<story><title>Obesity and Overweight Prevalence for the U.S</title><url>https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/obesity-overweight.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>izietto</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m italian and I visited united states a couple of months ago. In my opinion the biggest problem is that you don&amp;#x27;t have decent food at affordable prices. Healthy food has nonsensical high prices and if you want something at a human price you don&amp;#x27;t have much choice except fast food. What a shame.</text></item><item><author>3pt14159</author><text>This is directly related to the way American cities are designed. It’s a car centric culture where big houses are far away from each other. That means driving everywhere. That means long commutes. That means TV over communal activity. That means big grocery runs with shelf stable food.&lt;p&gt;Then pile on hyper sweet drinks and nutritional misinformation campaigns, and of course Americans are going to be overweight. The worst part is it’s becoming culturally acceptable for children to be overweight. I do not advocate for fat shaming—but there is a limit to my tolerance. Children should not consume anywhere near the amounts of sugar that they do and the pervasive attitude of “just one [soda, ice cream, pop tart, pie slice, muffin, cupcake, cookie] won’t hurt!” is incredibly damaging. Five grams of refined sugar a day. That’s it. That is less than one tenth of a “personal” (16oz &amp;#x2F; 500ml) bottle of Coca Cola.&lt;p&gt;We’re poisoning our kids.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pascalxus</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s partly because much of the government subsides go towards subsidizing corn, ending up in high fructose corn syrup and all the junk food most people consume.  It&amp;#x27;s quite sad, that everyone is so okay with this.&lt;p&gt;Personally, I try to eat as healthy as possible and use my nutrient finder (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;kale.world&amp;#x2F;c&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;kale.world&amp;#x2F;c&lt;/a&gt;) to find high nutrient, low calorie foods, which end up being mostly beans, vegetables and fruits.</text></comment>
<story><title>Obesity and Overweight Prevalence for the U.S</title><url>https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/obesity-overweight.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>izietto</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m italian and I visited united states a couple of months ago. In my opinion the biggest problem is that you don&amp;#x27;t have decent food at affordable prices. Healthy food has nonsensical high prices and if you want something at a human price you don&amp;#x27;t have much choice except fast food. What a shame.</text></item><item><author>3pt14159</author><text>This is directly related to the way American cities are designed. It’s a car centric culture where big houses are far away from each other. That means driving everywhere. That means long commutes. That means TV over communal activity. That means big grocery runs with shelf stable food.&lt;p&gt;Then pile on hyper sweet drinks and nutritional misinformation campaigns, and of course Americans are going to be overweight. The worst part is it’s becoming culturally acceptable for children to be overweight. I do not advocate for fat shaming—but there is a limit to my tolerance. Children should not consume anywhere near the amounts of sugar that they do and the pervasive attitude of “just one [soda, ice cream, pop tart, pie slice, muffin, cupcake, cookie] won’t hurt!” is incredibly damaging. Five grams of refined sugar a day. That’s it. That is less than one tenth of a “personal” (16oz &amp;#x2F; 500ml) bottle of Coca Cola.&lt;p&gt;We’re poisoning our kids.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lobster_johnson</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m curious about this. I lived in a predominantly Latino (mostly Puerto Rican) neighborhood of Brooklyn for a while a couple of years back. The supermarkets were full of fresh, cheap food, yet the customers (who were consistently overweight and often obese, including the kids) were piling their shopping carts up with terrible stuff -- sugary cereals (Froot Loops etc.), sugary drinks (sodas, fruit juices, Caprisun, iced tea), white bread, snacks (cookies, doughnuts, potato chips), tons of frozen microwave meals, etc. I never saw a shopping cart filled with anything healthy and unprocessed. And I realized that I was actually being very picky walking through this place. I had to ignore 90% of the stuff they stock their shelves with because it&amp;#x27;s unhealthy.&lt;p&gt;Places like Whole Foods have the same problem, of course -- it&amp;#x27;s also full of sugary drinks and cookies, except they&amp;#x27;re labeled &amp;quot;organic&amp;quot; and made with &amp;quot;natural sugar cane&amp;quot; or agave, or they&amp;#x27;re things low&amp;#x2F;no fat yogurt (containing more sugar than the full fat ones). You can get fat on Whole Foods groceries if you&amp;#x27;re not super picky.</text></comment>