Comments on: The Experiment: America, Food And Obesity

By: Gelly Anderson

Gelly Anderson — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:37:58 +0000

Obesity and diabetes are becoming more and more of a problem these days. Actually it is easy to avoid being overweight by just having the proper diet and exercise.

By: Bridgette

Bridgette — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:23:34 +0000

Obesity and diabetes is a growing problems nowadays. It is caused by todays lifestyle which does not involve lots amount of exercise. Most people are just happy sitting in their office chair and they do not even want to sweat.

By: When All Your Progress Goes Out The Window

When All Your Progress Goes Out The Window — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:08:46 +0000

[...] along came my 2 and a half week trip to America. I decided to forget about trying to be healthy and just ate whatever I felt like. Bad [...]

By: Cindy

Cindy — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:49:51 +0000

I look forward to hearing your point of view too. Being a U.S. citizen, I find that we have a wide variety of choices to choose from and recent changes in the public desire to start going healthy has improved the options.

By: weelittleme

weelittleme — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 05:49:29 +0000

I grew up in Canada. I live in New Zealand now. I will be interested to see what you think. I don’t think the myth is real. In my experience there is just as much junk here and the portions are just as big. From a processed food perspective I had to adjust my tastebuds a bit since I found most things in NZ much more over the top in terms of sweetness, even soups and savoury sauces are sweeter here than they tend to be in Canada. I don’t notice much anymore but I did at first.
It may be different in the US. Don’t know. Australia is the fattest country now… just beat the US. In my experience in Canada the chain stores are big and they are everywhere, MacDonalds and the like. But then again there wasn’t a chip shop on every corner where I grew up either LOL And the grease content in the fish and chips here almost killed me compared to east coast Canada where it at least tastes “lighter” in that department.
No matter where you live I guess it all comes down to the choices you make. I came to NZ expecting to find healthier food choices and such since that is the reputation abroad… in my experience I haven’t really found that to be true.