They walk more. That's it. That's the secret.
this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2025
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I can do my weekly shopping without having to get in the car. Because in Europe everything's all mixed together rather than zoned into miles of endless residential, that you have to drive for 25 minutes in order to leave to get to the big shopping mall was it's one million car parking spaces.
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And also didn't replace all the fat in their food with sugar processed from corn.
Fat doesn't turn into fat when you eat it - it turns into sugars, which then turn into fat. Eating sugar just takes one step out of the process and makes your body work less (and therefore burn less calories) turning it into fat.
We compensate with gym time, you can't outrun a cheeseburger
Not being able to outrun your diet is a really strange concept to me, and I've exclusively heard it in this thread, and multiple times in this thread. Dafuq?
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I lost weight after two weeks in Paris eating like a hedonist king because of all the walking.
"I visited europe" goes to the uk
The uk is somehow actually less european than the caucasian countries and kazakhstan which everyone criticizes for pretending to be european.
Is the UK american, or the US British?
How to start a war with a single question.
Fun related "fact": Shakespeare supposedly sounds more period-accurate in a generic American accent than a modern British accent because the British dramatically changed their accent some time after the US split and the American accent has changed less over the centuries.
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Notice how anon never mentions seeing any fat people tho...
The trend for obesitas in Europe has been steadily climbing. I read that in the Netherlands the adults have over 50% overweight
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It helps when everywhere in that mile radius (and more) is considered walking distance in much of Europe, but Americans would rather drive.
I fucking promise you we don't prefer to drive, it's the only option we have. Our government fucked us
Facts. One time we were talking about how cool it would be to live really close to a mall as a kid.
Then we realized that our local mall has no pedestrian crossings or even sidewalks, so you'd still have to get adults to drive you even if you were across the street. Or play frogger across several lanes
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We (Europeans) are just more active, including walking / cycling to work every day. Try it and see the difference.
i think it's not just "activity". lots of people in the US go to the gym a lot.
but what we have here in europe is integrating movements into everyday life. Like, when i drive anywhere in the city, it typically involves a 10 minute walk (to/from the subway/tram station). And i believe that does much more than going to the gym for 1 hour once a week. Because you stay moving daily, your body stays "awake" daily, instead of just waking up once a week and then falling back into slumber.
they also eat smaller portions, eat more non-processed food, etc, and have better food in schools and public institutions.
usa culture is the problem. our food culture is entirely different than most of europe.
the average take out meal in the usa is like 1200 calories, which is half your daily calories (or more if you are less than 200lbs) in europe it's like 800.
Anon needs to learn that the UK isn't representative of all of Europe
Europe does have an obesity crisis, and also nearly half of adults overweight. The UK is bad but not alone and not the highest.
But even then things are still not as bad as the USA. The obesity rate is about 23% in Europe compared to 43% in the US. Russia has an obesity rate of 30% skewing the European rate. For comparison other high European countries are Malta at 33%, Croatia at 31%, Ireland at 29%, Greece at 29%, UK at 27%, Germany at 21%. Lower rates are seen in Italy at 18% and France at 10%, but even those rates are not great - 1 in 10 people are obese and more are overweight.
So OP is right except the US is worse. Over a third of people are obese and many more are overweight - that is shocking even with how bad things are in Europe. It is certainly not projecting.
Edit: sorry the US obesity rate is 43% not 36%. Other figures updates to 2022 figures.
You've also got to consider that "obesity" is a single threshold. I've been to the US many times and there are WAY more morbidly obese people in the US, and some who are so fucking huge they would definitely turn heads in the EU.
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And yet the number of people obese in the USA is almost double that of the UK.
It’s the corn syrup more than the fried food honestly. The number of people who drink soda all day is wild.
I once had a conversation with a bariatric surgeon about weight loss. She was convinced that exercise was the key to sustainable weight loss. I disagreed, saying I thought diet was far more important, noting that most americans ate like trash. She seemed a bit offended that I was disagreeing with her, a doctor specializing in weight loss, about this topic. She was more understanding when I told her that I'd lost a lot of weight simply by cutting out soda. Her look then morphed to something akin to confused horror as I told her that, as a child, I had consistently drank an average of 6 cans of soda per day, every day, and I estimated that this was pretty standard for everyone I knew growing up.
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Carbs are much worse than fat. So drinking dozens of grams of sugar every day and putting sugar in every food is worse than eating fatty food.
You can't rate world cuisine on England
I love how the post never mentions the country, but everyone just knows.
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carne et lacte vivant
from caesar's report about the brits: they live off meat and milk
Britain is projected to be the fattest country in Europe. So don’t think all those chippies and pub food aren’t taking a toll.
Brits are fat too, they just don't have as many obese people as the States.
You can tell this is London. They have some weird streets where every single shop sells the same stuff.
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Wait, what is pea pure?
Misspelling of puree (or pureé), most likely referring to the UK's mushy peas,which are ubiquitous in chip shops over there
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Fat isn't unhealthy. Excess calories and absence of exercise is not healthy.
Also the U.K. population is unhealthy just like the U.S.
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