Legend says that in Kansas City they ran an obesity survey on the streets. 52% declared themselves as overweight, 21% morbidly obese, 18% just about having the right weight. The rest 9% ate the survey
So eating cheap american food for quenching hunger is like quenching thirst with seawater. As it seems many didn`t catch this but I was referring to the point that they put additives in that food that make people hungrier, causing them to eat more than they should, much like seawater would only make you thirstier.
That means walks of over 10 minutes specifically, not the accumulated time spent walking that week, so honestly the week time period doesn't mean much here. Actually the stat also doesn't account for when they walk continuously for 10 minutes at least once in 2 weeks. Honestly, not that hard to imagine if you have been to countries with long distances that rely on cars.
@@Defathomize Hm, alright that makes it slightly better, but that's still horrendous. Like bruh idk about y'all but I literally CANNOT stay completely still for a whole week, I either need to work out, move or both. Sometimes I simply grab my headphones, stop doing whatever I am doing and go walk outside because I simply need to move, or when I go to university I ask to please be left at the entrance to the campus so I can walk or jog towards the building for a few minutes, and then take the stairs as to not have to use the elevator. The idea of less than 10 mins of continuous walking in a week sounds nightmarish.
@@hellokittygaming42069 I suspect it is because you don't need long worded bs to actually make sense. We're being trained to write a lot while actually saying something effective is more important.
I once knew an American guy who literally almost never drank water: "Why would I, when I could just drink coke/sprite/fanta? That stuff has water in it, doesn't it?" Idk how he was alive, but yeah, he was a BIG boy.
@@bibliotheek357 Yeah as a kid we never had any sodas at home, and I only got to drink them on special occasions, for example at a restaurant on a birthday, but even then just 1 can. This was considered normal where I grew up.
As a rural Cretan, I can tell that Americans need some tzatziki and calamari, paired with some water and fresh tangerines. Κρητη μονο! Κατσικακια μονο!
Yesterday I was walking in the centre of Athens and I saw two obese American parents with their obese toddlers, feeding them MacDonalds. They were literally less than a block away from quality, healthy food that tastes better and costs less. I was amazed.
They are probably used to McDonald’s anyway. As a travelling American (not obese one, skinny one) we prefer to eat at places like McDonalds and Burger King because: 1. We are used to eating at fast food chains, you can find a BK or McDonalds in every single town in the US, 10x more widespread than restaurants. 2. It's an easy and quick tasty familiar meal (not healthy one though) 3. We don't like having to be accustomed to a foreign cuisine depending on how much it differs.
@@anonymoususer8895 we can't help it we just feel sorry for people who have to spend 20,000 on an Ambulance it shouldn't be that hard to go to the hospital
Just to add to the sugar addiction of the US. There was a study done to see how rats would react to sugar and coke (ykwim) and they found that the rats literally preferred sugar over snow. So sugar is so addictive that rats will take it over coke, considering how close the human biology is to rats, that's ridiculously worrying.
In italy we walk every weak at least more than 1 hour on saturday or sunday, america is just crazy they're not winning their battle against obesity, feel sad 😢
@@bruhyuh Its over 100f in Italy, people walk around in that heat constantly, but yeah your country was built for cars it's not your fault at all, blame the car conglomerates lobbying for deeply acoustic sub-urban design. Italian / european towns have been designed for walking people, with shops, gyms, bars and public transport stations always being walking distance away for the past 2-3 thousand years. If i were you I'd vote for whoever says they're gonna nationalise and invest in rail and public transport.
@@capitanfindus1994 Im in Australia, we still walk alot too, alibeit we are a little more car centric than most of europe, but most people will walk to the train to the footy, or even just around the city
@@chasewilliams5128 u missed the whole point about obesity being a systemic problem in the US and ur solution is to punish the already misfortunate ppl under it
@@chasewilliams5128 So your solution is to deprive people that can't afford to pay more than two bucks a meal (one of the big factors for their obesity) from access to healthcare unless they... pay more? Which they can't do? Are we supposed to let them die?
@@k.v.7681 Don't believe everything you see on the media. America's a vastly different than what the media tells you , As far as health care, my healthcare is fine. I'd never went bankrupt, and I had four life threatening surgeries.
@@SmokestackOGDo you have a stable source of income? Would you consider yourself part of 'the middle class'? How much overtime do you usually do in a month? Do you have multiple jobs? Do you engage in physically strenuous activities (professionally or otherwise)? Do you have a family? If so, how large is it? Do multiple people work/'provide' in your immediate family? What state do you live in? What type of insurance do you have? Do you pay for it by yourself or is it provided by your job? Are you covered by state or federal public insurance (Medicaid, Medicare, etc.)? I am asking these questions genuinely; I'm not just trying to be snarky. Sure, YOU haven't had any trouble with healthcare in the US; but is that because of the quality of American healthcare or does it rather have to do with you and your circumstances?
as a brazilian who lived in the us for 6 years, even their healthy food has some sort of sugar in it, i’ve literally lost so much weight since I came back to my country simply by walking to places and eating normal, actual healthy meals
In a privatized healthcare system there is no incentive to have the citizens be healthy, quite the contrary, it is good for business to have lots of sick people. With a publically funded healthcare system like in Europe it makes economic sense to support policies that reduce strain on the healthcare system, so the system is biased to actually keep you healthy, instead of keeping you sick like the Murican system.
Seems a little reductive and one-sided. It could be argued that treatment-delays and overall care quality is higher and more efficient under a private healthcare system.
The US healthcare is actually heavily regulated on the state and federal level. The issue is that it's a jigsaw mess of private and public, where regulations drive up cost and the companies arent held accountable.
Way I see it, if you have a business that sells a necessary service people require to survive, ie Healthcare, water, etc., eventually a sociopath will take it over and monopolize it, then charge people ludicrous prices as they have no other option if they want to live. It's existence allows for power over people, therefore it will attract morrally corrupt people who will do everything they can to abuse it. By having a well funded and regulated option available for "free", you reduce the opportunities for those situations to arise, although I guarantee there will be vile people that try to defund, discredit, and dismantle the free option to try and get their monopolistic grip on that necessity. Plus, regulation is what prevents corpo rats from pushing out a dangerous minimum effort max profit product - like what happened when Thatcher sold England's water infrastructure. Quality actually dropped to the point where people were effectively getting untreated/unsafe water or outright sewage, but the lobbyists were making record profits on wildly inflated fees. There was no monetary incentive for them to provide a good service, so they simply didn't. The worst part is, while there's plenty to go around, too many people are obsessed with ever-surging "profits" instead of improving logistics; as though they could pay off their moral bankruptcy with gold.
@@GooFly-v3j geopold shitting on america is enough proof that the channel is legit awesome history lesson channel. World would have been better without freedommmmm
well you can always move to the EU, we need people that can do math, weld, do plumbing, carpenting, install solar panels, or anything else. very easy to get work visa from USA, and you can escape your failed state.
Oil companies. If politicians support public transport they could potentially lose their lives, that's what happened to scientists who invented hydrogen powered cars
@coows while I agree the lack of public transport and its supporting infrastructure is a problem, by far the largest problem relating to obesity is the grip sugar lobbying has on the US. Sugary soft drinks are as bad, if not worse than alcohol and they really need to be treated as such, but the sugar lobby would never allow that.
My college (over here in Malaysia) deliberately made the elevators slow, hot and small to entice us to walk up the steps and deliberately spaces out all our classes so we are forced to always climb stairs and walk decent distances to get to our next class. I thank them for doing it tbh.
According to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, more than 2 in 5 adults are obese, and nearly 1 in 5 children are obese. Furthermore, 19 states in America have obesity rates over 35 percent, increased from 16 states just last year. A decade ago, no states had obesity rates above 35 percent!
Not to try and run defense for obese people but what tends to happen is that the definition of obesity gets changed and suddenly more people qualify and people will get spooked by the sudden increase wondering where all the fat people popped up from. I know this happened around 2000 but maybe something similar happened again 10 years ago.
I lived in Alabama for a few years. We left our car at the garage for a service and walked 3km home. On the way home, 2 different cars stopped and asked if we were ok because we were walking... Not on the highway or anything. Just on the sidewalk...
The reason the American government does not care about it's peoples health is because healthcare is private instead of publicly owned. Out of all things health care is one of the worst things to privatize.
As a trainpilled public transportation advocating American who knows that a combination of our diets, city design, lifestyles, and social media make us lonely, depressed, obese, and unhealthy, I agree with everything you've said
Great video. Im American and was obese by age 11. I'm healthy weight now at 20 and have been into working out for 6 years now. Losing as much weight as i have here is tough especially when youre eating food youre told is healthy but really isnt. Its beyond disgraceful what has happened to my country. I will be in europe soon for a while studying abroad and am very intrigued to see a whole new world, and the food not full of absolute trash. Cooking for myself is what changed everything. Things went downhill fast when we went from local farmers markets in towns to massive corporations feeding every american. Our guidelines on food should be much more strict similar to Europes. But our government is controlled by private companies so there is no changing that anytime soon.
@@chloeg.4640Thank you I appreciate that, also I am certainly looking forward to Europe. Couple weeks I'll be there, never left the continent haha but I'm excited
@@Peeler45 You'll most likely gain a bit of weight at first (not as much time to work out, fatigue due to adjustement, the appeal of trying new (and not light in the slightest) foods), but it'll even out once you settle.
I think I'll speak for many of us Brits who have travelled to the US for short period (one of two weeks), be it for business of pleasure, and were horrified to find that despite eating a reasonable amount when there, ended up a stone heavier upon our return to old blighty. But being able to experience un-modified, 100% authentic Froot Loops like we had back in the early 90s was definitely worth it.
Bro I am a Mexican 🇲🇽 who lives in America 🇺🇸 and every single grocery store is like a 2 hour walk or 1 hour bike ride away and if I want any thing that's not in my house I have to take a 30 minute drive to get it
people always tell me americans are fat. and indeed a lot are. but then I look at pictures of the average UK person and it's like, damn, they look just like us
I’m American, I wouldn’t really say this to be true. The thing is, the US is a land of extremities. For every morbidly obese person you see, there is a healthy, very fit person. Hell some of our culture has to do with working out. Because we have a big population of people in comparison to the UK, ofc you’re gonna find more fat people than in the UK. Here, the obesity rate is around 40% maybe more, and in the UK, it’s around 20%. I would say the population differences contribute to that but idk if I’d be lying lol. Also, kinda funny how the country with the highest obesity rate is AMERICAN Samoa 😭
The fact that there are reality shows with multiple seasons about obese people in USA says a lot, it's actually crazy how unhealthy people are there. I think people in Eastern Europe where I'm from eat very unhealthy but USA is on a wholeee another level.
I’ve noticed you’re obsessed with the US in this comment. Your whole comment is “USA does this…! USA does that…! USA bad because…!” Seek help for your obsession.
you saying that but you aint ever been to america i live in America and i see about 1 in 20 people are obese so stop hating on america and lets have peace
You forgot to mention about the reason Turkey is becoming obese lol; more fast food chains, more food/restaurants in the streets as well as people wanting to become more “modern” and choosing laziness. This is also seen in middle aged men and younger teens. It’s sad to see really :(
It's a problem everywhere nowadays tbh.. people would rather have a quick unhealthy meal than cook something healthy at home. Also every family owns at least two cars now, nobody walks anywhere.
@@Igor19485 It’s what happens when countries who were in the past undeveloped, poor and looked over at become suddenly developed, have a decent currency, and no longer looked over at have big brands visit them and make restaurants in their nation for the people who haven’t tried the food before to try it and once they like it they’ll start having more and more, causing obesity and a downright addiction to fast food.
@@Igor19485traffic is terrible here in my country. My family also owns two cars and a motorcycle. They urged me to learn how to drive. No thanks, id rather use public transport on my way to work.
I disagree about it being fast food related. In Türkiye the local cuisine is very much based on fattening carbs and oily meat (think about a döner for example). Besides that, since people are poor all they can afford are cheap carbs such as pasta and bread which they gorge on. Something else to mention is the gender imbalance for obesity where men are 20% obese but women are 40% probably since men go out to work more where as women stay at home and cook. Unlike most of the world, if I were to guess from personal experience, İ would say that obesity is far more prevalent in the countryside than the city.
