60% of US Americans are overweight.
It might be a cheap shot: but I really think that fat America is literally eating away the worlds resource in a devastating and unfair way. Not only is it unhealthy for the people themselves, but also the food production and distribution wastes many resources. Plus obese people need bigger cars and seats in airplanes – and more fuel is needed to get them from A to B. Obviously most obese people walk less, therefore more transportation in ‘obese’ cars like SUVs is needed.
For example China is now #2 in fuel consumption – but that is for a billion people compared to ‘only’ 300 million in the US. Many Africans would happily live on a third or even a quarter of the calories many Americans stuff into themselves on a daily basis. So Americans proportionally use more resources than anybody else on this planet.
So the obesity of a rich country has far more consequences then just fat people. It’s a waste of precious resources on a colossal scale – and one of the biggest challenges ALL industrial nations are facing, because obesity is already becoming a problem in other places as well – but with so many things America is ahead of the World.
Loose some fat and save resources for your fellow humans.
