Very few US adults are following the four basic rules of healthy living, according to a new report.
According to a new study conducted by researchers at Michigan State University, only three percent of the 150,000 adults surveyed follow the four basic rules of healthy living.…
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— go to most recent comments26 - Anthony Grande
What's wrong Alienboy? You can't answer any of my questions? Is it too hard for you?
Ruvy, I know that you can explain to me and Alienboy on how you soldiers are walking through the Gaza Strip and shooting innocent Palestinians on site. Tell us. Tell us how your soldiers are going into Mosqes and blowing it up. Tell us how Palestinians are in a constant danger from the Israelis.
27 - Whattashame
What a shame... Americans are not only Obese, Stupid and Lazy... they also are big Liars, Do Not Keep Promises and Unfriendly inside. Living in USA I felt very empty. They all told me one thing every day: "Unhappy? Go Back to your country!" That's exactly whAt I did! I had a choice: to stay or to leave! Most Americans have no choice - all they can do is TO STAY! I spent 10 miserable (no date, no friends) years in USA and am now very happy back where I came from. Lots ofd dates, friends and fun! What a sorry ass place USA is and was for me!
28 - Jose
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29 - Matt
What you say is absolutly true and you dont even need research to prove it. All you need is some common sense and a pair of open eyes. One thing you did leave out was the fact that American's refuse to take responsibility for their actions. American's are great at playing the victom and passing the blame.
30 - Gann Realty Scam
Anthony, what you you know about Capitalism? Please share your opinion with us.
31 - brandon bowcut
I am an American,a republican, and a God-fearing man.I love what America was once and I hate what it has become. I also do my own family history.I am moving to Europe(close to extended family) to get away from the fat,lazy,stupid,self-indulgence that is now the U.S. I lovingly admire my ancestors for the choice they made to move to this country back then to escape turmoil and hardships. Oh! if they could only see the cherished traditions that have been slowly,over time, plucked out and pushed aside in the name of "freedom" All I see is freedom without responsibility. It's nice to see that SOME people can handle this culture without choking an the second-hand smoke or hacking up french fries.Oh but before I leave will you do me a favor America? Lift a dumbell or something before you turn into one.
32 - Euro-PN
"if we are lazy, fat and stupid then why are WE the ones who dominate over the world."
Let me answer this question. I don't know why.... but visiting Europe I can't find any fat or obese people for weeks! Americans (as well as their businesses) often make very unintelligent decisions. America imports their scientists. America is very simple and convenient country to live and to do business. America is 300 million big market. Most American small businesses don't know how to conduct a respectable, quality, trustworthy business. They abuse their customers to much. Make simple mistakes and Americans HATE to apologise and to admit their mistakes. Americans are loud, arrogant and poorly dressed. 45 to 75% of Americans are either fat or obese.
33 - charlene
Hid bio even states "he has no free time". Maybe that's fine for him but a lot of people don't want to spend what little free time they have at a gym or searching for sidewalks to wander around on. Does he have children? I'm guessing either he doesn't or he's one of those fathers who pushes his kids into sports and then uses it as an axcuse fro bonding. Yes people should be more aware of their health, but life is a series of choices and to call someone stupid because they prioritise their family over working out, or their bills over health food, is just as short-sighted and stupid. A fully healthy diet meeting all daily requirements every day, for a family of 4, costs a bit more than some can afford. Yes, fast food is terrible for you for the most part, but it's not burgers that are fattening up a lot of us, it's processed foods and meal kits. And it's real easy for this guy to criticise in the one area he's an expert in. Let's see him do a post about how self-indulgent jerks are choosing compulsive body-building over their own families. See how he rants against that.
34 - Mike
Greetings to all, the young American today needs to check up on the history of this fine country, why did America become so great and wonderful? The American of today has changed with his or her country, my feeling is to read about great people that have made this country great and follow what they have done.
A lot of Americans are into them selves only and what they can do or get for just them selves, think about other people and care about them. Yes, Americans are eating the wrong foods and spend to much time infront of a computer or TV.