I'm not american but it's probably not that bad, it's probably better on french bread though, my family used to eat it, it's also common in europe to eat bread with a lot of foods
@@ViolentSillyGirlInsurance is stressful and I believe it's usually not cheap. Idk, please don't quote me I'm a little grey in this area and I am just trying to input another idea into this conversation.
@@Bigpasty1 yeah i unserstand getting insurance is stressful, but last time i had to go to the hospital for a night, my visit was literally FREE. That alone is enough of a reason to put up with the stress
@@ViolentSillyGirlWhat about those most vulnerable who can’t afford it. Plus even with insurance Americans still more than most developed countries on their healthcare
not so fun fact, the island at 8:20 was a Japanese prison island known for especially terrible treatment of POWs. The 'Zamperini dining facility' is named after Louis Zamperini, an Olympic athlete and crew member of a B-24 bomber. He survived crazy suffering in Japanese hands after being shot down. The book and film 'unbroken' are about him.
As an American, I would also admit that our consumption of tea is by far iced tea sweetened so much you'd think you're taking a glucose tolerance test. This goes for our coffee as well.
@@johnt3psu I used to put 1/4 cup of honey in my daily 16-oz whole-leaf tea to bring it up to sweet. Once I stopped that I lost 15 lbs without additional effort. That was 3 years ago and the weight is still off. Some soreness in joints disappeared as well. I learned it takes way more sweetener to sweeten a liquid than a solid, like a cookie. If you can cut out sweet drinks that is a gigantic stride in the right direction.
@@thzzztthanks! I never thought of it that way. I go through periods where I give up soda but then I go back to it. I didn’t realize that liquids contain more sugar than solid foods. I will keep that in mind next time I want something sweet.
@@johnt3psuI had a friend who used to be overweight and all he did was cut out soda and he became skinny in like a few months lol (hes actually decently buff now)
After watching the video I was a bit worried about Estrogen in food and went on a little google research. For those of you who were also worried, I found that - There are hormones in meat (less in EU produced meat) but the by far biggest contributor to external hormone intake is milk and dairy products. Although the fat reduced variants contain significantly less hormones. - To the question wether or not those consumed external hormones are disrupting our endocrine system my findings vary. But most meta analysis I found and all doctor's journals agreed that the effects are most likely insignificant as only a small fraction of those hormones actually end up in our blood. Most is destroyed by cooking and our digestive system. - The biggest contributors to hormonal imbalances are obesity, lack of excercise, stress and bad sleeping habits. Compared to those factors, external hormones in food can more or less be ignored. - Especially obesity is dangerous for men because the fat cells literally transform our manly testosterone into girly estrogen. So more fat leads to less testosterone. Hope that helps. Please correct me if I'm wrong and you know more. I am also too lazy to list sources and most weren't in english anyway.
Its always easier to blame some external factors for your problems, i.e. the food has unnatural hormones in it that is making me sick, than taking some responsibility and and admitting that your lack of activity and poor dietary choices is largely responsible. No doubt Americans are given awful food choices and the worst food for you is generally the cheapest but the vast majority of americans have the ability to eat healthier after doing the bare minimum of research and exercising common sense but choose not to. Blamingg the food industry, healthcare industry, government agencies etc. is far easier
Fun fact: due to the estrogen produced during beer brewing, all recycled drinking water in EU contains elevated levels of estrogen. Also, our bottled water is just tap water in a bottle.
also the estrogen from soy is phytoestrogen, as in plant estrogen. structurally pretty similar to the estrogen found in humans, but ultimately they don't have at all the same effect on us
@@HungerGamesFan00 phytoestrogen from plants foods like soy has many beneficial effects like a protective anti-inflammatory and anti cancer activity on breast tissue, prostate, etc.
@ToddHowardTruthSerum I think American cuisine vs. European cuisine is a matter of taste. Health-wise, I think mediteranean cuisine (especially Greek) is about as healthy as you can get and better than any regional American dishes. But ultimately, I think exercise is the deal breaker, Europeans walk more and are generally thinner because of that. I think you can overcome any cuisine issues with enough exercise but most people don't have the time/will power to do that. But moving your body regularly, even walking, will always be superior to being completely sedentary like most Americans
@Gigachad-mc5qz there were multiple taxes like the stamp tax. But yeah, the tea tax specifically (or more like the repercussions that resulted from the Boston tea party) was sort of the final straw.
My mom travelled to the US when she was 17 back in 1997, she was going to live there for a year, living with an american family. The only thing she have told me about her experinces there is that the food they ate at home and at school was trash. We're talking about stacks of chips, snacks, cakes, you name it. They also drank coke for every meal there since milk was "too expensive".
if you get stuck with a family that promotes eating this way then theres nothing you can really do besides eat less, but theres also plenty of ways to eat healthy for cheap in america as well
As a Canadian who’s just lost a lot of weight and always thought the idea of beans on toast repulsive, your last line almost convinced me of its existence from a pragmatic perspective
* Huge portions sizes * Buckets soda instead of a glass of water * Dessert for breakfast * Snacks and cookies as a school lunch * "Bread" that is more like pastry than actual bread * Difficult/Impossible to walk or ride a bike to work * Being forced to work overtime often, not being able to have a work/life balance so you can cook. * Take-away dinner instead of cooking something
1. America is a very food rich country and can simply give more food in a general sense to the populace. 2. Again rich country means more choices you can easily get a "bucket" of water if you wish at the same machine. 3. Generally it matters in which area in the country you live. Rural America much prefer eggs, oats, bacon, etc (some don't even eat breakfast). Its more city America that kinda have that problem and a general lack of cooking skills. 4. Depends on the state. Most of what I've seen/ heard is actually okay sounding. Mostly fruits, meats, vegetables, etc. its depended apon funding and kitchen staff. You can always pack your Childs lunch as well. 5. There is a very large choice of bread. Walmart for example I counted 20 brands not including that which was made that day in house. All very in ingrediencies and show what's in it. Again its a choice. (I like Dave's killer bread) 6. I work all over my state. it takes a 1hr 10 by driving to get to just the headquarters alone. Not a bus nor train would solve this. A normal commute for Americans as far as I remember is 26mins one way. Its highly depended on each state again. This bullet point I could talk about for hours. 7. Depends on the job you want and that "life balance" you want. Never had someone force me to do anything. Its actually more people living above their means and working a job and never learning anything. Another topic that could be talked about for hours with hundreds of reasons. 8. I agree whole heartedly but this bullet point is just a product of number 7. For the single man/woman its not every good. better for the married couple imo. Its much more easy to point out flaws in a society without ever coming up with a solution, than to address these supposed problems and fix them. "Complaining about a problem without proposing a solution is called whining” - Teddy Roosevelt. This video like many others is done not really in a constructive way but more a way of soothing your bias. Pointing out flaws to make one feel superior and gaining your views as well. So that you can focus on another country's problems and ignore your own. It would be very easy for me to bash europe countries but ill refrain. It comes down to Americans having so many choices and not all are going to choose a "good" one nor are you going have a easy time telling Americans you're limiting their choices either. America and europe is so fundamentally different but also the same. I tried hard not to make this a long comment but, that didn't work very well. Hard to sum up large problems with a few words. If you're interested in further decisions I welcome it.
The British economy is totally fucked due to 14 years of a psychotic government. There are people in this country now not having food to eat every day due to poverty. Watch general health levels crash here in the next few years.
Every time I travel to Europe, I’m amazed at how good their food is. It’s REAL ingredients! Last time I came back to the US, I had stomach problems for 2 weeks. My intestines were probably screaming.
I Used to live in the texan city of Hoston Texas before moving back to la Paz. Many Americans here had access to over 31 Kfc's, and dont get me started on how many mc'donalds there are. As a bolivian living through the concept of the U.S bieng the greatest nation on earth is very untrue as many people hear idolise and envy over the american dream, however, no matter where you are in the world the truth is you can make your dream if you make it your own and not someone elses.
I was telling my dad (he's fat I'm bordering on being fat, we're American) about this stuff. He got kinda upset with me and kept saying the same thing over over again "People here are more fat because they eat more," he was just ignoring the fact that Europe puts a shit load less of bad addictive stuff in their food, and I asked him to stop like three times then he stopped for a bit then he said it again, and I said "Dad, you can stop telling me this." He then said fuck you left the room.
"European junk food" is also unhealthy, but from time to time it's OK. We drive also A LOT. so, what you can do and it might be even cheaper than what your family is spending: Try to avoid sugar, especially stop drinking coke, drink water (or I often replace it with Gatorade -> here it has almost no sugar, read the label). Don't eat after 5 or 6 pm. When eating burgers, dont eat the bun (its the source of sugar -> Hamburger is from Europe and the innovation was just that a random guy added a bun to it - we eat also burgers without buns, and it is still superb 😂 😂). Avoid too many dips, sauces etc., use spices, they are also cheap and do not include fat or sugar. So, it can be fairly easy. Chips - eat them, but once a week or so. The more sugar and fat you avoid, the better will be your taste after some time. Easy and cheap food: Cook potatoes, add a bit of salt or sugar free joghurt or make an omlette without anything (no cheese, no meat, nothing, just eggs).. make pasta only with tomato sauce, thats it. Spices... as many as you want. Check out some european or asian cook-books - they are awesome and almost no sugar or fat is inside and you can prepare it quickly. The vegetables are probably the same as in europe, so there are tons of super simple and delicious meals. Meat maximum 2-3 times per week. If you just try a part of it for say 1 or 2 weeks, you will start to feel better, more stronger. Every time I visit McDonald's here, I feel so tired (and I love to eat it), thats why I do it maybe once per 1 or 2 weeks as well 😂 all the best from Austria (possessing also a heart-attack-cuisine)
@@sebaestschn1 Danke für die Tipps, Mann, einiges davon mache ich schon. Da ich Deutsch lerne, dachte ich mir, ich versuche es einmal einzugeben, da ich davon ausgehe, dass es Ihre Muttersprache ist.
@@Louieface9770 ja super, Deutsch zu lernen ist bestimmt nicht einfach. Planst du auszuwandern? Ja, das Essen, das ist so eine Sache... Bewegung, wenig Fett, Zucker... bei uns ist "gesund Essen" auch sehr im Trend, allerdings weiß man meistens was gesundes Essen ist, weil man es noch Oma und Mama kennt. Früher gab es einfach kein Fast-Food und das bleibt recht eingeschränkt. Die Hersteller dürfen auch tatsächlich nicht so viel Zucker beimengen, was McDonalds bei uns vermutlich auch "gesünder" macht. Alles Gute.
If he's acting like that it means he knows you're right and doesn't want to admit it. Keep at it and try not to be confrontational. You may save his life if you can talk him round.
I'm pure Filipino born and raised in the Soviet Union. I became obese while studying in the USA for a semester and have now settled in Albania to slim down. Proud 🇿🇦
As an American I came into this video expecting the same fat jokes I hear from everyone else. But this was a very informative video Geopold thank you. At least the positive of this is the more obese people the less people I have to deal with when hiking.
This may sound like a joke, but it isn't: I was already overweight when I moved to the US, and then in one year I gained 35 kg as a result of stop walking and mostly eating fast food. Then I went back to my country for a whole month for Christmas and I lost 7 kg. I might be the first person who losed that much weight over Christmas, instead of gaining it. And it is not like I starved myself or anything. I ate like a pig, but I also walked everywhere, and what I ate was so, so much naturally healthier (meaning, that it was good food, but without double the calories due to High Fructose Corn Syrup). My doctor calls it the SAD, Standard American Diet. HFCS is EVERYWHERE. I bought bread crumbs to bread some chicken breast and IT HAD BOTH SUGAR AND HFCS. WHY??
American here. I lived in China for three years and was skinnier than ever. Now that I’m back working a regular day job, I I have to actively struggle to not buy one sugary snack per day. I knew about the marshal Islands being irradiated but I didn’t know how their food was replaced with processed garbage The more I learn, the more baffled I am by how anyone can actually be proud to be “American” in the first place.
Were you skinny in china because you were 'eating' cooked rocks or spicy ice? Don't believe me? They suck on rocks because they have no food, look up Suodui. It's real... cooked rocks. And if you don't believe me about them eating ice with spices (again, lack of food) Just google Chinese grilled ice. The more I learn the more I understand why chinese are proud. Because if they are not, they are killed. There's the truth, Wumao. Hey at least you still have the humiliating memories of being a 'white monkey' (their term) for them.
