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This is obviously not a hilot take, but i don't understand how people get that fat. The most common argument is that fast food is that much cheaper, which i just don't believe, sorry. A quick google search tells me that a big Mac is around 5.50, and that is not a meal, that is some garbage snack. You can cook a vetter an healthier meal for whatever you spend at a fastfood chain that lasts you longer than one meal. Combine that with drinking water instead of the soda you drink there you might actually live healthy. I also read a lot that it's jot their fault that even bread has a ton of sugar, which is disgustig, but also bread is like 3 to 5 ingredients to make your self.
When i browse tinder and run out of people, women from Thailand and america start to show up, and this is no joke or to shit on people or whatever, but 80% of the women there are fatter than the fattest people i have ever met irl.
Its a problem for sure. A large portion of the obese tend to be poor people who are working 40-80hours a week with half and hour to 2 hours commute every day who possibly have kids to take care of and may or may not be a single parent household, fast food isn't the cheapest option, but its the cheapest option they have time or the energy for. Also, since most fat food (and most other processed or prepared food sources) know how addictive high calorie and high salt foods can be they will happily take advantage of under educated and over stressed people by cramming as much as they can afford into their food. That of course doesn't apply to everyone and plenty of people who have no excuse are still fat but that applies to a rather large chunk of the overweight people. That also exposes a whole bunch of other issues that need to be addressed as well.