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Seriously.  In both the East and the West, everybody asks this question.


Oh, dear me.  Pardon, I must go AFK to bathe my eyeballs in bleach.

Why!?

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Note:  I am aware that not all Americans are fat.  And I do know that as with most negative stereotypes, stereotypes about Americans are a matter of 99% of Americans giving the rest a bad name.

Americans who are neither obese nor insane should feel free to seek sympathy in this thread.  My condolences.

Because the fast food prices are cheaper than the rest of the countries.
Furthermore, in Europe we have the Mediterranean diet that is well-balanced

I do agree that diet is a major component.  Indeed, that was one aspect I liked about the graphic I displayed in OP.

A fast-food diet heavy in carbohydrates and hydrogenated vegetable oils does Americans no good.  Neither does the stereotypical American attitude of self-entitled sloth, indiscipline, and general weakness.

In Europe, there is more than a Mediterranean diet:  All parts of Europe have more traditional diets, each in its own way.  Plus, a European attitude.

In the final analysis, it is because of the food, and the right to eat, including this form of addiction. And any addiction is an addiction, so there must be a variety of shortages, not one. If other addictions are shown to be hunger, then food and the addiction to food appear to be hunger. Hunger, which is completely free of basic needs, is an addiction.

Although I don't really like stereotyping, I must say that they are fat because of the Fast food chain that's currently booming in their country and in which aside from that, costs cheaper and is already made. Most of the Americans I know prefers fast food. They say because they're used to it.

Yeah. I agree almost of them are big and fat. Maybe because that their genes. And the other americans they don't care about what they need to eat. They don't have exercise. They don't know about healthy diets.they care about going at work. Eat. And sleep.  Not all of them though. But almost.

America is not so much a big country, but more like a big business. There is a lot of money to be made in obesity for a lot of people and companies: healthcare, pharma, sugar, hfcs, fastfood, supermarkets etc.

It's in America's interest to keep people fat, keep prisons full, keep hospitals full, charge people for as much as they can, and fleece them out of their money. Of course everyone has to keep up the pretense that the opposite is true, and many may even believe it. But ask yourself this: do you trust their words or their actions?

very controversial

Because MC is everywhere and MC is life! I'm from Europe and people there getting more fat too. My girlfriends sister moved to USA 10 years ago and she said that people are mostly fat because you have in USA tons and tons of fast foods. The meal there is very cheap in opposite against restaurant even against food you make at home.

Americans are also very lazy and they just pay a few bucks to get finished meal, than cook meal by yourself.. ???

I've read a study about people getting fat is because they don't just eat MCdonalds but simply because they are happy. Americans are not all fat but most of those that are unhappy people are skinny - Studies shows that when a person is not a jolly as some, they end up growing with the wrong crowd and not so happy.

One historical reason is the effectiveness of lobbying by large food conglomerates and other corporations, which heavily influenced the development and accuracy not only of dietary advice and how it was communicated, but also produced lopsided incentives for dietary research. Similarly, product packaging and food advertisement standards are generally more lax in the United States than elsewhere, and the social tolerance of markets and corporations is perhaps also greater.

No, I dont think this is the main reason
You have to work out and keep your muscles busy in order to consume your energy
If you are taking a lot of energy (proteins & carbohydrates) you will start to grow more powerful but if you stop consuming this extra energy these joules will get deposited in the fatty layer

Well, their laziness for making own food is same as laziness for workout. It is quite funny, in USA is many gyms, workout plans DVD, etc..., but in whole country it uses only minimum of people, so piggy piggy here they come!

If you're tall enough to stand out in a crowd, you're probably aware of your tallness – maybe even self-conscious about it. But imagine that you're in a room full of basketball players. Suddenly, you don't seem so tall anymore.

“Americans on average consume about 88 grams of added sugars per day,” says David Zinczenko, author of “Eat This, Not That!” and the forthcoming “Zero Sugar Diet.” The World Health Organization recommends adults get no more than 10 percent of their total caloric intake from sugar — roughly 52 grams a day.