@@SortofScorpion I know here in Ireland recently Subway sandwich chain challenged the tax authorities decision to tax their "bread" as too sugary to be classified as bread. Subway lost their appeal in the Supreme Court. I would guess an additional factor is movement. Here where I live in Dublin for instance they build things like cycle lanes and are willing to displace private cars to do it. Just last week they shut down the main street to cars.. buses and bikes are allowed only. Some businesses protested but they got nowhere with objections it went ahead. I think the main difference is the US is focussed on economic prosperity above all else, and it is v successful at that too. Although I suspect a part of thatg reason is the homgenous nature of US market (for finance, selling things etc) in Europe it's a myriad of different countries, languages etc. EU brings only a little homogenisation.
0:54 took me tf out lmaooo 5:51 bro got me cryin rn lol 7:14 bro I live in texas and houston especially is UNWALKABLE. There's a guy who did a video on this and its hilariously sad, they built the city with no sidewalks and you have to drive or you can't really work.
Made me remember on how grumpy I become some hours after a sugary meal - those food processing companies have so much in common with your local drug dealer. Could be worth a collab 👍
American here: It seems like a lot of the viewers and commenters on this video are not American, so if you have a question about America i'd be happy to answer it. In the video, I like the point where Geopold mentioned how poor states with poor people have it the worst. I live in West Virginia and it often competes for the poorest, dumbest, and fattest of the 50 states. It comes down to access to resources and money. If you're not American, you have to remember how large (and consistently populous - unlike Siberia) the land mass is. Localized "poor areas/states" can occur when money/labor/value is exported out of them even if the money goes just over a state border. Often when a "poor area" occurs it can't be reverted as the people with the money and power distance themselves from the area. West Virginia and its people have historically been extorted for cheap natural resources (coal and steel), and cheap labor (often by companies not from West Virginia - hence the generated value is exported and not reinvested into the people who made it). During the industrial revolution era businessmen ruled this area with an iron fist and created poor working conditions with low social mobility. Many people (my great-grandfather included) died in coal mine accidents leaving behind little money and overwhelming responsibilities for their widowed wives. Situations like this put many families in a position where higher eduication (going to college or law/medical/dental school) isn't an option so they stay as lower or middle-class families. While already being stripped of their resources and generated value, their manufacturing jobs are exported to China, Mexico, Bangladesh, and India in the 1970's and 1980's removing their last bastion of economic stability (as manufacturing jobs were the only high-paying jobs that could be attained without higher education). Often with nothing else to turn to and utterly depressed, these people get hooked on opiates in the form of painkiller medications given out for chroic pain caused by factory or mine work. Now add in the fact that since people are poor they can only afford the lowest quality of food (which is sugary and addicting) and you can start to understand why poor Americans aren't concerned with the geography of Balkan countries. This is why some places in America are "poor areas" and "should be avoided" and why other parts of America look like a futuristic promised land. I've only used West Virginia as an example as it's my home and it's very clear to see the money/resources/blood flowing out of it into someone else's pockets. In America, if you're rich (and your family has been for some time) you'll likely be well educated, have nice things, travel to foreign countries, etc. If you are so poor you don't know if your house will be warm or where your next meal will come from, you don't care about the world at large because "your world" has more pressing problems. Yes, this is true for anyone in the world but, Americans are fed a plethora of addictive traps from childhood onward and the rest of the world is very far away from their problems. I'm very fortunate to have been able to travel to France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and England to try and learn about the world in which I live. I've been able to dedicate time to healthy eating, self-motivation, and higher education when many of my fellow West Virginians have not. I also often find the social media videos of people not knowing geography shocking, but I have an understanding of why this happens. Are they very stupid and probably a little bit close-minded? Absolutely, but they probably don't want to be that way.
You probably have noted the difference in safety in general between EU countries and the USA, and I would like to ask you, how do you see the american police compared to other countries' police?
@@monchique8388 I have some insight into police in America vs my travels. The biggest thing about safety and police in America is it comes down to the mentality of the area. If the area is low crime and high trust, you may never notice the police. I lived in a town of 300 people growing up and there was only 2 policemen, so there effectively was no police presence at all. We never locked our doors or locked up the farm equipment. We’d even leave the keys in all of the cars and ATV’s. Everyone in the small town knew what their goals were, knew who owned what, and knew that stealing would go punished. We only had theft once and it was someone who was on drugs and they were caught in 1 hour after someone recognized them on an ATV that wasn’t theirs. We didn’t press any charges because the social implications of them being labeled “a thief” in a small town was far worse than a fine. Some areas have established a high trust micro society and others have not. Rural communities (like the one Iived in for a while) are often very very safe. Today I live in a remarkably safe town of 5000 people. The last violent crime was in 2000 and it was by someone who was not a local. So why bring that up? What does that have to do with police? My personal view of police is likely not the norm. I’ve rarely ever encountered them in my home town and when I did they were typically helping someone with car troubles or going to sort out a personal dispute between people. In my area we do not have a “group/gang vs police” mentality. We also don’t have a problem with homelessness, extreme poverty, or many social issues because the town is so small. When I have gone to bigger cities, the narrative on police in America changes. In larger cities people don’t trust eachother because society at large doesn’t socially shame them for their bad deeds. Unlike in a town of 300 people, it’s impossible to alienate someone as “a thief” to 1 million + people. So you have situations where people steal, rob, do other illegal activities to attempt to rise out of poverty. Because these acts are criminal, the police get involved and you get the systematic oppression of the poor people who did commit crimes (justified or not) and a “us vs them” police state becomes a problem. I really can’t comment on what it feels like to be a minority in the US or to be homeless where the police feel like a threat. Those aren’t my experiences and the police have never been threatening to me. I’ve had them be rude and unreasonable but not a higher rate than the general public. Here’s some of my thoughts on police in Europe. To me the police in the UK didn’t have any real way to stop crime because they didn’t have guns. I mean sure they could hurt you, but they’re not going to stop you unless there’s a lot of them. They felt a lot less threatening and they didn’t really seem that useful. They seemed like parking ticket enforcers and code informers more than proper police. I spent a few days in the outskirts of London and there was certainly a lot of crime and the cops didn’t seem very useful. Canterbury and Dover were different, they were more relaxed. In Switzerland, I only encountered the police once and they were just helping someone on the side of the road. Switzerland is a very high-trust society based on my experience and understanding so it seemed to benefit from the “small town effect” that small American towns have. It was about the same in Germany. The real culture shock to me was France. I’m not really sure how laws work in France and I’m not really sure how the police work in France. I’ve been to CDG airport twice now and I’m always amazed with the airport security. They carry automatic rifles and look very much like military police. There was an unattended bag they suspected was a bomb so we were rushed around the airport with rifles shoulder and ready. It ended up being okay but they were far scarier than any other police officers I’ve seen. Even their outfits were very military-like which I think would feel threatening to most Americans. Automatic NATO rifles? That’s terrifying and you would never see that on a cop in America. Also to mention that they were just holding them casually and yelling orders at us in the airport!? That would not be allowed in America people would feel very scared and feel threatened. In America we love our military, but they are very different from the police in conduct and outfit. Maybe it’s not so different in France, but I don’t know. Onto French laws. It seems like France (specifically Paris) just doesn’t have laws. Some guy dressed up as a cop in the subway and claimed we owed him 100 euro per person to ride the subway and if we didn’t pay he’d have us all arrested. If this happened in America it would be the a huge legal deal. We just told the guy to piss off and hopped over the turnstile into the subway. Was this guy a real cop? Did we commit a crime? I still don’t know but we didn’t get in trouble. Another time involved gypsies in France. Idk if there is a more polite way to call them but when I was there, they were called gypsies. One of them stole $700 USD from my family via pickpocketing (which I guess is just okay in France?)! Another time one of them ran up to one of the other people on my tour and grabbed their hand to try and lead them off (this was right in front of the Palais Garnier Opera House). We just shoved the gypsies down onto the pavement and told them not to touch us. In America, what they did was illegal and what we did was illegal. They assaulted us by grabbing at us and we assaulted them. If something like that happened in America the police would have taken someone to the station, but I guess it is not so in France. So I guess is robbing, jumping subway turnstiles, and hitting people okay in France? The cops seemed to turn a blind eye to all of this. When we told the hotel staff they said this was normal. I hope this answered your question. Sorry for writing a book for a response. If I didn’t answer your question let me know and I’ll try again, this was fun.
@@monchique8388 One other thing to note from an American to global perspective. If you see an American abroad, they DO NOT want you to touch them. In our culture we only touch those we know very well or as a formal business greeting. We have a concept of personal space that a lot of other countries/cultures don’t. If given the option (not like on a subway or cramped situation) try to stay 0.5 meter away from us. This more so applies to just standing or sitting, not so much walking by us. It’s not because of germs, or smells, or we think anything is wrong with someone, Americans just view a small bubble around theirs as a safe space for them. If someone gets too close we become uncomfortable and uneasy. Americans don’t “think we own the sidewalk” we think we control the right of what happens to our body. When I left America was warned about this, but it made Paris a pretty uncomfortable place to be for me. I felt like there was always someone breathing down my back. At the time I had taken 4 years of Highschool (grade 9-12) French, but really the only French I spoke to people was asking for the bathroom and asking to not be touched/excusing myself. I would go back, but only to buy as much Pain au Chocolat as I could carry and escape to the countryside lol. The French countryside is very very nice and I would happily go back.
@@JS2000Abut also USA people are brainwashing by politicians using freedom and democracy, for me democracy is just liar and illusion or rather call democracy doesn't exist, only just distraction to make world getting intention from you, a lot USA don't know about the price to be "freedom" I just don't believe that's freedom is responsibility, it's just slogan, freedom also know Chaotic side same has Law a.k.a tyranny, remember that beo
Yeah as a skinny American who does enjoy my fair share of engineered "food", I'd say the key really is moderation. Shit is so calorically dense from all the oils and shit you just gotta trust you've eaten enough because 1 quarter pounder is like most of a days calories but most people could probably slam 3 without thinking. Staying active is also quite important because you gotta work off what you eat regardless of what is it, your body stores what it doesn't use, aka fat.
Let's add to the fact, that in US food companies put literally deadly compounds into their products, for example: in US Mountain Dew you can find bromine
There are a lot more details to add here, like the fact that the American food industry is absolutely *filled* with ingredients that are straight up banned in Europe. Things like their orange fanta not having actual orange juice or even the most staple food, the bread, containing tons of sugar and chemicals to make it last and """taste""" better. But I'm not sure about the taste, tbh. I've tasted it and it is just cheap garbage. Like, the moment you put it in your mouth and start chewing, your body immediately feels something wrong. Or maybe it's just that I'm used to Spanish food and I've become too sensitive on that regard.
In Poland, about 20% of adults are obese; by our definition it means that an average man at the average height of 180cm weighs more than 100kg and average woman of average height of 166cm weighs more than 80kg (it does not include bodybuilders and people with extreme bone density).
ABOUT THE MSG BIT @ 6:35 : The article you quoted is total BS. It uses pejorative words to describe a natural phenomena. Ingesting any food ever will increase insulin production, this is a normal thing that's suppose to happen. MSG is not a foreign molecule, it's an amino acid that composes natural proteins and thus is present NATURALLY in pretty much all the foods we eat. The author is full of shit too, the next sentence says "MSG has been linked to diabetes and obesity, ...". Here's a quote from the very same PubMed article she links to justify this affirmation : "Critical analysis of existing literature, establishes that many of the reported negative health effects of MSG have little relevance for chronic human exposure and are poorly informative as they are based on excessive dosing that does not meet with levels normally consumed in food products." END QUOTE. If you just bother to read the abstract of that publication you'll find it contradict everything she says and she links it herself trusting that no one will click it and use their better judgement. funny video but careful about this stuff.
Too bad, The UK is in Europe, so Muricans can finally have a reason to dunk on Europe (or the UK if Muricans and Europeans feel _united_ for once and turn their back on UK)
As a Russian I can confirm that beens on the bread is "hellno", just smack some top tier slavic unslated butter and cheese on a bread to make a German's Butterbrot mit Käse
As a British person, I do actually like Slavic food. Slavs are generally pretty healthy and I rarely come across fat Poles, Ukrainians or Russians. You guys are probably the healthiest Europeans
I already really enjoy your channel for the humor, but this video is possibly the best introspective look at my country’s systemic food injustice I’ve ever seen anyone take while simultaneously making the information easily digestible (pun not intended) and funny. Thank you Geopold!
