Cheaper, more prevalent high-sugar and ~~fatty~~ calorific foods combined with a worse work-life balance which makes those foods a more attractive source of dinner and snacks. I consider myself lucky that I get to find time to exercise every day, but I can see how that wouldn’t be possible for people who spend 12 hours of their day at a desk or commuting to said desk.
For anyone struggling, that £5 meal deal of a cheeseburger and fizzy drink is a cheap night in over the £18 food that’s being marketed as the healthy alternative. The fact a bottle of water can cost more than a sugar loaded can of fizz says it all. Whole system is busted.
The fact that eating real food is now considered dieting says it all.
These same folk will be wondering why their knees are fucked by 46, and the NHS wait times are so long lol
My wife just said she has put on significantly more than three fuckin inches since the 90’s.
Has there been an increase in alcohol consumption (as well as the many points already made) in these groups?
Like many others I can do with losing a few kg, but I can still just about squeeze into trousers I bought 20 years (that were probably a bit too loose back then).
It’s something we talk about but don’t really do anything about and worst of all some people try to stifle debate with accusations of fat shaming.
Living with obesity can also increase your risk of developing many potentially serious health conditions, including:
* type 2 diabetes
* high blood pressure
* high cholesterol and atherosclerosis (where fatty deposits narrow your arteries), which can lead to coronary heart disease and stroke
* asthma
* metabolic syndrome, a combination of diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity
* several types of cancer, including bowel cancer, breast cancer and womb cancer
* gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD), where stomach acid leaks out of the stomach and into the gullet
* gallstones
* reduced fertility
* osteoarthritis, a condition involving pain and stiffness in your joints
* sleep apnoea, a condition that causes interrupted breathing during sleep, which can lead to daytime sleepiness with an increased risk of road traffic accidents, as well as a greater risk of diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease
* liver disease and kidney disease
* pregnancy complications, such as gestational diabetes or pre-eclampsia, when a woman experiences a potentially dangerous rise in blood pressure during pregnancy
Obesity reduces life expectancy by an average of 3 to 10 years, depending on how severe it is.
Seems to be a grown disparity between those who are really into exercise and eating healthily and those on the other end of the scale. Losing weight isn’t difficult, just eat less calories than you burn. It isn’t fun, but it’s better than the alternatives.
Im here for the ‘what are the government doing about it’ comments…………
People talking about everyone being less healthy are forgetting the absolutely toxic element of the 90s where women were told that looking like a stick was the only way to be attractive
I used to think the main issue was low quality food, and although that certainly plays a strong factor, I am very much of the opinion now that the real issue is a lack of work>life balance.
People are so exhausted these days that they dont even have the mental energy or motivation to make food, and I honestly can’t blame them.
I’ve been losing weight slowly over about… 5 years now? Am 29F, 5″2 and started at 18 stone 6 pounds… this morning I weighed 11″11 despite eating too much for Christmas yesterday haha!
Finding the time to eat healthy is probably the biggest challenge overall. It’s easy to reach for less healthy options that are immediately available when you’re hungry.
There’s also so much bad advice. Diet companies don’t exist to help you keep the weight off. They’re a business. They want you to keep coming back and buying more weight loss products or services that barely work.
Time to share what I find the most concerning statistic.
Only 10% of *obese* Brits recognise that they are overweight:
the more miserable and unhealthy we are the easier it is for those in power to keep us under control.
all the better for them to t what they want, carry on stuffing money (made on the backs of the poor) into their bank accounts and pockets
We’ve vilified everything except sugar since the 90s, until the recent sugar tax on fizzy drinks.
Then theres the fact healthy options cost more than junk food. Bottles of water cost more than fizzy drinks.
Then of course, people are springing for a momentary pick me up with a chocolate bar because with inflation, global plagues and the like, this world is just a fucking horrible place to live.
We grew up in areas with signs saying “No Ball Games”, driving us indoors. Actually partaking in sports and healthy activities cost a fucking fortune…
When you think about it,… I’m just surprised it’s only 3 inches.
In the 90s how many people worked sat down at a desk compared to day?
I’m sure all the food delivery services that have become popular in recent years aren’t helping. Instead of a takeaway being an occasional treat you can now get McDonalds and Greggs daily at the touch of a button without even having to travel there to get it. It’s only getting more and more popular and it’s going to make the obesity crisis significantly worse over time.
