Why are ozzies such porkers?

[Gavin Duffy]

I grew up watching home and away and ozzie athletes performing above and beyond what their per capita clout should have earned. All bronzed, athletic demi-gods and such like.

So why is such a large percentage of the population absolute porkers? It seems so contradictory to how people perceive the place?

[Bogbunny]

I grew up watching home and away and ozzie athletes performing above and beyond what their per capita clout should have earned. All bronzed, athletic demi-gods and such like.

So why is such a large percentage of the population absolute porkers? It seems so contradictory to how people perceive the place?

Wannabee Yanks??

[Zakar]

I grew up watching home and away and ozzie athletes performing above and beyond what their per capita clout should have earned. All bronzed, athletic demi-gods and such like.

So why is such a large percentage of the population absolute porkers? It seems so contradictory to how people perceive the place?

Obesity is the new class divide.

Go to Sydney, and you will barely spot a single overweight person (under 50 or so)in the east or north.

[Zakar]

Here are the world obesity rates from 2016 fwiw

Country Rank Obesity rate % (2016)
Nauru 1 61.00
Cook Islands 2 55.90
Palau 3 55.30
Marshall Islands 4 52.90
Tuvalu 5 51.60
Niue 6 50.00
Tonga 7 48.20
Samoa 8 47.30
Kiribati 9 46.00
Federated States of Micronesia 10 45.80
Kuwait 11 37.90
United States 12 36.20
Jordan 13 35.50
Saudi Arabia 14 35.40
Qatar 15 35.10
Libya 16 32.50
Turkey 17 32.10
Egypt 18 32.00
Lebanon 19 32.00
United Arab Emirates 20 31.70
Bahamas 21 31.60
New Zealand 22 30.80
Iraq 23 30.40
Fiji 24 30.20
Bahrain 25 29.80
Canada 26 29.40
Australia 27 29.00
Malta 28 28.90
Mexico 29 28.90
South Africa 30 28.30
Argentina 31 28.30
Chile 32 28.00
Dominica 33 27.90
Uruguay 34 27.90
Syria 35 27.80
United Kingdom 36 27.80
Dominican Republic 37 27.80
Algeria 38 27.40
Oman 39 27.00
Tunisia 40 26.90
Suriname 41 26.40
Hungary 42 26.40
Lithuania 43 26.30
Morocco 44 26.10
Israel 45 26.10
Czech Republic 46 26.00
Iran 47 25.80
Costa Rica 48 25.70
Andorra 49 25.60
Venezuela 50 25.60
Ireland 51 25.30
Vanuatu 52 25.20
Bulgaria 53 25.00
Greece 54 24.90
Jamaica 55 24.70
Cuba 56 24.60
El Salvador 57 24.60
Belarus 58 24.50
Croatia 59 24.40
Belize 60 24.10

[kiwigreg369]

https://obesity.procon.org/global-obesity-levels/

Not quite sure of the sauce ... but shows differences by ethnic groupings, culture etc.

EDIT - SNAP with Zakar (sauce for his list).

Agree on weight and divide (evident in some western countries).

[iarmhiman]

It costs more to eat healthy food.

Fast food is cheap. Refined sugar is cheap. Poorer communities eat more fast food.

[quarter2four]

It costs more to eat healthy food.

Fast food is cheap. Refined sugar is cheap. Poorer communities eat more fast food.

Need to jack up taxes on unhealthy foods. Although sugar taxes have just made the manufacturers add sweeteners to fizzy drinks. The weekend was a rare occasion where I wanted to have a mineral and couldn't get one without fecking sweeteners.

[Ghost-Of-Nepia]

