that's the price of success

In a nutshell, Capitalism.

it's the prevalence of fast food and a culture (i use the term loosely) that frankly ignores reality and focuses on what's popular (IE MAKING MONEY) at the time.

because america

I was wondering the same thing the other day OP. Well, not really asking why but just thinking about it. And it was because I was watching a movie from the 80s with lots of crowds in the background of shots. No fat people in sight. That is impossible to find in today's films.

Shit like this is commonly seen and sometimes whole families are seen waddling into fast food eateries to gorge themselves

Because cars.

most of you kids are too young to understand this, but your entire "culture" is totally artificially downloaded into your minds from birth through the advertisements that constantly bombard you. it wasn't always this way, and many people are very weakminded and believe just about anything they see/hear and are aroused by the bright colors and flashy ads and shit and (no surprise) are addicted to bullshit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuwuhpPs1Gg

processed foods, lack of exercise, lack of essential vitamins/minerals, too much sugary drinks and not enough purified water, bad sleep patterns, high fructose corn syrup, hormone treated animals, genetics (fatties gonna fat), constant commercials of food 24 hours a day sparking a "hunger" response, and boredom .

captcha: rchffe Macdonald (seriously).

>>3439257
Nah. Every civilized country has cars and public transport, but obesity levels can be so different from one country to another, even if they aren't far apart.

It must be diet.

>>3439229
I just realized everyone now dies their hair

>dat natural ass back then

>>3439262

What an ironic juxtaposition

Advertising causes perceived need in people. Think about it, you were fine without all the bullshit they sell (that new burger, that new game, that new purse or whatever the fuck) but you just KNOW you'll feel better when you buy that new thing because the people in the ad are SO HAPPY!

>tfw bottom row second from left is dream girl

also I dont think this is /ck/ related
the reason everyone is fat is no one i mean NO ONE goes out and does shit anymore
they all sit at home doing nothing

Up until the 2000s people were outside most of the time now you never see anyone outside
Kids used to roam the streets on bikes
People used to hang out at lakes or rivers on boats and shit
People used to ride atvs and dirtbikes all the time

not anymore everyone is addicted to their computers or phones
if they dont have their phone in their hand they feel empty or are even scared rofl

sad world it is

>>3439291
>also I dont think this is /ck/ related
>also

I'm sorry, did you start somewhere and leave it off? I can't seem to find it.

I think it is related, as its almost certainly dietary issues. People shouldn't eat other culture's foods, their bodies are not adjusted to it and it goes right to their thighs.

>>3439299
I posted here but it was not related to the topic so I added that in hence the also part
>>3439269

>>3439291

It is sort of related to /ck/, as everyday we see growing trends like Epic food time and other shows that glorify greed and over indulgence. The real /ck/ shouldn't fall into this trap as we appreciate and encourage those who aren't that skilled in food preparation to start learning and stop depending on fast food for convenience.

Laziness, lack of self control and feminism.

too much dairy and wheat
captcha:
ubledq truth
remove them, and how in the mother of fuckity fucks could you possibly still be seriously obese?
pic related

>>3439291
Do you live in the US? I do and whenever I travel elsewhere, I see a lot more of those things that you were saying people don't do anymore.

>>3439318
The fuck is wrong with dairy? Its been a mainstay of European cultures going back hundreds if not thousands of years, and its only been in the past 50 years or so that a massive amount of fatties has appeared

>>3439256

>waddling

haha

>>3439323
what's been changing about the food pyramid?
the serving sizes?
the amounts of different foods
different people lobbying for milk, does that "got milk" campaign ring a bell?
what do you feed babies more amounts of if you want them to grow nice and strong and fat?
more milk.
corn is used to fatten up dairy animals.
it is in everything now.
I got a fucking offbrand type of doctor pepper with vegetable oil as one of the ingredients.
made my mouth fucking greasy.
how many servings a day of wheat is shown now?
Hopefully less.
i remember it being six servings a day when i was a kidlet.

>>3439323
>>3439318
Just that it's very calorically dense. That wasn't an issue when food was relatively scarce, but the advent of industrial agriculture changed that. I'm not saying dairy is evil. A world without runny, stinky cheese is a cold and terrifying prospect. Just don't overindulge, maybe limit yourself to one serving of dairy per day. Or don't and revel in your gluttony. Whatever floats your boat.

People just eat way too much these days. The average american meal today is almost double the size that is was 30-40 years ago.

