Why Americans are getting fatter...in 12 graphs

[SunnyD]

12 graphs you say?

That's 11 graphs too many.

 

[shortylickens]

I eat healthier than I did last year but its away from home.

Yogurt and fruit at the student commissary, sometimes bagels, sometimes a heavy starch like pasta or rice.

Gotta start eating at home. Maybe take an apple with me.

 

[squarecut1]

A modest proposal: Basic cooking methods should be taught in high school, and not as an elective.

Here's how you cook rice. Here's how to steam broccoli or almost any vegetable. etc etc

Complete agree. In fact it makes no sense that they are not taught this, especially considering all the other stuff that is part of the whole curriculum

 

[squarecut1]

Assuming you're talking about white rice...so, no nutritional value to you means what, exactly?

I'm fairly certain that a cup of cooked white rice (not enriched) has carbs, fiber and protein, vitamins, minerals, essential aminos, and a very small amount of fat.

From what I've been told, white rice has pretty much no nutrition

 

[lxskllr]

From what I've been told, white rice has pretty much no nutrition

Rice is pretty crap for nutrition. It's just a filler to make your nutritious stuff fill you more.

 

[shortylickens]

Its good calories for doing work. Take note most Asians eat relatively small amounts of rice compared to the heavy work they do. For a big strapping farm boy its alright to have a large bowl, but tiny ladies who spend all day at a desk should probably keep it to a tiny handful.

 

[squarecut1]

Its good calories for doing work. Take note most Asians eat relatively small amounts of rice compared to the heavy work they do. .

I've always seen Chinese, Indian, Pakistani, Arabs eating large quantities of rice. It's a staple in many cultures around the world

 

[PenguinPower]

Rice is pretty crap for nutrition. It's just a filler to make your nutritious stuff fill you more.

1 cup of cooked white, unenriched rice has (by % daily value):

Fat: 1%
Total Carb: 15%
Fiber: 3%
Protein: 9%
Calcium: 2%
Iron: 11%
Vit. B6: 7%
Thiamin: 17%
Riboflavin: 1%
Niacin: 12%
Pantothenic Acid: 6%
Folate: 23%
Magnesium: 5%
Phosphorus: 7%
Potassium: 1%
Zinc: 5%
Copper: 5%
Manganese: 37%
Selenium: 17%

On par or exceeds a banana or an apple in most vitamins/minerals.

 

[lxskllr]

1 cup of rice has (by % daily value):

Fat: 1%
Total Carb: 15%
Fiber: 3%
Protein: 9%
Calcium: 2%
Iron: 11%
Vit. B6: 7%
Thiamin: 17%
Riboflavin: 1%
Niacin: 12%
Pantothenic Acid: 6%
Folate: 23%
Magnesium: 5%
Phosphorus: 7%
Potassium: 1%
Zinc: 5%
Copper: 5%
Manganese: 37%
Selenium: 17%

On par or exceeds a banana or an apple in most vitamins/minerals.

Is that dry, or cooked? A cup of dried rice is a shit ton. I could get that much down if I tried, but those numbers are pretty poor nutrition for being absolutely stuffed.

 

[PenguinPower]

Is that dry, or cooked? A cup of dried rice is a shit ton. I could get that much down if I tried, but those numbers are pretty poor nutrition for being absolutely stuffed.

Cooked.

 

[shortylickens]

I've always seen Chinese, Indian, Pakistani, Arabs eating large quantities of rice. It's a staple in many cultures around the world

You've seen them doing that, AROUND THE WORLD?

Or you've seen Americanized Asians stuffing their faces here in the states, just like the rest of us have been doing?

 

[shortylickens]

Cooked.

When Fred and Ricky agreed to make dinner for the girls, they figured each person at the table would eat one dry pound of rice.

It did not go well.

 

[shortylickens]

HEY GUYS!

:awe:


http://imgur.com/a/qbPzH?gallery

 

[squarecut1]

You've seen them doing that, AROUND THE WORLD?

Or you've seen Americanized Asians stuffing their faces here in the states, just like the rest of us have been doing?

In their own ethnic restaurants here.

People who are not born here. Now are you going to ask me how do I know that?

 

[shortylickens]

In their own ethnic restaurants here.

People who are not born here. Now are you going to ask me how do I know that?

