Anon travels overseas
Anon travels overseas
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"I visited europe" goes to the uk
The uk is somehow actually less european than the caucasian countries and kazakhstan which everyone criticizes for pretending to be european.
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Is the UK american, or the US British?
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How to start a war with a single question.
Fun related "fact": Shakespeare supposedly sounds more period-accurate in a generic American accent than a modern British accent because the British dramatically changed their accent some time after the US split and the American accent has changed less over the centuries.
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The idea that the UK has less in common with France than France does with Kazakhstan is hilarious.
Bravo!
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I lost weight after two weeks in Paris eating like a hedonist king because of all the walking.
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It helps when everywhere in that mile radius (and more) is considered walking distance in much of Europe, but Americans would rather drive.
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Walling that mile ain't going to negate that much unhealthy food.
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Nah, every american I've known who left America either immediately lost weight, or maintained despite eating 10x more and less healthy food.
I lost weight on a diet of fried food, meat, and fried noodles, I've seen other people lose weight eating ice cream 2-3x a day
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Anon needs to learn that the UK isn't representative of all of Europe
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And does have an obesity problem!
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We (Europeans) are just more active, including walking / cycling to work every day. Try it and see the difference.
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i think it's not just "activity". lots of people in the US go to the gym a lot.
but what we have here in europe is integrating movements into everyday life. Like, when i drive anywhere in the city, it typically involves a 10 minute walk (to/from the subway/tram station). And i believe that does much more than going to the gym for 1 hour once a week. Because you stay moving daily, your body stays "awake" daily, instead of just waking up once a week and then falling back into slumber.
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And yet the number of people obese in the USA is almost double that of the UK.
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It’s the corn syrup more than the fried food honestly. The number of people who drink soda all day is wild.
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Something I noticed when visiting the US. I went to one of their Wendy's to try it out, and ordered a small chicken burger. It was very dry and bland, not really that good, yet I looked up the nutritional info and apparently this small burger alone was over 1200kcals??
I'm fairly sure it was the bun that did that as I doubt they raise some kind of super chicken with an energy density similar to petrol.
Anyway, surprise surprise I ended up with heartburn afterwards.
Edit: people always talk about the percentage of people who are obese in these discussions, but have you noticed just how big obese people can get in the states?
Genuinely, almost every day I was there I caught myself accidentally stopping and staring because I'd just seen someone fatter than I thought humanly possible. Like so big that I couldn't understand how their flesh didn't just tear and fall off their skeleton.
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The number of people I know in America who "can't" drink just water and have to have some syrup flavored drink instead is astounding. Dude, you're complaining about your weight. Maybe cut back on the sugar for one drink per day.
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And a car enforced society zeor active tranaport
This dude (Gen Z american living in the UK) talks about it in this vid (amongst other things) he walks to the grocery store walks home, cycles to work etc as jet says, he could own a car but doesn't need one.
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There's another major reason tbh, cheap shite is unhealthy for you but very quick and easy to cook
And there's more people in USA that live under the breadline, where they're working stupid long shifts for stupid low pay - because there is not anything better available for them
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I used to work with a morbidly obese lady that kept a 2 litre of mountain dew at her desk at all times. She'd come in every Monday with 2 of them. It was wild to me.
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Walkable areas go a long way
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Carbs are much worse than fat. So drinking dozens of grams of sugar every day and putting sugar in every food is worse than eating fatty food.
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Hilarious that this is true and yet the US is still somehow fatter.
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There is a vast difference between eating shitty food once a day while being able to walk everywhere and eating shitty food three meals a day and not walking anywhere.
The US both massively overeats the shitty food and is very sedentary for the most part. A bit contributor is our absolutely terrible work culture that wears people out so much that they seek pleasure from food and entertainment in the few spare hours they have each week because they are constantly advertised to encouraging that behavior.
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It's sugar.
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eats a tub of sugary chocolate sugar every morning
Pretty sure it's the milk, guys!
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Replying to your edit since you felt it was reasonable to retroactively be rude in an edit like a coward instead of at least in reply.
Damn, i guess managing my weight to be within 10lbs of my desired target weight for the last 10 years doesnt count because ive never in my life weighed enough to have to lose a lot of weight.
I consciously work to shed weight when I'm over and gain weight when I'm under. But what do i know?
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It's the HFS. Not fucking milk. Like, yes, milk as a drink is high calorie and was forced on us by marketing in the 90s-00s, but drinking milk isn't what's making people fat.
The people who managed to NOT gain an extra 160 pounds that they needed to lose might know something about not gaining weight...
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It's not the milk lol.
