And this is the tallest waterfall on earth!
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You're implying there's some gaslighting going on but Europeans really don't see the American body type of... wider than taller, despite how piggy they are.
My old man was a drunk and enjoyed food immensely, did not diet a day in his life. And when he drove a sort of train for the Moomin theme park and saw some American tourists, he was utterly shocked.
We've round diabetics in Finland as well, but honestly the fattest ones I've seen barely come close to this guy.
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Fair point, but are we sure he was actually the world's fattest man, or was that just what the carnival barker that sold the tickets put on the sign?
Fattest man to have been photographed in 1890.
Average day at WalMart.
American way of life. Would you like a straw with your 2 liters soft drink?
I went to look up our soft drink sizes.
McDonald's large is 30 fl oz (890 ml). The Super Size, discontinued in the mid 2000's, was 42 fl oz (1240 ml).
The 7-Eleven Big Gulp is also 30 fl oz, but it's not the largest size offered. The Super Big Gulp is 40 fl oz (1180 ml), and the Double Gulp is 50 fl oz (1480 ml), down from its original size of 64 fl oz (1900 ml).
There are bigger sizes, like the 7-Eleven "Team Gulp," an entire US gallon (128 oz, 3.8 liters), but it's marketed as being for multiple people to share.
【Today he'd be the 3rd fattest guy at the local Walmart.]
That's assuming the Walmart mobility scooter left in the parking lot has enough of a charge to get the actual fattest guy through the doors. The pictured guy could come in 4th.
If the scooter has no charge and the fattest guy can’t get in, doesn’t that make the pictured guy 2nd?
Yes, let's blame it on moral failure rather than the destruction of walkable spaces, endangering as many outdoor spaces as possible with 3-ton emotional support vehicles, portion sizes at restaurants and grocery stores that are double of other countries because going anywhere requires committing to driving 15mins both ways and parking, and having fuck all for a health care system.
Or we could blame it on a food industry that soaked up all the researchers and marketers who got unemployed when we cracked down on cigarette advertising
Don't forget about the actual ingredients in the food, no matter what the portion size is. There's a reason that 1 year old McDonalds cheeseburger looks just the same as it did, fresh under the heat lamp.
Don't forget putting sugar/HFCS into everything (in Hungary, we call them cookies), and the toxic gymbro culture of "everything or nothing" mentality when it comes to sports/workout.
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I don't see a fatness certificate detailing BFI.
There are people like these today that are sodium intolerant, and their body retains gigantic amounts of water just to deal with that.
I'm talking people that are way, WAY above the average sodium consumption of 2300 milligrams daily.
They don't know they are intolerant and gain abrupt amounts of weight ( 30 lbs or more in days ) just due to water retention
These are people whose maximum sodium intake should be less than 500-50 milligrams daily
Imagine what that much salt makes to a body
To be fair, getting fat back then was hard work.
Think about it...refined sugars weren't in everything. People had to leave their house, usually on foot, horse, or bike (the modern "safety bicycle" with equally-sized wheels and a chain-drive, came out the same decade).
You'd have to have support/enablers, and you'd have to eat a lot.
Nowadays it's easy to get fat. Everything is at our fingertips including vast amounts of unhealthy and unsatisfying food stuff. And Walmart is just a few minutes ride in a climate-controlled vehicle. And you'd have to be real heavy to get a car to not want to move you...try that with a horse.
"All these other countries, nobody's fat? Think about that shit, dawg. How does a motherfucker get fat? You gotta sit on a couch, do nothing but eat and watch TV all day. White trash, poor Mexicans and blacks, all obese as motherfuckers. See, the White Man has created a system with so much excess, that even poor motherfuckers are fat."
-Sgt. Espera
If you were rich even in ancient times you could be carried by servants and put in some kind of chariot or carriage, but getting enough food to get that fat and eating it all without modern industrial food would be the real feat.
Hatshepsut managed to be obese in the mid 1400s BCE.
This guy looks EXACTLY like my neighbor. Fuckin creepy
You live next to the world's fattest man? Amazing!
Is your neighbor about 155 years old? 🤔. Could be him!
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He would've been advertised by the travelling circus (freak show) as the world's fattest but they had no way to know who in fact was the world's fattest.
Sure but the point is that this was fat enough to get people to come look at him at the freak show and now he's a fairly average American.
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It‘s not that different today. Back then it was people paying directly. Now ads on TLC pay them.
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They didn’t have junk food!
Also more parasites as well.
This guy is probably 20lbs of tapeworms.
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Or cars, and most (afaik?) labour was manual.
Food technology has come a long way
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