> cheap food/fast food
> sedentary lifestyles
> internets (why take the time to lose weight, learn social skills, meet girls, and get laid when you could stay in, smoke a bunch of dank and watch porn that's more easily available and plentiful than ever?)
> social standards (it's okay to be a fatass now. Evidently the kids have all gotten fat and moved on from bullying the fat kid to bullying the gay kid and/or the kid that think he/she is of the opposite gender)

Cheap, fattening food
Ease of accessibility to food
Transportation
Lifestyle changes
Laziness
Overindulgence/gluttony

>>3439347
Men can afford to do that. Osteoporosis is a huge problem in women, and cutting out dairy for weight loss makes it worse. How should people in need of calcium-dense foods make up for it?

>>3439260

thank you for this link anon, very informative video and it clears away a lot of the leftist bunkum of the supersize me video.

i wonder if the same is true about high fructose corn syrup; ie, that it's not the personification of evil that everyone makes it out to be?

>>3439260
Thread over.

>>3439289
brofist. while I would bang quite a few in that pic. that girl is the best by far. HNNNNNNNNNNNG

>>3439404
HFC is just as bad as sugar, they affect your blood sugar the exact the same way.

If you had time to watch FatHead, might wanna consider listening to Robert Lustig's lecture on sugar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

If that's too long, here's the abridged version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdMjKEncojQ

>>3439406
>>3439404
I knew it was worth posting that link!

Keep it safe gents, and spread the word.

>>3439417
>If you had the time to watch an "independent" documentary created by a corporate shill full of obvious logical fallacies and sloppy "research" which was not peer reviewed...
I would appreciate it if you and your ilk would stop your rabid proselytizing.

>>3439417

i know that too much sugar (ie large concentrations) is bad for you, i don't know that too much HFC is bad for you. this is my problem and it seems that everyone is saying HFC is bad without providing empirical evidence in the way that the fat head documentary does.

because the government will take care of them no matter what they do

>>3439450
Then you should probably take the time to listen to Lustig's lecture, he talks makes the comparison to sugar and HFC, they affect your body the same way.

Because most people in the world now speak English. Speaking English makes you fat. Look at all the fattest developed nations. What do they all have in common? They all speak English. Britain? Fat. Speaks English. US? Fat. Speaks English. Australia? Fat. Speaks English. And Canada, Ireland and New Zealand aren't far behind.
This sounds idiotic, but really, it's the Anglo-Saxon culture of conspicuous consumption, act-as-if-ism and display of over-extravagance. Couple this with the culturally protestant backgrounds (and therefore work-ethic) these nations espouse where even the Catholics work excessively, and you've got the makings of a sedentary, fat-inducing life style and culture.

>>3439496
With the work ethic, instant-gratification and on-the-go culture currently in trend there is little time for incidental exercise like, say, walking down the street and back for a light, relaxed well-balanced lunch, so everything has to be quick. Workers work longer, though not necessarily harder or efficiently, and have less time for themselves, so fast-food, instant lunch and quick-fix meals plus a distinct lack of incidental exercise makes people fatties.
There are few gyms in my home town (one of the largest cities in Western Europe and third largest in my country) because people get incidental exercise. I now live in the US. Where I live there are no fewer than 8 different gyms within walking distance of my place. This is because the work force don't have access to incidental exercise and therefore must get to the gym or become bloated land-dwelling sea mammals. I have little time for that incidental exercise, like most everyone else living in the US, and I'm sedentary in front of a screen for a paycheck. I've gained considerable weight since moving here and this is my theory for why. Long work hours. Little chances for incidental exercise. Tendency to culturally glorify excess. Little time to prepare proper, good, and healthy meals coupled with easy availability and overabundance of fat-making meals.
There you go.

Because after seeing the downfall of humanity manifest in the hippies of the 60s and 70s, and knowing those shitheads are now in power, it's just not worth giving a fuck anymore. May as well eat ourselves to death.

I see all of my friends at school and they are skinnier than fuuuuck. They eat more(also unhealthier) than me, and they are WAY more sedintary than i am. I have no earthly idea how they arent 300lbs. Im 160lbs and im 5'8''. Im 18 btw.

I used to be in shape played ice hockey all through HS went to the gym ran etc. Now I graduated don't give a fuck and im chubby as fuck, and still get girls because of the amount of chubby girls there are. win/win situation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=m8dWNbEscOw#!

