Why non-city Americans soo overweight?

this thread isn't about me.

its about overweight people in the suburbs and rural areas

 

yeah but then if you get diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, liver cancer, or whatever, you want the healthy people to pay for your medical care

 

While he's collecting disability insurance.

 

and Medicaid + Medicare.

 

None of those things, individually or collectively, cause obesity.

 

Or even just gardening. They do have gardens, outside cities.

 

obesity is at epidemic levels in the USA

costs us a shitload of money in medical costs, lost productivity, etc.

 

In the average American suburb, do most people walk in their local area? I mean, if stores, post office, banks etc are say, a ten minute walk .. do most people (between ages of say, 15 and 60) choose to walk?

 

Boston

 

Unlikely. When overweight people say "but all I eat is salad!", you need to look very carefully at those salads.

 

Actually, I have noticed that. It's quite striking, the difference.

 

Hillary voters eat all that government cheese and are getting fatter and fatter.

 

You could only find negatives to describe the redneck, huh Ron?

Very different to my understanding. To me, a redneck is someone who lives well outside big cities, most often outer suburban or semi-rural areas, is under-educated, lacks city sophistication and sophistry, may or may not have a mullet, may or may not own a pitbull, drinks beer (never wine), has no idea what a moch-latte is and doesn't care, doesn't earn much, helps his neighbours, enjoys engines.

 

what the **** is a "DNC rally"?

they dont exist.

 

must be interesting to live in a place where "Redneck" is a term of endearment.

 

Some people are bad drivers and my insurance premiums go to fix their cars.

20% of the drivers have 80% of the accidents.

 

yes, thats why i hate bad drivers

 

With private insurance coverage based on shared risk premiums charged at market rate.

Yes.

Still no government handout collectivism non-sense from me. I lived in one of the largest urban areas in the country for a decade. I know the agenda of progressive collectivist.

If the worse you have on us is BMI percentages, we're doing **** right.

 

That's the irony, isn't it? You'd think people in the city would be the ones who were less active.
I think it comes down to level of sophistication. People in cities tend to care more about food and eat healthier. Again this is ironic, because you'd think the rural areas would have all that fresh food, but in reality there has been a near complete demise of the American family farmer, so this tradition has nearly disappeared in rural areas.

What we are also seeing over the last ten years is a gentrification of the cities, so this is no doubt having an effect on the local gene pool.
The suburbs are not really as walkable or pedestrian friendly so people see fewer people in their daily lives. This also has an effect of people caring less about their health or physical appearance.

If you see more people and have more food experiences, and there are better food selections in stores available to you, it's more likely you won't fall into unhealthy habits. Basically people are socialized by the people and stores around them, and in the city there are better stores because the population density can sustain more variety.

 

Ronstar, baiting flames, like no other!

 

Like the welfare mom's in the inner city's? Yeah that's bad.

 

Because mods here are mostly dems so allow one sided flame bait and bigotry.

 

Indeed it's calories in vs calories out. Hard work makes you hungry though and it takes extra discipline to not overeat. A said for lunch will satiate an office worker but somebody doing actual work often opts for a burger and fries.
It's not the right choice but easy to do.

 

Actually that would be the Obamacare plan. Sorry buddy but you're to old to spend tax payer money on.