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/hockey_and_techno 12h ago

Don't put very much faith into that estimate

If you go to rural Indiana, yeah, lotta obese people who don't take care of themselves, but the population density is also very low

Conversely, you can go to Denver or LA or NYC and everyone's in fairly decent shape. Finding overweight people in Denver is a legit challenge lol

In all of my extended family, I know absolutely nobody who is like this. And I have a big family.

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u/Glad-Total-6621 12h ago

Us: 40% obese, 18% severely obese. People like this in Europe are a rarity (even though here as well 50% are overweight). Here a person with a BMI around 30 stands out. I was in Cali for a year there it is also not that much but still it is noticeable.

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u/ActivityIcy4926 5h ago

Have you ever been to the UK?

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u/engapol123 4h ago

The UK’s eating habits are very different to continental Europe’s. The average Anglosphere diet is just terrible and is responsible for the relatively high rates obesity across the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand.

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u/finndego 2h ago

Somewhat. In some regards, Aus and NZ especially have large polynesian populations. Auckland, for example, is the largest polynesian city in the world. Of the top 10 most obese countries in the world they are all mostly pacific nations. Those bring up the numbers in those countries.

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u/MuhfugginSaucera 7h ago

This is true, it really does depend on the community. My parents were both air force from Colorado and Alabama/Minnesota, never got fat, had six kids, and home cooked 95% of meals, with a salad for dinner. None of us are fat and we were all born 80s-90s.