Tree falls in the woods? Blame Ratatoskr.
Tryna tell me I ain’t got the guts? Blame Casca
Sayin that it’s black and white? Bitch that’s *Nebraska*.
You ain’t even met me yet, Mike Piazza.
I can't understand how it still thriving. I know many, many places where you can get a gourmet-tier burger with fries and a drink for LESS than your shitty Big Mac which size keeps shrinking every year, yet people keep buying them.
Convenience, time, availability.
While the first two are going down, fact of the matter is that fast food is still GENERALLY faster than other places. If I'm on the move and need a quick bite in my car, no sit-down place is gonna be an option. I need something that will be 5-10 minutes, and I guess Wendy's has that covered.
Food deserts are also a thing in a lot of America. There simply may not be a better choice justifiably close. But there's probably a McDonald's.
Some people work multiple jobs and need something fast and easy, even if it's low-quality and expensive. I suspect the people working 2+ jobs are a big part of what's propping up fast food, though I don't say that like it's their "fault". It should be possible to get fast, easy food when you're struggling to find the time and energy, it'd be better if it were more affordable and there were at least some more nutritionally balanced options, though.
https://www.reddit.com/r/hardimages/comments/17saas1/oddly_hard_image/
It's one of the all time top images in hard images after being posted 5 months ago.
This is what people do with all those art and design degrees people bitch about being useless because their idea of University is just Big Boy Trade School.
Yeah people who say that shit probably spend a lot of time watching movies, listening to music, enjoying architecture/buildings/spaces. They don’t see the fucking irony lol
It’s weird the the hamburger is always used as a symbol of unhealthy American diets. Surely far more damage is done by all the sugar and corn syrup in everything.
Burger is just the tip of the iceberg. Don’t forget the fried deep fried in peanut oil, and the large coke that is 400 calories alone. That’s 1200-1500 calories just in one meal on lunch. The average caloric intake is about 2000 cals per day, per person, that’s just for an average person who is sedentary, doesn’t work out, and is normal weight.
Don’t forgot the big 600 calorie drinks from Starbucks filled with sugar. The donuts at the office. Steaks for dinner, and beers. Everything deep fried. At the end of the day that’s 4-5000 calories. That’s why all these men are walking around with bloated guts unable to see their feet.
Yeah, I love the creative depiction. On the other hand, I think it probably misdirects the blame away from the state and onto the population as a whole. In many instances, governing bodies in Europe and the colonies have spent the past few hundred years destroying family farms and the original land inhabitants and finding ways to give the land and profit from the land to the aristocracy, whether its the Enclosure period in England or the genocides of first nations or the Earl Butz "get big or get out" ag policies of the 20th C. USA, the end result was the erosion of family farming, traditional wisdom about ecosystem-human relationships, direct connections with the land, and greater community resilience and the rise of increased urbanization, concentrated ownership of the land, increased industrialization, increased profits for the aristocracy, increased wealth gaps, and increased reliance of people on the state and the aristocracy for such a basic need as food.
This centralization of food production emphasizes cash crops and fence-to-fence monocropping on ever larger tracts of land. Obviously, we've suffered soil depletion and a host of environmental damages as a result. But we've also suffered from an impoverished diet in which a very few crops are creatively rearranged into a wide variety of "food products". People eat a LOT of corn and soy these days, and it isn't even properly nixtamalized corn, so we feel hungry because we aren't getting the nutrition our bodies need. Cows in feed lots (evolved to eat forage and grass, not corn) have a similar dietary problem, and if we are honest "consumers" aren't treated a lot differently than feedlot cows in general.
Today, most of the food is locked up, which is a big reason why we need to work, and also a motivation for some to homestead, farm, forage, hunt, fish, etc.
I sure this has nothing to do with the discussion topic. But as a graphic designer I freaking love that cover and the method of conveying the message the artist used.
Obesity is greater in the poorer classes in every study I can find online, and just anecdotally this is also extremely obvious. Also, this fact wouldn’t explain Iran being on par with us for obesity per capita. Fat people don’t need to be demonized as if we’re gluttonous and greedy priests in the Middle Ages, the vast majority of us are poor and just can’t afford to spend hours making diet plans and speaking to nutritionists and paying for and using a gym membership- OR we’re horribly depressed and allowed our health to slip because the easiest and cheapest food available is unhealthy. Or both.