First of all both women in the picture have no class or style showing off their private parts like that. When you're going out make sure your pants are the right size! :D
Since we're talking sizes, the average American is more overweight than the average European, but I could find literally millions of pictures to support a claim that there are many fit Americans and fat Europeans.
Why are they fatter? I'd blame the fizzy drinks and snacks. The daily routine of many Americans is full of coca cola, sweet drinks from starfucks, muffins, donuts and so on, usually consumed on the go or at work.

Food in the US is cheap compared to how much they earn. They also eat fast food often, which is cooked on the oil and contains a lot of fat.

It's not the fat that's making you fat, however that sounds. It's mostly carbohydrates that give you energy which you are unable to burn. The math is very simple: you consume 2000 calories a day and burn 2200 = you're getting lighter and thinner. Also, you need fats to be healthy, it's just that fried food tends to have more calories in the same size meal, so people lose control of how much they're eating.

Well americans love fast food basically. Everything about these unhealthy foods can make anyone fat. Its also about the lifestyle. I don't know why but many americans seem to  be having a hard time burning all the calories and carbs they took. Probably because of a busy schedule but health should also be taken into importance

I remember the first time I ever spoke to a Japanese person.  Our conversation turned to global politics and society; whereupon he said, “Why are so many Americans fat?  We don’t have such fat people in Japan.”  Seriously, USians, that is your international reputation.  Most funny furrin’ folks are simply too polite to tell you to your big-mouthed fat faces.

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One piece of the puzzle:  Processed vegetable fats are far cheaper to produce in the first instance than animal fats.  Furthermore, they are more shelf-stable—thus, friendlier to long BigCorp supply chains.

Alleged health “experts” who tell you that canola (rapeseed) or soy oils are “healthier” than butter or lard mean only that they are healthier for distribution logistics involving large warehouses and many middlemen.

Hydrogenated vegetable oils will blow you up whale-sized, and give you heart disease.  Implications are left as an exercise to the reader.

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Cultural imperialist weaponry.  If America doesn’t bomb your country to rubble, they will invade it with McDonald’s and other anti-culture.

They want to take over the world, and are too fat and lazy to maintain their stockpile of atomic weapons.



Well, it would be impractical for everybody to cook individual meals every time they needed to eat.  This raises the atomization of society—worst in America, and accelerating with each generation.  Moreover, it raises the division of labour.  The latter inevitably leads to discussion of sex roles.

To date, I have met exactly one American woman under the age of 40 who excelled in the kitchen, and genuinely enjoyed cooking for others.  And she was not fat!  Actually, she was a bit too skinny.

(N.b., the kitchen was not the only place where she excelled.)

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Translation:  Grinning idiots.

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Forsooth, the American cow is oblivious amidst its herd.  So too in every other way.

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Killjoy.  (At least as to the one on the left...)


Actually, it’s not so simple.  Different foods are metabolized differently.

I eat a diet heavy in meat and dairy fats, very low in sugar, moderately high in complex carbohydrates.  On that, I am anything but fat.  But if I were to eat a McBurger-and-soda diet measured at a nominally equal number of Calories, then I have no doubt that I would blow up like an American.

(Technical aside:  Lowercase-c “calories” is the base unit; uppercase-C is actually kcal.  Use the uppercase C in these conversations.)

Funny, I kept getting recommended dieting vids on Youtube yesterday and then I saw this thread.

Americans surely are fatter than most people these days. Obesity rates of more than 30% is no laughing matter. So much possible culprits but IMHO the worst ones are: The serving sizes, not only are the "standard" larger but people usually upsize anyway; Too much sugar, we all know how calorie-dense those are; And the love for fatty foods, they seem to just fry a lot of stuff, like seriously, fried butter?


Oh the pun! LOL

It's the life of a wealthy country. Eventually it kills its citizens. The people who built it worked very hard to get where we are.

The body weight is a question of personal choises and culture, let's say if a person lives in a comunity where people who eat to much are rejected then the habits wouldn't be the same.

Obesity is not a personal choice it's a medical condition dude ...

I believe that bad food habits / bad food education are the biggest problem.

After that I'd say, bad quality of products/GMO used over there.

And finaly, I'd say the success of advertisement on weakminded/poorly educated people is to blame too ;).

