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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Forsaken One" data-source="post: 301559" data-attributes="member: 799">Hi everybody, thanks for the replies.Seems that the food is to blame in multiple ways.... the portion size.. the quality (hormones and nasty stuff) and the rate of eating I experienced that alot of Americans eat like.. all day if you know what I mean. ALot betweenmeal snacks and that adds up.Also I'm surprised to hear that the cubicle and we can't walk or it's to far to walk or we don't have time to walk anywhere situation is real and this bad if I can believe your words which I have no reason to doubt.But as asked a few times, I'll tell something about my own eating style and lifestyle and that of my family (about all the same exept for my mum maybe).I eat 3 meals a day, breakfast, lunch (both just bread and Milk), and a hot meal for dinner (with meat each day, potatos and vegetables each day as well, sometimes some pasta or chinese food like rice).I snack just in the weekends and we mostly drink just fruitjuice and milk. BUT in the weekends beer and softdrinks play a major role. For some in my family drink alot of softdrinks in the week as well.I eat fastfood twice a week.My mum walks 1 mile to work each day and my dad, my brother and me bike each day 7 miles to school/work and 7 miles back. We all exersise or play sports for about 3 hours a week + gymnastics at school and the biking/walking each day.Almost all people I know sport about 3 hours or more each week and every kid bikes to school, mostly the distance ranging between 2 miles and 7. Most parent though will be using cars, I guess about 65% of them and it's noticable on the roads in the trafic hours these days. It's starting to get crowded over the last 10 years.Almost noone here is overweight under the age of 25, at least not in a excessive way if you know what I mean. A few pounds more or less, noone cares. I'm talking about being heavily over weight in 10 kilos overweight or more. The waist that starts to bulk.I guess that even most people around 40 are not that much overweight. Guess about 30% has exessive overweight. (rough guess mind me).But when I am on vacation in the states (2times now) each time it strikes me when I get home how much slimmer the average person is. And every time I go on vacation I lose weight (exept my last stay in spain the last 2 weeks but that had to do with some high beer usage and alot of fast food <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> I believe).But when I went to the states I add some pounds. So the food and the fat% and calories do seem to be the main cause imho.Also the fact that calories/fat/size of the food increases MUCH faster then the costs was nice to read.. points out causes. And I think this is a very important one as well.(Southern Living rules<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Even in Holland <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />)The hunger and boredom remark.. how does it get that far? I know I got plenty to do... even if it would be sitting behind my computer reading strange RANTS and flames all over the place on some board <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Or playing games.I know all my friends and fellow students have more then enough ways to spend their time.... If you have spare time and you don't wotrk for that extra buck I should say you'd have plenty of ways to amuse yourself..?(btw almost everywhere here it's almost a sin to have the TV on during dinner, at least in the "higher classes" of society, the higher educated and even in most of the "worker class". Sorry if I'm getting Medieval here but don't know a other way to put it.)And several people pointed out that you are rich... well compared the average Dutch guy or average Swedish guy or someone from Swiss or Belgium makes more or as much as the average guy from the states and here everything is cheaper.... what in Holland cost a Gilder before the Euro in the States it cost a Dollar (2.5 times as much) and even though prices went up with the euro life is still cheaper. So the wealth doesn't have anything to do with it, exept for the way how you live your wealthy life and how you use your wealth.And Europeans aren't under weight, alot are overweight but not exessively but just by a few pounds. Not talking about people that get old (50+) and grow a belly, we almost all do that don't we? Asians possibly left out of that since they seem to have a tendancy to keep slim nomatter what society they live in. Also because they have a INCREDIBLE way to hold onto their ways and culture which keeps to amaze me and earn my respect.)Kris- Out <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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