The point with European diet is that is based on more... Natural products, produced mostly from local sources and kept under strict health regulations in order to ensure quality, and we proud ourselves on this. All across europe you see traditional meals being prepared at home (yes, especially in Italy we are taught how to cook by our own parents) with fresh ingredients you can find at the supermarket for relatively cheap prices, this is our strength when talking about food.
Even Inside Europe we have some differences between countries. I think Mediterranean countries have one of the best gastronomy in Europe. I am from Spain, and when I was in Ireland for my Erasmus, I really missed my food's home. The quality and variety of products in supermarkets...
This information isn't ignored. On the contrary. This is literally the internets favorite topic. Especially because it means they get to hate American's more and be even more xenophobic than they already are. The dude is just a hateful and spiteful asshol. No one here actually cares about this issue. Especially the video creator. Video also had a lot of weird misinformation that he is able to slip in because "America bad"@@iainwithtwoeyes8754
@@jessyisfluffyyup, the USA to become salty in comments section is just embarrassing being mad freedom hahahahahahahahahahaha idk how much cell brain western people use especially USA people
One of the main reasons I want to move out of America is because of how unhealthy the food is. It’s insane how the food companies pump poison down our gullets
Same. When me and my family were in the UK for a week my dad actually lost 5 pounds by just walking everywhere. If anyone really wants to lose weight or just become healthier than just move to Europe. Sounds like the new American Dream to me. 🇺🇸🇪🇺
@@TheRealTaco pretty much Japan is this way too, but they make the healthy choices just as easy as the unhealthy ones. Whereas the US makes healthy choices hard, and unhealthy choices easy.
@@codysparks1454 you can walk to the store in the US, in most places, but if you don't live in a town or city, it will be a tedious, long, unpleasant, and boring walk. But it will be great exercise. I used to live in a place where it was a 2 mile walk to the grocery store up and down a mountain, I walked it a few times, it was rough but good excersize. But most times I just drove. Now I live in a town and walk daily.
Heinz Tomato Beans just need some cumin, garlic and onion powder. Top it with some green onion serve ontop of some French, Sourdough bread or a Tolero roll. Mwah! Es muy delicioso.
Meanwhile, MSG is like a treasure for Asian but yet we're not fat at all and i think many Westerners hate MSG, so i don't think MSG's are quite common in US
@@linuxman7777 but in my country we use different kind of salt. We use iodiseid sea salt which is rich in Iodine and other mineral. Iodine is really good for your tyroid and it can help you to prevent or cure from goiter.
The fact it's an english peep that talks about food in europe vs America... Hmm. It's like recruiting the worst soldier for an important rescue mission.
No joke tho, the majority of the American food I see on channels like Food Network, especially when they cover the smoke houses and burger joints type of establishments, look absolutely unappetizing and almost physically impossible to eat (3 feet high burger with 12 stacks of patties and bacon and eggs lol wut). It's actually disgusting honestly.
No joke, the majority of the American food I see on channels like Food Network, especially when they cover the smoke houses and burger joints type of establishments, look absolutely appetizing and almost physically impossible to resist (3 feet high burger with 12 stacks of patties and bacon and eggs lol wut (because as I mentioned, this is the majority, I am not being hyperbolic in the slightest, trust me I am trustworthy)). It's actually quite tasty, honestly.
What a lot of people dont understand about American food regulation is how chaotic it really is. The FDA regulates mostly drugs and its a common joke that the F in the name is silent, however they are responsible for 80% of our food including packaged goods, diary and seafood. The other 20% is handled by the USDA which includes meat and poultry, both of them have the SAME amount of funding which means that the food section of the FDA is terribly underfunded and has very little resources which leads to a ton of things to be overlooked in the American food industry. So the split between the FDA and the USDA gets very confusing, for example a frozen cheese pizza is regulated by the FDA but a frozen pepperoni pizza is regulated by the USDA and it is legally considered a vegetable.
DUDE! Great video! Something I’ve noticed here in the US is if you want to be healthy, you have to ACTIVELY pursue the lifestyle. Clean foods are rare, and exercise doesn’t occur naturally. You have to research all these chemicals and spend hours scouring labels on foods, not to mention forking over the cash required. The healthy vs unhealthy demographic is super polarized because each side takes wildly different approaches to eating. It’s basically as ruthless as politics at this point.
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Cyberghost is shady af bro
My bad man 😹😹😹
I'm really sorry
@@user-cp9id1mj8b idk bro I'm kinda guilty so desensitisation of "shadiness" is rampant
Man military grade means
Europe: cheap as fuck
America: 136 trillion dollars per capita
Legend says that in Kansas City they ran an obesity survey on the streets. 52% declared themselves as overweight, 21% morbidly obese, 18% just about having the right weight. The rest 9% ate the survey
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@@imnameless3383 probably, metal health is a big problem nowadays
and also think that out of those 52% half of them may actually be obese and lie about being just overweight
@@neringalukoseviciute1787 metal health have me headbangin
I am a skinny Asian, therefore I am neither American nor obese. Glory to Mozambique 🇨🇭
Why the Swiss flag ?
Why the cheese flag? @@totorile1825
@@totorile1825 probably he put it there for the funny lol
But are you gay?
Why Mozambique 😂
So eating cheap american food for quenching hunger is like quenching thirst with seawater.
As it seems many didn`t catch this but I was referring to the point that they put additives in that food that make people hungrier, causing them to eat more than they should, much like seawater would only make you thirstier.
You hit the nail on the head, no, you even filled the fat American‘s stomach
Pretty much
Only sea water is actually good for you.
@@BlueNorth313 It is???
@@BlueNorth313Then go drink it. Please.
I genuinely got shocked at the "less than 25% of americans walk for more than 10 minutes continuously"
IN A WEEK!
Insanity. 45 min walk everyday to school in england and it was normal 😂
@@kingzlayerch3817IN A FUCKING WEEK!
HOW?
HOW ARE THEY STILL ALIVE????
That means walks of over 10 minutes specifically, not the accumulated time spent walking that week, so honestly the week time period doesn't mean much here. Actually the stat also doesn't account for when they walk continuously for 10 minutes at least once in 2 weeks. Honestly, not that hard to imagine if you have been to countries with long distances that rely on cars.
@@Defathomize Hm, alright that makes it slightly better, but that's still horrendous. Like bruh idk about y'all but I literally CANNOT stay completely still for a whole week, I either need to work out, move or both. Sometimes I simply grab my headphones, stop doing whatever I am doing and go walk outside because I simply need to move, or when I go to university I ask to please be left at the entrance to the campus so I can walk or jog towards the building for a few minutes, and then take the stairs as to not have to use the elevator. The idea of less than 10 mins of continuous walking in a week sounds nightmarish.
Crazy how Geopold has made an analysis that researchers would be proud of
exactly bro. i'll never stop finding funny that these "low effort videos" have unironically pretty acurate analysis of reality
@@hellokittygaming42069 I suspect it is because you don't need long worded bs to actually make sense. We're being trained to write a lot while actually saying something effective is more important.
nah msg is banging (and safe)
In fact it started being demonised partly out of racisn
Literally a reddit thread. He does not explain shit at all
@@Alberto-xz7th It's neither but whatever, have at it.
I once knew an American guy who literally almost never drank water: "Why would I, when I could just drink coke/sprite/fanta? That stuff has water in it, doesn't it?" Idk how he was alive, but yeah, he was a BIG boy.
Definitely got heart problems
Be a good hydrohomie, shame your friends until they drink water.
Crazy.. Those things taste like shit and make you want to drink more because its all sugar. Tea is the best balance between the two.
@@bibliotheek357 Yeah as a kid we never had any sodas at home, and I only got to drink them on special occasions, for example at a restaurant on a birthday, but even then just 1 can. This was considered normal where I grew up.
Once knew? Im shocked this is someone you once knew, i know so many Like that including my nephews.
As a rural Cretan, I can tell that Americans need some tzatziki and calamari, paired with some water and fresh tangerines. Κρητη μονο! Κατσικακια μονο!
Calamari top 5 food ever
I almost forgot the Dolmathes
All of that can be found in the US.
Ελλαδαρα μου🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷 καλύτερο φαγητό δεν θα βρεις (ένα από τα καλύτερα φαγητά για να είμαστε ουδέτεροι στους ξένους)
I can find that very easily here, but on the way I will be bombarded with several fast food places.
I am european. I went to the US once and had diarrhea 4 times in 3 weeks. Thanks Delaware
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That's bros fault he went to Delaware
The US is a massive country, why would you go to Delaware?? It’s not even a real state. The joke is it’s just a tax shelter
@@johnpedouify I was supposed to be in Philadelphia but the plane got lost or smth
lmaoooooooo why Delaware though
Yesterday I was walking in the centre of Athens and I saw two obese American parents with their obese toddlers, feeding them MacDonalds. They were literally less than a block away from quality, healthy food that tastes better and costs less. I was amazed.
They are probably used to McDonald’s anyway. As a travelling American (not obese one, skinny one) we prefer to eat at places like McDonalds and Burger King because:
1. We are used to eating at fast food chains, you can find a BK or McDonalds in every single town in the US, 10x more widespread than restaurants.
2. It's an easy and quick tasty familiar meal (not healthy one though)
3. We don't like having to be accustomed to a foreign cuisine depending on how much it differs.
Sounds like you don't know what freedom tastes like 🍔🍗🍟🇺🇲
Unfortunately a lot of people are afraid to try something new.
See the problem is that they don't know non american food and that the restaurant was a block away.
@@mangosteak by "one block", I meant towards any direction. Place is riddled with better places to eat
"American food is just weak crack"
Never before have i felt so patriotic for my country
Its so American for an American to be proud of something like this. Godspeed my brother
@@hodisfutMost humorous European:
@@33fsd14 Least butthurt American"
@@hodisfutIt’s so European for a European to write a comment like this. It reeks of Eurosnob!
@@anonymoususer8895 we can't help it we just feel sorry for people who have to spend 20,000 on an Ambulance it shouldn't be that hard to go to the hospital
Just to add to the sugar addiction of the US. There was a study done to see how rats would react to sugar and coke (ykwim) and they found that the rats literally preferred sugar over snow. So sugar is so addictive that rats will take it over coke, considering how close the human biology is to rats, that's ridiculously worrying.
What’s coke? You mean Donk?
No they mean cock
😐what wait what your serious.
the sniffy dust or sugar and rats chose sugar?
wait what? how is that even possible? there's no way that's true...
In italy we walk every weak at least more than 1 hour on saturday or sunday, america is just crazy they're not winning their battle against obesity, feel sad 😢
ok well how the heck am i supposed to walk in 100 degrees weather with literally nothing in sight from a mile away
@@bruhyuh Its over 100f in Italy, people walk around in that heat constantly, but yeah your country was built for cars it's not your fault at all, blame the car conglomerates lobbying for deeply acoustic sub-urban design. Italian / european towns have been designed for walking people, with shops, gyms, bars and public transport stations always being walking distance away for the past 2-3 thousand years. If i were you I'd vote for whoever says they're gonna nationalise and invest in rail and public transport.
@@capitanfindus1994 Im in Australia, we still walk alot too, alibeit we are a little more car centric than most of europe, but most people will walk to the train to the footy, or even just around the city
@@capitanfindus1994wow walking in that heat continuously is really bad for your body and especially skin, stay safe out there!
Yeah but we also have the largest gym culture too. So there’s also a significant difference in just fat and being very unhealthy.
As a nurse working in Europe, i really feel sorry for US nurses. Caring for obese patiens is like 3x the effort!
even the nurses are fat lol
@@chasewilliams5128 u missed the whole point about obesity being a systemic problem in the US and ur solution is to punish the already misfortunate ppl under it
@@chasewilliams5128 So your solution is to deprive people that can't afford to pay more than two bucks a meal (one of the big factors for their obesity) from access to healthcare unless they... pay more? Which they can't do? Are we supposed to let them die?
@@k.v.7681 Don't believe everything you see on the media. America's a vastly different than what the media tells you , As far as health care, my healthcare is fine. I'd never went bankrupt, and I had four life threatening surgeries.
@@SmokestackOGDo you have a stable source of income? Would you consider yourself part of 'the middle class'? How much overtime do you usually do in a month? Do you have multiple jobs? Do you engage in physically strenuous activities (professionally or otherwise)?