Here are the world obesity rates from 2016 fwiw

Country Rank Obesity rate % (2016)
Nauru 1 61.00
Cook Islands 2 55.90
Palau 3 55.30
Marshall Islands 4 52.90
Tuvalu 5 51.60
Niue 6 50.00
Tonga 7 48.20
Samoa 8 47.30
Kiribati 9 46.00
Federated States of Micronesia 10 45.80
Kuwait 11 37.90
United States 12 36.20
Jordan 13 35.50
Saudi Arabia 14 35.40
Qatar 15 35.10
Libya 16 32.50
Turkey 17 32.10
Egypt 18 32.00
Lebanon 19 32.00
United Arab Emirates 20 31.70
Bahamas 21 31.60
New Zealand 22 30.80
Iraq 23 30.40
Fiji 24 30.20
Bahrain 25 29.80
Canada 26 29.40
Australia 27 29.00
Malta 28 28.90
Mexico 29 28.90
South Africa 30 28.30
Argentina 31 28.30
Chile 32 28.00
Dominica 33 27.90
Uruguay 34 27.90
Syria 35 27.80
United Kingdom 36 27.80
Dominican Republic 37 27.80
Algeria 38 27.40
Oman 39 27.00
Tunisia 40 26.90
Suriname 41 26.40
Hungary 42 26.40
Lithuania 43 26.30
Morocco 44 26.10
Israel 45 26.10
Czech Republic 46 26.00
Iran 47 25.80
Costa Rica 48 25.70
Andorra 49 25.60
Venezuela 50 25.60
Ireland 51 25.30
Vanuatu 52 25.20
Bulgaria 53 25.00
Greece 54 24.90
Jamaica 55 24.70
Cuba 56 24.60
El Salvador 57 24.60
Belarus 58 24.50
Croatia 59 24.40
Belize 60 24.10

I was conceived on Nauru so I'm definitely blaming that for my "spread" in my 30s and 40s.

[grievous]

I was out west in NSW over the break, a little shocked how some of these towns seems to have a severe obesity problem. Just go to the local RSL and every male over 35 has a rotund beer gut. Not good.

[Farva]

Here are the world obesity rates from 2016 fwiw

Country Rank Obesity rate % (2016)
Nauru 1 61.00
Cook Islands 2 55.90
Palau 3 55.30
Marshall Islands 4 52.90
Tuvalu 5 51.60
Niue 6 50.00
Tonga 7 48.20
Samoa 8 47.30
Kiribati 9 46.00
Federated States of Micronesia 10 45.80
Kuwait 11 37.90
United States 12 36.20
Jordan 13 35.50
Saudi Arabia 14 35.40
Qatar 15 35.10
Libya 16 32.50
Turkey 17 32.10
Egypt 18 32.00
Lebanon 19 32.00
United Arab Emirates 20 31.70
Bahamas 21 31.60
New Zealand 22 30.80
Iraq 23 30.40
Fiji 24 30.20
Bahrain 25 29.80
Canada 26 29.40
Australia 27 29.00
Malta 28 28.90
Mexico 29 28.90
South Africa 30 28.30
Argentina 31 28.30
Chile 32 28.00
Dominica 33 27.90
Uruguay 34 27.90
Syria 35 27.80
United Kingdom 36 27.80
Dominican Republic 37 27.80
Algeria 38 27.40
Oman 39 27.00
Tunisia 40 26.90
Suriname 41 26.40
Hungary 42 26.40
Lithuania 43 26.30
Morocco 44 26.10
Israel 45 26.10
Czech Republic 46 26.00
Iran 47 25.80
Costa Rica 48 25.70
Andorra 49 25.60
Venezuela 50 25.60
Ireland 51 25.30
Vanuatu 52 25.20
Bulgaria 53 25.00
Greece 54 24.90
Jamaica 55 24.70
Cuba 56 24.60
El Salvador 57 24.60
Belarus 58 24.50
Croatia 59 24.40
Belize 60 24.10

I was conceived on Nauru so I'm definitely blaming that for my "spread" in my 30s and 40s.

Nauru Airlines wont book the centre seat on their flights due to concerns around overweighing the plane and people being able to fit. There are some genuinely big people there.

[Salient]

It costs more to eat healthy food.

Fast food is cheap. Refined sugar is cheap. Poorer communities eat more fast food.

Need to jack up taxes on unhealthy foods. Although sugar taxes have just made the manufacturers add sweeteners to fizzy drinks. The weekend was a rare occasion where I wanted to have a mineral and couldn't get one without fecking sweeteners.

Having the same problem with ice tea

[Thomas]

I was out west in NSW over the break, a little shocked how some of these towns seems to have a severe obesity problem. Just go to the local RSL and every male over 35 has a rotund beer gut. Not good.

And it's all over Australia. Rural and regional towns in Australia are chock full of fatties.

[jambanja]

I grew up watching home and away and ozzie athletes performing above and beyond what their per capita clout should have earned. All bronzed, athletic demi-gods and such like.