Not all of them (Americans) are fat, well some people are really like that.
As i see with these people line of food they are very exposed to fats and carbs which make them fat.
But not all of them as some of the people there are health conscious and want a nice and perfect body.

Most of the american people are over-sized because eating too muct fast food and drinking too much fizzy drinks. This kind of unhealthy diet make a person fat. For that reason, Health department of america must take very serious precautions to stop this fast food insanity.

because the zen structure... hâhhhahaa ;D ;D ;D ;D

Mostly because there are a lot of fast food chains in america that the sizes are bigger than most countries. And I also think that white collar jobs are more dominant and sitting all day on a chair while eating fastfood can really contribute to lots of fat.

Completely agreed. Mediterranean diet is the best diet on earth. It makes people healthy and thin but On the other hand, eating too much fast food is very dangerous for human beings and That's why, american people are the fattest of all.

It is because of using much more fastfood than in europe. Faster lifestyle and not doing anything like walking, excercising or some other things.

I think it is because the availability of food is high and affordable, specially when it comes to processed goods. It is in the early 2000s when they realize that the rate of obesity is extremely high and the government could not just alter the way americans live for so long.

Good question,
I am from Europe and have never been in America so can't come up with a scientific analysis or a definite proof that on why americans are so overweight in general.
But I have been told by the family members since the young age that american food is brought up unnaturally with GMO topic popping once or twice every now and then. I believe their mind is shaped up by whoever (don't want to shady any institutions or organisations) so that they consume in large amounts without no self limitations. The fast food industry is amazingly successful there and the prices are the lowest of what I have been told. Obesity is real in America and there should be actions taken in order to stop it.

Most Americans we get to see on shows/ movies or even when they show "people walking down the streets" in movies, they are all fit and smart.

The only time you see these really fat Americans are on one of those "My 500/400 Pound life".

They are fat for a lot of reasons.
It seems they eat a lot of the addictive, calorie-rich, non vegetarian food cheaply available against the comparatively costly healthier, organic food. I have heard that a normal veg-salad will cost you much more than a full-blown Mac with Soda.
The next thing, according to stereotypes,that the average american does the most is sit on a couch and watch tailor made shows like a zombie. So they eat and sit (because not much work is required of them).

I think all the pills, medical system, adulteration etc also has a role to play.

But then they are also some of the strongest, fittest people there. There seems to be an obsession in America for bigger things. Women want bigger boobs and buts, Men want still bigger schlongs and everyone wants crazy-ass biceps.. (There was this documentary titled something like "stronger, bigger" about the bodybuilding craze and how people stuff themselves with steroids to get the pumped muscles.
This craze for more and bigger things is probably what makes them gulp down large portions.

Finally, I won't be surprised if it is found out that almost all major food companies consider the average american as a target whose per capita consumption is to be continuously increased. Commercials and more stuff. (My source here is mostly the video for "Open your Eyes" by Goldfinger"..LOL).
The companies will also go and do illegal shit to make people addicted. There was this movie "The Insider" with Russell Crowe  about use of addiction-agents in Cigarettes.

Yeah, so from an outsider perspective and judging from the movie/ contemporary culture stereotypes, those should be the main reasons..

Im not american and i just saw americans in mobies and tv shows and the americans i see there is totally fit and not fat.but maybe around the world there also fat people nit only in america its because they mostly eat in fast food they too much like soda and a lot of reasons

Maybe Americans are more fat than in others countries, but believe me, if we continue to eat shitfood we will be all fat in one or 2 decades

Food is filled with a lot of artificial substancies that our metabolism doesn't tolerate.

The fast food culture is everywhere and this is the reason why we all will be fat soon if we don't change habits and improve our diet

Some interesting points raised by this thread. There are many factors contributing to the USA's obesity epidemic, however it all boils down to 2 points - eating too much and exercising too little.

I would also point out as it has been mentioned several times in this thread, that there is no convincing evidence that organic food is "good" or GMO food is "bad". Organic and non-GMO is mostly just clever marketing, making you pay more for essentially the same product.