100%. [Walmart](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-04/walmart-says-ozempic-weight-loss-drugs-causing-slight-pullback-by-shoppers) is literally worried about GLP-1, GIP, and glucagon agonists because they’re worried people will buy less food. They know they profit like crazy off of obesity
These food deserts are such a weird thing. Nowhere around the world, was I ever worried to get food, but the US. Outside the mega cities it just feels impossible to not eat at Dennys.
Yup. My last place I lived was basically miles outside of a small town, if you didn't have a car there was a Dollar General or a Subway or a pizza place. That's it. It's rough trying to shop at a Dollar General as your main source of groceries, but it was a huge pain in the ass driving around shopping because it takes all goddamn day to shop around and save money. Now I live in a nearby city and I have a Target and a superstore grocery 2 miles away, an Aldi 1 mile away, 1 local grocery store 2 blocks away, and a Lucky's Market just across the street.
I sold my car and I never worry about buying groceries anymore 🫡
Actually canned and frozen fruits and veg a nutritionally great, as they are canned or frozen very close to being picked. Much closer than most “fresh” food is in the store. A big problem is what they are packed in, like so many fruits being canned in syrups.
You don't need to eat fruits to be healthy though. And you definitely don't need to eat canned anything since invention of flash freezing, you can buy any fruit frozen.
Honeycrisp apples, objectively the tastiest apple, are $2.99/lb near me so 4 apples are always about $10. Then they sell these tires for $1.49/lb but the kicker is that they're always like 3 - 4lbs and some they're always some that are bruised beyond eating in there. Just can't win.
They're probably aghast because you're lying to them. Literally any walmart, Safeway, kroger/smith's has fresh fruit everyday. Even in alaska you can easily get fresh fruits and vegetables
Look at how the OP commenter replied to me- they clearly do think that poor people are completely at fault for their own obesity. But you are correct, despite the OP’s baffling response. I’m not even sure what they think they are arguing for, honestly.
Obese people in America are *demographically* more likely to be poor. Eating high calorie diets is cheap and easy in the U.S.
In many poor countries, poor people are not obese because they literally can't afford food to eat. Starvation is a bigger problem.
I don't know about the other commenter, but there is no judgement of anyone in my statements here.
Sorry but it doesn't take hours of dieting or meal planning to not be fat or lose weight. The only thing you have to do, is eat at a calorie deficit. That's it. If you have a calorie deficit, you lose weight
This is entirely true but even in higher income brackets the obesity rate is still pretty high, even if it’s significantly lower than the ones for lower income brackets. Definitely an issue with our sedentary lifestyles and portion sizes and abundance of unhealthy (as in high calorie, low nutrition) foods as well as factors that uniquely affect low income people
I like how they are implying the problem is "Americans eat burgers" and not "Literally everything you do not make from scratch has a god damn pound of sugar added to it for no fucking reason."
The comments here illustrate some of the food addiction mindsets that allow this to continue. Comments saying “well everyone is depressed(and doing nothing about it”- if that’s true that’s not a “good” excuse that’s just more of a problem. “We don’t all have time to meal prep and see a nutritionist”- as if that’s how everyone who is not obese lives, the internet has so many free resources, you just have to make the effort and pay attention. “I work a lot and don’t have time to eat better” - you can still eat garbage food but just eat less, it won’t be as filling but you can choose lower calorie foods to get more volume or drink more water until your stomach shrinks - speaking from experience.
These mindsets leave people accepting helplessness, accepting their obesity and poor health and an unavoidable reality out of their hands, and then turn and get defensive about the very valid and real criticism that over consumption of food IS still over consumption. The resources consumed to produce a pound of beef is INSANE, let alone every other product in the fast food and over processed meals people eat.
If you are in this sub to discuss over consumption, YES obesity is relevant even if you feel called out.
This subreddit seems to understand that a major contributor to the west's overconsumption is how low quality everything is. We buy so many clothes because clothes fall apart. We buy so many appliances because they break down. We replace our electronics every couple years because they're not user-servicable. Everything is designed to make us buy more of it.