35 - STM
Anthony Grande asked: "Why is the English language the main language of the civilized world? Why is learning English a must in Non-English speaking countries?" ...
"What country is the one leading the fight for Democracy in the Mid East?"
I've just stumbled on this rubbish; Anthony ... this is not a personal attack, but I believe you are talking absolute, pure unadulterated horse sh.t.
English is the most widespread language on the planet today because it was spread by the people who invented it to the four corners of the Earth starting some 400 years before America became a superpower. At least 100 years before America became a superpower, virtually every country in the world needed to trade with the British, whose empire literally spanned the globe, and therefore needed to speak the lingo.
It has been the most widespread language, in terms of geography (yes, there is a world beyond America, and it's full of democracies where people have as many and sometimes more rights than you), for over 200 years. Spanish did then, and still, runs a close second.
I'm not British (although I was born there and went to school in England), but I can tell you with all certainty that people in Britain, France, Germany, et al, do not envy America. They like America and Americans for the most part, but the word I would use would be very far from the envy. The opposite, more likely.
There is an awful lot of good in America, but an awful lot of faults as well, like anywhere.
And I'll agree you might have "saved my ass" (fu.k this one always gives me the sh.ts) in WWII, or at least shortened a war in which much of my family spilled their blood, but America had virtually no role to play in WWI, militarily particularly - a fact acknowledged by many eminent US historians better qualified than you to judge. Do your homework on this.
Get your bloody facts straight before you post this Amero-centric gibberish. It just plugs in to the stereotype of the ulgly American that dogs America, even in its foreign-policy decisions.
And the fight for democracy in the middle-east??
Please mate, what rock have you been hiding under?
36 - Christopher Rose
STM: Anthony always talks bullshit so don't be surprised about that. He's had his childish views ripped apart by almost everybody on the site before now which is probably why he hasn't been around for some time now. For example, English isn't the most widespread language in the world - or on the internet for that matter, Mandarin Chinese is.
37 - S.T.M
Christopher: I'm having to go under a slightly different name as I'm now at home wasting my own time rather than the company's, and must fill in an hour having given up trying to fit a new set of $100 fins to my new board, which now has a hole in the glass and a fetching, arty, almost spray-like red-blob design courtesy of the screwdriver accident.
Anyway, I digress ... I've been confronted with all that stuff before, once in a bar in Memphis by a guy with tatts and no teeth. My, how we enjoyed ourselves.
I know, too, that Mandarin is spoken by more people than anyone else on the planet, but in terms of geographical spread, English is still number one.
Not for long though, possibly, given the increasing number of Chinese heading out of China.
Will that last statement bring anyone out of the woodwork?
Am I allowed to say that all my worst driving moments in Sydney have been Chinatown moments??
38 - Andy Marsh
I resent you calling AG an ugly American...I AM the ugly American!
39 - S.T.M
And Marsh said: "I resent you calling AG an ugly American...I AM the ugly American!"
Literally or figuratively??
40 - Andy Marsh
depends on who you ask...
personally...I think I'm...as one of my heros would say..."Man I'm pretty!" So says Johnny Bravo!
41 - Christopher Rose
No, Andy, you are the UGLIEST American!
42 - Andy Marsh
CR - I stand corrected.
43 - Andy Marsh
again...
44 - dwain
Sal
You make some pretty scathing comments on American life and the people who are living it.
What about your own addictions? That coffee you drink every morning, the rush of adrenial you get from weight lifting?
Do you really have any idea at all what fighting an addiction is all about?What about that muscle (something makes me want to say 'head' here...but i won't)bound body of yours.What happens to Sal's body when he gets too old to lift, or heaven forbid, gets a dibelitating illness(you haven't been breathing any asbestos or mercury in the post 911 air have you?)? All that muscle degenerates into flab at an amazing rate, the skin sags, the body falls apart. I would be a little more circumspect about pointing the finger at people you may soon resemble, sooner than you might think.
