To be fair, getting fat back then was hard work.
Think about it...refined sugars weren't in everything. People had to leave their house, usually on foot, horse, or bike (the modern "safety bicycle" with equally-sized wheels and a chain-drive, came out the same decade).
You'd have to have support/enablers, and you'd have to eat a lot.
Nowadays it's easy to get fat. Everything is at our fingertips including vast amounts of unhealthy and unsatisfying food stuff. And Walmart is just a few minutes ride in a climate-controlled vehicle. And you'd have to be real heavy to get a car to not want to move you...try that with a horse.
If you were rich even in ancient times you could be carried by servants and put in some kind of chariot or carriage, but getting enough food to get that fat and eating it all without modern industrial food would be the real feat.
Hatshepsut managed to be obese in the mid 1400s BCE.
"All these other countries, nobody's fat? Think about that shit, dawg. How does a motherfucker get fat? You gotta sit on a couch, do nothing but eat and watch TV all day. White trash, poor Mexicans and blacks, all obese as motherfuckers. See, the White Man has created a system with so much excess, that even poor motherfuckers are fat."
-Sgt. Espera
Yes, let's blame it on moral failure rather than the destruction of walkable spaces, endangering as many outdoor spaces as possible with 3-ton emotional support vehicles, portion sizes at restaurants and grocery stores that are double of other countries because going anywhere requires committing to driving 15mins both ways and parking, and having fuck all for a health care system.
Don't forget putting sugar/HFCS into everything (in Hungary, we call them cookies), and the toxic gymbro culture of "everything or nothing" mentality when it comes to sports/workout.
Don't forget about the actual ingredients in the food, no matter what the portion size is. There's a reason that 1 year old McDonalds cheeseburger looks just the same as it did, fresh under the heat lamp.
I'm dealing with all those things and I still maintain a healthy weight.
The primary difference between skinny people and fat people is that fat people are simply hungrier. People have different set points that their bodies try desperately to stay at. And this set point is largely affected by the diet you experience in early childhood, and it's set for life.
Yes, obviously it is possible for a person with a fat set point to lower their weight through constant grinding effort and calorie counting. But that's not how human beings are supposed to have to live. Most skinny people don't have to count calories, they simply rely on their natural hunger levels to maintain their weight.
If a skinny person tries to eat past their set point, their body will actually fight them. If you try to eat past your set point, your body will force you to burn off calories in all sorts of ways. Your energy levels will soar, so you spend more time active. You'll experience insomnia, so you spend more time active and burning more calories.
If a fat person tries to lose weight just by counting calories, their body constantly fights them over it. Their energy levels decline so they'll burn less calories. They'll get tired earlier and find themselves sleeping for 10 hours as their body forces them to preserve calories.
Weight is not a moral issue. It is a simple health issue. Our modern food systems create unnatural foods that fuck up people's internal set points. Instead of your body trying to get you to maintain a healthy weight, it tries to maintain an unhealthy weight.
We see now through the invention of drugs like Ozempic that the whole idea of calorie counting and brute force willpower to maintain weight is a Medieval and barbaric approach to the problem. We've taken a medical problem and turned it into a moral failing. It's no different than how people used to ostracize, demonize, and banish those who caught leprosy.
Or we could blame it on a food industry that soaked up all the researchers and marketers who got unemployed when we cracked down on cigarette advertising
It‘s not that different today. Back then it was people paying directly. Now ads on TLC pay them.
Yeah but we also get an Iranian surgeon who specializes in backhanded compliments.
They didn’t have junk food!
He would've been advertised by the travelling circus (freak show) as the world's fattest but they had no way to know who in fact was the world's fattest.
Sure but the point is that this was fat enough to get people to come look at him at the freak show and now he's a fairly average American.
That's true I guess, but he may have just been a side show for the bearded lady.
And this is the tallest waterfall on earth!
Based and waterfallpilled
This guy looks EXACTLY like my neighbor. Fuckin creepy
You live next to the world's fattest man? Amazing!
Does your neighbor look like Farva? (Kevin Heffernan) Cause that picture looks a lot like that dude.
Landfill and Landfill's brother are my personal favorite characters of his.
Fair point, but are we sure he was actually the world's fattest man, or was that just what the carnival barker that sold the tickets put on the sign?
Fattest man to have been photographed in 1890.
American way of life. Would you like a straw with your 2 liters soft drink?
I went to look up our soft drink sizes.
McDonald's large is 30 fl oz (890 ml). The Super Size, discontinued in the mid 2000's, was 42 fl oz (1240 ml).
The 7-Eleven Big Gulp is also 30 fl oz, but it's not the largest size offered. The Super Big Gulp is 40 fl oz (1180 ml), and the Double Gulp is 50 fl oz (1480 ml), down from its original size of 64 fl oz (1900 ml).
There are bigger sizes, like the 7-Eleven "Team Gulp," an entire US gallon (128 oz, 3.8 liters), but it's marketed as being for multiple people to share.
【Today he'd be the 3rd fattest guy at the local Walmart.]
That's assuming the Walmart mobility scooter left in the parking lot has enough of a charge to get the actual fattest guy through the doors. The pictured guy could come in 4th.
If the scooter has no charge and the fattest guy can’t get in, doesn’t that make the pictured guy 2nd?
Food technology has come a long way
I don't see a fatness certificate detailing BFI.
There are people like these today that are sodium intolerant, and their body retains gigantic amounts of water just to deal with that.
I'm talking people that are way, WAY above the average sodium consumption of 2300 milligrams daily.
They don't know they are intolerant and gain abrupt amounts of weight ( 30 lbs or more in days ) just due to water retention
These are people whose maximum sodium intake should be less than 500-50 milligrams daily
Imagine what that much salt makes to a body
I think I might go do some sit-ups
- in the USA
Average day at WalMart.