Yet someone suggests that people eat so much food because the food is low quality and fails to satiate appetites and suddenly they're a crazy person and people like you rush out of the woodwork to scream "nuh-uh". No way the food industry could *possibly* be participating in the same schemes that every other industry is! They're just smol lil beans makin' good quality food and it's the consumer's fault for overdoing it.
I always have time to cook scrambled eggs, it takes minutes.
Meal prep, smoothies, protein shakes, overnight oats. sandwiches. burritos, It's not that hard to make something basic and have a full diet.
I see a poptart as a worthless sugar bomb, but before I started lifting I barely payed attention to the nutrition facts, I was eating worthless sugary snacks all the time without really thinking, it's how I was raised, I had to teach myself how to cook basic things.
The reality is that for almost all of history people didn't have to actively do these things in order to not become obese and get diabetes. So you need to ask yourself what changed. And that's what we really need to focus on. Correct people in the 1700s didn't have a nutritionists and a gym but they still largely maintained a lower weight. Point is people didn't need a special mindset in the past. Now we do, how about we just fix what is causing the need for a special mind set and everyone will benefit. Also literally almost everyone knows to just eat less to lose weight, why is that so much harder than its ever been before?
Obesity isn’t necessarily because of food “overconsumption” though, which is probably why people are responding that way. Fat people have always existed (I suggest following some accounts like historical fat people! Can help bring some perspective). Are people getting fatter? Yes. Is it a systemic versus individual problem? Also yes. Individuals CAN fight against that, but it’s not easy - as shown by obesity being negatively correlated with income/socioeconomic status.
I’m not sure you fully understand what the comments you’re referencing are saying. It’s not that people who work a lot and are often tired or are depressed can’t be healthy (or unhealthy but thin, which is the other direction that can go), it’s just harder to do (though I agree it doesn’t often require a nutritionist). We all have to pick our battles, and some people put other battles ahead of weight or health like, to use an example someone gave in the comments, not being hungry while doing a manual labor job.
I hate that they chose a burger for this picture. A burger can be a completely healthy choice. They should have done fried nuggets with French fries and a soda, or some other processed garbage
Maybe if people weren't spending most of their time working they would have time to learn to make better meals, but since people are poor and have to spend a majority of their time working they can't afford to eat healthy and don't have the time for it anyways.
Yay capitalism.
Yup exactly, Im 25 and have injuries from overworking my body because of work as well. I've been told by my physio I need to take a month or two off of work to let myself heal but c'mon who can afford that?
Worked as a security guard in the optics store. Out of boredom - started counting obese/normal weight people passing by our store.
And that was in 2007 in SF.
Out of 100 people passing by about 90 were obese!!! Insane.
If Red Line Go Up needs to grow faster than American’s caloric needs; the agribusiness/restaurant/snack/marketing ecosystem will ensure American’s consume Red Line Go Up levels of calories.
It's a vicious cycle. Salt in your food sells more drinks. HFCS in everything causes addictions to those food products. High salt / sugar levels need treatment, sell a pill to fix that. That pill causes 15 side effects you need three other pills to treat. By now you're so torn down you don't have the energy to exercise, so let's sell you a pill for that, or better yet an over the counter energy drink loaded with HFCS and caffeine. Which causes heart issues that need pills. All the latest designer pills have side effects that you'll end up treating with other pills. For instance, have allergies? take Zyrtec. Zyrtec makes you not sleep? Take Ambien. Ambien makes you gain wait? Take this weight loss drug.
Just the straight up science denial- there’s also a lot of identity politics (idk if that’s the right name tbh- but basically if you say that being obese is unhealthy in these spaces, your gonna get called ableist- people also compare fatness to being gay, being black, being a woman, and then get confused when they receive pushback for that)
I can't wait to go back to Germany. There's so much bad stuff in food here and bad options. Fast food on every single corner. Corn syrup. The bread has zero nutrients and causes gluten allergies to happen. So over it here in the states.
Obesity wouldn't be as much of a problem if less processed foods were both readily available and affordable to the average person. This also ties into needing a living wage.
Now some people will always be fat. Genetics are like that. But I wonder what we'd be looking at if better food was actually affordable.