Because they don't over stressed themselves and they eat junks alots

They went wrong by allowing the American Medical Association and the United States Department of Agriculture to say: you've got to go on a low fat diet. They failed to take into account that when people do that, they increase their carbohydrates. For breakfast in the morning they can eat  a sausage-and-cheese omelet, two ounces (0.06 liters) of tomato juice, and tea without sugar. Why would not they fat.

of course, because of the food they eat and deserts like cakes, cookies, chocolates...(which are huge in size)
and because they drink sugary drinks like coke, sprite, etc. (huge in size, too)
and they mostly drive to go somewhere, never walk..
all those are the major ingredients that make them fat.

well for me americans so fat because they eat a lot of burger and fries or they love to eat all the time. and also some of americans didn't eat with healthy foods and excercise so that they can maintain a great body. and also they dind't work a lot when it comes to working or cleaning in they're own house.

Who told you that the Europeans are in shape? I have seen a lot of Europeans who are morbidly obese, and at the same time I have seen several Americans who are blessed with athletic physique. And I don't think that obesity levels in the US are much higher than those in the EU.

The Americans are so fat because of the food(fast food). Since the fast food is cheaper than home made food also very attractive, most of them became addicted to food  more also they eat too much sugar which leads to weight gain.

I agree with you. Lifestyle and the unhealthy food they eat really  a big factor. Foods that mostly fats and oils plus those artificial flavorings and other chemically altered ingredients or GMO foods. It alters the bodies metabolism which resulted to such medical conditions and other disease. Better to eat more veggies and ingredients you grow  so that you know its free from chemicals.

fats person is not measured to be healthy instead its measured to proper weight according to the height ,,why some people fat  in americans  maybe beacuse its according to her life style way of eating,,if you love to eat the process foods or other toxic food it usually also toxic can really absorb the body causes of bad colesterol level and what put inside the body well reflect outside,,

I think it is because of their diet most Americans like to eat in a fast food chain ,
Like burger,Pizza,Fried Chicken and Doughnut this are high cholesterol foods .

because they ate a lot.

Not all Americans are indeed fat. We could say that most Americans are. I believe it's more of because fastfood is readily available, portions are huge than most countries and they have an almost insane number of frozen food available to them. Americans, and almost everyone in developed countries, stay in their homes watch tv spend alot of time on their phones sitting on their couch and forgets how to break a sweat from actual manual labor.

Not all american's there are some of them have a fit and nice body, by the way many reply says that its because of the food, Yes its because of the food and its only about your self control.

Americans are fat maybe  because of their eating habits. They are more on  processed food and more burgers. They are not vegetarian.

I am against the context of generalizing that Americans are ft, but I guess a better way to put it is a sizable percentage of Americans are fat. This brought about the food available in the country. It is also influenced by eating habits and no dietary plan being practiced. But in a way, although we should spread awareness that we should all eat healthy, it's just that we have to give respect to those people are really foodies and love to eat. Maybe spread awareness too that will inspire them to watch what they eat, since it is really our health that we should take care of and if you do, it will go a long way.

Not all of them are fat though. Those who are fat are so because of their eating habits. They eat more junk foods.

Part of this is due to lower incomes and education, which result in purchases of cheap foods that are high in refined starch and sugar. More deeply,this also reflects lower public investment in education,public transportation,and recreational facilities,the bottom line: cheap,unhealthy foods mixed with a sedentary lifestyle has made obesity the new normal in america.

Yes, it's true that Americans are fat. Maybe because Americans love to eat red meat that contains a lot of saturated fat than white meat. Red meat for example beef and goat, while white meat such as chicken and fish.

This thread needs some pruning.  I will go through it another time.

Meanwhile, I hereby transplant an important discussion from WO, where I believe that the needed lengthy treatment would diverge too much from the thread topic.  The following is the first in a series of anti-American posts!  Discussion is welcome.  The topic of this thread is, of course, serious anti-Americanism, cunningly veiled in humourous ridicule of fat, disgusting Americans.  My moderation policy will be more or less like the American government’s policy on the freedom of speech:  Proclaim high-minded freedom, and then use dirty tricks and naked aggression to suppress any actual dissent. ;-)

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most of the world justifiably hates you. 

