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It's hard not to be fat in the US when 90% of the time people are sitting down doing nothing. Car centric culture and infrastructure, along with unregulated highly addictive packaged food. What could possibly go wrong?

Good thing the medical care is affordable and excellent /s

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Where is personal responsibility in this conversation? Most suburbs have side walks. What prevents people from going for walks? Most WFO people could easily buy a used Total Gym from FB marketplace and work out during the business day. People can buy walking pads for the cube in the office for around $160. People could buy healthier foods and cook at home.

All of this takes time but we’re taking about people with cars. They are probably in an economic class where they can afford better food.

> What prevents people from going for walks?

Nowhere to go if you are living in a white neighborhood?

Go around the block a few times.

You inside of American cities are as miserable as a bird in the cage. Your language do not even have a word which means not just "to walk" in the sence of "to move yourself on foot" but "to walk for the sake of joy".

Yes we do: amble. Noun - a walk at a slow, relaxed pace, especially for pleasure: "a peaceful riverside amble"

I think personal responsibility is a great thing to talk about at the individual level, but when a whole society has an obesity epidemic it's time to look at systemic issues.

Unregulated and over-regulated.

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