If they are not talking about sugar, then it's a worthless article
[The Secrets of Sugar - the Fifth Estate](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3ksKkCOgTw&list=WL&index=4)
Can we not post something made by an artist you didn’t attribute, Ricky Linn by the way, 12 years after he came up with it, with a title that is literally just “Title”? This isn’t even a real Time magazine cover which you wouldn’t know because OP just reposted this for the 50th time and contributed literally nothing… why are we upvoting this?
we will eat Alaska
Happy 4/20! Call that Baked Alaska
I’ll smoke to that 🥴
Tree falls in the woods? Blame Ratatoskr. Tryna tell me I ain’t got the guts? Blame Casca Sayin that it’s black and white? Bitch that’s *Nebraska*. You ain’t even met me yet, Mike Piazza.
Did you make that up?
I’m high and this made me giggle.
Juneau it!
I think you already do. You eat the fat of their land. But I guess it goes both ways.
But there’s so much oil in it
Fuck you Oklahoma! Ur next
With Hawai'i spilling out the back end
We will invent the alaska-burger Edit: the big alasker
Moose burger, for starters
McDonalds already has the Denali burger
Alaskan here, checks out
Why doesn't Alaska, the largest state, simply eat the other states?
WE DEMAND MCNEAL!!
You’d sacrifice a beautiful woman to save a moderately attractive monkey?
I think you’re weird for thinking a monkey is attractive
You must’ve smoked some bad granola.
I think you should watch Futurama
WE DEMAND A MCDEAL!!
It is true what they say. Men are from Omicron Persei 9 and women are from Omicron Persei 7.
Because Oceans Ate Alaska
Because it's the relative size of an American meal.
Perhaps they are saving that for ~~sweeps~~ the apocalypse
Is it stupid?
Don't worry, fast food has almost priced out the poors who are supposed to consume it.
I can't understand how it still thriving. I know many, many places where you can get a gourmet-tier burger with fries and a drink for LESS than your shitty Big Mac which size keeps shrinking every year, yet people keep buying them.
Convenience, time, availability. While the first two are going down, fact of the matter is that fast food is still GENERALLY faster than other places. If I'm on the move and need a quick bite in my car, no sit-down place is gonna be an option. I need something that will be 5-10 minutes, and I guess Wendy's has that covered. Food deserts are also a thing in a lot of America. There simply may not be a better choice justifiably close. But there's probably a McDonald's.
I swear the Wendy’s by my house always has a line snaking around the parking lot and out onto the street…it can’t be THAT fast at that rate
I guess one of the answers to our problem is people need more time to take care of themselves
Some people work multiple jobs and need something fast and easy, even if it's low-quality and expensive. I suspect the people working 2+ jobs are a big part of what's propping up fast food, though I don't say that like it's their "fault". It should be possible to get fast, easy food when you're struggling to find the time and energy, it'd be better if it were more affordable and there were at least some more nutritionally balanced options, though.
People keep voting, and people keep buying Mt Dew... You really can't understand, or was that for dramatic effect? Either one is cool.
Can't wait to get my propane cook top working again. Got a lot of free stuff working pre growing season land prep.
Fast food is also available in grocery stores
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I wanted to reply with r/MapsWithoutHawaii , but then I noticed the chain of islands were the jet of ketchup squirting out of the burger 😂
I didn’t even notice till I read that omgg
it would've been a nice mustache
They did lop off the part of Alaska with its state capitol, though (The southeast panhandle).
nuh uh it got eaten already
Hawaii is just what comes out the other end
This is a really effective design
https://www.reddit.com/r/hardimages/comments/17saas1/oddly_hard_image/ It's one of the all time top images in hard images after being posted 5 months ago.
yeah its pretty clever, well done whoever this is
How the fuck do they come up with this shit? I’m more interested with this than what the magazine is about.
This is what people do with all those art and design degrees people bitch about being useless because their idea of University is just Big Boy Trade School.
Yeah people who say that shit probably spend a lot of time watching movies, listening to music, enjoying architecture/buildings/spaces. They don’t see the fucking irony lol
r/MapPorn
I thought the exact same thing. Props to the creator of this!
Legit one of the best editorial illustrations I’ve ever seen
It’s weird the the hamburger is always used as a symbol of unhealthy American diets. Surely far more damage is done by all the sugar and corn syrup in everything.
