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?

Odhinn

Zipppy wrote: »

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?

Fat, I'd say.

I dunno OP. There are more fat men than women, so maybe the women are fat because they're comfort eating at the prospect of all the fat men.

I'm just off to have a lard sandwich with butter and more lard and bread and chips and more lard with sugar added. I was going to put gravy on but that might be overdoing it. Oh, and a diet Coke. Gotta watch those calories.

PARlance

Sweden locks up all the fat ones.

Fourier

Lower atmospheric pressure, causes us to balloon outward.

Sal Butamol

A combination of things.

It starts in childhood.

Our schools would rather waste time on religion indoctrination lessons and a dead useless language than proper physical education and home economics classes. Our children are driven to, and collected from school, instead of walking and cycling.

Overworked parents are too tired to cook proper dinners for their children, relying on takeaways and processed junk

On the otherhand, the permanent social welfare class are too lazy, uneducated, drunk/high to give a **** about their kids and send them to the chipper daily.

Fast food junk outlets everywhere.

A growing culture of big is beautiful delusions.

Four Phucs Ache

My downfall was my mam. All I did was sit around but fed me she did.

meeeeh

Sal Butamol wrote: »

Our schools would rather waste time on religion indoctrination lessons and a dead useless language than proper physical education and home economics classes.

While religion and Irish are used as an excuse for everything I think the ridiculous insurance and lawsuit culture affects schools a lot more.

Rachiee

Mostly convenience food and bad or no breakfast. Most european countries cook food for themselves from scratch using limited convenience foods. A lot of Irish families are almost wholly reliant on convenience products (dolmio, uncle bens, frozen pizzas, microwave meals) which are high in sugar and also not adding extra fruit and veg slowing down metabolism and digestion. then add in the drinks at the weekend and the couple of take aways its no wonder!
Bad habits are hard to break and sugar is highly addictive.

Beasty

Simple

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

OldMrBrennan83

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Pauliedragon

Zipppy wrote: »

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?

Irish people spend too much time on boards which leads to severe weight gain.

OldMrBrennan83

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Yer Da sells Avon

My favourite thing about being a man is that the worst pricks in the world 'allow' you to be as fat as you fucking like.

TheValeyard

The Fat Monster


This prick slips into your bedroom when you're asleep and injects you with fat. That's why you wake up tired in the morning. And when you've been injected with enough fat, it uses that fat to kill you and absorb your soul giving it nourishment.

TheAnalyst_

I would put it down to diet.

Church on Tuesday

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.

brevity

Could be another addiction.

Capt'n Midnight

Fourier wrote: »

Lower atmospheric pressure, causes us to balloon outward.

Actually makes sense as we are closer to the equator.

pickarooney

PARlance wrote: »

Sweden locks up all the fat ones.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MurderedByWords/comments/7bul9b/scandinavian_banter/

Taytoland

Eating more calories than they need.

Captain Obvious

We have better food and drink more.

07Lapierre

TheAnalyst_ wrote: »

I would put it down to diet.

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.

soups05

two reasons:

1) the wife is a damn good cook.

2) one of the things i do to relive stress is bake, but i am very very stressed sometimes so i bake at least once a week. damn buns and doughnuts.

so there you go, that's my reasons. add on the fact that am a lazy bollix who won't exercise and you get the picture.

mojesius

I blame cuisine de france and Italian chippers

Sal Butamol

Captain Obvious wrote: »

We have better food and drink more.

What is better though?

Processed junk is everywhere. Diets years ago might have been more basic but they were probably better compared to the processed junk that passes for good food these days

OldMrBrennan83

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TheAnalyst_

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.

I live in one of these slightly sexier euro countries and honestly its the food. Their food just isn't that tasty so its harder to overeat. Compare that to the US or Ireland where you would find yourself looking forward to eating more.

Teyla Emmagan

Food is delicious

Donald Trump

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

The Fat Monster


This prick slips into your bedroom when you're asleep and injects you with fat. That's why you wake up tired in the morning. And when you've been injected with enough fat, it uses that fat to kill you and absorb your soul giving it nourishment.

Look, we've told you before. Fr. Murphy used to just give you rohypnol when you were in boarding school. Hence the tiredness the morning after. And that was jizz he was injecting you with, not fat. The reason you are fat is that you continuously over-eat to block out the memory

Wheeliebin30

Sal Butamol wrote: »

A combination of things.

It starts in childhood.

Our schools would rather waste time on religion indoctrination lessons and a dead useless language than proper physical education and home economics classes. Our children are driven to, and collected from school, instead of walking and cycling.

Overworked parents are too tired to cook proper dinners for their children, relying on takeaways and processed junk

On the otherhand, the permanent social welfare class are too lazy, uneducated, drunk/high to give a **** about their kids and send them to the chipper daily.

Fast food junk outlets everywhere.

A growing culture of big is beautiful delusions.

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

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.

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!