Jealousy..

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Quote from: nullius on March 17, 2020, 01:39:47 AM

most of the world justifiably hates you. 

Jealousy..

Pretty much.

Yes, you should keep telling yourself that.

As a garbage-dump country primarily populated by Europe’s “huddled masses” of “wretched refuse”, America never had a high culture, and does not even know what a high culture is.  Of course, America evokes jealousy from the people with rich traditions all over the world who are so stupid that they need to be bombed into “freedom” in aggressive wars based on the crudest propaganda, which America habitually wages with an unlimited hypocrisy seen nowhere else in all the annals of recorded history.

“Freedom” per the American definition is, of course, the freedom to buy buy buy until you are drowning in consumer debt, worship the boob-tube as the source of all wisdom, achieve the American dream of “owning” an ugly house by renting it from the bank (ever notice that America has the ugliest houses on Earth!?), get fat (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3060630.0), vote in Coke (R) vs. Pepsi (D) elections, move an average of seven times in your life, give up your gold on the demand of the American Kerensky (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2552381.0) (America is today the most deeply Marxist country on Earth!)—and finally, at long last, to elect a tough-tweeting economically-minded gauche parvenu (https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump) as your president, because the American “wretched refuse” does not want to share what was its country with the subset of Mexicans who are too stupid to realize that Mexico at its gangland worst is still culturally superior to America.  By the way, how is The Wall coming along?

/me is so jealous. :-(

Most vile and obscene of all is the Americans’ way of concealing their own nature from themselves with saccharine platitudes and good-guy pretenses.  Americans are axiomatically The Good Guys!  Goodness is defined by Americanism.  Evil per se is that which is desired or done by anybody who insufficiently venerates America.  The result:  The Americans do the dirtiest deeds, they wage the most unjust wars, they tell the worst lies—and yet, they are such noble heroes that anybody who criticizes them must be “jealous”.  Of course, that would be the accusation:  Americans, the historic grandmasters of hypocrisy, are consistently motivated in their foreign policy by hatred of anybody who is superior to themselves.

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Too bad for you Americans that I have sufficiently studied American history, law, domestic politics (historical and current), and quasi-“culture” (the word cannot properly be applied to America) that I could give lectures on the topic.  Know your enemy, etc.

I will not insult myself with the low standard of observing that I know far more about America than most Americans do:  The stereotypical American has a 15-second attention span, a narrow-mindedness combined with something tantamount to a mass pandemic of clinical narcissism, and an astounding ignorance of anything whatsoever not spoonfed to him by the mass media.

—Wherefore I do not expect for much, if any of the foregoing to be understood by Americans.  After all, America is the country where, in an instance of the worship of mere formalism commonly seen in the decay of advanced societies, somebody needed to invent the term “Dunning-Kruger effect” to identify an ancient and well-known principle which, together with envy, hypocrisy, narcissism, rudeness, degeneracy, shallowness, cowardice, a belligerent lack of culture, economically-minded mismeasures of value, and pandemic obesity, is symbolic of America itself, and a part of the American stereotype.

^^^ Who posts your pictures, since you can't seem to see very well.

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Really American may be a lot thicker the rationale they're obese is that they wish to eat more food food features a lot of cholesterol and is fat They eat more fish meat oily and sour foods than vegetables which are rich in fat. Also  they're tons of comfort favorites  the most reason they get fat is that they do not do any exercise to stay their body fit.

It is said that red wines are rich in Resveratrol which helps prevent weight gains. Apparently, Europeans enjoy their red wines more than the Americans.

https://curiosity.com/topics/the-countries-that-drink-the-most-wine-will-certainly-surprise-you-curiosity/
https://www.chatelaine.com/health/wellness/weight-loss-secret-how-resveratrol-keeps-you-young-and-healthy/

For having poor eating habits, poor knowledge of nutrients, poor education about food, poor decisions when buying at stores, poor collection of personal beliefs about food, poor ideas about themself, etc, etc!