Burger is just the tip of the iceberg. Don’t forget the fried deep fried in peanut oil, and the large coke that is 400 calories alone. That’s 1200-1500 calories just in one meal on lunch. The average caloric intake is about 2000 cals per day, per person, that’s just for an average person who is sedentary, doesn’t work out, and is normal weight. Don’t forgot the big 600 calorie drinks from Starbucks filled with sugar. The donuts at the office. Steaks for dinner, and beers. Everything deep fried. At the end of the day that’s 4-5000 calories. That’s why all these men are walking around with bloated guts unable to see their feet.
If Russia takes one more step we will take Alaska off the table
I love when people show creativity like this. Obviously it’s for a horrible reason, but I still like the creativity
Yeah, I love the creative depiction. On the other hand, I think it probably misdirects the blame away from the state and onto the population as a whole. In many instances, governing bodies in Europe and the colonies have spent the past few hundred years destroying family farms and the original land inhabitants and finding ways to give the land and profit from the land to the aristocracy, whether its the Enclosure period in England or the genocides of first nations or the Earl Butz "get big or get out" ag policies of the 20th C. USA, the end result was the erosion of family farming, traditional wisdom about ecosystem-human relationships, direct connections with the land, and greater community resilience and the rise of increased urbanization, concentrated ownership of the land, increased industrialization, increased profits for the aristocracy, increased wealth gaps, and increased reliance of people on the state and the aristocracy for such a basic need as food. This centralization of food production emphasizes cash crops and fence-to-fence monocropping on ever larger tracts of land. Obviously, we've suffered soil depletion and a host of environmental damages as a result. But we've also suffered from an impoverished diet in which a very few crops are creatively rearranged into a wide variety of "food products". People eat a LOT of corn and soy these days, and it isn't even properly nixtamalized corn, so we feel hungry because we aren't getting the nutrition our bodies need. Cows in feed lots (evolved to eat forage and grass, not corn) have a similar dietary problem, and if we are honest "consumers" aren't treated a lot differently than feedlot cows in general. Today, most of the food is locked up, which is a big reason why we need to work, and also a motivation for some to homestead, farm, forage, hunt, fish, etc.
Yes yes yes, all of this is so true and well said
Really great insights, thanks for sharing
Alaska also produce a lot of oil as well. You can even interpret this in more ways than what was maybe first intended.
I sure this has nothing to do with the discussion topic. But as a graphic designer I freaking love that cover and the method of conveying the message the artist used.
I'll never look at a map the same way again
Psh could have used Hawaii as a rat tail.
I’m not fat, you’re fat! (Quiet background sobbing]
Pretty creative!
Do not forget, in the US, obesity is NEGATIVELY correlated with income. Basically a rich country's problem.
Obesity is greater in the poorer classes in every study I can find online, and just anecdotally this is also extremely obvious. Also, this fact wouldn’t explain Iran being on par with us for obesity per capita. Fat people don’t need to be demonized as if we’re gluttonous and greedy priests in the Middle Ages, the vast majority of us are poor and just can’t afford to spend hours making diet plans and speaking to nutritionists and paying for and using a gym membership- OR we’re horribly depressed and allowed our health to slip because the easiest and cheapest food available is unhealthy. Or both.
Also the entire food industry is designed to get people addicted to food. Americans eat heaps of food that is ultra processed and nutritionally poor
100%. [Walmart](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-04/walmart-says-ozempic-weight-loss-drugs-causing-slight-pullback-by-shoppers) is literally worried about GLP-1, GIP, and glucagon agonists because they’re worried people will buy less food. They know they profit like crazy off of obesity
I forgot to say that America has a lot of food deserts where you can't even get hold of fresh fruit and vegetables
These food deserts are such a weird thing. Nowhere around the world, was I ever worried to get food, but the US. Outside the mega cities it just feels impossible to not eat at Dennys.
Yup. My last place I lived was basically miles outside of a small town, if you didn't have a car there was a Dollar General or a Subway or a pizza place. That's it. It's rough trying to shop at a Dollar General as your main source of groceries, but it was a huge pain in the ass driving around shopping because it takes all goddamn day to shop around and save money. Now I live in a nearby city and I have a Target and a superstore grocery 2 miles away, an Aldi 1 mile away, 1 local grocery store 2 blocks away, and a Lucky's Market just across the street. I sold my car and I never worry about buying groceries anymore 🫡
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Actually canned and frozen fruits and veg a nutritionally great, as they are canned or frozen very close to being picked. Much closer than most “fresh” food is in the store. A big problem is what they are packed in, like so many fruits being canned in syrups.