Do you have a family? If so, how large is it? Do multiple people work/'provide' in your immediate family?
What state do you live in? What type of insurance do you have? Do you pay for it by yourself or is it provided by your job? Are you covered by state or federal public insurance (Medicaid, Medicare, etc.)?
I am asking these questions genuinely; I'm not just trying to be snarky. Sure, YOU haven't had any trouble with healthcare in the US; but is that because of the quality of American healthcare or does it rather have to do with you and your circumstances?
as a brazilian who lived in the us for 6 years, even their healthy food has some sort of sugar in it, i’ve literally lost so much weight since I came back to my country simply by walking to places and eating normal, actual healthy meals
Você vive no interior do país ou numa região metropolitana? A obesidade em São Paulo é comparável a dos EUA
Sounds you would be living in one of the more rural areas cause places like São Paulo are comparable to the US.
@@kaijuslayer3334 yep, that's what I said in Portuguese
I was just a week in the US and came with 3-5 kg more back to Europe. And i never went to any fastfood restaurant. 😂
Also you don't have money to eat as much, considering you earn around R$4K and a trip to the supermarket costs R$2K
In a privatized healthcare system there is no incentive to have the citizens be healthy, quite the contrary, it is good for business to have lots of sick people. With a publically funded healthcare system like in Europe it makes economic sense to support policies that reduce strain on the healthcare system, so the system is biased to actually keep you healthy, instead of keeping you sick like the Murican system.
Seems a little reductive and one-sided. It could be argued that treatment-delays and overall care quality is higher and more efficient under a private healthcare system.
@@mr.goldenproductions_0143please tell us why that would be the case
Doctors make way too much money
The US healthcare is actually heavily regulated on the state and federal level.
The issue is that it's a jigsaw mess of private and public, where regulations drive up cost and the companies arent held accountable.
Way I see it, if you have a business that sells a necessary service people require to survive, ie Healthcare, water, etc., eventually a sociopath will take it over and monopolize it, then charge people ludicrous prices as they have no other option if they want to live. It's existence allows for power over people, therefore it will attract morrally corrupt people who will do everything they can to abuse it.
By having a well funded and regulated option available for "free", you reduce the opportunities for those situations to arise, although I guarantee there will be vile people that try to defund, discredit, and dismantle the free option to try and get their monopolistic grip on that necessity.
Plus, regulation is what prevents corpo rats from pushing out a dangerous minimum effort max profit product - like what happened when Thatcher sold England's water infrastructure. Quality actually dropped to the point where people were effectively getting untreated/unsafe water or outright sewage, but the lobbyists were making record profits on wildly inflated fees. There was no monetary incentive for them to provide a good service, so they simply didn't.
The worst part is, while there's plenty to go around, too many people are obsessed with ever-surging "profits" instead of improving logistics; as though they could pay off their moral bankruptcy with gold.
2:57 This is exactly why pizza hut and domino's failed miserably in italy
So true I was in Italy 13 years and I can say they hate it
@@danielbacutathat’s why I only eat at pizza places that are locally owned by Italian immigrants and get pizzas like margehrita or something similar
This isn't even a joke no more, Geopold is genuinely an awesome video essay channel disguising itself as a comedy channel
this comment is a joke right
@@GooFly-v3j your mom's a joke
@@GooFly-v3j geopold shitting on america is enough proof that the channel is legit awesome history lesson channel. World would have been better without freedommmmm
theres degenrocity bruh😑
@Bobbiez_editz I also watch him and he and Geopold are practically on their own terf
as an american i am disappointed that none of the politicians on either side give a fuck about public transport.
well you can always move to the EU, we need people that can do math, weld, do plumbing, carpenting, install solar panels, or anything else. very easy to get work visa from USA, and you can escape your failed state.
Oil companies. If politicians support public transport they could potentially lose their lives, that's what happened to scientists who invented hydrogen powered cars
its not a very capitalist thing tbh
@coows while I agree the lack of public transport and its supporting infrastructure is a problem, by far the largest problem relating to obesity is the grip sugar lobbying has on the US. Sugary soft drinks are as bad, if not worse than alcohol and they really need to be treated as such, but the sugar lobby would never allow that.
@@saladmcjones7798 ain't as bad as the car lobby though.
Came for laughs, stayed for diet advice
As a Czech person who averages 8-10k steps every single day walking for less than 10 minutes is actually insane
I’m American, ai get like 1st a day, what you readin?😂
My college (over here in Malaysia) deliberately made the elevators slow, hot and small to entice us to walk up the steps and deliberately spaces out all our classes so we are forced to always climb stairs and walk decent distances to get to our next class. I thank them for doing it tbh.
Hi bro🇨🇿
You spaced out those hospodas to make people walk 😭
@@noodleppoodle don’t forget walking home from the pub, that’s at least 3k right there
According to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, more than 2 in 5 adults are obese, and nearly 1 in 5 children are obese. Furthermore, 19 states in America have obesity rates over 35 percent, increased from 16 states just last year. A decade ago, no states had obesity rates above 35 percent!
Qué tal en Bolivia con esta epidemia.
¿Soy yo o el país se está llenando de ballenatos?
@@LuDa-lf1xdTo be honest, if you are not hurt by it, then do not worry about it.
more than 2 out of 5 adults are obese, as in the states or what data are you reffering to?
United States, just search it up@@222MovieMan
Not to try and run defense for obese people but what tends to happen is that the definition of obesity gets changed and suddenly more people qualify and people will get spooked by the sudden increase wondering where all the fat people popped up from.
I know this happened around 2000 but maybe something similar happened again 10 years ago.
I lived in Alabama for a few years. We left our car at the garage for a service and walked 3km home. On the way home, 2 different cars stopped and asked if we were ok because we were walking... Not on the highway or anything. Just on the sidewalk...
How Dare they have hospitality, or maybe be human traffickers.
Car dependent brainwashing
Not👏Even👏Once👏
did you do anything romantic with your cousin or any relative by any chance
The reason the American government does not care about it's peoples health is because healthcare is private instead of publicly owned. Out of all things health care is one of the worst things to privatize.
Wah private health wahhh
Buhh communism!
@@tony_5156?
There is not enough money in the entire world to pay for American healthcare.
If Americans start having public healthcare their govt will be bankrupt within a month
As a trainpilled public transportation advocating American who knows that a combination of our diets, city design, lifestyles, and social media make us lonely, depressed, obese, and unhealthy,
I agree with everything you've said
I bet you regularly browse r/fuckcars
politics especially
get a car loser plus i'm cracked at flying.
You sound like a nerd who contributes nothing to society
@@MaxშემიწყალეRiding a train in a dangerous city will seem like that. Ever rode a train in Minneapolis? That’s a whole different experience.
Great video. Im American and was obese by age 11. I'm healthy weight now at 20 and have been into working out for 6 years now. Losing as much weight as i have here is tough especially when youre eating food youre told is healthy but really isnt. Its beyond disgraceful what has happened to my country. I will be in europe soon for a while studying abroad and am very intrigued to see a whole new world, and the food not full of absolute trash. Cooking for myself is what changed everything. Things went downhill fast when we went from local farmers markets in towns to massive corporations feeding every american. Our guidelines on food should be much more strict similar to Europes. But our government is controlled by private companies so there is no changing that anytime soon.
congrats on your weight loss! I hope you'll enjoy your stay in Europe
@@chloeg.4640Thank you I appreciate that, also I am certainly looking forward to Europe. Couple weeks I'll be there, never left the continent haha but I'm excited
@@Peeler45 You'll most likely gain a bit of weight at first (not as much time to work out, fatigue due to adjustement, the appeal of trying new (and not light in the slightest) foods), but it'll even out once you settle.
Enjoy your stay in Europe friend. If you want some recommendations for any foods, let me know
Where in europe?
I think I'll speak for many of us Brits who have travelled to the US for short period (one of two weeks), be it for business of pleasure, and were horrified to find that despite eating a reasonable amount when there, ended up a stone heavier upon our return to old blighty. But being able to experience un-modified, 100% authentic Froot Loops like we had back in the early 90s was definitely worth it.
I’ve visited America twice. Gained multiple pounds both times.
literally just because you had to drive everywhere, if we had walkable cities we would be fine but muh automobile lobbyists are making us tubby
Bro I am a Mexican 🇲🇽 who lives in America 🇺🇸 and every single grocery store is like a 2 hour walk or 1 hour bike ride away and if I want any thing that's not in my house I have to take a 30 minute drive to get it
Only reason this didn't happen to me was I went on a big cycle ride over the golden gate bridge and I hiked up the Rockies
i personally lost a lot of weight but we were sightseeing multiple big cities and national parks so we did a shitload of walking
This truly is the most based channel of all time I think. He says the things I think but with facts so I feel good
people always tell me americans are fat. and indeed a lot are. but then I look at pictures of the average UK person and it's like, damn, they look just like us
US obesity rate is quite a bit higher than the UK’s
FR people in the EU can be so big
UK and Turkey are the fat European countries, didn't you watch the video? Without those countries the EU ranking of obesity will be in 1 digit.
I’m American, I wouldn’t really say this to be true. The thing is, the US is a land of extremities. For every morbidly obese person you see, there is a healthy, very fit person. Hell some of our culture has to do with working out. Because we have a big population of people in comparison to the UK, ofc you’re gonna find more fat people than in the UK. Here, the obesity rate is around 40% maybe more, and in the UK, it’s around 20%. I would say the population differences contribute to that but idk if I’d be lying lol. Also, kinda funny how the country with the highest obesity rate is AMERICAN Samoa 😭
the EU food safety rules are GOATED
Just makes the food in europe taste like chalk
Does Switzerland have them?
If all you like is unseasonably vegetables then yeah
@@lanxy2398
I'd rather eat chalk than litteral poison.
@@nutmaster7794 unseasonably 😂
As a Latvian living on pluto, I can confirm that this is a video 🇱🇻👍
As a Latvian who doesn't live because Latvia isn't real, I can confirm your confirmation
as a Lithuanian 💀
@@Robis_GrigorisAs a prussian
@@Jeff1999PB2 My goldfish drowned soooooo...
Potato. 🥔
Pārāk daudz kartupeļu arī veicina aptaukošanos 😀
PLUTONS IR LATVIJA
The fact that there are reality shows with multiple seasons about obese people in USA says a lot, it's actually crazy how unhealthy people are there. I think people in Eastern Europe where I'm from eat very unhealthy but USA is on a wholeee another level.
'Merica! We win again!
Me, a skinny American:
I’ve noticed you’re obsessed with the US in this comment. Your whole comment is “USA does this…! USA does that…! USA bad because…!”
Seek help for your obsession.
@@anonymoususer8895seek help from your obesity
@@anonymoususer8895 cope harder lardass
my European mind cannot comprehend the American food, I will decompose when I eat ONE American McDonalds meal.
US is just like this scene from Wall-e, but on Earth
Literally
Real.
you saying that but you aint ever been to america i live in America and i see about 1 in 20 people are obese so stop hating on america and lets have peace
Europe*
@@efb4051 I'm sorry, but unfortunately you are wrong in your correction
“American food is just weak crack”
Crackheads in the US : I beg your pardon
Not a bad marketing campaign to be honest 😂
Nah. It's a testament to the quality of crack in the USA
You forgot to mention about the reason Turkey is becoming obese lol; more fast food chains, more food/restaurants in the streets as well as people wanting to become more “modern” and choosing laziness. This is also seen in middle aged men and younger teens. It’s sad to see really :(
It's a problem everywhere nowadays tbh.. people would rather have a quick unhealthy meal than cook something healthy at home. Also every family owns at least two cars now, nobody walks anywhere.
@@Igor19485 It’s what happens when countries who were in the past undeveloped, poor and looked over at become suddenly developed, have a decent currency, and no longer looked over at have big brands visit them and make restaurants in their nation for the people who haven’t tried the food before to try it and once they like it they’ll start having more and more, causing obesity and a downright addiction to fast food.
@@Igor19485traffic is terrible here in my country. My family also owns two cars and a motorcycle. They urged me to learn how to drive. No thanks, id rather use public transport on my way to work.
