I hadn't been outside the country in some time. I thought much of the talk about obesity in America was probably an exagerration. I assumed that in other Western countries it was probably the same case.
But after 2 weeks in England, it's definitely not. There are very few fat people walking around the streets of London. Those who are fat are just a bit chubby. I only saw one guy get stuck in a pay-to-use-the-loo turnstyle at a train station because of his girth, and it was an American fellow.
Getting back here, it seems like half the people are fat, and the other half are so fat they look like the Stay Puft Marshmellow man from the Ghostbusters movie. Puffy faces, limbs half as wide as they are long, and massive torsos.
You just don't notice it living here, but getting back it's all so painfully obvious. If you're a normal sized "thin" dude, it's hard to find pants that fit properly, because most stores are just stocking "baggy" and "more baggy" styles.
Cost of food definitely has something to do with it. In England, food costs two to three times as much as it does here, and the serving sizes are about half as big. It's just not economically feasible to be a lardo over there, and I'm thinking that's not such a bad thing.
But after 2 weeks in England, it's definitely not. There are very few fat people walking around the streets of London. Those who are fat are just a bit chubby. I only saw one guy get stuck in a pay-to-use-the-loo turnstyle at a train station because of his girth, and it was an American fellow.
Getting back here, it seems like half the people are fat, and the other half are so fat they look like the Stay Puft Marshmellow man from the Ghostbusters movie. Puffy faces, limbs half as wide as they are long, and massive torsos.
You just don't notice it living here, but getting back it's all so painfully obvious. If you're a normal sized "thin" dude, it's hard to find pants that fit properly, because most stores are just stocking "baggy" and "more baggy" styles.
Cost of food definitely has something to do with it. In England, food costs two to three times as much as it does here, and the serving sizes are about half as big. It's just not economically feasible to be a lardo over there, and I'm thinking that's not such a bad thing.
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