Why non-city Americans soo overweight?

Walk around NYC, LA, SF, Chicago, Boston, you see people mostly in shape.

Go out to the suburbs and rural area, everyone is fat. Really really fat.

Why is this?

Do they refuse to excercise? Refuse to walk?

Obsessive eating disorders?

 

Flame bait thread

 

Fast food, working 40-60 per week, driving and not walking/using public transportation, office jobs, non labor work. and you seem to act like you're on the high horse also btw.

 

I see it as a total lack of respect for one'self and one's health.

i guess they just dont care

 

What are you getting at?

 

Every one is smoking meth in the cities..

 

LOL!!!

are they now? Ive yet to meet a single one.

come on now, we all know non-city folks are much more overweight.

nothing stopping them from going to the gym or getting a bike or treadmill.

 

Say what?

 

Exercise isn't very effective at shifting weight, though it does make you feel better. Diet, diet.

 

Most of the conservatives on this forum live in small towns. He's posting a flame bait thread to get under these posters skin. This Thread violates the Forum rules. I don't know how it's still up maybe the mods are still sleeping.

 

Stress keeps you skinny and neurotic, you don't sleep well and barely eat.

 

proper eating AND exercise is the way to go.

thats how i lost weight (10 lbs)

 

That is because the fat people in cities have food delivered and do not even go outside, except to vote democrat.

 

no, city folks walk more, climb more stairs, exercise more and eat healthier.

we also care about our bodies.

thats why we iz less fat.

 

Depends on the city. Detroit is more obese than the American average.

 

In the city, walking is often easier than driving, considering the parking problems.

In the countryside, walking is impossible due to distance. Thus, people drive everywhere. I can see for myself how hard it is to get to 10,000 recommended steps per day when not trying. I have to make a conscious effort to get there. Most people don't.

This problem will get worse with self-driving cars, dropping people off at the front door and then parking themselves. When this happens, people will walk less than 1,000 steps per day. That's really unhealthy.

 

My response was just a bait post in reply to a bait OP.

 

yes i understand the distance issue mandates driving.

but that doesn't stop folks from exercising after work and on the weekends.

it doesn't stop folks from walking or biking during their lunch break.

and it SURELY doesn't stop folks from overeating and eating horrible foods filled with fat, HFCS and fried.

 

Most Americans have sedentary jobs and you really have to make an effort to exercise. On ciy vs country this shows up in another way. Most city jobs are in offices and people can't wait to get some exercise before or after work. Contrast this to rural jobs which tend to involve more labor where these people are physically tired at the end of the day and just want to go home and sit down.

 

folks with physical jobs should not be overweight.

I had a physical job for 5.5 years and was very thin.

 

Not all physical jobs are actually exercise. Driving truck and farm equipment, stacking lumber in a saw mill etc. These jobs make you physically tired but provide no real exercise or cardio. Add to that the fact that a physical job like stacking lumber makes you hungry and you eat like a horse in response. An office worker can have a salad for lunch and feel satisfied whereas somebody working feels the need for a real meal and probably a bigger meal than they really need. I spent most of my life falling timber and I'd eat from the time I got home until the time I went to bed. Fortunately my job was so physically demanding that I stayed skinny but the same principle applies to someone stacking lumber or operating heavy equipment. It makes you hungry.

 

stacking lumber is indeed cardio and would burn lots of calories.

driving a truck is NOT a physical job.

 

if you burn more calories than you take in, you lose weight.

doesn't matter if you're stacking lumber, felling trees, trimming brush, or riding a bike.

if you have a truly physical job but are fat, it means you eat very poorly

 

I've done both and stacking lumber isnt that hard in the scheme of things but it does indeed make you work up an appetite. Driving truck is more labor intensive than you would imagine and the stress factor is over the top. Add that to lack of sleep and extremely long hours and there's no time for real exercise.