>>3439507
it won't last, that's just the power of youth and raging hormone fueled metabolisms, when that finally burns off they'll have a lifetime of bad habits which will send them straight into tubby land. Fuck the cute ones now while you can, because the trainwreck later won't be pretty.

People coming from the suburbs, drive everywhere, regardless of distance. Sometimes the distance IS a bit far, unless you're a good runner, but not too far for a bike ... but outside of cities and college campuses, biking is seen as recreation.

>>3439516
Thanks for the advice. I've tried to run, and walk, and lift, and diet, and even not eat for like a week. I cant loose a fucking pound. I hate it so. I think genetics do have something to do with it too. Im greek/german/italian/other things too.

>>3439528
Excersize helps on the longterm, but if you diet, you have to choose one that you can actually live with. Try low carb/sugar for a while, see how that works. Basically just try not to eat much bread and pasta and don't drink soda or munch cookies. Everything else is fair game.

>Men can afford to do that. Osteoporosis is a huge problem in women, and cutting out dairy for weight loss makes it worse. How should people in need of calcium-dense foods make up for it?

are you dense?
vegetables and nuts.
dairy is totally not needed past weaning in any other species.

>>3439559
Of course he's retarded. He just negated the fact that there's too much protein in most dairy for the calcium in it to be usable by our bodies. And from what I've read, that level of protein actually can cause your body to lose calcium in the bones, to deal with that high protein intake.

Hence, America's huge problem with Osteoporosis. It's the dairy.
The general idea:

>Sell the public all this shit to make them fat and sick
>Then they can come to hospitals and pay out their asses for us to fix them

$$$ CHING $$$

>>3439544
Again, thanks for the advice. Thats why i fucking love this site. I can get awsome advice without all the bullshit. I love all you anons.

>>3439262
lol'd.

The "foods" which we consume today are extremely dense in calories, not often filling, nutrient-void, and extremely addictive. When a person eats these foods which are not whole, nor plant based, it gives the brain a small dopamine hit which makes them feel good. Over time, this habit gets people trapped in a state where they are constantly needing more and more of the hormones and dopamines released from eating these drug-like foods, and if a person goes back to eating a normal, healthy diet then they will not get those dopamine hits anymore which makes them feel bad. It's why when a person discovers what they need to do to eat better (eat fruits and vegetables and whatnot) that they often struggle to change their diet. They feel bad when they eat right, and they feel high when they eat bad. I highly recommend to everybody to read or watch the videos titled The Pleasure Trap, it explains it entire thing in detail.

I honestly think that genetics may have something with fat storage in the human body.

>>3440158
Of course it does. But it's not the complete story, lifestyle changes have contributed more to the rise in average weight more than anything else.

nobody wanted to eat the shit boring food back then.

>>3440158 here
I ment ethnicity wise. I see white people that have obvious irish blood ties and they're fat as hell , and i see people with hawiian ethnicity; fat as hell too. (very friendly people by the way) i see my chinese friend, xiaoxing. She is incredibly skinny and she could eat a cow, bone and all and not gain a pound.

Because relatively speaking, we're rich as fuck now. Even poor people these days are better off than the 1% of the 19th century were. You can get anything you want, whenever you want, for cheap. Most people eat meat at least twice a day.

Also, eating is easier than it used to be. Packaged foods mean the amount of work involved in making most recipes drops to nearly zero.

Take pasta, for example: In the old days, you'd have to mix flour with eggs and water, knead the dough, roll it out, and cut it into shapes. Hours of work burning calories. Now all you have to do is open a box and shake the pre-made pasta out into the water. As for the sauce, you used to have to chop and crush the tomatoes by hand, chop up any other vegetables, and then spend hours stirring the pot on the stove. Now you just open a jar and pour it onto the pasta.

What used to take all afternoon working in the kitchen can be done in fifteen minutes or less. You end up burning less calories, and because it's so easy to make food, you eat more and more often.

Also, snacking has taken off in the modern era. In the past, when you had to make things from scratch, snacking was kept to a minimum. Maybe you'd chew on some bread, or eat a piece of fruit, but really caloric snack foods like chips and candy just weren't practical because you didn't have the time or the means to make them yourself.

People are dumber
Shit food is cheaper
People do less than 30 seconds of exercise a week.

>>3441050
/thread

Junk food is cheaper than real food.
Media/entertainment/technology makes us lazy as fuck.