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Why are so many fat?

Zipppy

Why are so many Irish people fat?
I'm just back from Sweden where all the ladies are slim and trim incl older ladies and the men don't sport huge beer bellies..
Back to Ireland and its fat fat fat everywhere?
Laziness? Genes? Alcohol? What?

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SCOOP 64

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

Alot of Irish people tend to eat meals that are not particular wholesome. We like our salt and veg which has been almost boiled to nothing.

Been guilty of that myself.

Eating said meals in front of the TV doesn't help either.

Yep, better at the dinner table.

jacksie66

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Wheeliebin30

The sheer amount of takeaways is unbelievable.

Every corner and street.
Such an unhealthy nation and our hospitals can’t cope because of it.

SCOOP 64

jacksie66 wrote: »

Piss off OP you judgemental dick. Typical Irish mentality.

Are you fat:rolleyes:

jacksie66

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jacksie66

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meeeeh

Wheeliebin30 wrote: »

The sheer amount of takeaways is unbelievable.

I'm far from perfect myself and definitely not one of 'my body is a temple' crowd but the amount of takeaways selling the same rubbish is mind boggling.

SterlingArcher

Perhaps instead of just adding sugar taxes. They could use those taxes to help lowering the prices of fresh healthy foods. Actually financially promote healthy food not just wasted campaigns hey eat this, it's good.

Ultimately it is a parents burden to teach their kids the importance of healthy food and balance.

Sal Butamol

Wheeliebin30 wrote: »

And then we’re listening to the left and charities bleating on about child poverty blah blah.

No reason for it to exist in this country with all the supports.

Of course I'm talking about real poverty. Not the do-gooder "Johnny hasn't the latest games machine from Santy, he's deprived" bollocks

Sal Butamol

jacksie66 wrote: »

Piss off OP you judgemental dick. Typical Irish mentality.

Curb your fattitude there big guy

death1234567

SterlingArcher wrote: »

Perhaps instead of just adding sugar taxes. They could use those taxes to help lowering the prices of fresh healthy foods.

Vegetables are usually the cheapest things in any supermarket. People just can't be arsed buying them and cooking them. It's great for me though, I can make litres of soup for half nothing.

BarryD2

Zipppy wrote: »

Why are so many Irish people fat?

Simples: the famine and 800 years of jackboot oppression etc. or whatever we were taught in school.

Thoughtform

Crap wet weather for such a huge chunk of the year. I exercise a good deal from Spring to Autumn, and I like healthy food (plenty of delicious healthy food - it's not just lettuce) but I cave into the temptation of the couch and extra carbs from November (at the earliest) until April (at the earliest - Spring starting in March hasn't been a thing for a few years).

jacksie66 wrote: »

Piss off OP you judgemental dick. Typical Irish mentality.

Every negative thing that could be found anywhere seems to be just an Irish thing or typically Irish according to this site.

[Deleted User]

Yeah, well, it's never been a fair contest of simple "free will" given the enormous propaganda by corporations explicitly or implicitly claiming their foods are healthy - the cereal companies, for instance, market products absolutely heaving with sugar as "healthy" - it's unsurprising that far more people are eating crap now. It's going to get much worse before it gets better.

Just look at the sort of products that are given pride of place in your local supermarket. And almost always on some "special" so you can riddle yourself with 4000 calories of nutritionally awful "food" rather than 2000 calories. In Sweden, at least when I lived there in the 1990s, there was far, far, far less junk food for sale and it was tucked away in the back of the shop. That prioritising of healthy food over junk food is the norm across continental Europe. When I was young a 330ml can of Coke was a big treat on a Saturday. And when the 500ml 'Supercan' was introduced in Ireland in the early 80s, it was huge. People are not only drinking it/eating crap more often, but the amount of it is far greater than it was in the 80s.

There are progressive things which an Irish government could do to change the emphasis in favour of healthy products in shops in Ireland, but expect all the "free market" fundamentalists to spout on about "Nanny state" and the like. It really is an uneven battle between those firms promoting genuinely healthy food, and those frequently enormously wealthy firms promoting junk.

