“I visited europe” goes to the uk
The uk is somehow actually less european than the caucasian countries and kazakhstan which everyone criticizes for pretending to be european.
Anon travels overseas
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AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Is the UK american, or the US British?
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
How to start a war with a single question.
Fun related “fact”: Shakespeare supposedly sounds more period-accurate in a generic American accent than a modern British accent because the British dramatically changed their accent some time after the US split and the American accent has changed less over the centuries.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
There’s more monarchists in the US.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
yes
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Which existed before the other?
The US is British, that is why they speak English and not Americans.
undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The idea that the UK has less in common than France than France does with Kazakhstan is hilarious.
Bravo!
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Anon needs to learn that the UK isn’t representative of all of Europe
BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Europe does have an obesity crisis, with nearly half of adults overweight. The UK is bad but not alone and not the highest.
But even then things are still not as bad as the USA. The obesity rate is about 23% in Europe compared to 36% in the US. Russia has an obesity rate of 30% skewing the European rate. For comparison other high European countries are Finland at about 29%, Malta at 29%, Croatia at 23%, UK at 20%, Germany at 19%. Lower rates are seen in Italy at 10% and Romania at 11%, but even those rates are not great - 1 in 10 people are obese and more are overweight.
So OP is right except the US is worse. Over a third of people are obese and many more are overweight.
Damage@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
You’ve also got to consider that “obesity” is a single threshold. I’ve been to the US many times and there are WAY more morbidly obese people in the US, and some who are so fucking huge they would definitely turn heads in the EU.
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
also nearly half of adults overweight
One thing worth pointing out is that the “overweight” category (BMI between 25 and 30) actually has lower all cause mortality than the “normal” category (BMI between 20 and 25:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37405977/#gid=article-fig…
I think that suggests that being merely “overweight” probably isn’t a significant health problem.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Where do you have those numbers from? I’d like to look up my country.
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
And does have an obesity problem!
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Notice how anon never mentions seeing any fat people tho…
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Can’t speak for all of Europe, but I was in Germany for a couple weeks and I saw just as many fat people there that I see at home in America.
baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
according to wikipedia the united states are 42.9% obese and germany 24.2%, what may instead be happening is either not being accurate in your headcount or that in germany obese people go outside more than in america or that maybe obesity is distributed differently, potentially similarly in both countries but you were only for example in rural areas in america but only in urban areas in germany
moonburster@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The trend for obesitas in Europe has been steadily climbing. I read that in the Netherlands the adults have over 50% overweight
gnugit@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
You can’t rate world cuisine on England
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Absolute zero is a useful reference point.
FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Low key amazing commeny
blx@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I love how the post never mentions the country, but everyone just knows.
Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
They did say fish and chips which is kind of an iconic British food.
SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hilarious that this is true and yet the US is still somehow fatter.
j4k3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
[deleted]Tommelot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
eats a tub of sugary chocolate sugar every morning
Pretty sure it’s the milk, guys!
Mac@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Replying to your edit since you felt it was reasonable to name-call in an edit like a coward instead of at least in reply.
Damn, i guess managing my weight to be within 10lbs of my desired target weight for the last 10 years doesnt count because ive never in my life weighed enough to have to lose a lot of weight.
I consciously work to shed weight when I’m over and gain weight when I’m under. But what do i know?
I’m just a fuckbrained dogmatist.TheBat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Stop eating anything with milk in it
NO!
SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
lol it’s not the milk
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It’s the HFS. Not fucking milk. Like, yes, milk as a drink is high calorie and was forced on us by marketing in the 90s-00s, but drinking milk isn’t what’s making people fat.
The people who managed to NOT gain an extra 160 pounds that they needed to lose might know something about not gaining weight…
BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s not just the milk but milk is a rich source of nutrition and over consumed in the west.
The obesity crisis is due to excessive calories in all foods, including massive overuse of sugar in processed foods, high levels of red meats and fat etc and low levels of fruit and vegetables. This is combined with physical inactivity.
Southern Europe doesn’t have the same levels of obesity - about 10% in Italy compared to 20% in the UK and 36% in the US. They have a “Mediterranean diet” which is low fat, low sugar, with more fish, fruits and vegetables. Japan also has low obesity rates of 5-6% and again has a much healthier diet. Their rate is going up and it seems to be due to increasing westernised diet.
bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
As someone who’s lactose intolerant, it is annoying to find stuff without dairy in it. Not impossible of course, but it is in the most random shit.
Bo7a@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
You are being downvoted because what works for you is not going to work for everyone, and pretending like it will makes you look like an asshole.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I’m going to tag you as the milk guy
Anivia@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I drink a gallon of milk a day (no joke). Take a look at my profile picture 😁
snooggums@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
There is a vast difference between eating shitty food once a day and walking everywhere and eating shitty food three meals a day and not walking anywhere.
The US both massively overeats the shitty food and is very sedentary for the most part. A bit contributor is our absolutely terrible work culture that wears people out so much that they seek pleasure from food and entertainment in the few spare hours they have each week because they are constantly advertised to encouraging that behavior.
glitchdx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They walk more. That’s it. That’s the secret.
essell@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Portion sizes are a factor too!
axexrx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I dont feel like they are. Traveling France and Italy a couple years back, I found myself not finishing meals much more regularly that I do in the states, Even though I was eating a bit more because I was walking 5+ miles a day.
Maybe i was in part over ordering due to language, or menu expectations. Maybe some of thw places I was in were touristy and over doing it to match ‘american portions’
But for instance, i got breakfast that was ‘oefs en cocotte de compagne’ at a café a couple blocks from the louvre, far enough to not be in the tourist trap surrounding area anymore.