Are Americans fat and lazy? Yes. Is pointing at them and calling them names helpful? No. It just makes you less of a person.How about you spend a little more time exercising your compasion and helpful nature and a little less time belittleing those around you?
Despite my bone picking with you, your basic posit is correct. Do you wish to return to that life style from yesteryear? Where people worked so hard during their lives that they were pretty much hungry all the time and die young?Or maybe you are suggesting that we go a little further back, when the people of this continent hunted and subsistence farmed? Remember before the white man came, there were no fat Americans?
We Indians(the people)had an excellent exercise program, far superior to the one your students practice...are you really suggesting we go back to that? There won't be any 350 pound lineman then though.
Between the governmental,corporate,religious and advertising excesses it is hard to see the American people anymore. The bombardment any American recives in his/her daily life of fear,distraction and greed is enough to make anyone sick and the time we have away from our stress adding sedintary jobs and lives, leaves very little left over for nice healthy long walks in the park.
It seems most Americans don't even have the time to really look into their politcal choices anymore. Gosh i am far more concerned about not picking a Fascist administration than how freaking fat the people are....
Actually the American people are a pretty amazing lot. Sturdy, dependable and amazingly friendly...when you have a chance to get to know them on a personal level. They just want the same things everyone all over the world wants. To be safe and secure, to have a better life to offer to their children and that some good may have been left behind them when they are gone.
To be happy. What really makes people happy seems to me to be your question. That's where the problem is. I am guessing that very few of us will find this answer in the weight room, the mirror is a much better place to look.
dwain
45 - MCH
Re #26 by Anthony Grande;
Anthony...what're you doing back on BC? You swore up-and-down you were joining the Marines after graduation and volunteering for Iraq...(?)
46 - MCH
Oops, I just checked the date of AG's 26... Nov. '05...my bad.
47 - Shari
Gee, Sal, business down? Do you need to insult people to get them to take your training or something?
I'm not sure who this piece is directed at but the only purpose it's serving is cathartic for yourself. It's not like overweight people don't know they have a problem and insulting them will help.
While you may feel smugly superior if you call them stupid, it doesn't make it any truer. There's a difference between knowing what is good for you and doing it or knowing what is bad for you and not doing it.
The main problem with your sort of writing (and this is at least the second time you've essentially written about the same thing in the same way - don't you have any other topics you can write about?) is that it provides no insight into the problem to assist in dealing with it effectively nor does it motivate. In fact, attempting to push people with insults generally sends them right to the refrigerator.
Do you think calling people "stupid" will make them think they need to prove to you how "smart" they are by losing weight? If anything, given your antagonistic attitude, the most likely reaction is to completely dismiss you and everything you have to say.
48 - GirlInAmerica
I am sorry to see that so many people have such a negative view of the United States. Though my country has more than its fair share of the unintelligent and the overweight, that does not necessarily make it a bad place, or Americans bad people due to the flaws of their homeland. Tell me, what magical country do you inhabit that does not have fat and stupid people? In what paradise do you live where the citizens are all healthy and friendly and smart, welcoming to all foreigners and completely peaceloving?
You would do us all a favor if you kept the ignorant generalizations to yourself -- a country should not be defined by the worst of its citizens, and I honestly resent that people seem intent on doing so. Americans are (to put it simply) human, no fundamentally different than any other human on this planet, and have not done anything as a whole to deserve the ire heaped on us for the crime of simply living in the United States. I am not my government.
49 - Michael
Hey when you move from the US be careful who you tell you are from America...Not everyone is as fasinated with people from other countries ...especially the ones that bombed the World Trade Center...:-)
50 - PrimordialSoup Please
Lovely thread, with some insights on both sides. I'm a rather well known cyclist, 46 years old today. Have traveled the world. I eat organic, avoid any big pharma, big chemical, big oil products, wherever possible. My diet is fantastic, and i climb my local San Diego mountain (Mt. Palomar) twice as fast as almost anyone half my age. Why? Why have I only been in the hospital the past thirty years for bike accidents (ouch!) and the birth of my child? Why does my Thai family love me? Why is my resting pulse about 42, and can i sustain 175 bpm to run a 3:00 marathon?