So why is such a large percentage of the population absolute porkers? It seems so contradictory to how people perceive the place?

I thought the correct answer to this question is, because every time one of them fucks your wife she gives them a biscuit

[Gavin Duffy]

Well, they've obviously decided to eat all the biscuits themselves these days.

[Ghost-Of-Nepia]

I grew up watching home and away and ozzie athletes performing above and beyond what their per capita clout should have earned. All bronzed, athletic demi-gods and such like.

So why is such a large percentage of the population absolute porkers? It seems so contradictory to how people perceive the place?

I thought the correct answer to this question is, because every time one of them fucks your wife she gives them a biscuit

Jambanja is a Zimbabwean chicken farmer with some cricketing ability and I claim my Duncan Fearnley Magnum.

[Zakar]

I was out west in NSW over the break, a little shocked how some of these towns seems to have a severe obesity problem. Just go to the local RSL and every male over 35 has a rotund beer gut. Not good.

And it's all over Australia. Rural and regional towns in Australia are chock full of fatties.

If anyone is more than 20mins drive from the beach I assume they're probably a fatty.

[jambanja]

I grew up watching home and away and ozzie athletes performing above and beyond what their per capita clout should have earned. All bronzed, athletic demi-gods and such like.

So why is such a large percentage of the population absolute porkers? It seems so contradictory to how people perceive the place?

I thought the correct answer to this question is, because every time one of them fucks your wife she gives them a biscuit

Jambanja is a Zimbabwean chicken farmer with some cricketing ability and I claim my Duncan Fearnley Magnum.

I have actually played against said chicken farmer, even managed to put him over the boundary for six, then instantly regretted it

[Mr Mike]

I grew up watching home and away and ozzie athletes performing above and beyond what their per capita clout should have earned. All bronzed, athletic demi-gods and such like.

So why is such a large percentage of the population absolute porkers? It seems so contradictory to how people perceive the place?

I thought the correct answer to this question is, because every time one of them fucks your wife she gives them a biscuit

Jambanja is a Zimbabwean chicken farmer with some cricketing ability and I claim my Duncan Fearnley Magnum.

I have actually played against said chicken farmer, even managed to put him over the boundary for six, then instantly regretted it

Apparently he is now a tomato farmer and has moved to Australia, which may help answer the question in the OP.

[rett]

I grew up watching home and away and ozzie athletes performing above and beyond what their per capita clout should have earned. All bronzed, athletic demi-gods and such like.

So why is such a large percentage of the population absolute porkers? It seems so contradictory to how people perceive the place?

I thought the correct answer to this question is, because every time one of them fucks your wife she gives them a biscuit

Jambanja is a Zimbabwean chicken farmer with some cricketing ability and I claim my Duncan Fearnley Magnum.

I have actually played against said chicken farmer, even managed to put him over the boundary for six, then instantly regretted it

Impressed.

[Zico]

It costs more to eat healthy food.

Fast food is cheap. Refined sugar is cheap. Poorer communities eat more fast food.

Fruit in Coles is shit expensive, rice in Trans Vietnamese Food Store is cheap as shit.

[Pat the Ex Mat]

You can eat healthily quite easily for not much money.

It's all about education, not cost.

[booji boy]

You can eat healthily quite easily for not much money.

It's all about education, not cost.

Agreed which it why it is pointless trying to tax sugar and fast food.

[Thomas]

You can eat healthily quite easily for not much money.

It's all about education, not cost.

It's also about availability. I spent a week in Biloela a few years ago. Supermarket was basically empty and had fark all fresh fruit or vegies.

KFC and McDonalds had lines out the drive through and down the road.

[grievous]

You can eat healthily quite easily for not much money.

It's all about education, not cost.

It's also about availability. I spent a week in Biloela a few years ago. Supermarket was basically empty and had fark all fresh fruit or vegies.

KFC and McDonalds had lines out the drive through and down the road.

Every Oz town above 5000 people seems to now have a maccas, KFC, Dominoes and possibly a Hungry Jacks and one of the chicken chains.
The humble fish n chips has been pushed out.
You settle down into a motel and the waft of grease fills there air.

[Jerome Manning]

It costs more to eat healthy food.

Fast food is cheap. Refined sugar is cheap. Poorer communities eat more fast food.

