American fatness

For some Americans it provokes them, if you comment on their overweight because they feel it is their free right to eat whatever they want to eat.

http://ecosalon.com/foodie-underground-whats-our-food-identity/

“Most times that I launch into a conversation about why we have so much bad food in our American system, I often talk about the lack of deep seeded food roots. Yes, we have plenty of heavy food influences that have made their way down the line from generation upon generation of people that have moved here from around the world, but when it comes down to it, we don’t really have any defining food traditions” said by the American marketing manager and Food Editor of EcoSalon, Anna Brones.

Here she expresses how she sees the American Identity in all the bad food that the Americans are known eating for. She declaims that it has been a problem that has plagued one generation to another. So eating fat food is something that has always been a part of the American citizen identity, since it is something they always have known.

http://ellematovin.se/grilltips-med-monica-eisenman/

”Jag inspireras mycket av USA också. Folk tror inte att det finns ­någon matkultur där, men det gör det. Jag tilltalas av överflödet, att det är stora portioner och mycket av allt” said by the swedish food stylist and cookbook author, Monica Eisenman.

Here Monica tells how USA does have a food culture. But in this quote she does not mention particulars kinds of food. She claims that the American food culture is based on large servings and much of everything. This can also help us understand the massive number on the American overweight.

So why change this odd lifestyle of an American citizen’s identity when it is something they have learned from child of? One of the big problems to overweight is massive health problems.