It is not genetics, it is discipline. it is not where I live, but what I can dream in my mind I can make my body deliver. It is the geniuses who build my bikes of carbon, aluminum, magnesium and hybrids of the the above. it is avoiding TV, appreciating the freedoms of Capitalism, and disdaining the so called "protections" of socialism and communism.
My fellow HUMANS who are sedentary get my pity, my disdain, and if solicited my advice. I have helped hundreds of people turn their lives around.
About Americans. I have lived abroad. People, are people. Americans are imbued with a sense of destiny, dreams undiminished, and a hatred of failure. Second best is not victory to us. Some, have abrogated the American Dream because frankly, it is pretty freakin hard. They smoke cigarettes, take drugs, eat fast food, don't question pesticides, pollutants, attacks on foreign soil that enrich the virulent politicians they were too lazy to vote for. Still, for all its warts, America The Ideal lives on.
The Chinese are building quite a society, much of it funded by Nixon, Kissinger, Carter, Clinton/Gore and all of us. Yet, I would take the patriot Act any day, over the oppressions the masses in China still face. In my wife's country, the friendly people of Thailand hide some sinister thoughts behind their omnipresent smiles. Trust me, they do. I spent many years working for a japanese company, and the prejudice they manifest towards Koreans, Chinese and Americans is palpable. The Cubans, Bulgarians, Germans, Russians, chinese, French, Spanish, Mozambiquians, and hundreds more countries have had massacres of their own in recent history. The Germans spent many a moon trying to take over the world, the British did and then bored them all to death with tea and crumpets. Perhaps only the Swiss, Dutch and Canadians deserve some praise, until you realize how little you can afford when they are done swiping all your income as taxes.
So, rest of the world, some Americans are weak. Some are strong. Some are healthy. Some are good. Some are evil (Clintons and Bushs). My wife has lived here for almost two years, and as she bows in Buddhist reverence to her favorite Monk, she thanks him for America. We may not be the only superpower, or even A superpower in fifty years, but if that means less stress, fewer taxes, lower debt (a few billion less to Isreal, Egypt, Brazil and others might help) than I am happy for my daughter.
Money only buys you two things my friends:
The ability to spend time with those you like, or who enrich you.
And, TIME to pursue what you enjoy, and what you need.
As for me? Four trips up Montezuma Valley Road in Borrego Springs, sun beating down on me, bees stinging me, bike rocking at 9 mph for eight hours. THAT, is life to me. TRY to take that from me, and we will see how weak Americans truly are.
51 - Dumbflex Mom
I bought one of them bowfreck workout contractions last year. Now I aint no stupid turnip fresh out of the tulip patch. It done did work fer me. Win i started my weight at about 375 lbs. At 4' 9" I think my butt rather big. My man like it enough. Now I weight 370lbs so it do work. Hope this helpful.
52 - Fat MONKEY
I'm STUPID YAAAAAAAAAY
53 - bush-bush
I'm sorry, I'm confused by your post.... as we all know Americans (Bush family & amigos, Larry Silverstein and US Govt.) bombed their own country, their own WTC, their own Pentagon. World Trade Center's 3 buildings were taken down by hidden explosives as we all know! Pentagon was "attacked"by a military rocket with no wings and not a civilian plane! What kind of moron would not know those obvious facts? So how come Americans are not fascinated with their own? Unless you mean that Americans are not fascinated by Bush and Larry Silverstein? I mean in what kind of "democracy" both President and one very rich man (Silverstein) still walks free after kiling 3000 (actually 6000 including soldiers kiled in Iraq) innocent Americans?