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You are being downvoted because what works for you is not going to work for everyone, and pretending like it will makes you look like an asshole.
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I'm going to tag you as the milk guy
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As someone who's lactose intolerant, it is annoying to find stuff without dairy in it. Not impossible of course, but it is in the most random shit.
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I drink a gallon of milk a day (no joke). Take a look at my profile picture 😁
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carne et lacte vivant
from caesar's report about the brits: they live off meat and milk
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Britain is projected to be the fattest country in Europe. So don’t think all those chippies and pub food aren’t taking a toll.
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You can tell this is London. They have some weird streets where every single shop sells the same stuff.
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Not to mention the other weird streets where every single house is identical.
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That's just br*tish "food"
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Yes, let us come to a conclusion by comparing the obesity of one nation to the abundance of delicious food establishments of another.
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In what is likely a touristy or well traveled section. Sometimes the difference includes how we do our transportation too, like more walking/biking. Maybe a difference in how often we rely on said restaurants too.
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Wait, what is pea pure?
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Misspelling of puree (or pureé), most likely referring to the UK's mushy peas,which are ubiquitous in chip shops over there
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I think I’m the only Northerner who hates those. Curry sauce though…
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mushy peas
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Fat isn't unhealthy. Excess calories and absence of exercise is not healthy.
Also the U.K. population is unhealthy just like the U.S.
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Yes! Fat by itself isn't unhealthy.
The best example is Italy, it has the lowest obesity rate of Europe, (1) but also has the highest consumption of cooking oil of Europe (2)
I was surprised in Italy when I saw how much olive oil they used while cooking. For me oil was just like a cooking aid so stuff does not stick to the pan, in Italian cuisine olive oil is not just an aid, it's part of the ingredients
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Anon, did you look at the people?
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Been to Seoul. Every place there gives you tons of side dishes that you cant possibly eat all. People are still very very thin there on average. Ofc, cant judge whole country by one city. But maybe city's landscape helps them keep themselves in shape.
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Yeah but aren't the side dishes like seaweed salad and kimchi?
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Depends on a place and an order. Some places give just kimchi and radish. Some other places have bunch of stuff to the main course.
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I recently tried to compare data on morbid obesity, but most countries don't even have a rate, or only include the data as a sub- 1% share of the obesity.
And the US it's 9.5%
As in, 30% of the US has a BMI between 30 and 40, and 10% is over 40.
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Egypt beat us? Pick up that fork soldier, we can't let them win!
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Do you see Abby supersized soda bucketa?
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Sounds delicious!
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They walk more. That's it. That's the secret.
Portion sizes are a factor too!
I dont feel like they are. Traveling France and Italy a couple years back, I found myself not finishing meals much more regularly that I do in the states, Even though I was eating a bit more because I was walking 5+ miles a day.
Maybe i was in part over ordering due to language, or menu expectations. Maybe some of thw places I was in were touristy and over doing it to match 'american portions'
But for instance, i got breakfast that was 'oefs en cocotte de compagne' at a café a couple blocks from the louvre, far enough to not be in the tourist trap surrounding area anymore.
It was massive- 4 shired eggs with a generous amount of mushrooms and gruyere, served with 4 pieces of toast. And I confirmed with the waiter that that was not a shared portion....
I can do my weekly shopping without having to get in the car. Because in Europe everything's all mixed together rather than zoned into miles of endless residential, that you have to drive for 25 minutes in order to leave to get to the big shopping mall was it's one million car parking spaces.
i walk 10 minutes (1.0 km) to the second-nearest grocery store (because that has cheaper and better-quality food) and i'm already living pretty far out on the city borders.
And also didn't replace all the fat in their food with sugar processed from corn.
Fat doesn't turn into fat when you eat it - it turns into sugars, which then turn into fat. Eating sugar just takes one step out of the process and makes your body work less (and therefore burn less calories) turning it into fat.
We compensate with gym time, you can't outrun a cheeseburger
Not being able to outrun your diet is a really strange concept to me, and I've exclusively heard it in this thread, and multiple times in this thread. Dafuq?
Fast Food!
You can't outrun your diet.
It's not that simple, if you are healthier with regular exercise your hunger is also better regulated and your diet will be better.
calories in, calories out. Use more than you eat and weight goes down. Eat more than you use and weight goes up. It's an oversimplification, but it's not wrong.
I mean, you can, but it takes a lot of running to expend the calories taken in with a pretty typical American diet, especially when you account for the increase in appetite exercise typically brings.
But it is possible. If you can burn 2000 calories on a single run, that's a lot of room to maneuver to fit your macros while eating a significant amount of junk food.