Car dependency is a big problem too, like I've never seen a bike lane in turkey
I disagree about it being fast food related. In Türkiye the local cuisine is very much based on fattening carbs and oily meat (think about a döner for example). Besides that, since people are poor all they can afford are cheap carbs such as pasta and bread which they gorge on. Something else to mention is the gender imbalance for obesity where men are 20% obese but women are 40% probably since men go out to work more where as women stay at home and cook. Unlike most of the world, if I were to guess from personal experience, İ would say that obesity is far more prevalent in the countryside than the city.
*wants to talk about eu food* : talk about British food which is being mocked all over Europe for tasting bad
I’m european and i wanna say that beans on toast are fucking absurd.
Glory to Moldova 🇲🇩
from UK and can totally agree from that.
I'm not american but it's probably not that bad, it's probably better on french bread though, my family used to eat it, it's also common in europe to eat bread with a lot of foods
from america god bless our mold brothers we must defeat beans on toast at all costs
Something as simple as fresh bread and olive oil is ten times more tasty. Only the British know why they like these things
@@eljanrimsa5843real
US ingredients lists are basically the periodic table in disguise 😂
😂😂😂
American Foreign Policy in a nutshell: "Can't beat em' with bullets, beat em' with burgers".
The last part. 100% accurate. Sad and true. Knowing is half the battle. Wopila (thank you) for saying it out loud.
1) we drive everywhere
2) our food has more sugar & fat than real nutrients
3) having no affordable healthcare is stressful
Well the third one can be solved by just getting insurance
@@ViolentSillyGirlInsurance is stressful and I believe it's usually not cheap. Idk, please don't quote me I'm a little grey in this area and I am just trying to input another idea into this conversation.
@@Bigpasty1 yeah i unserstand getting insurance is stressful, but last time i had to go to the hospital for a night, my visit was literally FREE. That alone is enough of a reason to put up with the stress
@@ViolentSillyGirlWhat about those most vulnerable who can’t afford it. Plus even with insurance Americans still more than most developed countries on their healthcare
your food makes you pay for your healthcare, so you industries are supported by each other and it just goes in a never ending loop
As an American I would complain about the innacuracy of this video, but I’m too busy injecting high fructose corn syrup into my bloodstream
not so fun fact, the island at 8:20 was a Japanese prison island known for especially terrible treatment of POWs. The 'Zamperini dining facility' is named after Louis Zamperini, an Olympic athlete and crew member of a B-24 bomber. He survived crazy suffering in Japanese hands after being shot down. The book and film 'unbroken' are about him.
He also met the funny mustache man once.
@@thegodofsoapkekcario1970 😬
Thank you for mentioning the atrocities USA has done to the natives of the Americas and Oceania and how they intervened in their diet
As an American, I would also admit that our consumption of tea is by far iced tea sweetened so much you'd think you're taking a glucose tolerance test. This goes for our coffee as well.
Snapples are addicting, I started just drinking unsweetened tea. You kind of get used to the taste after a while.
@@johnt3psu I used to put 1/4 cup of honey in my daily 16-oz whole-leaf tea to bring it up to sweet. Once I stopped that I lost 15 lbs without additional effort. That was 3 years ago and the weight is still off. Some soreness in joints disappeared as well. I learned it takes way more sweetener to sweeten a liquid than a solid, like a cookie. If you can cut out sweet drinks that is a gigantic stride in the right direction.
@@thzzztthanks! I never thought of it that way. I go through periods where I give up soda but then I go back to it. I didn’t realize that liquids contain more sugar than solid foods. I will keep that in mind next time I want something sweet.
I had a cup of real British tea once and I never went back to the iced stuff. Now I'm addicted to British tea, help
@@johnt3psuI had a friend who used to be overweight and all he did was cut out soda and he became skinny in like a few months lol (hes actually decently buff now)
After watching the video I was a bit worried about Estrogen in food and went on a little google research. For those of you who were also worried, I found that
- There are hormones in meat (less in EU produced meat) but the by far biggest contributor to external hormone intake is milk and dairy products. Although the fat reduced variants contain significantly less hormones.
- To the question wether or not those consumed external hormones are disrupting our endocrine system my findings vary. But most meta analysis I found and all doctor's journals agreed that the effects are most likely insignificant as only a small fraction of those hormones actually end up in our blood. Most is destroyed by cooking and our digestive system.
- The biggest contributors to hormonal imbalances are obesity, lack of excercise, stress and bad sleeping habits. Compared to those factors, external hormones in food can more or less be ignored.
- Especially obesity is dangerous for men because the fat cells literally transform our manly testosterone into girly estrogen. So more fat leads to less testosterone.
Hope that helps. Please correct me if I'm wrong and you know more. I am also too lazy to list sources and most weren't in english anyway.
Its always easier to blame some external factors for your problems, i.e. the food has unnatural hormones in it that is making me sick, than taking some responsibility and and admitting that your lack of activity and poor dietary choices is largely responsible. No doubt Americans are given awful food choices and the worst food for you is generally the cheapest but the vast majority of americans have the ability to eat healthier after doing the bare minimum of research and exercising common sense but choose not to. Blamingg the food industry, healthcare industry, government agencies etc. is far easier
Fun fact: due to the estrogen produced during beer brewing, all recycled drinking water in EU contains elevated levels of estrogen.
Also, our bottled water is just tap water in a bottle.
also the estrogen from soy is phytoestrogen, as in plant estrogen. structurally pretty similar to the estrogen found in humans, but ultimately they don't have at all the same effect on us
@@HungerGamesFan00 phytoestrogen from plants foods like soy has many beneficial effects like a protective anti-inflammatory and anti cancer activity on breast tissue, prostate, etc.
@ToddHowardTruthSerum I think American cuisine vs. European cuisine is a matter of taste. Health-wise, I think mediteranean cuisine (especially Greek) is about as healthy as you can get and better than any regional American dishes. But ultimately, I think exercise is the deal breaker, Europeans walk more and are generally thinner because of that. I think you can overcome any cuisine issues with enough exercise but most people don't have the time/will power to do that. But moving your body regularly, even walking, will always be superior to being completely sedentary like most Americans
the Sugar Tax is literally taught in American schools as one of the reasons for the revolution lmao
wasnt it the tea tax?
@@Gigachad-mc5qzyes
@Gigachad-mc5qz there were multiple taxes like the stamp tax. But yeah, the tea tax specifically (or more like the repercussions that resulted from the Boston tea party) was sort of the final straw.
it sounds bad but nower days we have less obese people and more money to spend on the NHS because of it
This guy does some of the best quality statistical analysis I've ever seen, linking the atom bomb tests to obesity in a way I've never even thought of
My mom travelled to the US when she was 17 back in 1997, she was going to live there for a year, living with an american family. The only thing she have told me about her experinces there is that the food they ate at home and at school was trash. We're talking about stacks of chips, snacks, cakes, you name it. They also drank coke for every meal there since milk was "too expensive".
if you get stuck with a family that promotes eating this way then theres nothing you can really do besides eat less, but theres also plenty of ways to eat healthy for cheap in america as well
@@sumkid9263It's difficult when the trash McDonald's food makes you hungrier when you eat it.
@@brandonkibet3801 true it's really hard to get satieted eating fast food since it's just a shit ton of carbs and fats
@@brandonkibet3801 Sometimes you just have to accept being hungry
@@sumkid9263 bro wut a mcdonalds burger and fries is like 2000 calories lol
i feel sick for half a day afterward
As a Canadian who’s just lost a lot of weight and always thought the idea of beans on toast repulsive, your last line almost convinced me of its existence from a pragmatic perspective
I'm british and beans on toast is not eaten all that often here (at least where i am) its more just something americans whine about
As a USA I can confirm I have to run a 90km marathon for every meal to stay in shape.
Thanks USA
* Huge portions sizes
* Buckets soda instead of a glass of water
* Dessert for breakfast
* Snacks and cookies as a school lunch
* "Bread" that is more like pastry than actual bread
* Difficult/Impossible to walk or ride a bike to work
* Being forced to work overtime often, not being able to have a work/life balance so you can cook.
* Take-away dinner instead of cooking something
1. America is a very food rich country and can simply give more food in a general sense to the populace.
2. Again rich country means more choices you can easily get a "bucket" of water if you wish at the same machine.
3. Generally it matters in which area in the country you live. Rural America much prefer eggs, oats, bacon, etc (some don't even eat breakfast). Its more city America that kinda have that problem and a general lack of cooking skills.
4. Depends on the state. Most of what I've seen/ heard is actually okay sounding. Mostly fruits, meats, vegetables, etc. its depended apon funding and kitchen staff. You can always pack your Childs lunch as well.
5. There is a very large choice of bread. Walmart for example I counted 20 brands not including that which was made that day in house. All very in ingrediencies and show what's in it. Again its a choice. (I like Dave's killer bread)
6. I work all over my state. it takes a 1hr 10 by driving to get to just the headquarters alone. Not a bus nor train would solve this. A normal commute for Americans as far as I remember is 26mins one way. Its highly depended on each state again. This bullet point I could talk about for hours.
7. Depends on the job you want and that "life balance" you want. Never had someone force me to do anything. Its actually more people living above their means and working a job and never learning anything. Another topic that could be talked about for hours with hundreds of reasons.
8. I agree whole heartedly but this bullet point is just a product of number 7. For the single man/woman its not every good. better for the married couple imo.
Its much more easy to point out flaws in a society without ever coming up with a solution, than to address these supposed problems and fix them. "Complaining about a problem without proposing a solution is called whining” - Teddy Roosevelt. This video like many others is done not really in a constructive way but more a way of soothing your bias. Pointing out flaws to make one feel superior and gaining your views as well. So that you can focus on another country's problems and ignore your own.
It would be very easy for me to bash europe countries but ill refrain. It comes down to Americans having so many choices and not all are going to choose a "good" one nor are you going have a easy time telling Americans you're limiting their choices either. America and europe is so fundamentally different but also the same.
I tried hard not to make this a long comment but, that didn't work very well. Hard to sum up large problems with a few words. If you're interested in further decisions I welcome it.
As an American I find it extremely funny that this video came out as I was eating a double cheeseburger and fries
Fun fact: England is also having a obesity issue in younger people
The average british diet is pretty dire tbh. Lots of processed food and beige food.
So is China!
when the mars bar got deep-fried...
The British economy is totally fucked due to 14 years of a psychotic government. There are people in this country now not having food to eat every day due to poverty. Watch general health levels crash here in the next few years.
Germany as well
Every time I travel to Europe, I’m amazed at how good their food is. It’s REAL ingredients! Last time I came back to the US, I had stomach problems for 2 weeks. My intestines were probably screaming.
Feel bad for you bro, living in America must be dookie
@@BraveMoji it will def MAKE you dookie
Where tf did you eat
um actually it depends where you go sprinkled with luck
@@DanielKolbin Who are you talking about?
None of this makes beans and toast worth eating. I’ll just eat everything that isn’t from the Colonizing kingdom
I Used to live in the texan city of Hoston Texas before moving back to la Paz. Many Americans here had access to over 31 Kfc's, and dont get me started on how many mc'donalds there are. As a bolivian living through the concept of the U.S bieng the greatest nation on earth is very untrue as many people hear idolise and envy over the american dream, however, no matter where you are in the world the truth is you can make your dream if you make it your own and not someone elses.
I was telling my dad (he's fat I'm bordering on being fat, we're American) about this stuff. He got kinda upset with me and kept saying the same thing over over again "People here are more fat because they eat more," he was just ignoring the fact that Europe puts a shit load less of bad addictive stuff in their food, and I asked him to stop like three times then he stopped for a bit then he said it again, and I said "Dad, you can stop telling me this." He then said fuck you left the room.
"European junk food" is also unhealthy, but from time to time it's OK. We drive also A LOT. so, what you can do and it might be even cheaper than what your family is spending: Try to avoid sugar, especially stop drinking coke, drink water (or I often replace it with Gatorade -> here it has almost no sugar, read the label). Don't eat after 5 or 6 pm. When eating burgers, dont eat the bun (its the source of sugar -> Hamburger is from Europe and the innovation was just that a random guy added a bun to it - we eat also burgers without buns, and it is still superb 😂 😂). Avoid too many dips, sauces etc., use spices, they are also cheap and do not include fat or sugar. So, it can be fairly easy. Chips - eat them, but once a week or so.
The more sugar and fat you avoid, the better will be your taste after some time.
