If alot of fat people are fat because of illness, why dont you get fat people in the 3rd world?

Question

white plu dont you understand the question you dozy c**t.

People are missing the point. What I am getting at is, a lot of fat people in the UK say 'I dont eat much, its a medical reason I am fat.' If thats the case, why dont people who dont have food to eat in 3rd world countries suffer from this illness. or is it that fat people are just greedy piggies?

Sharon, dont get paranoid, the question is just a general one, it is not directed at you.

Answer 1

good point.
and its actually a very low percentage of people who are fat due to illness, and this illness which they refer to is sorted out by drugs so why are they still fat,
my mum has an underactive thyroid but she is not fat she takes tablets to keep it going!!

Answer 2

Ilnesses in this country and the 3rd world countries differ.
For example, people here are allergic to certain foods, have certain deficiancies i.e diabeteies, and generally do eat alot.
In 3rd world countries people live of basic food like rice, they dont tend to be allergic to foods or have deficiancies and yes basically eat less.
Obeseity is the cause of many illnesses in this country, not the other way round, and wieght CAN be controlled before it becomes eccessive. If you look at stats in this country many children are becoming obese, which later in life affects thier health, so yes, its due down to greed ( unless there are phsycological reasons for over eating, which are minimal cases).
Children have to much access to bad food (i.e junk food, food in schools), and because this is an easy option many become over weight and experiance problems.
With todays technology many illnesses can be controlled, obeseity is not an excuse for illness

Answer 3

Nice question. Also, have you ever noticed how many people in our countries keep saying that they're fat because they're stressed out when they actually wouldn't recognise a healthy, low-fat meal even if it hit them right on the bollocks (figurative speech, of course)? I would think that starving Africans should be more stressed out than they are, what with having to struggle every day not to die!
Personally, I take the view that many of the people who say they're fat because of an illness either are not or caused their own illness by eating badly in the first place (see some sorts of diabetes).

Answer 4

Actually I rmember in the 80's with the famine in Africa there were children with big bellies. I remember someone then being on TV saying that this was caused by swelling as a reaction to the lack of food the body was receiving.

Answer 5

In the third world, food can be less than plentiful. In America, even the poorest of the the poor can be obese. You won't find this anywhere else. Here, fat people often are in poor health. In third world countries, people are in poor health, but not from obesity.

Answer 6

Because they do not have the things that are the underlying cause of the illnesses. Diabetes for example, not too many 3rd world countries have refined sugar as part of their everyday diet.

Answer 7

If you look at the poorest areas of this country you will find more fat people than thin people. It is the diet . Fattening food is usually more filling, easier to get and prepare. Sometimes when people feel despair they eat to ease the pain. Poor people worring about how to pay their bills feel a lot of despair.

What is the problem, what are fat people doing to hurt you?

Answer 8

The answer is simple .....people are fat coz they eat a lot since childhood n cannot admit it ..... they blame things like illness n stuff........ majority of 3rd world countries ppl hardly make ends meet .......they work hard n eat less......ppl in the developed countries hav a soft spot for fat ppl ...n make them feel gud by sayin its a deseise n stuff......ppl in the 3rd world countries hav no time for all these emotional denial stuff......... comon eat more get fat ...even poor ppl in developed countries hav enough money to get food.coz food is cheap ..fattenin food like chocolates n chips stuff...they arent costly .......eat less ...no fat ......simple.

Answer 9

Mainly because they can't afford to eat the way we do. If you're struggling to get enough food to survive and feed your family, getting fat isn't really an option.

Answer 10

a lot of people in the third world countries walk alot, that is they only mode of transportation. they grows they own foods and rear they own live stocks. they know what they're feeding them, it is more healthy. to say, they eat better and exercise more than others.