QUOTE Hey when you move from the US be careful who you tell you are from America...Not everyone is as fasinated with people from other countries ...especially the ones that bombed the World Trade Center...:-) UNQUOTE
54 - Rajesh
Anthony Grande asked: "Why is the English language the main language of the civilized world? Why is learning English a must in Non-English speaking countries?" ...
Yes, sir, you mean British English? American English is very different freom British English, especially in pronounciation and the way sounds and should be considered a separate language.... Amglish?
55 - BERNIE
DEAR FAT PEOPLE....
HAVE IT YOUR WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!HAHA
56 - Bushman
The Military Machine (in any country) needs to breathe, so instead of a military coup, they tell to the Govt. "Give Us War" and Govt. finds them a WAR to go to. So the Shrub had to give his military some WAR to play at. And for WAR there must've been a REASON. So they MADE a reason by hiring some "terrorists" and some EMPTY planes to hit the WTC. Even if the planes were really hijacked (how terrible for the Govt. is to do that!!) (or perhaps Larry Silverstein hired the hijackers), the WTC was ARTIFICIALLY "attacked" be it Govt. or Silverstein. The Pentagon attack was definitely the job of the Govt. (military wingless rocket) for a reason to go to war. WTC was BOTH - SILVERSTEIN, MAFIA and GOVT. Silverstein, and MAFIA wanted the WTC gone in order to PROFIT from insurance scam and to build new "WTC" there with better offices etc. GOVT. wanted out of this WTC "attack" a REASON for going to WAR.
57 - Stinkey
Excellent thread Sal. Yes sir, Americans are stupid. Most are Democraps. Yesterday I sat down on a bench in front of my local super market. I call this whale watching. Why pay good money to hire a boat when I can see the whales for free in the parking lot. Ever see those commercials on TV for powered carts for the disabled. Im rideing on my GO GO. Now go into your local super market and who do you see. Women with butts tree time the size of Rosie O Donald rideing on their GO GO. Fat is gross and these people smell because they have so many folds in their blubber they cant find the leftover food and dirt. BERNIE said it best. HAVE IT YOUR WAY. FUCKING PIGS.
58 - High Heels
What country is envied by France, England, Germany, Russia and the rest of the major powers?
I don't envy a country which is busy trying to make excuses for eating itself, and feeding its children, into an early grave.
Nice to see a lot of you aren't fooled either.
59 - Meghan
Y'all are the most shallow people I have ever had the misfortune of coming in contact with. Grow up...be adults...and learn that there may be a majoy obesity problem in this country but it drives from people like you making everyone feel bad about themselves....its people like you that have young girls kneeled over the toliet puking up their lunch...because everyone only sees the outer appearance instead of the inner beauty...congats!!!
60 - Dave
inner beauty isn't going to save you from a heart stroke. You grow up first and stop blaming other people for you or others being over weight. get a clue damit! if people are making fun of you, do something about and make a change for the better. who knows you might even live a little longer. would that be so bad?
61 - Stinkey
Meghan, inner beauty. This reminds me of blind date's when someone tried to fix me up on a date. I would ask what does she look like. Answer would be she as a big heart and inner beauty. In other words she's a whale right. No thanks friend. I cant afford her dinner. How many fat people do you see in 3rd world countries who are starving to death. None. Why. They have no food. I use to think fat people had some kind of gland promblem. No more. They have a to much to eat promblem. America is a country of fat people and fat aint beautiful. We see them every day. Fat men and women. Some of these fat women dress to show every blubber fold on their bodies. They look like blue whales inside a plastic bag. Fucking gross and they smell. I would rather fuck my cat then get it on with one of these pig's. If I see a beautiful women I will talk to her. Should she have inner beauty fine. If I see one of those female whales I will walk away never knowing her so called inner beauty. Fat folk's are just gross and they stink. FUCK FAT
62 - A.M.
Call me late to the game on commenting, but Sal, this is right on.
