It helps when everywhere in that mile radius (and more) is considered walking distance in much of Europe, but Americans would rather drive.
"I visited europe" goes to the uk
The uk is somehow actually less european than the caucasian countries and kazakhstan which everyone criticizes for pretending to be european.
Is the UK american, or the US British?
How to start a war with a single question.
Fun related "fact": Shakespeare supposedly sounds more period-accurate in a generic American accent than a modern British accent because the British dramatically changed their accent some time after the US split and the American accent has changed less over the centuries.
Anon needs to learn that the UK isn't representative of all of Europe
And does have an obesity problem!
You can't rate world cuisine on England
I love how the post never mentions the country, but everyone just knows.
Hilarious that this is true and yet the US is still somehow fatter.
There is a vast difference between eating shitty food once a day while being able to walk everywhere and eating shitty food three meals a day and not walking anywhere.
The US both massively overeats the shitty food and is very sedentary for the most part. A bit contributor is our absolutely terrible work culture that wears people out so much that they seek pleasure from food and entertainment in the few spare hours they have each week because they are constantly advertised to encouraging that behavior.
And yet the number of people obese in the USA is almost double that of the UK.
It’s the corn syrup more than the fried food honestly. The number of people who drink soda all day is wild.
The number of people I know in America who "can't" drink just water and have to have some syrup flavored drink instead is astounding. Dude, you're complaining about your weight. Maybe cut back on the sugar for one drink per day.
I used to work with a morbidly obese lady that kept a 2 litre of mountain dew at her desk at all times. She'd come in every Monday with 2 of them. It was wild to me.
Walkable areas go a long way
They walk more. That's it. That's the secret.
I can do my weekly shopping without having to get in the car. Because in Europe everything's all mixed together rather than zoned into miles of endless residential, that you have to drive for 25 minutes in order to leave to get to the big shopping mall was it's one million car parking spaces.
And also didn't replace all the fat in their food with sugar processed from corn.
Fat doesn't turn into fat when you eat it - it turns into sugars, which then turn into fat. Eating sugar just takes one step out of the process and makes your body work less (and therefore burn less calories) turning it into fat.
That's just br*tish "food"
Fat isn't unhealthy. Excess calories and absence of exercise is not healthy.
Also the U.K. population is unhealthy just like the U.S.
Yes! Fat by itself isn't unhealthy.
The best example is Italy, it has the lowest obesity rate of Europe, (1) but also has the highest consumption of cooking oil of Europe (2)
I was surprised in Italy when I saw how much olive oil they used while cooking. For me oil was just like a cooking aid so stuff does not stick to the pan, in Italian cuisine olive oil is not just an aid, it's part of the ingredients
I lost weight after two weeks in Paris eating like a hedonist king because of all the walking.
You can tell this is London. They have some weird streets where every single shop sells the same stuff.
We (Europeans) are just more active, including walking / cycling to work every day. Try it and see the difference.
Carbs are much worse than fat. So drinking dozens of grams of sugar every day and putting sugar in every food is worse than eating fatty food.
Anon, did you look at the people?
Wait, what is pea pure?
Misspelling of puree (or pureé), most likely referring to the UK's mushy peas,which are ubiquitous in chip shops over there
~~Transformed~~ Ultra-processed food is less healthy than things cooked in butter.
Britain is projected to be the fattest country in Europe. So don’t think all those chippies and pub food aren’t taking a toll.
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