Easy and cheap food: Cook potatoes, add a bit of salt or sugar free joghurt or make an omlette without anything (no cheese, no meat, nothing, just eggs).. make pasta only with tomato sauce, thats it. Spices... as many as you want.
Check out some european or asian cook-books - they are awesome and almost no sugar or fat is inside and you can prepare it quickly.
The vegetables are probably the same as in europe, so there are tons of super simple and delicious meals. Meat maximum 2-3 times per week.
If you just try a part of it for say 1 or 2 weeks, you will start to feel better, more stronger.
Every time I visit McDonald's here, I feel so tired (and I love to eat it), thats why I do it maybe once per 1 or 2 weeks as well 😂 all the best from Austria (possessing also a heart-attack-cuisine)
@@sebaestschn1 Danke für die Tipps, Mann, einiges davon mache ich schon. Da ich Deutsch lerne, dachte ich mir, ich versuche es einmal einzugeben, da ich davon ausgehe, dass es Ihre Muttersprache ist.
@@Louieface9770 ja super, Deutsch zu lernen ist bestimmt nicht einfach. Planst du auszuwandern?
Ja, das Essen, das ist so eine Sache... Bewegung, wenig Fett, Zucker... bei uns ist "gesund Essen" auch sehr im Trend, allerdings weiß man meistens was gesundes Essen ist, weil man es noch Oma und Mama kennt. Früher gab es einfach kein Fast-Food und das bleibt recht eingeschränkt. Die Hersteller dürfen auch tatsächlich nicht so viel Zucker beimengen, was McDonalds bei uns vermutlich auch "gesünder" macht.
Alles Gute.
If he's acting like that it means he knows you're right and doesn't want to admit it. Keep at it and try not to be confrontational. You may save his life if you can talk him round.
@@snipermagoo Trust me he knows and is aware.
God damn this is absolutely brutal
And based at the same time
0:06 Behold, our military might!!!
I'm pure Filipino born and raised in the Soviet Union. I became obese while studying in the USA for a semester and have now settled in Albania to slim down. Proud 🇿🇦
I’ve been reading your comments and dang Mr. Worldwide 😂😂😂
@@wachamcoolit thanks! Keeping it real!
Sure you weren't raised in Canada? You sound like a friend of mine o_o
bilang isang 1000000000% na Pilipino, sang-ayon na sang-ayon ako sa sinasabi mo!
It’s so normal in America I feel out of place being skinny in some places
Idk, mostly in poorer states, but generally more people are becoming more health aware.
As an American I came into this video expecting the same fat jokes I hear from everyone else. But this was a very informative video Geopold thank you. At least the positive of this is the more obese people the less people I have to deal with when hiking.
This may sound like a joke, but it isn't: I was already overweight when I moved to the US, and then in one year I gained 35 kg as a result of stop walking and mostly eating fast food. Then I went back to my country for a whole month for Christmas and I lost 7 kg. I might be the first person who losed that much weight over Christmas, instead of gaining it.
And it is not like I starved myself or anything. I ate like a pig, but I also walked everywhere, and what I ate was so, so much naturally healthier (meaning, that it was good food, but without double the calories due to High Fructose Corn Syrup).
My doctor calls it the SAD, Standard American Diet.
HFCS is EVERYWHERE. I bought bread crumbs to bread some chicken breast and IT HAD BOTH SUGAR AND HFCS. WHY??
Im a Norwegian but i really care about my my fellow swedes🇬🇪😊
That's the flag of Portugal
@@Junichsenthat’s the flag of England
@@Jones-xf5rr that's the flag of Sardinia
@@heycidskyja4668that’s the flag of North Korea
@@joedewitwomey9627that’s the flag of Mexico
American here. I lived in China for three years and was skinnier than ever. Now that I’m back working a regular day job, I I have to actively struggle to not buy one sugary snack per day. I knew about the marshal Islands being irradiated but I didn’t know how their food was replaced with processed garbage The more I learn, the more baffled I am by how anyone can actually be proud to be “American” in the first place.
Were you skinny in china because you were 'eating' cooked rocks or spicy ice?
Don't believe me? They suck on rocks because they have no food, look up Suodui. It's real... cooked rocks.
And if you don't believe me about them eating ice with spices (again, lack of food) Just google Chinese grilled ice.
The more I learn the more I understand why chinese are proud. Because if they are not, they are killed.
There's the truth, Wumao. Hey at least you still have the humiliating memories of being a 'white monkey' (their term) for them.
Why you think the great urge for junk food when in US? Is it coz lifestyle is stressful, it's easy to access, or both?
@@mryan4452 certainly both. Even things you think might be better snacks have corn syrup for some reason.
@@SortofScorpion I know here in Ireland recently Subway sandwich chain challenged the tax authorities decision to tax their "bread" as too sugary to be classified as bread. Subway lost their appeal in the Supreme Court.
I would guess an additional factor is movement. Here where I live in Dublin for instance they build things like cycle lanes and are willing to displace private cars to do it. Just last week they shut down the main street to cars.. buses and bikes are allowed only. Some businesses protested but they got nowhere with objections it went ahead.
I think the main difference is the US is focussed on economic prosperity above all else, and it is v successful at that too. Although I suspect a part of thatg reason is the homgenous nature of US market (for finance, selling things etc) in Europe it's a myriad of different countries, languages etc. EU brings only a little homogenisation.
Another godly geopold video it is a truly good day.
0:54 took me tf out lmaooo
5:51 bro got me cryin rn lol
7:14 bro I live in texas and houston especially is UNWALKABLE. There's a guy who did a video on this and its hilariously sad, they built the city with no sidewalks and you have to drive or you can't really work.
Made me remember on how grumpy I become some hours after a sugary meal - those food processing companies have so much in common with your local drug dealer. Could be worth a collab 👍
As an American there were absolutely no exaggerations made at all. You hit the nail on the head. Yeehaw 🤠
Not really just pointed out flaws with no given solution. aka rage bate. Conforms to some bias and stokes others.
Geopold never fails to spread his white joy all over us😊
It’s part of the reason sodium consumption is so high
"his white joy"
Sounds sus
You’re banned from speaking
🥛
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American here: It seems like a lot of the viewers and commenters on this video are not American, so if you have a question about America i'd be happy to answer it.
In the video, I like the point where Geopold mentioned how poor states with poor people have it the worst. I live in West Virginia and it often competes for the poorest, dumbest, and fattest of the 50 states. It comes down to access to resources and money. If you're not American, you have to remember how large (and consistently populous - unlike Siberia) the land mass is. Localized "poor areas/states" can occur when money/labor/value is exported out of them even if the money goes just over a state border. Often when a "poor area" occurs it can't be reverted as the people with the money and power distance themselves from the area. West Virginia and its people have historically been extorted for cheap natural resources (coal and steel), and cheap labor (often by companies not from West Virginia - hence the generated value is exported and not reinvested into the people who made it). During the industrial revolution era businessmen ruled this area with an iron fist and created poor working conditions with low social mobility. Many people (my great-grandfather included) died in coal mine accidents leaving behind little money and overwhelming responsibilities for their widowed wives. Situations like this put many families in a position where higher eduication (going to college or law/medical/dental school) isn't an option so they stay as lower or middle-class families. While already being stripped of their resources and generated value, their manufacturing jobs are exported to China, Mexico, Bangladesh, and India in the 1970's and 1980's removing their last bastion of economic stability (as manufacturing jobs were the only high-paying jobs that could be attained without higher education). Often with nothing else to turn to and utterly depressed, these people get hooked on opiates in the form of painkiller medications given out for chroic pain caused by factory or mine work. Now add in the fact that since people are poor they can only afford the lowest quality of food (which is sugary and addicting) and you can start to understand why poor Americans aren't concerned with the geography of Balkan countries. This is why some places in America are "poor areas" and "should be avoided" and why other parts of America look like a futuristic promised land. I've only used West Virginia as an example as it's my home and it's very clear to see the money/resources/blood flowing out of it into someone else's pockets.
In America, if you're rich (and your family has been for some time) you'll likely be well educated, have nice things, travel to foreign countries, etc. If you are so poor you don't know if your house will be warm or where your next meal will come from, you don't care about the world at large because "your world" has more pressing problems. Yes, this is true for anyone in the world but, Americans are fed a plethora of addictive traps from childhood onward and the rest of the world is very far away from their problems. I'm very fortunate to have been able to travel to France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and England to try and learn about the world in which I live. I've been able to dedicate time to healthy eating, self-motivation, and higher education when many of my fellow West Virginians have not. I also often find the social media videos of people not knowing geography shocking, but I have an understanding of why this happens. Are they very stupid and probably a little bit close-minded? Absolutely, but they probably don't want to be that way.
You probably have noted the difference in safety in general between EU countries and the USA, and I would like to ask you, how do you see the american police compared to other countries' police?
@@monchique8388 I have some insight into police in America vs my travels. The biggest thing about safety and police in America is it comes down to the mentality of the area. If the area is low crime and high trust, you may never notice the police. I lived in a town of 300 people growing up and there was only 2 policemen, so there effectively was no police presence at all. We never locked our doors or locked up the farm equipment. We’d even leave the keys in all of the cars and ATV’s. Everyone in the small town knew what their goals were, knew who owned what, and knew that stealing would go punished. We only had theft once and it was someone who was on drugs and they were caught in 1 hour after someone recognized them on an ATV that wasn’t theirs. We didn’t press any charges because the social implications of them being labeled “a thief” in a small town was far worse than a fine. Some areas have established a high trust micro society and others have not. Rural communities (like the one Iived in for a while) are often very very safe. Today I live in a remarkably safe town of 5000 people. The last violent crime was in 2000 and it was by someone who was not a local. So why bring that up? What does that have to do with police? My personal view of police is likely not the norm. I’ve rarely ever encountered them in my home town and when I did they were typically helping someone with car troubles or going to sort out a personal dispute between people. In my area we do not have a “group/gang vs police” mentality. We also don’t have a problem with homelessness, extreme poverty, or many social issues because the town is so small. When I have gone to bigger cities, the narrative on police in America changes. In larger cities people don’t trust eachother because society at large doesn’t socially shame them for their bad deeds. Unlike in a town of 300 people, it’s impossible to alienate someone as “a thief” to 1 million + people. So you have situations where people steal, rob, do other illegal activities to attempt to rise out of poverty. Because these acts are criminal, the police get involved and you get the systematic oppression of the poor people who did commit crimes (justified or not) and a “us vs them” police state becomes a problem. I really can’t comment on what it feels like to be a minority in the US or to be homeless where the police feel like a threat. Those aren’t my experiences and the police have never been threatening to me. I’ve had them be rude and unreasonable but not a higher rate than the general public.
Here’s some of my thoughts on police in Europe. To me the police in the UK didn’t have any real way to stop crime because they didn’t have guns. I mean sure they could hurt you, but they’re not going to stop you unless there’s a lot of them. They felt a lot less threatening and they didn’t really seem that useful. They seemed like parking ticket enforcers and code informers more than proper police. I spent a few days in the outskirts of London and there was certainly a lot of crime and the cops didn’t seem very useful. Canterbury and Dover were different, they were more relaxed.
In Switzerland, I only encountered the police once and they were just helping someone on the side of the road. Switzerland is a very high-trust society based on my experience and understanding so it seemed to benefit from the “small town effect” that small American towns have. It was about the same in Germany.
The real culture shock to me was France. I’m not really sure how laws work in France and I’m not really sure how the police work in France. I’ve been to CDG airport twice now and I’m always amazed with the airport security. They carry automatic rifles and look very much like military police. There was an unattended bag they suspected was a bomb so we were rushed around the airport with rifles shoulder and ready. It ended up being okay but they were far scarier than any other police officers I’ve seen. Even their outfits were very military-like which I think would feel threatening to most Americans. Automatic NATO rifles? That’s terrifying and you would never see that on a cop in America. Also to mention that they were just holding them casually and yelling orders at us in the airport!? That would not be allowed in America people would feel very scared and feel threatened. In America we love our military, but they are very different from the police in conduct and outfit. Maybe it’s not so different in France, but I don’t know. Onto French laws. It seems like France (specifically Paris) just doesn’t have laws. Some guy dressed up as a cop in the subway and claimed we owed him 100 euro per person to ride the subway and if we didn’t pay he’d have us all arrested. If this happened in America it would be the a huge legal deal. We just told the guy to piss off and hopped over the turnstile into the subway. Was this guy a real cop? Did we commit a crime? I still don’t know but we didn’t get in trouble. Another time involved gypsies in France. Idk if there is a more polite way to call them but when I was there, they were called gypsies. One of them stole $700 USD from my family via pickpocketing (which I guess is just okay in France?)! Another time one of them ran up to one of the other people on my tour and grabbed their hand to try and lead them off (this was right in front of the Palais Garnier Opera House). We just shoved the gypsies down onto the pavement and told them not to touch us. In America, what they did was illegal and what we did was illegal. They assaulted us by grabbing at us and we assaulted them. If something like that happened in America the police would have taken someone to the station, but I guess it is not so in France. So I guess is robbing, jumping subway turnstiles, and hitting people okay in France? The cops seemed to turn a blind eye to all of this. When we told the hotel staff they said this was normal.