And I'm getting sick of people complaining that they can't lose weight because they're broke. I actually SAVED money in the process of losing 20 pounds, and here's how:
Pair of running shoes= $75
Entry fees to two 5k races = $35
Couple of shirts my wife bought for me to run in= $40
Trail running for race training= $0 + effort and sweat
TOTAL SPENT= $150
Not buying beer every weekend for six months= approximately -$200
Buying most of my food from grocery stores instead of restaurants and fast food joints= at least -$100
TOTAL SAVED= About $300
Net gained by losing weight= $150
Better self-image and less weight to carry= Priceless
Suck on that.
63 - Nicole
I agree completely with your concepts. As for any one who disagrees, I say they're just some of the americans who like to complain. Many americans don't like to admit it but all of what has been said is true. Many people are just too dumb to see what is right in front of their face, killing them. I just hope some day americans will realize that their habits are killing them.
64 - Lewis
OK, fat people are starting to piss me off. Last month about this time i didn't give two shits about what fat people did or thought. As of lately i'm starting to get annoyed. you fat retards need to get a life. sitting at home stuffing your fucking fat pie holes bitching about how stores need to market to your needs because you can't find drapes big enough to cover your fat fucking ass disgust me. You fat fucks, why did you have to go and whine, most of us didn't care enough to pick on you, but if you're going to whine people better give you something to whine about. if you asked me last week do i stare at fat people in disgust to make them feel ashamed i would have said i never gave them a second glance. now that i know they hate going out in public because you feel disgusting and people need to understand your feelings. well now i'm so tired of hearing it and now when i see a fat person i going to make it clear to the big lard i'm looking at him or her. if my kids are with me i will say "boys, now we don't ever want to worship food". "eat to live! not live to eat". Maybe when i say this to my kids in front of this blob which once was in the form of man, the blob might lose it's urge to eat. look fat people stop crying and people will sooner or later stop picking on you. we all learned this growing up. except your mistakes and change for the better. fat people don't ever think skinny people will conform to a fat society and change for themselves. if you're waiting for that you'll die fat and depressed (no joke). besides if you don't really wanna change yourself what gives a fat person the gull to think it's on skinny people to change. remember you're the one dying young not thinner people. fat people aren't hurting me. i'm just tired of all the crying. on the news, blogs, etc. so bottom line, SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY!!!
65 - gaspar
In America- a mind is a terrible thing to use. Lazy, dim-witted, outright bores and to top it all
off- that sickly sweet sentimentality. My personal nirvana has been furthered by turning off the miserable boob-tube and to speak to as few of them
as possible. A breath saved is a breath enjoyed!
66 - Zain
Great article/rant...
(the Fatties rant so why shouldn't Sal?)
67 - Vonmax
Your right on. I have been in the Gym for over 20 years. When I did a cross country move I got Lazy and didn't hit the Gym and ate poorly. I felt like crap and need to get back in the Gym as fast as I could. I don't know how people cannot get in the Gym. Even if its 1 day a week. It's such a Rush to have you Body get Hard and the Blood flowing through your Body. It make my Professional life and personal life that more exciting and worth while.
I guess some people don't get it...
Well it's kinda good, because it's more for US.
Vonmax
68 - J
I think it's funny how fat, lazy, stupid people defend themselves so vigorously. Excuses, accusations, and whatever they can think of.
It's takes only will power (not a LOT, just simply will power) to not smoke or over eat or excercise. But Americans are mostly spoiled, lazy, short attention span idiots. We have record credit card debt and home forclosures, and record breaking obesity percentages. These are not "inflicted", these things happen by being stupid.... really stupid.
69 - KT
I am European and have an US colleague. I excersice a lot for the past 5 months simply because body fitness became my passion. When I started she would say that "your body will get to a point where it cannot change". Disregarding her foolish remark I have since developed muscles, the body is toned, firm and strong. I cope very well with stress, she has migraines and takes two-three painkillers a day.