It’s not really news is it?
Although it’s not actually what happens. Thin people are still as thin as they were before…the rest of the population getting fat didn’t increase my waist size. We are just in a minority now.
As such talking about ‘average waist size’ seems a bit misleading.
In the immortal words of Carl Malcolm:
Hey, fatty bum bum,
A sweet sugar dumpling.
Hey, fatty bum bum,
Let me tell you something.
No, not because you’re so big and fat,
Don’t believe I’m a-fraid of that
Safeness is no recomendation,
I’m looking for cre-a… tion.
Great song
Clearly the land whales around here haven’t been included
This has more to do with average age of people being higher than in the 90s. Older people usually have bigger waistlines.
I hate how Walkers have converted most of their single sold crisps into grab bags. I don’t want a massive bag. I understand more is good but these days I have to go to Subway to get a normal size crisps unless I get a multi pack.
What a shock, people have stopped trying to fit the unhealthy “heroin chic” body standards of the 90s in 2023.
Also, I noticed a comment from someone pointing out that mens waistlines have also grown by almost 3% too. Interesting that they only focus on womens’ bodies in this article. Sigh
I can only speak for myself on this but, when younger I used to bake a lot, it was so cheap to buy decent ingredients, get oven going, used to bake for all the family, knew exactly what was in the cakes and biscuits, no additives, no E numbers, good healthy home baking.
My mum used to do the cooking, she loved to cook home made meals, again all healthy and cheap even including the cooking cost of it all.
Then as time went on, it became way more expensive to buy the ingredients individually and add on top of that the cost of cooking at home, was far cheaper to buy pre-made, were they as healthy? hell no, but cost wise they were much cheaper.
I talk to many people in my home town and the moment I say I learned to bake at age 8 etc, they look at me like I’m an alien, most of them can barely heat up a microwave dinner, but in their defence, why bother learning to cook or bake when it is now way cheaper to just buy from a supermarket.
Then you got things like sweeteners, yes I know everyone got their own views on them, but cost wise, they are like 10 to 100 times the cost of sugar, so if you are on a budget, which are you going to buy? A very cheap big bag of sugar or a super expensive sweetener for same amount?
Obviously if you have a lot of spare cash and still choose the bad stuff then that’s ya own fault, but for many it ain’t a choice.
Need to make it far cheaper to cook from scratch at home than buying in a store, but that will never happen again.
This isn’t gender specific and sadly not even age specific now as more under 18s are overweight.
This shouldn’t be acceptable – it shouldn’t be passed as body shaming – it’s a health issue that comes at a cost to the person; society, healthcare.
Be it at a structural level and individual level – changes are needed: cheap food (calories are cheap) and lack of exercise to prevent weight gain.
And parents who allow their kids to be overweight – that should be questioned as much as allowing tooth decay in kids.
Surprise, surprise… people who are too lazy to learn how to cook meals from scratch are also too lazy to exercise.
That’s pretty good, I’ve gained much more than that since the 90s.
It’s more that people don’t have time off to exercise as they are always tired from work life.
Oh no, that’s terrible, I sure hope they didn’t gain inches on their butts too 👀.
The UK is one of the countries that produce the most food waste globally along with the US. We have so much food waste yet there are increasing number of people suffering from food insecurity. We also get fatter because of too much food and big portion sizes.
The 90s heroin chic fashion culture wasn’t really something to proud of to be fair
My waist is somewhere between 28 and 29 inches (I’m a 5’10 woman) and I still feel rubbish about it. My BMI is slightly overweight but all other metrics are alright. Trying to lose a stone or so
Quantity over quality food intake + alcohol = obesity
Why am I not surprised this thread of full of the usual drivel
Honestly, if Reddit was to go by, everyone works 23 hours a day in the coal mines and can’t possibly take 15 minutes to throw a meal together
And that’s before we even admit that food choice doesn’t matter. You can lose weight eating anything, as long as you don’t eat too much
This thread kinda proves that the number 1 reason for these added inches is everyone’s a full time victim that refuses to take any accountability for their own choices
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Men are also up *almost* three inches.
