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chocoloco on 10 July 2013

To be fair, Americas obesity rates are different by race with minorities being far more obese than European descent Americans. When looking at any country, but especially America, obesity differences in different demographics should be taken into account looking at race, and social economic level, yet rarely are. Food for thought. Poverty in America is associated with the most obesity.



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Farsala on 10 July 2013
Netyaroze said:
@Farsala

yes Bodybuilders can be obese with a very low body fat but most people are not bodybuilders and 200 pound pure muscle is really the exception. Also anorexic means you have an eating disorder technically you can be fat and anorexic. But if you are anorexic or bulimic and dont lose massively weight to the point of underweight you arent really endagering your life so it just means you have a few screws lose.

I see, I just do not like the definition.



Zappykins on 11 July 2013
Farsala said:
It is funny how the Obesity term is used, mainly because I have probably only met 3 Obese people in my life in USA. Must be massive differences in Obesity between the states.

 Good for you, really only 3? 

I see obese people most everywhere.  Morbidly obese, not as often, but they seem to be the ones we call fat in the USA.  Still there are plenty of them.

I was watching and old British show recently and the wife was complaining how ‘disgustingly fat’ her husband was. By today’s  USA standards, he would only be considered plump.

You are considered obese if your body fat is over 25% as a male and 32% as a female.  I think in the USA we are so use to it, we don't really see it.

Here is a handy chart:



 

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Cobretti2 on 11 July 2013
KHlover said:
Mr Khan said:
A lot of it has to do with lack of safe drinking water in Mexico, and their delicious, made-from-sugar-not-fucking-corn-syrup soda, that is widely available in lieu of questionable drinking water. So it's a country where a lot of people have to take in a lot of sugar just to get the hydration they need.

Is corn syrup really making the beverages in the US taste so bad?

It is also bad for people who are fructose intollerant, it can fuck your stomach up and you get cramps and if its really bad the shitz/



 

 

KHlover on 11 July 2013
Cobretti2 said:
KHlover said:
Mr Khan said:
A lot of it has to do with lack of safe drinking water in Mexico, and their delicious, made-from-sugar-not-fucking-corn-syrup soda, that is widely available in lieu of questionable drinking water. So it's a country where a lot of people have to take in a lot of sugar just to get the hydration they need.

Is corn syrup really making the beverages in the US taste so bad?

It is also bad for people who are fructose intollerant, it can fuck your stomach up and you get cramps and if its really bad the shitz/

Wow, that sucks :/



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the2real4mafol on 11 July 2013

Since when is Mexico developed?

But this is bloody awful, we seriously need to sort this out. How do people get so fat?



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Farsala on 11 July 2013
Zappykins said:
Farsala said:
It is funny how the Obesity term is used, mainly because I have probably only met 3 Obese people in my life in USA. Must be massive differences in Obesity between the states.

 Good for you, really only 3? 

I see obese people most everywhere.  Morbidly obese, not as often, but they seem to be the ones we call fat in the USA.  Still there are plenty of them.

I was watching and old British show recently and the wife was complaining how ‘disgustingly fat’ her husband was. By today’s  USA standards, he would only be considered plump.

You are considered obese if your body fat is over 25% as a male and 32% as a female.  I think in the USA we are so use to it, we don't really see it.

Here is a handy chart:

 


I have seen a lot of them. But I would say I only met 3 up close. The definition just really bothers me when I could be 6 foot 1 inch 120 lb and have close to 25% body fat and be considered obese when really that is skinny as F.



Zappykins on 11 July 2013
Farsala said:

I have seen a lot of them. But I would say I only met 3 up close. The definition just really bothers me when I could be 6 foot 1 inch 120 lb and have close to 25% body fat and be considered obese when really that is skinny as F.

Sorry, not following you.  I don't see how somone 6'1" could be both 120lb and have 25% body fat.

But if you are a male, yes, 25% body fat is considered obese.  But if you are female, you have a little more room. 

I belive they go off when the body fat start making unhealthy changes to the body and death rates start to rise dramatically.



 

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Farsala on 11 July 2013
Zappykins said:
Farsala said:
 

I have seen a lot of them. But I would say I only met 3 up close. The definition just really bothers me when I could be 6 foot 1 inch 120 lb and have close to 25% body fat and be considered obese when really that is skinny as F.

Sorry, not following you.  I don't see how somone 6'1" could be both 120lb and have 25% body fat.

But if you are a male, yes, 25% body fat is considered obese.  But if you are female, you have a little more room. 

I belive they go off when the body fat start making unhealthy changes to the body and death rates start to rise dramatically.

@bold exactly you would be surprised.

 

Obviously not even close to that anymore though.



dyremose on 11 July 2013

from what i could gather. the US populace didnt get thinner. it was just the mexicans getting fatter...
now just canada needs to get to third place and then we can refer to North America as the lardo factory :D