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I don't disagree, and I don't mean to say that it's entirely some kind of moral failing of the individual if they become obese. Most people simply conform to their environment, so unless a person is an extraordinary self starter, they are not very likely to defy an unhealthy culture. And there is indeed a self perpetuating element of grinding poverty. The truly, desperately poor have always been remarkably politically inert, for instance, which is why terrorists overwhelmingly come from the middle class and not from the poor, contrary to the popular belief.

But whether the lack of initiative is part of a person's individual flaws or is simply endemic to his culture, it seems to me that it would lead towards both poverty and obesity.

I feel as if obese people never heard of will power.

Blame the white man. It's obviously his fault just like everything.

Minorities are not more likely to be obese. They're just more likely to beat anorexia.

That's a great way of looking at it! Good thinking son. 

Stop ridding livestock with those goddamn hormones and I bet all those typically American cases of extreme obesity will be greatly reduced. Obesity rate will still be high, like in any rich society, but North America is far beyond any reasonable limit, there's something abnormal, as in Europe, even amongst people that eat too much, you can find all the obeses you'd expect, but it's a lot rarer to find so many extreme obeses as in USA.

Is USA Fat population that numerous ?

Here on my school in the other day i saw alot of fat girls... wow i was like wtf these girls are doing, and gets even worst, they are only 19-22, the older they´ll get, the more fat they´ll get. i guess we can blame beer, even if they aint that fat they have big belly lool Thats why i exercise every weekend and when i can weekly.

Im in Portugal btw.

maybe thats because they´re fat xD

I see tons of fat people over here but most are old men wich drink tons of beer everyday or old women who are sedentary... on my age i dont see much fat people. 

Then they don't care! Maybe it's because some of them that have been fat their whole lives don't know how it feels to be skinny and healthy so they don't have the incentive to lose the weight. 

Wild theory!