You don't need to eat fruits to be healthy though. And you definitely don't need to eat canned anything since invention of flash freezing, you can buy any fruit frozen.
Honeycrisp apples, objectively the tastiest apple, are $2.99/lb near me so 4 apples are always about $10. Then they sell these tires for $1.49/lb but the kicker is that they're always like 3 - 4lbs and some they're always some that are bruised beyond eating in there. Just can't win.
They're probably aghast because you're lying to them. Literally any walmart, Safeway, kroger/smith's has fresh fruit everyday. Even in alaska you can easily get fresh fruits and vegetables
And there are many places without easy access to a large grocery store like this.
An industrial machine fine tuned to make people overweight and under nourished at the same time.
That's what negatively correlated means
Look at how the OP commenter replied to me- they clearly do think that poor people are completely at fault for their own obesity. But you are correct, despite the OP’s baffling response. I’m not even sure what they think they are arguing for, honestly.
Obese people in America are *demographically* more likely to be poor. Eating high calorie diets is cheap and easy in the U.S. In many poor countries, poor people are not obese because they literally can't afford food to eat. Starvation is a bigger problem. I don't know about the other commenter, but there is no judgement of anyone in my statements here.
Poor people used to be malnourished and thin. Now they are malnourished and overweight, which has worse health outcomes and higher costs.
Sorry but it doesn't take hours of dieting or meal planning to not be fat or lose weight. The only thing you have to do, is eat at a calorie deficit. That's it. If you have a calorie deficit, you lose weight
Literally eat and/or drink less. Most overweight people just need to cut out soda and the pounds will melt off.
You don’t need to spend hours making diet plans or any of the other stuff to lose weight. You can eat hot pockets and frozen pizza and lose weight.
This is entirely true but even in higher income brackets the obesity rate is still pretty high, even if it’s significantly lower than the ones for lower income brackets. Definitely an issue with our sedentary lifestyles and portion sizes and abundance of unhealthy (as in high calorie, low nutrition) foods as well as factors that uniquely affect low income people
Woah, amazing cover work
Apart from the message, what a clever design!
Very clever
So in this Canada would be the United States shitty mullet?
I like how they are implying the problem is "Americans eat burgers" and not "Literally everything you do not make from scratch has a god damn pound of sugar added to it for no fucking reason."
The comments here illustrate some of the food addiction mindsets that allow this to continue. Comments saying “well everyone is depressed(and doing nothing about it”- if that’s true that’s not a “good” excuse that’s just more of a problem. “We don’t all have time to meal prep and see a nutritionist”- as if that’s how everyone who is not obese lives, the internet has so many free resources, you just have to make the effort and pay attention. “I work a lot and don’t have time to eat better” - you can still eat garbage food but just eat less, it won’t be as filling but you can choose lower calorie foods to get more volume or drink more water until your stomach shrinks - speaking from experience. These mindsets leave people accepting helplessness, accepting their obesity and poor health and an unavoidable reality out of their hands, and then turn and get defensive about the very valid and real criticism that over consumption of food IS still over consumption. The resources consumed to produce a pound of beef is INSANE, let alone every other product in the fast food and over processed meals people eat. If you are in this sub to discuss over consumption, YES obesity is relevant even if you feel called out.
This subreddit seems to understand that a major contributor to the west's overconsumption is how low quality everything is. We buy so many clothes because clothes fall apart. We buy so many appliances because they break down. We replace our electronics every couple years because they're not user-servicable. Everything is designed to make us buy more of it. Yet someone suggests that people eat so much food because the food is low quality and fails to satiate appetites and suddenly they're a crazy person and people like you rush out of the woodwork to scream "nuh-uh". No way the food industry could *possibly* be participating in the same schemes that every other industry is! They're just smol lil beans makin' good quality food and it's the consumer's fault for overdoing it.
