Bet the USA consumes ten times what anyone else eats in terms of various sugars though.
It’s the chicken fillet rolls mate.
“only a scrape of butter” me arse
We need to be more like the French lads!!
Not surprising (if true) given that the entire country seems to be awash with fucking takeaways.
We’re in trouble.
Obesity and its attendant health problems will become a major strain on our health service.
I didn’t notice it on the streets. Maybe we have to wait a bit to see all the effects. Healthcare will suffer a lot, if this is true.
Would explain why people have so much trouble getting off their arses to protest all the stuff they complain about.
Appetite suppressing drugs are really starting to take off in the US and appears to work really well for a lot of people.
It’s not great that people need medication to lose weight instead of a healthy diet and exercise but if that’s what it takes.
Yeah the kids are fat as houses these days. There was one kid in my primary class that was overweight(saw him recently, looks great), loads now. Homec should be mandatory at some stage. Adults too.
No, despite what the first line says, that numbers they are presenting are not calories consumed. We are however a wasteful country for throwing food away
Multinationals with their GDP skews this I’m fairly sure..
Probably want us exporting all our good food again.
If you’re not paying attention, it’s very easy to eat 1000 calories each for breakfast, lunch and dinner with a few coffee and muffin type breaks thrown in. I’m not shocked at 3800 calories per day. Whatever you are in the habit of eating is your normal and it’s never been easier or cheaper to eat yourself into an early grave.
Fortunately it’s never been easier to educate yourself about food, nutrition, exercise and calories. To a large extent, the only barrier is yourself.
Living in rural Ireland, the majority of people I know still around are auld boomers who don’t really take in the consequences of what they eat and are hard to adapt.
I try not to each as much, but life can be stressful when folks are fighting each other over land and play awful Irish-Country music, so eating bad food feels like a quicker relief than gaming or making art.
Denmark nowhere to be seen.
Winner winner enormous chicken dinner!
I may eat more. I’m letting Ireland down
Can anyone find a source? There’s none on the post.
Personally I’m sceptical, I’d need to see the numbers and methods
This seems like a more accurate article as the research is on FDA findings. Interestingly as well this only accounts for average food bought per household, not necessarily consumed and does not account for wastage either (which Ireland is known for).
I struggle to see how an actual average person’s intake could be anywhere near that high. Even a dirty old Maccy D’s is about 1200 calories, where the fuck are people getting all the extra from? 2,000 is around RDA for moat adults depending on activity level, you’re saying we eat nearly double that on average? Not way.
There are advantages to having soul crushing gastritis after all.
We’re 48th in the world for obesity according to this table. Germany 76th, UK 33rd,USA 9th for context.
That’d be the auld lads drinking pints all day in the pub driving the average up.
Why do people keep posting these stupid statistics that they pull out their arse
Where’s the dataset source?
What you all eating so ?
Nearly 4k calories is an ungodly amount of food – Surely the pints must be playing into it?
If you take the average height for a man (5’10) and ideal bodyweight (68.5kg) who does some light exercise, your daily intake would be around 2,307.
Back in the day an obese person was the oddity. The tables have turned I’m afraid.
Whens the last time this was posted and immediately shown to be wrong?
The FAO who came up with the figures referenced in this according to the reference material, had listed Ireland’s daily consumption of calories between 1990 and 1992 as 3620cals and between 1995 and 1997 as 3610cals. So why all of a sudden is obesity a problem now and only recently if we have been consuming mass calories for the better part of three decades?
Something is off with their historical data, which makes me think the same for their current data.
I’d question when the data was pulled. It could very well have been bulking season
Doubt – everyone knows 75% of statistics are made up on the spot anyway
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Bet the USA consumes ten times what anyone else eats in terms of various sugars though.
It’s the chicken fillet rolls mate.
“only a scrape of butter” me arse
We need to be more like the French lads!!
Not surprising (if true) given that the entire country seems to be awash with fucking takeaways.
We’re in trouble.
Obesity and its attendant health problems will become a major strain on our health service.
I didn’t notice it on the streets. Maybe we have to wait a bit to see all the effects. Healthcare will suffer a lot, if this is true.
Would explain why people have so much trouble getting off their arses to protest all the stuff they complain about.
Appetite suppressing drugs are really starting to take off in the US and appears to work really well for a lot of people.
It’s not great that people need medication to lose weight instead of a healthy diet and exercise but if that’s what it takes.
Yeah the kids are fat as houses these days. There was one kid in my primary class that was overweight(saw him recently, looks great), loads now. Homec should be mandatory at some stage. Adults too.
No, despite what the first line says, that numbers they are presenting are not calories consumed. We are however a wasteful country for throwing food away
Multinationals with their GDP skews this I’m fairly sure..
Probably want us exporting all our good food again.
If you’re not paying attention, it’s very easy to eat 1000 calories each for breakfast, lunch and dinner with a few coffee and muffin type breaks thrown in. I’m not shocked at 3800 calories per day. Whatever you are in the habit of eating is your normal and it’s never been easier or cheaper to eat yourself into an early grave.
Fortunately it’s never been easier to educate yourself about food, nutrition, exercise and calories. To a large extent, the only barrier is yourself.
Living in rural Ireland, the majority of people I know still around are auld boomers who don’t really take in the consequences of what they eat and are hard to adapt.
I try not to each as much, but life can be stressful when folks are fighting each other over land and play awful Irish-Country music, so eating bad food feels like a quicker relief than gaming or making art.
Denmark nowhere to be seen.
Winner winner enormous chicken dinner!
I may eat more. I’m letting Ireland down
Can anyone find a source? There’s none on the post.
Personally I’m sceptical, I’d need to see the numbers and methods
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12276469/Worlds-biggest-eaters-REVEALED-countries-consume-calories.html
This seems like a more accurate article as the research is on FDA findings. Interestingly as well this only accounts for average food bought per household, not necessarily consumed and does not account for wastage either (which Ireland is known for).
I struggle to see how an actual average person’s intake could be anywhere near that high. Even a dirty old Maccy D’s is about 1200 calories, where the fuck are people getting all the extra from? 2,000 is around RDA for moat adults depending on activity level, you’re saying we eat nearly double that on average? Not way.
There are advantages to having soul crushing gastritis after all.
We’re 48th in the world for obesity according to this table. Germany 76th, UK 33rd,USA 9th for context.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_obesity_rate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_obesity_rate)
That’d be the auld lads drinking pints all day in the pub driving the average up.
Why do people keep posting these stupid statistics that they pull out their arse
Where’s the dataset source?
What you all eating so ?
Nearly 4k calories is an ungodly amount of food – Surely the pints must be playing into it?
If you take the average height for a man (5’10) and ideal bodyweight (68.5kg) who does some light exercise, your daily intake would be around 2,307.
Back in the day an obese person was the oddity. The tables have turned I’m afraid.
Whens the last time this was posted and immediately shown to be wrong?
The FAO who came up with the figures referenced in this according to the reference material, had listed Ireland’s daily consumption of calories between 1990 and 1992 as 3620cals and between 1995 and 1997 as 3610cals. So why all of a sudden is obesity a problem now and only recently if we have been consuming mass calories for the better part of three decades?
Something is off with their historical data, which makes me think the same for their current data.
I’d question when the data was pulled. It could very well have been bulking season
Doubt – everyone knows 75% of statistics are made up on the spot anyway
WE’RE NO.1 BABY TAKE THAT DENMARK!
not very accurate