Posted on 07/10/2023 6:37:39 AM PDT by Red Badger
* Researchers at Oxford University ranked 184 countries by calorie consumption
* US came 2nd overall, while the UK ranked at 26th position in the tally
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America is known for its big portion sizes and even bigger obesity problem — and this map reveals why.
People in the US consume an average of 3,868 calories per day, the second-highest number of any country in the world.
It is eclipsed only by Bahrain, in the Middle East, where people consumed more than 4,000 calories per day on average.
That's according to research by Oxford University-based OurWorldInData, which compiled figures on calorie consumption by country from the United Nations.
The UK ranked 26th overall, with the average person making their way through 3,422
Out of the 184 countries surveyed for the study, 173 consumed more than 2,000 calories per day — or above the recommended daily average for both sexes.
Researchers warn over-consumption is driving up obesity — with 1billion people now obese compared to 175million in the 1970s — and fuelling associated health problems including high blood pressure, heart disease and even Alzheimer's.
Top of the list was Bahrain, a tiny but wealthy island nation off the coast of the Arabian peninsula.
Four in ten adults in the country are obese, data shows, which has been linked to more sedentary lifestyles and increased consumption of fast food.
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3500 kcal a day and loving it. Good to know I’m around average, though my body fat is far less than that.
“North Korea should market itself as a weight-loss destination.”
Some years back a Russian had a website discussing his SIEGE OF LENINGRAD diet. It was not well received.
Stay clear of cottage cheese. Observe that only fat people eat it.
Now compare average height in NK and SK.
Even starving North Korea is ABOVE the recommended daily calorie intake of 2000 kCal?
That makes me question the veracity of the study.
Walrusmart
Put it another way, we’ve eliminated starvation among so many countries. Everyone has a right and ability to eat well, even get fat if they want.
Every time I need a reminder to watch my diet, I just go to a few stores around town. It’s not just Walmart. And Walmart is frustrating as I see how much we’ve been invaded through our open southern border.
It's so easy if you pick a diet that works for you. Keto works for me...but there are others that work quite well. A buddy of mine does well on a vegetarian diet.
Our bodies have evolved over thousands of years to survive periods of famine — sometimes yearly winter famine. We became designed to consume as much calorie-dense food as possible during times of plenty — usually towards the end of summer — when sweets (fruit) were abundant. People who could pack on the pounds survived the winter and passed on their fat genes to future generations.
The perennial abundance of food we now enjoy is an anomaly, and a recent one at that, as is the modern luxury of a sedentary lifestyle, and in the absence of nature’s cruel supervision, tremendous self-discipline is required to moderate our intake. The result is that spare time and indolence, once the province of the wealthy, have become universal.
It is obvious to any who care to see, that many of our physical and spiritual maladies are the result of our success as a species. Exhibit A: the dayglo-haired, corpulent BLM LGBTETC gals seen protesting for left-wing causes. Up until the Agricultural Revolution, those people would have been too busy fighting for survival to engage in such mindlessly destructive pursuits.
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