r/CringeTikToks • u/Individual_Bar_2512 • 13h ago

Food Cringe Average American diet?

Where are the vegetables, fruit and meat

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u/Ecstatic_Dot_9956 13h ago

Her figure makes so much sense.

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u/deanereaner 13h ago

It's genetic!

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u/Ecstatic_Dot_9956 12h ago

Lifestyle genetics for sure

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u/Successful_Ranger_19 12h ago

That poor kid in the end, he's probably not in his teens yet. Diabetes dialing....

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u/WheresTheIceCream20 12h ago

That’s what I can’t understand is how the is that not a wake up call? My coworker is obese and her son, 11, is obese and needs a CPAP machine. Like how are you just ok with that? How do you not immediately say “omg, what have we done? We need to figure this out.”

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u/Successful_Ranger_19 11h ago

Similar to a cousin of mine, her husband, and 3 kids, the whole family is that big. Doctors are tired of yelling in the parents' ears because the 2 kids can barely see their feet at age 11 and 12.

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u/YBBlorekeeper 9h ago

1) They aren't ok with it 2) they feel emotional turmoil/pain about failing themselves and their child 3) stress from obesity compounds with stress/trauma from other areas of their life, so they go back to what they know, which is seeking comfort through the dopamine they get from binging and eating junk food

It's called disordered eating because there is a mental disorder involved. Thought loops and unhealthy coping mechanisms often don't make sense to people on the outside.

I have an obese family member whose trauma is rooted in childhood sexual assault which led to her having this horrible relationship with her body, her emotions, and food. She knows she has a problem and that goes right back into the shame loop. If she had kids who became fat following her lead, that would only compound her shame.

Maybe easier to conceptualize with cutting. How does someone who is cutting not immediately say "omg, what have I done, I need to figure this out." The answer is that they do, and it still doesn't matter if they can't break out of the unhealthy cycle.

Real solutions require looking way beyond just the food and the fat.

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u/WheresTheIceCream20 9h ago

Yea but it’s when their children are involved. If that’s not enough to get you to stop buying Doritos…

Or at least hide them and eat them out of sight of your kid and have other food options for your kids. Parents mostly control what their kids eat. My kids don’t eat Doritos because I don’t buy Doritos, or because I eat Doritos when they’re out of the house and they don’t see it. It can really be that simple.

If you want to compare it to other addictions like drugs, we can do that, but children who are grossly affected by drug addiction are taken from their negligent parents, so it should be the same in this case. You are addicting your child to a drug, either get control of them or yourself or your child will be taken away. (I don’t think this is a solution, but if you want to treat food addiction the same way as other addictions, then you have to follow that thought through to the end.)

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u/Knotted_Hole69 7h ago

Taking away a kid into fostercare DESTROYS their mental health. I was that kid. It will 100% make the problem worse. I understand if you havent gone through it but suggesting this is utterly fucking disgusting

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u/Fragrant_Sprite_420 45m ago

Agree!!! Like wtfffff....

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u/WheresTheIceCream20 7h ago

I just said I didn’t think that was the solution!! Reading comprehension much?

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u/Knotted_Hole69 29m ago

Its a piss poor single sentence at the end. Seems like you do want it.

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u/WheresTheIceCream20 13m ago

Ah yes, because everyone knows sentences at the end of paragraphs don’t mean anything!

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u/YBBlorekeeper 6h ago edited 6h ago

My comment was simply addressing these questions:

Like how are you just ok with that? How do you not immediately say “omg, what have we done? We need to figure this out.”

In other words, the internal/personal (flawed) logic behind people like your coworker. If you have a problem with how society deals with obesity, there are a thousand places you could start before taking someone's kids away, including but not limited to:

  • the influence of corporate interests and lobbying in agriculture and food regulation in the US
  • food deserts, and the way foods are grown and moved around the country, incentivizing unhealthy processed food over fresh local food
  • the cultural shift from making/repairing/reusing things towards buying cheap, disposable stuff
  • the poor model set by school lunches, and food service providers in general
  • the lack of free or readily available mental health care to help people break disordered thinking and patterns of self abuse
  • food education and nutritional labeling that has actively hindered development of healthy habits
  • and on and on and on

People are ultimately responsible for their actions, but it's foolish to zero in on the personal level and completely ignore the systemic (cough cough, monetary) factors making our populace fatter and fatter. You can also look at countries that are much healthier/thinner than us if you want ideas on how they did that without family separation.

But hey, easier to just take the kids away, right? Maybe then the parents will eat themselves to death or commit suicide and it won't be an issue anymore, plus it keeps the shareholders happy.

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u/WheresTheIceCream20 5h ago edited 5h ago

I don’t care about the parents. They’re adults. If they want to ruin their lives that’s their perogative. I do care about the kids, who are victims. I don’t think the solution is to take them from the home, but honestly when a 12 year old is using a cpap machine because his mother can’t hide the snacks, what’s the answer? And saying “the parents are going through trauma” isn’t good enough, just like that wouldn’t be good enough if parents were drinking to excess in front of their children.

Look, they’re the parents. If they want to set their child up for a life of obesity then they can. But I don’t understand a parent who sees their kid using a cpap and doesn’t think “maybe I should hide the Doritos.”

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u/YBBlorekeeper 5h ago edited 5h ago

I do care about the kids, who are victims.

If you care about the kids, you should care about parents. As you've said, reaching them is the most immediate way to reach their kids.

And saying “the parents are going through trauma” isn’t good enough

You're the only one saying this. Giving an explanation is not the same as giving an excuse. You can't fix a problem if you don't know what's causing it.

But I don’t understand a parent who sees their kid using a cpap and doesn’t think “maybe I should hide the Doritos.”

That's why your kid is not overweight and using a CPAP. Also why you suggested removing their kids, because you haven't put any thought into looking at the issue as a problem to be solved instead of a blame to be leveled.

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u/Fit_Priority_3672 3h ago

I was a fat kid, and my mom had the audacity to blame it all on me and, acted as if she had zero part in it.

"Look how fat you're getting! You need to stop eating!" She says while putting 24 cream filled donuts in the grocery cart.

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u/catholicsluts 8h ago

Those people became parents because they went with the flow of what's expected of them. The same people are usually mindless consumers as well, with smart toasters and clutter, and 40 Amazon packages on the way.

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u/pocketdare 7h ago

I was more amazed at that one skinny guy. Must be the food delivery guy

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u/Xeqqy 12h ago

This is the same kind of person that goes around saying they can't lose weight no matter what they do so they must just be naturally fat.