Americans “Most Beautiful” Nation

I'm guessing you've never actually left your house and seen anyone in the past 5 years.

You've never actually been to America have you? o_O;

nope, only the truth...

no only americans don't care about mexico and canada, oh and your pipeline, ya because you delayed it, were scraping the whole thing and giving it to the Chinese. so you can rot in your high priced oil and gas, while we lay back and enjoy the infinitely cheaper prices

No, I'd say his argument is valid. The current population of America is 312,488,000. So, even if half the population was fat, 156,244,000 people would be skinny. However, this would also be true in the inverse sense where one could say even if half your population is skinny, the other half is fat which would mean 156,244,000 were fat with 9,3746,400 of those people being obese. It is also, sadly, worth noting that the actually statistics are larger than those you listed.

As an American, I have to say that you don't really notice it too much. Fact is that statistics show you the overall view, but, in a nation that is over 9,826,675 square kilometers (for comparison, Britain is only 243,610 square kilometers and Australia is close at 8,468,300 square kilometers), the population becomes stretched out. Even with such a large number of statistically overweight Americans, the amount of people you will see who are overweight will be sparing. Compounding this, the most extreme cases are often the result of emotional trauma leading to a desire for food, sedation and seclusion. To be honest, I sort of feel for them because something has to be wrong with them to allow themselves to reach such an extreme where they can't walk anymore.

Now to respond more personally, you seem to be mistaking us for a very community minded nation. We're the opposite: a very individualized society. I'm not saying that's better or worst. It really is all just economic cost-benefit stuff if you want to discuss that. But I digress. In an individualized society, you don't care how fat other people are in comparison to your own weight, you just care if your overweight or not. In other words, Americans, who aren't in governments or associations, don't care how fat other people are (unless for negative reasons). They only care if people they see on a constant basis are fat and that's a bit of a stretch since most people only care if it looks like it's getting unhealthy (we don't really care unless it gets pretty bad).

What can I say, honestly? Our economy values positions that require keen wit and intelligence to thrive in over those that require physical activity (though, socially, this is the opposite to some degree. Definitely in the sports category, but not so much in the garbage-man-and-the-like category). Not to mention most positions are increasingly sedentary thanks to computers and other modern conveniences while food production is at an all time high which has lead to shocking increases in consumption. Thanks to the recent surge in digital entertainment, people don't do as many physically active activities to entertain themselves as much.

I guess the real reason for the statistics is that losing weight conflicts with our work schedule. Most employed Americans work straight from nine to five and then, more often then not, end their day there, so to speak. It's a remnant of the days when work was more demanding (not that it isn't for some people and, to be fair, even computer work can take a serious toll on you). You have to work to fit gym time into your schedule. Place on top of that that the media has made some overweight people so self-conscious they often voice how afraid they are to go to a gym. Then top it off with the cold hard truth that people can only really lose weight if they truly want to or find a way to enjoy activities that lose weight with both methods being hard since other activities are generally considered more "fun" and the former method requires hitting rock bottom (which might not exist for some people as gaining weight will always be a gradual process which is hard to notice if your the one who's gaining it unless you take active measures to check).

They changed that in 2001. Prior to that Asians were counted as Caucasians in the population.

stfu, you have yet to have kicked canadas ass in war, you tried to though, and you burnt york down, but we burnt the white house. economy, thats a load of shit, canadas economy may be falling down in the pits because of the US, our economy is still better fairing then yours. also you have zero money control, because you fucking yankees just spent 36 million on a new national defense building, in the middle of a crippling recession, way to go. oh and just when we decided to save your ass by building a pipeline for oil, you decided to delay it, so we are going fuck it, scraping the whole thing, and giving it to the Chinese, whos economy is actually topping the entire world, along with russia. yuo think us jealous, we think you retarded.