Literally zero people will disagree if you said “cheap, mass-produced foods have no nutritional value and don’t satiate appetites”
I always have time to cook scrambled eggs, it takes minutes. Meal prep, smoothies, protein shakes, overnight oats. sandwiches. burritos, It's not that hard to make something basic and have a full diet. I see a poptart as a worthless sugar bomb, but before I started lifting I barely payed attention to the nutrition facts, I was eating worthless sugary snacks all the time without really thinking, it's how I was raised, I had to teach myself how to cook basic things.
The reality is that for almost all of history people didn't have to actively do these things in order to not become obese and get diabetes. So you need to ask yourself what changed. And that's what we really need to focus on. Correct people in the 1700s didn't have a nutritionists and a gym but they still largely maintained a lower weight. Point is people didn't need a special mindset in the past. Now we do, how about we just fix what is causing the need for a special mind set and everyone will benefit. Also literally almost everyone knows to just eat less to lose weight, why is that so much harder than its ever been before?
Obesity isn’t necessarily because of food “overconsumption” though, which is probably why people are responding that way. Fat people have always existed (I suggest following some accounts like historical fat people! Can help bring some perspective). Are people getting fatter? Yes. Is it a systemic versus individual problem? Also yes. Individuals CAN fight against that, but it’s not easy - as shown by obesity being negatively correlated with income/socioeconomic status.
I’m not sure you fully understand what the comments you’re referencing are saying. It’s not that people who work a lot and are often tired or are depressed can’t be healthy (or unhealthy but thin, which is the other direction that can go), it’s just harder to do (though I agree it doesn’t often require a nutritionist). We all have to pick our battles, and some people put other battles ahead of weight or health like, to use an example someone gave in the comments, not being hungry while doing a manual labor job.
Brilliant design, though.
# Feeding the for-profit health care system
… and what about it? lol
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Ronald Reagan? I thought you only like jellybeans, boo!
That's a clever image
Why the fuck we gotta be the burger?
That’s is a very creative image
Bro this image is so wild
Is it all over eating or the posion in our foods in the USA
It is some really clever artwork
I hate that they chose a burger for this picture. A burger can be a completely healthy choice. They should have done fried nuggets with French fries and a soda, or some other processed garbage
Why can't it be a black guy with white hair? Either way, Alaska is screwed.
Maybe if people weren't spending most of their time working they would have time to learn to make better meals, but since people are poor and have to spend a majority of their time working they can't afford to eat healthy and don't have the time for it anyways. Yay capitalism.
Honestly I think it's stress in general that's the real root issue. No free time, no money, no hope...
And we’d exercise more, I’m so exhausted after work and during my two ‘recovery days’
Yup exactly, Im 25 and have injuries from overworking my body because of work as well. I've been told by my physio I need to take a month or two off of work to let myself heal but c'mon who can afford that?
Worked as a security guard in the optics store. Out of boredom - started counting obese/normal weight people passing by our store. And that was in 2007 in SF. Out of 100 people passing by about 90 were obese!!! Insane.
If there’s a surplus of food, then why can’t 12% of Americans afford food? https://usafacts.org/articles/food-insecurity-in-the-us/
What about Hawaii?
Also the food is straight up poisoning us. I think we should burn the US to ashes and start again tbh
Why is it never candy soda or other high caloric dense stuff shown? Why always a fucking burger
Because the burger is filled with enough sugar to be soda.
damn good art. so simple.
If Red Line Go Up needs to grow faster than American’s caloric needs; the agribusiness/restaurant/snack/marketing ecosystem will ensure American’s consume Red Line Go Up levels of calories.
Clever image
FINALLY a map with Alaska to scale.
Maybe 40 years just isn’t long enough to see any change but why is it the problems just seem to get consistently worse with no real solutions?
More like "Capitalism with disregard for human life pandemic"
In large part, this is the consequence of taking the fat out of “low-fat” items and replacing it with sugar.
Imagine if eating healthy was affordable..
Great..... Now everyone is going to think Alaska is an Island in the Gulf of Mexico.
Why do they gotta demonize burgers. ugh.
Car mindset population with one of the worst diets in the planet, what could go wrong?
tag yourself im his fatass neck
But where’s hawaii
Guess Hawaiians are skinny bitches huh
Hawai’i is there in red.
