Rant about weight, fat acceptance, obesity and health

[Dystopia]

I think you're drawing a little bit of a causal relationship between people getting fatter in America and people believing that being fat is healthy. Americans are getting fatter because there is a Burger King on every corner, we work 51 weeks a year, and we have screens in every room of our house. Believe me, I live in Tennessee. There are more morbidly overweight people here than you can possibly imagine. Yet I still hear them tell me they want to lost weight, their doctor told them they were going to lose their foot to necrosis from diabetes. Not one person has tried to convince me that they were healthy while riding a scooter in WalMart.

I think this is misleading - Saying that Americans (or for the matter any other people) are getting fatter because there's a burger king or a fast food restaurant every corner is like saying the cause of gun shootings and killing sprees is the fact guns are sold in many stores - While I live in Europe and it is mostly illegal for civilians to own guns here, I think the cause of shooting sprees is not the fact guns are legal in America because, as you probably know, killing sprees are not that uncommon in scandinavia and people still acquire guns there. I think the availability of food influences how fat people get, but I don't think you can blame more weight on it - I'm pretty sure (and correct me if I'm wrong) that despite the fact America has so much processed food and junk food, it's more than possible to find healthy or otherwise normal food for decent prices - I also don't want to assume how many Burger Kings are out there, but in Europe fast food restaurants have existed and spread their availability for a long time, but I still don't see many of my friends going to MacDonalds every single day - In fact, I have a MacDonalds right next to me and I haven't gone there in 3 months because when I go out to dinner or lunch I prefer some traditional dish (mostly meat because I don't like fish much) since it's more worth the money.

Look, OP, my main point here is that fat shaming does not work. All it does is depress them even further. That's never the best way to get fat people to lose weight.

Also, keep in mind that, with anything, there is no one sufficient cause leading to extreme weight. It is always a combination of biological, psychological, and social factors interacting with each other.

Never did i argue that fat-shaming should be done to anybody - But I also think some people mistake a legitimate concern for someone's weight for fat-shaming. It's not fat-shaming if there aren't clothing sizes for you, or if you there isn't an elevator and you have trouble going up the stairs.

Also, I seriously doubt that factors are anything more than social since 50 years ago people were much thinner - I mean, my country itself is much fatter now, but when people were poor and couldn't eat much everybody was very thin, and I believe America before the 2000's was thin as well, so I don't think there's a genetic reason behind the increase in obesity. It's basic reasoning here.