I hope this answered your question. Sorry for writing a book for a response. If I didn’t answer your question let me know and I’ll try again, this was fun.
@@monchique8388 One other thing to note from an American to global perspective. If you see an American abroad, they DO NOT want you to touch them. In our culture we only touch those we know very well or as a formal business greeting. We have a concept of personal space that a lot of other countries/cultures don’t. If given the option (not like on a subway or cramped situation) try to stay 0.5 meter away from us. This more so applies to just standing or sitting, not so much walking by us. It’s not because of germs, or smells, or we think anything is wrong with someone, Americans just view a small bubble around theirs as a safe space for them. If someone gets too close we become uncomfortable and uneasy. Americans don’t “think we own the sidewalk” we think we control the right of what happens to our body. When I left America was warned about this, but it made Paris a pretty uncomfortable place to be for me. I felt like there was always someone breathing down my back. At the time I had taken 4 years of Highschool (grade 9-12) French, but really the only French I spoke to people was asking for the bathroom and asking to not be touched/excusing myself. I would go back, but only to buy as much Pain au Chocolat as I could carry and escape to the countryside lol. The French countryside is very very nice and I would happily go back.
@@JS2000Abut also USA people are brainwashing by politicians using freedom and democracy, for me democracy is just liar and illusion or rather call democracy doesn't exist, only just distraction to make world getting intention from you, a lot USA don't know about the price to be "freedom" I just don't believe that's freedom is responsibility, it's just slogan, freedom also know Chaotic side same has Law a.k.a tyranny, remember that beo
7:08 that is genuinely fucking insane
@Natimationartsbiscuitbreath popeyes and mcdonalds is waiting son 😏
Yeah as a skinny American who does enjoy my fair share of engineered "food", I'd say the key really is moderation. Shit is so calorically dense from all the oils and shit you just gotta trust you've eaten enough because 1 quarter pounder is like most of a days calories but most people could probably slam 3 without thinking. Staying active is also quite important because you gotta work off what you eat regardless of what is it, your body stores what it doesn't use, aka fat.
People just need to read the nutrition labels. Obesity is really just an IQ test most of the time.
@@SomethingCool51 no cap 🤣🤣🤣
@SomethingCool51 don't forget self control. I'd argue it's equally as important.
@@SomethingCool51 Similar case in Japan, but it is more obvious what food is healthy and what food isn't.
@@shuenshuen I'd say self control and moderation are two sides of the same coin
I'm honored that you take Turkey as an EU country. God bless you.
With highest obesity rates out of the whole EU tho.
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Let's add to the fact, that in US food companies put literally deadly compounds into their products, for example: in US Mountain Dew you can find bromine
There are a lot more details to add here, like the fact that the American food industry is absolutely *filled* with ingredients that are straight up banned in Europe.
Things like their orange fanta not having actual orange juice or even the most staple food, the bread, containing tons of sugar and chemicals to make it last and """taste""" better.
But I'm not sure about the taste, tbh. I've tasted it and it is just cheap garbage. Like, the moment you put it in your mouth and start chewing, your body immediately feels something wrong.
Or maybe it's just that I'm used to Spanish food and I've become too sensitive on that regard.
thats one of the reasons americans feel healthier and lose weight when they come to europe, and gain weight and get ill when they go back
In Poland, about 20% of adults are obese; by our definition it means that an average man at the average height of 180cm weighs more than 100kg and average woman of average height of 166cm weighs more than 80kg (it does not include bodybuilders and people with extreme bone density).
Northern europeans are on average more obese than southern europeans cuz y'all drink and eat more fatty food
Although Geopold makes these videos funny but they carry very valuable info, no cap.
ABOUT THE MSG BIT @ 6:35 : The article you quoted is total BS. It uses pejorative words to describe a natural phenomena. Ingesting any food ever will increase insulin production, this is a normal thing that's suppose to happen. MSG is not a foreign molecule, it's an amino acid that composes natural proteins and thus is present NATURALLY in pretty much all the foods we eat. The author is full of shit too, the next sentence says "MSG has been linked to diabetes and obesity, ...". Here's a quote from the very same PubMed article she links to justify this affirmation : "Critical analysis of existing literature, establishes that many of the reported negative health effects of MSG have little relevance for chronic human exposure and are poorly informative as they are based on excessive dosing that does not meet with levels normally consumed in food products." END QUOTE. If you just bother to read the abstract of that publication you'll find it contradict everything she says and she links it herself trusting that no one will click it and use their better judgement.
funny video but careful about this stuff.
This should be pinned to the top.
Just to be clear - the rest of Europe do NOT claim BEANS on TOAST.
Your loss, more for us then
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Too bad, The UK is in Europe, so Muricans can finally have a reason to dunk on Europe (or the UK if Muricans and Europeans feel _united_ for once and turn their back on UK)
You're missing out
@@heycidskyja4668 No, I'll have my Herrgottsbescheißerle now, thank you very much.
As a Russian I can confirm that beens on the bread is "hellno", just smack some top tier slavic unslated butter and cheese on a bread to make a German's Butterbrot mit Käse
As a British person, I do actually like Slavic food. Slavs are generally pretty healthy and I rarely come across fat Poles, Ukrainians or Russians. You guys are probably the healthiest Europeans
I already really enjoy your channel for the humor, but this video is possibly the best introspective look at my country’s systemic food injustice I’ve ever seen anyone take while simultaneously making the information easily digestible (pun not intended) and funny. Thank you Geopold!
Another big factor is how unwalkable the US is. Sidewalks and public transportation are non existent. But of course all of it is by design
The point with European diet is that is based on more... Natural products, produced mostly from local sources and kept under strict health regulations in order to ensure quality, and we proud ourselves on this.
All across europe you see traditional meals being prepared at home (yes, especially in Italy we are taught how to cook by our own parents) with fresh ingredients you can find at the supermarket for relatively cheap prices, this is our strength when talking about food.
Even Inside Europe we have some differences between countries. I think Mediterranean countries have one of the best gastronomy in Europe. I am from Spain, and when I was in Ireland for my Erasmus, I really missed my food's home. The quality and variety of products in supermarkets...
100% correct. im very glad i live in here.
I’ve never seen a video that made me subscribe to a channel after seeing only one of their videos. Well done
Ur sad
What you don’t like videos that combine comedy as well as good information that is often ignored?
This information isn't ignored. On the contrary. This is literally the internets favorite topic. Especially because it means they get to hate American's more and be even more xenophobic than they already are. The dude is just a hateful and spiteful asshol. No one here actually cares about this issue. Especially the video creator. Video also had a lot of weird misinformation that he is able to slip in because "America bad"@@iainwithtwoeyes8754
I know the Brit didn’t just whip out the DENTAL point… 💀
Why not? Britain has among the best standards of dental care in the world.
@@heycidskyja4668 **caveman Patrick teeth shot** “wut do you meahn? We ghot sum ov te best dehnishtry in da ho wowld”
mutt seething over the fact that bongs do indeed have better teeth than him
Its not ww1 times anymore, get with the times fatty
He is swedish so he isnt affected by the British teeth curse
@@specialshot1457 Why does he sound like a Brit then
Already hear Americans crying in the comments lmfao
Only for the comments I'm coming back ..... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🧂🧂🧂🧂🧂🧂
@@jessyisfluffyyup, the USA to become salty in comments section is just embarrassing being mad freedom hahahahahahahahahahaha idk how much cell brain western people use especially USA people
I’ve been scrolling for a while and have not seen a single American disagreeing with this vid 😭
One of the main reasons I want to move out of America is because of how unhealthy the food is. It’s insane how the food companies pump poison down our gullets
Shop at Aldi or Trader Joe's. If that is not available to you, you will likely have to go to the farmers market or grow your own food.
Same. When me and my family were in the UK for a week my dad actually lost 5 pounds by just walking everywhere. If anyone really wants to lose weight or just become healthier than just move to Europe. Sounds like the new American Dream to me.
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We are ultra-capitalist society where we have the most consumer choices ever, have you ever thought of just, not eating the bad food?
@@TheRealTaco pretty much Japan is this way too, but they make the healthy choices just as easy as the unhealthy ones. Whereas the US makes healthy choices hard, and unhealthy choices easy.
@@codysparks1454 you can walk to the store in the US, in most places, but if you don't live in a town or city, it will be a tedious, long, unpleasant, and boring walk. But it will be great exercise. I used to live in a place where it was a 2 mile walk to the grocery store up and down a mountain, I walked it a few times, it was rough but good excersize. But most times I just drove. Now I live in a town and walk daily.
as someone who lives in the US, I agree that beans on toast isn’t so bad
Heinz Tomato Beans just need some cumin, garlic and onion powder. Top it with some green onion serve ontop of some French, Sourdough bread or a Tolero roll. Mwah! Es muy delicioso.
Meanwhile, MSG is like a treasure for Asian but yet we're not fat at all and i think many Westerners hate MSG, so i don't think MSG's are quite common in US
Msg is unfairly demonized, it is less bad for you than salt
@@linuxman7777 but in my country we use different kind of salt. We use iodiseid sea salt which is rich in Iodine and other mineral. Iodine is really good for your tyroid and it can help you to prevent or cure from goiter.
@@skudzag737 America uses Iodized salt too
The fact it's an english peep that talks about food in europe vs America... Hmm. It's like recruiting the worst soldier for an important rescue mission.
England isn’t really Europe
This is literally the best video on this channel so far
No joke tho, the majority of the American food I see on channels like Food Network, especially when they cover the smoke houses and burger joints type of establishments, look absolutely unappetizing and almost physically impossible to eat (3 feet high burger with 12 stacks of patties and bacon and eggs lol wut). It's actually disgusting honestly.
Fat and salt stuck between a processed bun with a stick holding it all together
@@aliasfakename3159don't forget the gigaton of sugar that somehow snuck inside the burger.
No joke, the majority of the American food I see on channels like Food Network, especially when they cover the smoke houses and burger joints type of establishments, look absolutely appetizing and almost physically impossible to resist (3 feet high burger with 12 stacks of patties and bacon and eggs lol wut (because as I mentioned, this is the majority, I am not being hyperbolic in the slightest, trust me I am trustworthy)). It's actually quite tasty, honestly.
0:20 thats the most truest realest shit ive seen today
Mexican American here. I have tried beans on toast before and it's surprisingly good
What a lot of people dont understand about American food regulation is how chaotic it really is. The FDA regulates mostly drugs and its a common joke that the F in the name is silent, however they are responsible for 80% of our food including packaged goods, diary and seafood. The other 20% is handled by the USDA which includes meat and poultry, both of them have the SAME amount of funding which means that the food section of the FDA is terribly underfunded and has very little resources which leads to a ton of things to be overlooked in the American food industry. So the split between the FDA and the USDA gets very confusing, for example a frozen cheese pizza is regulated by the FDA but a frozen pepperoni pizza is regulated by the USDA and it is legally considered a vegetable.
Most hilarious yet sad comment I've read today🤣😭🤣😭🤣😭
Indian, Italian,Thai and French food=best food
Russia, Hungry,Romania, Ukraine is 80% home food,not from supermarket
no way french food comes before spanish, greek, turkish or morrocan 🤣🤣
DUDE! Great video! Something I’ve noticed here in the US is if you want to be healthy, you have to ACTIVELY pursue the lifestyle. Clean foods are rare, and exercise doesn’t occur naturally. You have to research all these chemicals and spend hours scouring labels on foods, not to mention forking over the cash required. The healthy vs unhealthy demographic is super polarized because each side takes wildly different approaches to eating. It’s basically as ruthless as politics at this point.