alt Hacker News> Possible effective solutions to the US obesity epidemic
Just wanted to mention that this is not a US problem, and framing it as such won't help find solutions. Even in southeast Asia the rates over obesity are steadily increasing. Europe is already much fatter than southeast Asia. This is a worldwide phenomenon.
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It is global, but the US is among the leaders and people who move here from skinnier countries tend to get fatter. Something about (odds are, a bunch of somethings about) the living environment we’ve created causes more obesity than the environments in most other countries, though yes, it’s getting worse in those other countries, too.
USA is the worst by a long stretch. I believe it's 80% of the USA population that is overweight.
Being fit there is statistically considered an anomaly.
I don't know of any other country where you would be weird because you're fit.
I would argue that the US has some fault to why other western nations are getting fatter.
All of the US's worst fast food chains and food products have been exported. In my tiny city a Carl's Jr. Just opened! There is McDonald's, Burger King and Starbucks everywhere. There are also Dunkin donuts in the supermarket as well as oreos. In contrast there arent any Asian or Russian restaurants chains here.
Local foods have become sweeter in order to compete and there are so many local burger restaurants now it's like I have moved to the US.