I simply don't understand the mentality (she is a smart girl I must say!) and also her poor knowledge of nutrition. EVERYBODY knows that fizzy drinks are ok when you have a party or celebrating but not on everyday basis. How come a girl with brains can lack on such basic knowledge as is nutrition and fitness - i bet you if she starts just swimming instead of giving me the looks "oh poor you when will you realise that what you do is so pathetic", the headaches would be gone. I am wondering whether in US you don't have nutrition classes in school where you can discuss what your body needs (just as you would put garbage into your car as fuel, you shouldn't put garbage into yourselves).
The important thing is to have a very realistic picture of yourself being fit (something less on the hips, toned arms, flat tummy, etc.) and you can avoid pushing yourself beyond the healthy line. Some people it seems, live in a world of extreme (fat or skinny and nothing in between) It really does not take extra effort from the little gray cells to understand your body and its needs.
Also while reading the comments from people here I am astonished that some people really believe that obesity is a malfunction of a body! You underestimate the greatest creation we've all been given. just like you cannot suffocate yourself with bare hands your body won't allow for excess storage of energy (body fat)that can endager important organs. This can be only done by force and self-harm in a way. People who suffer from thyroid malfunction are being treated with medication and can either suffer from being overweight but also underweight. and overall represent less than 1% of "more round" people. so putting illness of the few as an excuse for all the overweight is very low!
I can however appreciate that people with excess body fat developed illnesses but that is a result of overeating not a cause!
The funniest thing of this all, is that I buy majority of my gym gear from US!!! There are simply not that many shops with wide selection as they are in US. And i always feel so slim when I can wear a shirt labelled S size (european M size).
Well, my motto is: be quick, strong and smart. What's yours?
70 - Aaron
I love ignorance!
71 - who cares
true American media is corrupt and there is a large percentage of obesity but i dont think you need to be over the top rude about it. This just shows the pole up the ass attitude the Americans protested to free themselves of europe. Also by being racist against Americans you are being racist against every nationality. After all America is the big melting pot.
72 - Sally from San Diego, Ca
I went to Paris France a few years ago and felt fat and lazy after seeing how thin those people were.
73 - Pederastsmustdie
Water Fuel Cell inventor poisoned by Big Oil
DEMAND YOUR GOVERNMENT'S ACTION TO SAVE OUR EARTH!
74 - Paul
It is amazing, and true. Americans are lazy. Judging the content of these comments. Americans did not read the article. It is simple, fat, lazy americans, you have no self discipline and find a reason to complain about anything inconvenient. Keep being self-righteous to keep the world hating you. Show the world how to be a burden to society.
75 - Eric
Sounds like everyone needs to grow up and get over themselves. Admit it or not, EVERY country has its ups and downs. Why bitch about other countries if the people in them don't affect you? Not all of the Americans are fat/lazy/stupid, but if those particular people are happy with their lives, then let them be happy and stop judging them for the decisions they make.
I've lived in America all of my life. This article has some good points, but it is completely biased.
Being American...
I'm not fat.
I don't smoke.
I don't drink often.
I exercise.
I'm a musician of multiple instruments and vocals.
I attend college with decent grades.
I work my ass off cleaning tables off at a restaurant to make just enough money to afford gas, rent payments and food until I have time for a full-time job after graduation.
I'm not egotistical.
I'm not ignorant and I can admit when a huge percentage of my own country is faulty.
With all of that being said...
You know DAMN well that you can't make the claim that everyone here is fat/lazy/stupid.
Most? Maybe.
But that does not account for the Americans that live meaningful lives and are worth something.
Congratulations on posting a rant that points out the ridiculously obvious flaws that my country has.
You really are something special.
The fact that you're ignorant enough to post something that rude without getting to know Americans like me, who defy your claim, just shows how immature you.
You would think that this article would offend me.
Honestly, you made me feel a lot better about myself.
It makes me feel better about myself, knowing that there are people out there who stoop to such a pathetic level.
Anyone reading this: Go ahead and trash talk me. I don't care.
I'm an American and I stand up for what I believe in.