Cheaper, more prevalent high-sugar and ~~fatty~~ calorific foods combined with a worse work-life balance which makes those foods a more attractive source of dinner and snacks. I consider myself lucky that I get to find time to exercise every day, but I can see how that wouldn’t be possible for people who spend 12 hours of their day at a desk or commuting to said desk.
For anyone struggling, that £5 meal deal of a cheeseburger and fizzy drink is a cheap night in over the £18 food that’s being marketed as the healthy alternative. The fact a bottle of water can cost more than a sugar loaded can of fizz says it all. Whole system is busted.
The fact that eating real food is now considered dieting says it all.
These same folk will be wondering why their knees are fucked by 46, and the NHS wait times are so long lol
My wife just said she has put on significantly more than three fuckin inches since the 90’s.
Has there been an increase in alcohol consumption (as well as the many points already made) in these groups?
Like many others I can do with losing a few kg, but I can still just about squeeze into trousers I bought 20 years (that were probably a bit too loose back then).
It’s something we talk about but don’t really do anything about and worst of all some people try to stifle debate with accusations of fat shaming.
Worth reiterating the NHS advice regarding being [seriously overweight](https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/obesity/):
Living with obesity can also increase your risk of developing many potentially serious health conditions, including:
* type 2 diabetes
* high blood pressure
* high cholesterol and atherosclerosis (where fatty deposits narrow your arteries), which can lead to coronary heart disease and stroke
* asthma
* metabolic syndrome, a combination of diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity
* several types of cancer, including bowel cancer, breast cancer and womb cancer
* gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD), where stomach acid leaks out of the stomach and into the gullet
* gallstones
* reduced fertility
* osteoarthritis, a condition involving pain and stiffness in your joints
* sleep apnoea, a condition that causes interrupted breathing during sleep, which can lead to daytime sleepiness with an increased risk of road traffic accidents, as well as a greater risk of diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease
* liver disease and kidney disease
* pregnancy complications, such as gestational diabetes or pre-eclampsia, when a woman experiences a potentially dangerous rise in blood pressure during pregnancy
Obesity reduces life expectancy by an average of 3 to 10 years, depending on how severe it is.
Seems to be a grown disparity between those who are really into exercise and eating healthily and those on the other end of the scale. Losing weight isn’t difficult, just eat less calories than you burn. It isn’t fun, but it’s better than the alternatives.
Im here for the ‘what are the government doing about it’ comments…………
People talking about everyone being less healthy are forgetting the absolutely toxic element of the 90s where women were told that looking like a stick was the only way to be attractive
I used to think the main issue was low quality food, and although that certainly plays a strong factor, I am very much of the opinion now that the real issue is a lack of work>life balance.
People are so exhausted these days that they dont even have the mental energy or motivation to make food, and I honestly can’t blame them.
I’ve been losing weight slowly over about… 5 years now? Am 29F, 5″2 and started at 18 stone 6 pounds… this morning I weighed 11″11 despite eating too much for Christmas yesterday haha!
Finding the time to eat healthy is probably the biggest challenge overall. It’s easy to reach for less healthy options that are immediately available when you’re hungry.
There’s also so much bad advice. Diet companies don’t exist to help you keep the weight off. They’re a business. They want you to keep coming back and buying more weight loss products or services that barely work.
Time to share what I find the most concerning statistic.
Only 10% of *obese* Brits recognise that they are overweight:
https://www.businessinsider.com/obese-people-in-uk-unaware-they-have-a-weight-problem-2018-4?amp
the more miserable and unhealthy we are the easier it is for those in power to keep us under control.
all the better for them to t what they want, carry on stuffing money (made on the backs of the poor) into their bank accounts and pockets
We’ve vilified everything except sugar since the 90s, until the recent sugar tax on fizzy drinks.
Then theres the fact healthy options cost more than junk food. Bottles of water cost more than fizzy drinks.
Then of course, people are springing for a momentary pick me up with a chocolate bar because with inflation, global plagues and the like, this world is just a fucking horrible place to live.
We grew up in areas with signs saying “No Ball Games”, driving us indoors. Actually partaking in sports and healthy activities cost a fucking fortune…
When you think about it,… I’m just surprised it’s only 3 inches.
In the 90s how many people worked sat down at a desk compared to day?
