/sci/ - Science & Math

Stop devouring everything in your path, you absolute hogs.

>>12718367
This.
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Fuck off

What drives this?

>>11859546
For the U.S. It would require a national effort that promotes fitness like the one Kennedy was leading before he was deleted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4Aj2cURyB0

>>11851903
Not just the US (though the US is near the worst; with only a few middle eastern & south pacific island nations being fatter) obesity is increasing almost everywhere.

The only developed countries that have avoided this are Japan & South Korea; I might have chalked that up to some combo of East Asian genetics & food choices, but then you have the Taiwanese, who do have a growing obesity problem.

Yes, most of the world had a radical genetic change in just 40 years. /s

Seriously though, people are fat because they eat too much. If you lock a person up & control their food supply they will lose weight. Fatties just are really bad at estimating how much they are actually eating.

>>11282014
Obesity is getting worse all over the world, not just America; for that matter a few of the Gulf Arab & Pacific Island countries have higher obesity rates than the US. The only developed countries that have kept obesity under control are Japan, South Korea, and Singapore. Interestingly Taiwan has not, and has seen it obesity rates rise inline with western European countries.

>>10888152
That is technically correct; capitalist systems produce organizational skills & technology that drives down the cost food production, leading to the case where even rather poor people can afford too much food. This isn't limited to just first world countries; even rather poor countries like the various Pacific Island nations (like Samoa or Tonga) can now afford enough food to enable more than half of their populations to be obese. All thanks to them participating in the global capitalist system.

Non-capitalist systems are much less innovative at producing new food production technology, and less able to organize their existing resources into useful food production. Which is why you end up with sort of hunger problems you see in Venezuela or North Korea.