its well known that Americans,just to go one block,they jump in the car,rather than walk,with the increase of obesity,has this changed your way of thinking?.
2007-11-13 08:25:13 · 9 answers · asked by josephrob2003 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
People will drive their cars to their next door neighbors. Anything to avoid walking! I walk everywhere now. If I can't walk somewhere I figure out how to do without. My dentist is almost three miles away and I take a cab there in bad weather.
2007-11-13 08:36:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have to disagree with you. You are generalizing an entire nation based off of what you most likely see on television. Where is this well known information found, huh?
Where I live, nothing is a matter of just one block. Hell, in some parts of my state, you have to drive at 75 mph for over an hour just to get to the grocery store. I live in a large city. The closet store of any kind to me is at least 10 blocks away.
There isn't an increase of obesity where I live. We have always been fat and overweight. There's nothing new to it. Just more people are putting a focus on it.
But has it changed my way of thinking.....not really. It's not an issue nor a concern to me.
2007-11-13 08:50:04 · answer #2 · answered by Oberon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This will probably be a waste of time, as I doubt you will learn anything from it. But perhaps others will. Obesity has nothing to do with exercise or the lack of it, nor is it an American phenomena. Obesity has only to do with food, nothing else. Obesity may at first appear to be an American phenomena but that is because America's population is 40 times that of England. But I've seen quite a few fat @sses roaming the streets of London.
Even as little back as one hundred years ago, people were much thinner because food was more difficult to come by and most people worked at physical labour, not office jobs. Physical labour burns calories. Sitting on your @ss all day does not. A lot of people across the world are fat to obese but only those who live in countries whose economies support their indulgence. Poorer countries lack the food so readily available in America and elsewhere. Obesity is a socio-economic phenomena that crosses every International border.
2007-11-13 16:47:29 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I dont know anyone who jumps in their car to go one block. The only time I drive is to work or for errands that are too far to walk. My job is too far away and the bus does not run early enough for me to be on time. I work a 12 hour shift on my feet . I am not even close to obese.
2007-11-13 09:27:02 · answer #4 · answered by mnwomen 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't have anyweher I go that is only a block away. That may the correct stereotype for someone who lives in a big city like New York, but I can't walk to the places I need to go unless I want a minimum of a 10 mile walk.
2007-11-13 08:39:00 · answer #5 · answered by Deny_Zoo29 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not obese. I rarely have a reason to go only one block. If I did, I'd walk or bike. A 27 mile commute is tough on the feet, however! :-)
2007-11-13 08:28:54 · answer #6 · answered by pocket68rocket 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's not usually true of us, that does happen sometimes. Most of America's obese are America's "poor". Since we are such a successful country, we have fat poor people.
2007-11-13 09:53:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
idont know how you can say this about an entire nation
2007-11-13 09:10:02 · answer #8 · answered by tasty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is this aimed at fat lesbians or fat homosexuals...or the other 2 from this section????????
not all americans are fat...just most.
2007-11-13 08:29:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