So why are Americans fat?

[tabs]

Well he's not going to any trendy West side Bistros DD.

[dd74]

Originally posted by tabs
Well he's not going to any trendy West side Bistros DD.

Yeah, well I'm not buying organic cherry tomatoes, either. Which, incidentally, last I saw, were $4.39 a dozen, or something.

Also, of those high-priced restaurants, some of them are really economical. It's the size of the meal that makes for the value. A $20 dinner split in half could be a $10 lunch the following day.

But then hell, Tabs, what's it all matter when you can get a $2 steak in downtown LV, right?

[tabs]

Hey next time I go to Jerrys Nugget and have Prime Rib for $14.85 I'll be thinking of you at one of those Trendy little places you frequent where when you leave you think man I would love to stop at Mickie D's to fill me up but I'm broke now after I paid for tonights dinner...and even my plastic is maxed out with the tip....

[tabs]

An they say no one falls for Tabbys tricks anymore!

[vash]

Originally posted by tabs
Ummmm..Just finishing up the left over Pizza from last night....didja ever notice that pizza just doesn't taste as good when reheated....Now Soups and stew and pasta sauces all taste better when aged.... ever wonder why that is?

spray a nonstick pan with a bit of PAM and after taking the slice outta the microwave, toss it into the hot pan. toast it a bit, and it will be 100% better.

soups and stew, taste better latter because the ingredients have had time to "marry".

[VaSteve]

Originally posted by dd74
Americans are so fat because we've been trained from childhood to believe in large portions. Over the weekend we ate at a Cheesecake Factory, and I swear, the Shepard's Pie dish they brought us could be split between four people.

CF. That place drive me nuts. Not only do they overserve you, the hwole freaking point is the cheezecake. So any meal takes literally FOREVER while they intentionally let you digest and make room for cheezecake. Ug!


This restaurant I frequent near me has a sign hanging in the bathroom, "Did you leave (or make) room for desert?" What a nasty thought, now I really want desert

[tabs]

Being a Buffet King you sometimes gota do what you gota do... iI call it do do .....or doing the do....

[JavaBrewer]

Americans are fat because they are dependant on fast food and generally lazy to change their bad eating habits. Buffet style eating results in buffet sized people.

[turbo6bar]

Originally posted by vash
spray a nonstick pan with a bit of PAM and after taking the slice outta the microwave, toss it into the hot pan. toast it a bit, and it will be 100% better.

Does this work for SPAM, as well?

[dd74]

Didn't Bill Murray have a skit on SNL where he played a moron cleaning out the barf trough in a Roman bathroom/vomitorium? See, that's what we need: more vomitoriums for more cheesecake.

[Evans, Marv]

I've had the same cloths size for the past 30 years. My philosophy is to stop eating when I take a bite & feel like I've had enough. I don't clean up my plate. Also, except for a piece of fruit at mid morning sometimes, I don't eat snacks. I'm not saying I don't eat hamburgers, french frys or ice cream. Just not on a regular basis.

[juanbenae]

marv,,, what are you tarzan in cloths? i share marvs tactic when pleasuring my girl,, when ive had enough i have had enough.

why are americans fat? because we CAN be. you think BRJ's friends in the sudan would be fat and lazy if they could be? hell yes. just be proud to live in a country that you can be fat in. god has blessed US.

[dd74]

I know a guy from Wales who will no longer take his wife back with him to Britain. She's big - and I mean big like 250+ easy, and at about 5-foot-6-inches. He says he can't stomach (no pun intended) how everyone (there) openly stares at her.

American girth: a worldwide (no pun intended) marvel.

[Icemaster]

Originally posted by vash
spray a nonstick pan with a bit of PAM and after taking the slice outta the microwave, toss it into the hot pan. toast it a bit, and it will be 100% better.

soups and stew, taste better latter because the ingredients have had time to "marry".

Dammit, where was this thread last night when I was reheating my leftover Deweys on a pizza stone?

Now THAT works nicely...especially if you like crispy crusts. Just takes a while to heat up.

[VaSteve]

Originally posted by dd74
I know a guy from Wales who will no longer take his wife back with him to Britain. She's big - and I mean big like 250+ easy, and at about 5-foot-6-inches. He says he can't stomach (no pun intended) how everyone (there) openly stares at her.