And you're certain to get 100 threads here bashing the brainwashing of has-been religious powers for every thread that mentions the brainwashing of our supposedly enlightened rampant consumer culture in 2018. All the bad things happened in the past!

Mongfinder General

Beasty wrote: »

Simple

Not enough cyclists. Join us and you'll be skinny before you know it.....

Loads of fat ****ers cycling around on bikes in Dublin. Cycling does **** all for you in terms of burning calories. I stopped cycling to work 3 months ago. I weigh the same as I did three months ago.

Sal Butamol

and the bogger mentality of a dinner plate heaped with food

Mongfinder General

Sal Butamol wrote: »

Curb your fattitude there big guy

I bet he/she has a massive belly hanging off them

silverharp

SterlingArcher wrote: »

Perhaps instead of just adding sugar taxes. They could use those taxes to help lowering the prices of fresh healthy foods. Actually financially promote healthy food not just wasted campaigns hey eat this, it's good.

Ultimately it is a parents burden to teach their kids the importance of healthy food and balance.

most cr@p is made from wheat corn sugar and soy however these are the most important lobbies in countries like the US. going by the government food pyramids they want their population fay and bloated. though the recent storming of the west dublin lidl for a sugar fix should be a wake up call

shakeitoff

Mongfinder General wrote: »

Loads of fat ****ers cycling around on bikes in Dublin. Cycling does **** all for you in terms of burning calories. I stopped cycling to work 3 months ago. I weigh the same as I did three months ago.

Yeah really does nothing, waste of time for fitness purposes.

How Soon Is Now

Lucky auld me! Hate skinny bitchs!

_Dara_

Patww79 wrote: »

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I love that someone replied humourlessly to Beasty’s obvious pisstaking post. There’s always one.

Mongfinder General wrote: »

Loads of fat ****ers cycling around on bikes in Dublin. Cycling does **** all for you in terms of burning calories. I stopped cycling to work 3 months ago. I weigh the same as I did three months ago.

And another.

And personally, I saw differences in my bod week on week when I took up cycling. It was great for toning. I wasn’t using it to drop loads of weight, I was using it to get in condition. And it worked.

Kevin Finnerty

shakeitoff wrote: »

Yeah really does nothing, waste of time for fitness purposes.

Not true, cycling actually does help to drop weight. From the belly to the arße.

Sal Butamol

How Soon Is Now wrote: »

Lucky auld me! Hate skinny bitchs!

Captain Ahab is it?

_Dara_

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

Alot of Irish people tend to eat meals that are not particular wholesome. We like our salt and veg which has been almost boiled to nothing.

Been guilty of that myself.

Eating said meals in front of the TV doesn't help either.

Salt isn’t really the issue. If anything, I find that people tend to underseason home-cooked meals.

Cee-Jay-Cee

It’s probably our glands.

We have fat glands.

How Soon Is Now

Sal Butamol wrote: »

Captain Ahab is it?

Wah?

Sal Butamol

How Soon Is Now wrote: »

Lucky auld me! Hate skinny bitchs!

How Soon Is Now wrote: »

Wah?

Chasing the auld whales yeah?

_Dara_

07Lapierre wrote: »

Diet and lack of exercise. For a lot of people this is due to long commutes by car (by long I’m referring to time and/or distance) which means less free time to exercise and less inclination to cook healthy meals.

Diet is more contributory, IMO. Exercise does help and is what makes you look good naked but from my past experiences of losing weight, taking no exercise and cutting down on food would still see me losing weight. Obviously exercise does help create a calorie deficit but it’s nowhere near as high a deficit as people think.

How Soon Is Now

Sal Butamol wrote: »

Chasing the auld whales yeah?

Never been into skinny girls just never done it for me!.

Had one girlfriend who was fairly slim but had a nice arse so best of both worlds! :pac:

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Cake is really tasty