It was massive- 4 shired eggs with a generous amount of mushrooms and gruyere, served with 4 pieces of toast. And I confirmed with the waiter that that was not a shared portion…
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I can do my weekly shopping without having to get in the car. Because in Europe everything’s all mixed together rather than zoned into miles of endless residential, that you have to drive for 25 minutes in order to leave to get to the big shopping mall was it’s one million car parking spaces.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
i walk 10 minutes (1.0 km) to the second-nearest grocery store (because that has cheaper and better-quality food) and i’m already living pretty far out on the city borders.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
And also didn’t replace all the fat in their food with sugar processed from corn.
Fat doesn’t turn into fat when you eat it - it turns into sugars, which then turn into fat. Eating sugar just takes one step out of the process and makes your body work less (and therefore burn less calories) turning it into fat.
ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
We compensate with gym time, you can’t outrun a cheeseburger
Psythik@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You can’t outrun your diet.
Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
And yet the number of people obese in the USA is almost double that of the UK.
pennomi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s the corn syrup more than the fried food honestly. The number of people who drink soda all day is wild.
Soulg@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Walkable areas go a long way
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
That’s just br*tish “food”
_stranger_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I lost weight after two weeks in Paris eating like a hedonist king because of all the walking.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Fat isn’t unhealthy. Excess calories and absence of exercise is not healthy.
Also the U.K. population is unhealthy just like the U.S.
BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Yes! Fat by itself isn’t unhealthy.
The best example is Italy, it has the lowest obesity rate of Europe, European Obesity Rates by Country 2025. (2025-11-14). World Population Review. but also has the highest consumption of cooking oil of Europe Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2024);Eurostat, OECD, IMF, and World Bank (2025)
BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
UK doesn’t have the highest rate on obesity in Europe, and is similar in levels to Germany. It’s a problem across Europe.
bstix@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
You can tell this is London. They have some weird streets where every single shop sells the same stuff.
dellish@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not to mention the other weird streets where every single house is identical.
Saryn@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ee (European) are jsut more active, including working / cycling to work every day. Try it and see the difference.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
i think it’s not just “activity”. lots of people in the US go to the gym a lot.
but what we have here in europe is integrating movements into everyday life. Like, when i drive anywhere in the city, it typically involves a 10 minute walk (to/from the subway/tram station). And i believe that does much more than going to the gym for 1 hour once a week. Because you stay moving daily, your body stays “awake” daily, instead of just waking up once a week and then falling back into slumber.
saimen@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Carbs are much worse than fat. So drinking dozens of grams of sugar every day and putting sugar in every food is worse than eating fatty food.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
I live in the fattest province in Canada, who is also compared to the rest of the world one of the fatter countries. But going to Tennessee and Texas, man… it’s a different beast down there. Obesity is such an issue that it makes you think something is gravely wrong down there. Idk if it’s the culture or the infrastructure or the food or what but it’s not good.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It’s probably the sugar and rampant allergies to exercise.
ook@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Anon, did you look at the people?
01011@monero.town 2 weeks ago
Brits are fat too, they just don’t have as many obese people as the States.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
carne et lacte vivant
from caesar’s report about the brits: they live off meat and milk
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Britain is projected to be the fattest country in Europe. So don’t think all those chippies and pub food aren’t taking a toll.
zloubida@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Transformed food is less healthy than things cooked in butter.
mushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
neither are unhealthy
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Been to Seoul. Every place there gives you tons of side dishes that you cant possibly eat all. People are still very very thin there on average. Ofc, cant judge whole country by one city. But maybe city’s landscape helps them keep themselves in shape.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I recently tried to compare data on morbid obesity, but most countries don’t even have a rate, or only include the data as a sub- 1% share of the obesity.
And the US it’s 9.5%
As in, 30% of the US has a BMI between 30 and 40, and 10% is over 40.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Egypt beat us? Pick up that fork soldier, we can’t let them win!
Nomad@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Do you see Abby supersized soda bucketa?
ulterno@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Another anecdote telling - real butter doesn’t make you fat.
Gumbyyy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It does if you eat enough of it
Vreyan31@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Yeah sure… The long-standing obesity rates in southern states has nothing to do with butter being the baseline sauce on everything
k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Yes, let us come to a conclusion by comparing the obesity of one nation to the abundance of delicious food establishments of another.
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
In what is likely a touristy or well traveled section. Sometimes the difference includes how we do our transportation too, like more walking/biking. Maybe a difference in how often we rely on said restaurants too.
FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yes
radix@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It helps when everywhere in that mile radius (and more) is considered walking distance in much of Europe, but Americans would rather drive.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I fucking promise you we don’t prefer to drive, it’s the only option we have. Our government fucked us
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Facts. One time we were talking about how cool it would be to live really close to a mall as a kid.
Then we realized that our local mall has no pedestrian crossings or even sidewalks, so you’d still have to get adults to drive you even if you were across the street.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Having recently moved to Europe, I occasionally miss the convenience of driving but overall it’s so much better.
Just getting to chill on my commute and not have to worry about traffic is so nice.
When it’s very cold or rainy it would be nice to drive to the store. I do miss being able to buy a week+ worth of groceries and loading up the trunk
Overall this is still way better.
Fawkes@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I mean, yes that’s absolutely true, but many Americans really do prefer to drive even short distances. When I lived in North Carolina people regularly drove to the other side of the parking lot to eat, shop at different stores, meet up with friends, etc. I asked several people why they didn’t walk, and every single one said they hated walking and would drive or re-park if it was further than a few seconds walk.
saimen@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
But…you are (supposed to be) a democracy. So you fucked yourself for 100 years?
StaticFalconar@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Walling that mile ain’t going to negate that much unhealthy food.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Nah, every american I’ve known who left America either immediately lost weight, or maintained despite eating 10x more and less healthy food.