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According to the debate, they had their reasons. But still -- when one hundred and eighty six nations say one thing, and two say another, you have to wonder about the two.

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[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Surely Americans above anyone else would want guaranteed access to food? Imagine them going a day without a hamburger?

(I'm poking fun, not being serious)

[–] FarmTaco@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

its easy to go a day without a hamburger, those are chicken nuggy days

[–] lugal@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or, as it's called in France, cakeday

[–] GabrielBell12fi@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

🌏👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀 always has been.

[–] lugal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

When breadtube is down, they can just celebrate cakeday

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

This is America, land of the free - as in you are free to fuck off and die, here's your bill. Capitalism won't allow for equitable distribution of basic resources because then line don't go up. We live in hell and claim it's a privilege, and I hate it.

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 12 points 1 month ago

That's part of the problem. Obesity and malnutrition go hand-in-hand in this country because healthy foods are more expensive and more difficult to procure and prepare for people who are just scraping by. People will rant and holler about how poor people are so stupid for buying and eating fast food when buying ingredients and cooking can be cheaper and is definitely healthier, but that does not account for the people who are working 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet and they simply do not have time for grocery shopping and cooking. There's also the astonishingly dystopian reality of "food deserts" where there are people who don't have access to actual grocery stores that sell fresh produce and meat. There are plenty of neighborhoods and even entire towns in America that do not have a store where they can buy fresh food, and even more where they don't have access to affordable fresh food. It's abominable.

As a medical professional, I see patients with tons of health problems including obesity, diabetes, hypertension, metabolic syndrome...the list goes on...and they simply do not have reliable, functional access to the healthier diet that would go a long way towards fixing those health problems. There are morbidly obese children with diseases like pellagra because of vitamin deficiencies, or obese people with muscle wasting because the food they have access to is mostly carbs and fat with very little protein. It is so frustrating and appalling to me that people on the outside of these situations look down on people struggling with obesity and diabetes and whatnot as if those people had any meaningful control over their situations.

One of my attending physicians in the family medicine clinic described it as "regular, small-town Midwest problems". Often, the best we can do is recommend that they try to get more fruits and vegetables, whole grains, fish or chicken instead of red meat....but we also prescribe multivitamins and weight loss, diabetes, and hypertension medications because insurance will at least help pay for those. Honestly, health insurance companies could save literal billions of dollars if they offered rebate programs for healthy food and supported local farmers' markets or something. Diet and exercise will lower someone's high blood pressure 5 times as much as most of the medications will.

[–] Fades@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

joke, got it, but actually 🤓☝️....

the US is #10 among countries ranked by obesity rate: https://data.worldobesity.org/rankings/

1 American Samoa 70.29%

2 Nauru 69.65%

3 Tokelau 67.05%

4 Cook Islands 66.05%

5 Niue 63.71%

6 Tonga 63.37%

7 Tuvalu 57.73%

8 Samoa 52.83%

9 French Polynesia 47.02%

10 United States 41.64%

alt source with slightly different rankings, where US is #14: https://www.worldatlas.com/society/the-most-obese-countries-in-the-world.html

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

American Samoa isn't a country. It's a US territory.

A lot of those others aren't countries either. Tokelau "belongs" to New Zealand. Niue and Cook islands are legally shaky as well.

The population for all combined above the US, compared to the entire US population is ridiculously low, and I feel like this is to distract from how massive the obesity issue is in the US. When excluding what are basically territories and at most micronations, the US has the most severe obesity issue.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Ok, now take out every country with a population smaller than 10.

[–] prof_wafflez@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Americans are too busy wasting food to consider others could eat it.