More than 75% of US adults may meet criteria for obesity under new definition: Study

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46. The American diet doesn't help.

High fructose corn syrup in everything, excessive consumption of animal fats.
Fast food.
Processed food.

Check out the skinny people in a lot of Asian countries.
Diet heavy on vegetables with flavourful spices, minimal meat and dairy products.

Then look at health statistics there.

Then look at the health statistics of some Asian areas that have adopted the American diet.

I was in the States in 1988.
Tried a can of Dr Pepper.
Felt sick half way through.
Then I looked up sugar content and went OMG!

Cut sugar from my diet entirely, at least not adding any.
Enjoying a cup of coffee right now, no sugar, no milk.

Now 210 pounds at 6 feet, still overweight, still carrying belly fat.
But better than the 275 I used to be.

Took 30 years of not caring to get to that weight, another 30 to get to where I am now.

Those old fat guys with huge bellies?
Week's worth of undigested food, swollen liver from storing it all.
Trying to keep their energy levels up as they age. Doesn't work.
You can lose a lot of weight in the first 2 weeks of a gentle diet.