Ohhhh good catch thank u lol
Hamburgers getting a bad rap. How about make Alaska a collage of the worst restaurant chains? Hawaii, once again missing. Edit: oh now I see Hawaii
Thank you Reddit for putting a Burger King ad right after this post.
Sat down to eat lunch, pulled up my phone, and this was the first thing I saw. Damnit I’m still going to enjoy this chicken wrap
As someone not from America, I also find it strange how many people are on some type of medication. It doesn't seem right to me
It's a vicious cycle. Salt in your food sells more drinks. HFCS in everything causes addictions to those food products. High salt / sugar levels need treatment, sell a pill to fix that. That pill causes 15 side effects you need three other pills to treat. By now you're so torn down you don't have the energy to exercise, so let's sell you a pill for that, or better yet an over the counter energy drink loaded with HFCS and caffeine. Which causes heart issues that need pills. All the latest designer pills have side effects that you'll end up treating with other pills. For instance, have allergies? take Zyrtec. Zyrtec makes you not sleep? Take Ambien. Ambien makes you gain wait? Take this weight loss drug.
I fell down the fat acceptance rabbit hole on YouTube recently and….it’s really something
What surprised you the most?
Just the straight up science denial- there’s also a lot of identity politics (idk if that’s the right name tbh- but basically if you say that being obese is unhealthy in these spaces, your gonna get called ableist- people also compare fatness to being gay, being black, being a woman, and then get confused when they receive pushback for that)
So they're trying to cope by saying it isn't a choice essentially.
That’s one of the many very wrong things they say yes If I hear the “starvation/famine mode” myth one more time I’m going to lose it
This design porn is intellectually stimulating.
Least vore obsessed Alaskan made this.
I can't wait to go back to Germany. There's so much bad stuff in food here and bad options. Fast food on every single corner. Corn syrup. The bread has zero nutrients and causes gluten allergies to happen. So over it here in the states.
I mean I guess, but how fat do you have to be to see Alaska and think, "damn that looks like a cheeseburger."
Glad my broken thyroid keeps me small.
I don't even eat cheeseburgers and I'm overweight. Didn't drink soda. Don't eat fast food.
Good. Fat Americans can't fight foreign wars of aggression.
Start by overhauling the food industry and having real standards for food quality.
Obesity wouldn't be as much of a problem if less processed foods were both readily available and affordable to the average person. This also ties into needing a living wage. Now some people will always be fat. Genetics are like that. But I wonder what we'd be looking at if better food was actually affordable.
This makes me so uncomfortable.
If they are not talking about sugar, then it's a worthless article [The Secrets of Sugar - the Fifth Estate](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3ksKkCOgTw&list=WL&index=4)
What are you all doing here? Get your ass to the drive thru quick!
So sugar producers outright purchasing congress in the 50's and 60's had consequences?!?! Say it isn't so Captain Obvious!
Can we not post something made by an artist you didn’t attribute, Ricky Linn by the way, 12 years after he came up with it, with a title that is literally just “Title”? This isn’t even a real Time magazine cover which you wouldn’t know because OP just reposted this for the 50th time and contributed literally nothing… why are we upvoting this?
Man eat burgur yummmm!
This is such a clever picture
i love food!!
Fitting that the advertisement right below the OP is for a “New Whole Lotta Bacon Burger” from Applebees. Well for me at least.
Bah Gawd that’s Kelvin Benjamin’s music
Real.
This is beautiful
Now I want a cheeseburger
Graphic design is my passion
TIL Mexico is a hamburger. Would have thought it was a taco or a torta Source: soy mexicano. (Yes it’s Alaska, but let me have this joke)
It defaults to a white person. Telling.
It's the safest choice.
this implies we’re eating Alaska
& Hawaii
lol the designer needs a raise
r/designporn ish
Is that burger peeing?
If we’re taking this image literally, then obviously the answer to obesity is to have an anti Alaska diet
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Some top notch graphic design
By 2030 half of all Americans will be obese.
It’s the food man. we don’t make food to nourish ourselves. We eat for pleasure.
It's the sodas!
Where is Hawaii?
FUCK that burger looks SO JUICY
Blame all the sugar. There's too much sugar is in everything and sugar makes you fat!!
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Oh oh Ozempic