American girth: a worldwide (no pun intended) marvel.

About 10 years ago I was on a train between Scotland and England. This large (~250) woman walks down the aisle in my direction. My idiot friend (who is facing me across the aisle, points). Her husband/boyfriend is right behind her and starts in with my friend, pissed as hell. He is frozen in fear of getting his ass kicked. Other friend diffuzed the situation.

Found out later the guy was mixing it up in next car as well.

The only other people we saw that size in 3.5 weeks of travel were 2 hefty women from Alabama..

[CamB]

The USDA reckons you (and in NZ, we) eat too much:

http://www.usda.gov/factbook/chapter2.htm

According to the National Center for Health Statistics, an astounding 62 percent of adult Americans were overweight in 2000, up from 46 percent in 1980. Twenty-seven percent of adults were so far overweight that they were classified as obese (at least 30 pounds above their healthy weight)–twice the percentage classified as such in 1960. Alarmingly, an upward trend in obesity is also occurring for U.S. children.

Although multiple factors can account for weight gain, the basic cause is an excess of energy intake over energy expenditure. In general, Americans’ activity levels have not kept pace with their increase in calorie consumption. Many people apparently are oblivious to the number of calories they consume.

Especially sugar:

Americans have become conspicuous consumers of sugar and sweet-tasting foods and beverages. Per capita consumption of caloric sweeteners (dry-weight basis)–mainly sucrose (table sugar made from cane and beets) and corn sweeteners (notably high-fructose corn syrup, or HFCS)–increased 43 pounds, or 39 percent, between 1950-59 and 2000 (table 2-6). In 2000, each American consumed an average 152 pounds of caloric sweeteners, 3 pounds below 1999’s record average 155 pounds. That amounted to more than two-fifths of a pound–or 52 teaspoonfuls–of added sugars per person per day in 2000. Of that 52 teaspoons, ERS estimates that Americans wasted or otherwise lost 20 teaspoons, resulting in an average intake of about 32 teaspoons of added sugars per person per day.

USDA recommends that the average person on a 2,000-calorie daily diet include no more than 40 grams of added sugars. That’s about 10 teaspoons, or the amount of sugar in a 12-ounce soft drink. Sugar–including sucrose, corn sweeteners, honey, maple syrup, and molasses–is ubiquitous and often hidden. In a sense, sugar is the number one food additive. It turns up in some unlikely places, such as pizza, bread, hot dogs, boxed mixed rice, soup, crackers, spaghetti sauce, lunch meat, canned vegetables, fruit drinks, flavored yogurt, ketchup, salad dressing, mayonnaise, and some peanut butter. Carbonated sodas provided more than a fifth (22 percent) of the refined and added sugars in the 2000 American food supply, compared with 16 percent in 1970.

In my comparatively brief lifetime, I'm observed what I reckon is the most likely cause - the challenge of marketing to the masses has lead many food companies to continually increase portion sizes (often for no extra cost - 30% extra free!). While this might hurt the margin a little, at least it keeps revenues up...

Think about it:

- the Big Gulp
- supersizing your meal
- chocolate bars became king size
- muffins ----> texas muffins

etc etc.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

$1000 a month on groceries?!?!?! Good God man! We don't even spend that and we go out a lot!

Where are you shopping?

[VINMAN]

We are lazy. Plain and simple!! Especially young kids. Ive never seen so many overweight kids in my life. Its a shame.
People are too content to just sit on their butts, watch reality tv, and stuff their face. Kids just want to sit at the tv and play video games. Most folks will get in their plush SUV's to drive half a block to go to the store, intead of walking. Hell, half my buds are too friggin lazy to spend an hour to cut their grass, they hire a landscaper. They say they dont have the time, meanwhile they are watching the landscaper from the window.
Nobody wants to do anything anymore, everything has to be done for them. True a crappy diet has alot to do with our fat society, but I firmly believe that the biggest problem is inactivity.

But the main cause is sitting at the computer Bull sh**ing on the PP forums all day.

[juanbenae]

after reviewing cams post, im all kinds of hungry....