I’m sure all the food delivery services that have become popular in recent years aren’t helping. Instead of a takeaway being an occasional treat you can now get McDonalds and Greggs daily at the touch of a button without even having to travel there to get it. It’s only getting more and more popular and it’s going to make the obesity crisis significantly worse over time.
It’s not really news is it?
Although it’s not actually what happens. Thin people are still as thin as they were before…the rest of the population getting fat didn’t increase my waist size. We are just in a minority now.
As such talking about ‘average waist size’ seems a bit misleading.
In the immortal words of Carl Malcolm:
Hey, fatty bum bum,
A sweet sugar dumpling.
Hey, fatty bum bum,
Let me tell you something.
No, not because you’re so big and fat,
Don’t believe I’m a-fraid of that
Safeness is no recomendation,
I’m looking for cre-a… tion.
Great song
Clearly the land whales around here haven’t been included
This has more to do with average age of people being higher than in the 90s. Older people usually have bigger waistlines.
I hate how Walkers have converted most of their single sold crisps into grab bags. I don’t want a massive bag. I understand more is good but these days I have to go to Subway to get a normal size crisps unless I get a multi pack.
What a shock, people have stopped trying to fit the unhealthy “heroin chic” body standards of the 90s in 2023.
Also, I noticed a comment from someone pointing out that mens waistlines have also grown by almost 3% too. Interesting that they only focus on womens’ bodies in this article. Sigh
I can only speak for myself on this but, when younger I used to bake a lot, it was so cheap to buy decent ingredients, get oven going, used to bake for all the family, knew exactly what was in the cakes and biscuits, no additives, no E numbers, good healthy home baking.
My mum used to do the cooking, she loved to cook home made meals, again all healthy and cheap even including the cooking cost of it all.
Then as time went on, it became way more expensive to buy the ingredients individually and add on top of that the cost of cooking at home, was far cheaper to buy pre-made, were they as healthy? hell no, but cost wise they were much cheaper.
I talk to many people in my home town and the moment I say I learned to bake at age 8 etc, they look at me like I’m an alien, most of them can barely heat up a microwave dinner, but in their defence, why bother learning to cook or bake when it is now way cheaper to just buy from a supermarket.
Then you got things like sweeteners, yes I know everyone got their own views on them, but cost wise, they are like 10 to 100 times the cost of sugar, so if you are on a budget, which are you going to buy? A very cheap big bag of sugar or a super expensive sweetener for same amount?
Obviously if you have a lot of spare cash and still choose the bad stuff then that’s ya own fault, but for many it ain’t a choice.
Need to make it far cheaper to cook from scratch at home than buying in a store, but that will never happen again.
This isn’t gender specific and sadly not even age specific now as more under 18s are overweight.
This shouldn’t be acceptable – it shouldn’t be passed as body shaming – it’s a health issue that comes at a cost to the person; society, healthcare.
Be it at a structural level and individual level – changes are needed: cheap food (calories are cheap) and lack of exercise to prevent weight gain.
And parents who allow their kids to be overweight – that should be questioned as much as allowing tooth decay in kids.
Surprise, surprise… people who are too lazy to learn how to cook meals from scratch are also too lazy to exercise.
That’s pretty good, I’ve gained much more than that since the 90s.
It’s more that people don’t have time off to exercise as they are always tired from work life.
Oh no, that’s terrible, I sure hope they didn’t gain inches on their butts too 👀.
The UK is one of the countries that produce the most food waste globally along with the US. We have so much food waste yet there are increasing number of people suffering from food insecurity. We also get fatter because of too much food and big portion sizes.
The 90s heroin chic fashion culture wasn’t really something to proud of to be fair
My waist is somewhere between 28 and 29 inches (I’m a 5’10 woman) and I still feel rubbish about it. My BMI is slightly overweight but all other metrics are alright. Trying to lose a stone or so
Quantity over quality food intake + alcohol = obesity
Why am I not surprised this thread of full of the usual drivel
Honestly, if Reddit was to go by, everyone works 23 hours a day in the coal mines and can’t possibly take 15 minutes to throw a meal together
And that’s before we even admit that food choice doesn’t matter. You can lose weight eating anything, as long as you don’t eat too much
This thread kinda proves that the number 1 reason for these added inches is everyone’s a full time victim that refuses to take any accountability for their own choices