pile. Most of us are not as well heeled, and can't afford the gym, or even find time for a nice walk. \n\nYou talk about how the rest of the world views Americans. Sorry that the fat slobs here are ruining our world image. Sometimes it might be impossible, but a nice dream, to think that others might check in their own backyards before judging the rest of the world. \n\nI know that Americans are not the favorites of the world. But again, the great majority of us are decent, caring, well-balanced individuals, with open minds and hearts. Even the very fattest of us all might surprise the rest of the svelte world population with intelligence, dignity, inner grace, and kindness. \n\nSorry America doesn't present the best picture for you or the "rest of the world." Sorry about the starving folks in other countries. Truly I am. But to be angry with us because of a weight issue is to be small-minded and ignorant of the real factors facing transglobal relations. \n\nWe're fat because we have access to unhealthy foods, live an unhealthy lifestyle, and are caught in a rut of modern living. Habits are hard to break, and no one is eating extra calories to cause international hardship. Perhaps the next time I consider putting that second serving of Cheerios into my cereal bowl, I'll remember how it'll look to the rest of the world, and be ashamed.
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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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Well it is not a fact. A lot of people actually have a very poor image of their bodies... so a lot of people think they are fatter than what they really are. People who have eating disorders tend to have problems with this. When they look in the mirror they see a person much larger then the skeleton that is usually their actual body size.
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Despite what you have witnessed in other countries you may be comparing a small sample size relative to the entire population of the country you are visiting.  Americans clearly and statistically have the worst diet, are the most overweight and have the highest percentage of obese people in the world.  Ever been to Texas?\n\nThe progression is clear from decades past especially in young people which are a good representation of future health.\nhttp://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hestats/overwght99.htm\n\nSorry my friend, but facts are facts and you can't refute them.
689791
Well, I doubt that. Americans seem to becoming obese all on their own.
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they arent\n\nthey just arent fat like the rest of the women you see in america