You are right that they are so fat that they eat fast food Don't worry about being healthy. Eat that which sounds good Fatty foods are the main reason for their fat Eat more oily and fried whole things.

because their food industry is targeting the individual costomers and ignores the needs of the state/society.

Food is far cheaper in America and traditional foods are available in several countries. Many of those foods are more familiar with outside food than to favorite home foods they're more obese thanks to eating tons of fat-rich foods in outer food.

Perhaps the reason is that fast food is more affordable than healthy food.

Why are Americans so fat?


To give Coronavirus lots of places to build their homes.


 ;D

I hear that the average American has to work about 10-12 hours a day to allow himself to live with dignity. It is clear that after working a 12-hour shift no one will want to stand by the stove. Besides, American women have to work like men, so I'm not surprised that when a couple comes home from work they order two pizzas and a soda. If you eat fast food all the time, you can forget about the slim figure.

they don't make food at home, they prefer to buy fast food and eat.

Corn's heavily subsidized in the U.S., so companies will add high fructose corn syrup to just about any product, even the ones that you wouldn't expect to have added sugar...like bread, because of how cheap it is.

Lately I've been making an effort to help just a bit, various businesses hit by covid.

So almost every day I go into the convenience store, and buy a 44 ounce fountain drink (Iced tea, unsweetened). But anyone who buys that with sugar, that's a 1000 calorie hit.

I also blame convenience stores for making people absorbently fat. Go to 7 eleven and get a big gulp that cost 50 cents for 40 fluid oz of soda. The double big gulps (might've been discontinued??) were 50 fluid oz.

50 cents for up to 600 calories. Some people in the south drink Mountain Dew like it's water, resulting in mountain dew mouth.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/09/12/221845853/mountain-dew-mouth-is-destroying-appalachias-teeth

We are in the midst of a national obesity crisis, and Americans are getting heavier. Today, about 65% of adults and 15% of children and adolescents in the US are overweight or obese.

If you eat fast food more often then the home cooked food, it obvious that you will get fat. Same is the case with most Americans who prefer to eat outside. Also the lack of exercise is another major cause of being fatty. This is a big concern for the kids who are over weight at the younger ages.

But this is a self correcting problem because as the weight of those people increases, it pushes the earth down and the sea will flood in and drown them.

;)

It all has to do with prosperity in America, and how honorable Americans are. After all, when you are prosperous like Americans, you have way more food than what you can eat. But you must eat it to keep from seeming unthankful.


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Why are Americans so fat?


How about... They are trying to mimic the bloated Bitcoin blockchain, hoping it will make them some money?


 ;D

The answer is obvious

Because food is very delicious

And Americans know about delicious food ;)

Nah, not just oil. Go to any diner you can find and you'd be surprised by the amount of lard they use just to cook one piece of burger patty (ngl, lard's delicious tho, but then again, i'm fat, so..)

As an American, I find many of the responses from Europeans etc. here quite accurate.

But let's turn this thread around a bit, shall we?

If you are European or Asian, and believe that your citizens are fairly skinny and/or in good health compared to most Americans, tell us why:

1. Do people not eat fast food in your country?

2. What is a typical day look like for food/drink consumption? What types of food do your people eat and drink daily? And from where?

3. Do they regularly get exercise, and if so, how?

4. What role does alcohol consumption play in your daily lives, and how much?

5. What types of food advertising (if any) are in your country?

6. Do food corporations push food types in your country?

The major answers to fat, even if you eat junk food:
- Drink plenty of water;
- Take a good probiotic;
- Mix yourself a good colon cleanser (fiber) drink.

This is a start that you can do daily, right now, before you get into the deeper research.

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Well, i would not agree with the statement but all my friends who visited USA via the Work and Travel programm returned home with gained weight. I think the thing ia the diet and the laziness. Laziness to cook healthy food! It's easier to eat somewhere out. But you never know all the ingredients.

Americans are fat because 60% of Americans take junks and even like fast food and most of them they aren't used to stressing their self so they prefer to eat, eat, eat and rest and sometimes it could be the trait but I feel if they exercise more than they take junks they would be doing well.

there are two reasons like there is fast food much cheap as compared to other countries, the second reason they use much sugar. In America 2/3 population is fat.