Keep in mind that as soon as they arrive in America most people take up our eating habits quite soon. I've seen the difference having been overseas.

 

[squarecut1]

Keep in mind that as soon as they arrive in America most people take up our eating habits quite soon. I've seen the difference having been overseas.

You are mistaken if you think only Americans overeat. One exception would be oriental people

 

[squarecut1]

A huge number of Americans don't know how to cook. That is a big factor in the obesity crisis as well

So are the long work hours, the commute.

 

[purbeast0]

many of the replies in this thread are perfect examples of how uninformed/ignorant many people simply are about food, thinking that "healthy" food is super expensive when it's clearly not.

hell for veggies you can get frozen veggies dirt cheap.

but again, people are uninformed and just continue to make excuses about why they choose to eat bad.

 

[shortylickens]

You are mistaken if you think only Americans overeat. One exception would be oriental people

I didnt say that.

 

[Jeff7]

Dear medical and scientific community,
Our evolutionary path has left us with various attributes that were adaptations to a harsh environment with limited food and water resources, along with a star that isn't visible all the time. Darkness causes us to shut down, things that taste good can slowly kill us, and our muscles insist on atrophying when they're not constantly being used.

Please fix these ancient leftovers.


Thank you.




I'd love to at least fix "sleep" and get rid of that. "Uh oh, the Sun isn't visible. Time to shut down and wait until it's back so that I can see things again."
I wish there was life on Venus, just to see what its circadian rhythm would look like . (1 day there is a good bit longer than 200 Earth days.) Would it have evolved to stay continuously on the move? My math says that you'd have to move at about 4mph to stay in sunlight at its equator. Or would they also remain awake the entire day, and then sleep through the long night?

Or something like Jupiter or Saturn, where a day is roughly 10 hours. Drive to work, work, drive home, and the day's over right then and there.

 

[T9D]

i still think it is bullshit about "real" food being expensive. you can get pounds of chicken for like $10 and then a bag of rice that will last weeks for like $10. that is the equivalent of 2 fast food meals for the most part. people are simply lazy as shit now a days.

Yup. Today I made a giant pot of healthy food. Can of corn, can of black beans, can peas, sausage cut up, chicken broth, and a box of whole grain noodles. (fast and easy as heck to make, just dump it all in and heat it up on the stove)

All that cost maybe $9? And it's enough food for like 2 days of meals. People spend that on one meal alone at some fast food place. I'm actually blown away at how cheap healthy food is. These farmers crank the stuff out like mad, massive bulk discount for the whole country on pretty much all the basics and tons more.

 

[BoberFett]

And rice has pretty much no nutritional value, and the starch metabolizes to sugar, which is just empty weight gain. Fruits and vegetables are expensive.

No they're not.

https://www.cub.com/savings/view-ad...akPeek=false&storeId=6681&currentPageNumber=5

Here's one of the popular grocery stores in the Twin Cities.

Carrots for $1/lb. Instead of spending $1 on a cheeseburger at McDonald's, eat a pound of carrots.

I get tired of this whiny, stupid, phony, bullshit excuse that vegetables are expensive.

 

[BoberFett]

Fruits and vegetables are expensive. An apple for example

But yes, fast food isn't cheap either

Bullshit. Go the grocery store and you can buy a 5lb bag of apples for less than a fucking meal at a fast food restaurant.

Give it up with this tired ass bullshit excuse that has no basis in realty.

 

[BoberFett]

Not really when you're on a budget and you look at it in terms of calories per dollar. Which is a very one dimensional measure, but at the end of the day if you don't have much money or food, you're still better off with a $1 burger than a $1 apple imo.

More bullshit.

The whole point is fewer calories there Profressor. Calories are what made you a lardass.

Foods with low calories density will fill your stomach just as much as high density ones.

Eat a head of iceberg lettuce and tell us how full you feel compared to eating an entire bag of potato chips.

The potato chips cost more, have more calories, and turn you into a fatass. If people can't get the calories they need from a decent diet, it's because they're used to stuffing high calorie shit food down their gullets. Fix that problem and the rest will follow.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Didn't read (looked like one of those adware type sites), but one major factor is probably also the life style of live to work instead of work to live. America is a fast paced business world where lives revolve around working. People don't have as much time to themselves nor have time to properly eat and/or work out.