Why are we so fat?

look how our neighbourhoods are set up…mine as an example…Gym door to door im guessing is walking 25 minutes away,

Nearest corner / convenience shop / takeaway now is 15 minutes away walking.

I’m not obese because I exercise 5 days a week… 3 good gym workouts then a couple of lighter sessions at home.

We use cars because our weather is shît. We use cars because our suburban residential / city planners and councils or whatever haven’t a fûcking notion and couldn’t care less. Absolute dweebs. A whole line of retail premises 5 minutes walk away here was given permission to be sold and converted to residential…. Had been a mini supermarket, childcare place, barbers and a laundrette. All gone now.

Public transport has been picked apart… three bus routes in this area, canned…bus connects / orbital routes not worth a fûck as the close by bus stop now moved almost a kilometre away…Its not practical to walk to any regular retail or other similar amenities because the immediate area and community has been gutted of them. Community protests… ignored.

There is a green space for football/games that when I suggested about 5 years ago in 20 years would probably have housing on it, the person I said this to told me to cop on, never happening…. Now they ain’t so sure, they’ve backtracked, they see building residential properties in the Phoenix park so…why not other green spaces in our communities ?

We rely on cars because our public transport is appalling for a capital city of this size and population. Overcrowded, uncomfortable, inefficient, environmentally unfriendly, slow and in many many cases antiquated. Some of the active fleet of Dublin bus is approaching 20 years old…. I’m nowhere near a Luas, probably about 3 - 4 kilometres away from my nearest stop…a tram system launched with fanfare….a whole two lines.

Look at Manchester….8 Metrolink lines, 99 stations. People are on foot, not relying on cars.

"we have astonishingly little natural forest (around 1%) and no right to roam laws, which means much of the countryside is closed off to everyday people."

Have you seen the absolute state Irish people leave publicly accessible areas? Too right they shouldn't be allowed to go wherever they want leaving their shyte after them.

the inlet is bigger than the outlet.

Bmi doesn't take in to account muscle, it's as much usea chocolate tea pot. Practically Everyone on a rugby team has a BMI over 25 does that make them obese

Years ago I was talking with a professor whose specialty is obesity related illnesses and his take on it was you not get the political will to counter the processed food culture until obese offspring are dying before their parents.

An undertaker friend told me that he now has to keep a stock of bigger coffins for obese people and the trend tends to be death in their 40s 50s

Sedentary lifestyle.

No weather or public amenities to entice people outside. The most people walk is around the shopping centre or the retail park.

Having a car is essential for daily life for anyone outside of Dublin city, so we all have cars and we all use them.

That's essentially it.

Exercise is important at all stages in life, but as we gear down in activity and our ability to burn calories we also have to gear down our calorific intake.

I remember reading an interview with a professional soccer player who got massively obese in the years immediately after he stopped training and once he got it under control he reckoned he was probably fine on 70% less calories than what he'd been burning when fulltime.