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Yes, I have. In both Ireland and Scotland. They're not as many of them and it still doesn't change the fact that you don't a lot of obese people over there as you do here.
That's the truth, I guess some Americans don't want to hear that.
Last trip I was gone for a month, when I came back I was at my local Target and took a good look around and took notice of how many people were overweight, and I don't mean just a few pounds. The sad thing was many were in their 20s or 30s.
And I live in Southern CA, where people tend to be more health conscious than other parts of the country.
I don't know why people are taking it so personally. We are huge as a nation and it is getting worse. I have worked in nursing homes for 20 years. When I first started, we would need an extra wide w/c or extra wide bed rarely, now we have 5 or 6 chairs so wide they don't even fit in the bathroom doorways, and there is always a quest to find another one for another new obese patient who gets admitted for rehab.
As a country, obesity costs us a fortune, much, much more than drug abuse ever did, and it kills many, many more people than drug abuse ever did, yet people don't seem to see it as a "we need to do something about this" type of problem like they do drug abuse.
I don't know why people are taking it so personally. We are huge as a nation and it is getting worse. I have worked in nursing homes for 20 years. When I first started, we would need an extra wide w/c or extra wide bed rarely, now we have 5 or 6 chairs so wide they don't even fit in the bathroom doorways, and there is always a quest to find another one for another new obese patient who gets admitted for rehab.
As a country, obesity costs us a fortune, much, much more than drug abuse ever did, and it kills many, many more people than drug abuse ever did, yet people don't seem to see it as a "we need to do something about this" type of problem like they do drug abuse.
I’ve seen the same. I used to work for a radiology center. We started having to ask patients their weight before scheduling an MRI or CT because most of the machines were only capable of holding 250 pounds or so. We had to buy a specialized opened MRI machine that had capacity up to 500 pounds. That wasn’t a cheap purchase.
A colleague of mine went to visit her boyfriend in Morocco and said
You lose weight without even trying because the food is so pure” They also drink a lot of green tea.
Nutritional education and access to fruits and vegetables, especially greens is important. If we are going to continue with farm subsidies, I think they should be for smaller farmers that grow things other than wheat soy and corn.
They need to require home economics like we had in the 70’s and 80’s. They taught how to cook, how to write a budget, and how to balance a checkbook, etc. So many people don’t know how to cook.
I don't know why people are taking it so personally. We are huge as a nation and it is getting worse. I have worked in nursing homes for 20 years. When I first started, we would need an extra wide w/c or extra wide bed rarely, now we have 5 or 6 chairs so wide they don't even fit in the bathroom doorways, and there is always a quest to find another one for another new obese patient who gets admitted for rehab.
As a country, obesity costs us a fortune, much, much more than drug abuse ever did, and it kills many, many more people than drug abuse ever did, yet people don't seem to see it as a "we need to do something about this" type of problem like they do drug abuse.
Yes, it is.
I remember seeing on the national news early on in the election the reporter was broadcasting from the Iowa State Fair, you could see the people walking in the background. I couldn't get over the size of the people, the majority of them were not just heavy but very obese.
People can deny it, but you don't see in Europe like you do here.
If you look at old news footage from the 60s and 70s in America, you see people who are normal weight.
You're right, it costs a fortune, we now have kids who are getting diabetes early on.
That's a very small number compared to the US. There were 14,146 McDonald's restaurants in the United States in 2016 and 1,450 McDonald's restaurants in Canada.
Canada's population is 36 million, US is 330 million. We'll let you ponder on that for a bit.
Yes, I have. In both Ireland and Scotland. They're not as many of them and it still doesn't change the fact that you don't a lot of obese people over there as you do here.
So "not as many of them" somehow validates the previous claim that fast food restaurants are few and far between or absent n most European cities, and that they are only there for American and Canadian tourists? There being less is something totally different. There are thousands upon thousands of American fast food restaurants in Europe.
I'm glad you enjoyed your trip to Ireland. For your convenience here is a map of the 25 McDonald's locations in and around Dublin.
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Originally Posted by seain dublin
That's the truth, I guess some Americans don't want to hear that
This American is fine with the truth, which sure isn't what was provided. It's kind of cute the way you are trying to spin it as the fault of others who don't want to listen when it was a ridiculous (and easily proven false) statement about fast food chains in Europe.
French are sometimes fat but embarrassed by it Americans a righteously fat
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