It is far cheaper to cook healthy food at home than eat fast good.

Roast chicken, potatoes and veges would work out at about NZ$3 per large meal. You ain't getting fast food for that.

Fat people are disgusting and need to be eradicated.

[Pat the Ex Mat]

You can eat healthily quite easily for not much money.

It's all about education, not cost.

It's also about availability. I spent a week in Biloela a few years ago. Supermarket was basically empty and had fark all fresh fruit or vegies.

KFC and McDonalds had lines out the drive through and down the road.

True -but also demand. If people are not educated to eat healthily, what are they going to choose? Especially when towns like Tamworth have just opened their 3rd Maccas......

Tamworth 2030:

[badmannotinjapan]

I grew up watching home and away and ozzie athletes performing above and beyond what their per capita clout should have earned. All bronzed, athletic demi-gods and such like.

So why is such a large percentage of the population absolute porkers? It seems so contradictory to how people perceive the place?

I thought the correct answer to this question is, because every time one of them fucks your wife she gives them a biscuit

Jambanja is a Zimbabwean chicken farmer with some cricketing ability and I claim my Duncan Fearnley Magnum.

My favourite bat. Loved the magnum.

[Thomas]

You can eat healthily quite easily for not much money.

It's all about education, not cost.

It's also about availability. I spent a week in Biloela a few years ago. Supermarket was basically empty and had fark all fresh fruit or vegies.

KFC and McDonalds had lines out the drive through and down the road.

True -but also demand. If people are not educated to eat healthily, what are they going to choose? Especially when towns like Tamworth have just opened their 3rd Maccas......

Oh totally. When the Maccas opened in Emerald, it was the most profitable McDonalds franchise in Australia. People would drive from towns 2 hours away to eat there.

[Pat the Ex Mat]

You can eat healthily quite easily for not much money.

It's all about education, not cost.

It's also about availability. I spent a week in Biloela a few years ago. Supermarket was basically empty and had fark all fresh fruit or vegies.

KFC and McDonalds had lines out the drive through and down the road.

True -but also demand. If people are not educated to eat healthily, what are they going to choose? Especially when towns like Tamworth have just opened their 3rd Maccas......

Oh totally. When the Maccas opened in Emerald, it was the most profitable McDonalds franchise in Australia. People would drive from towns 2 hours away to eat there.

I've been to Emerald!

I went to the local bakery instead

[puku]

You can eat healthily quite easily for not much money.

It's all about education, not cost.

It's also about availability. I spent a week in Biloela a few years ago. Supermarket was basically empty and had fark all fresh fruit or vegies.

KFC and McDonalds had lines out the drive through and down the road.

I'm blaming McDonald's sponsoring the Aussie v India cricket coverage.

Maccas

[jambanja]

You can eat healthily quite easily for not much money.

It's all about education, not cost.

It's also about availability. I spent a week in Biloela a few years ago. Supermarket was basically empty and had fark all fresh fruit or vegies.

KFC and McDonalds had lines out the drive through and down the road.

I'm blaming McDonald's sponsoring the Aussie v India cricket coverage.

Maccas

KFC Big bash, it must be impossible to avoid being a fatty with all that advertising directed at you

[MungoMan]

You can eat healthily quite easily for not much money.

It's all about education, not cost.

It's also about availability. I spent a week in Biloela a few years ago. Supermarket was basically empty and had fark all fresh fruit or vegies.

KFC and McDonalds had lines out the drive through and down the road.

I'm blaming McDonald's sponsoring the Aussie v India cricket coverage.

Maccas

KFC Big bash, it must be impossible to avoid being a fatty with all that advertising directed at you

Yeah nah. There are also far too many ads for betting yet I find myself still uninterested.

[Thomas]

I mean, there's a massive correlation with fast food and low socio economic areas. There's a reason Carls Jr (a new franchise in QLD) only has stores in areas with large populations of poor fat people. With the exception of the airport, there isn't one in the Brisbane local government area but there are 3 in Ipswich and 2 in Logan.

[True Blue]

I was conceived on Nauru so I'm definitely blaming that for my "spread" in my 30s and 40s.

How were you conceived? The Wheelbarrow? The Backwards Wheelbarrow? The good ol' Missionary? The Sideways Spaniard? The Double Twisted Moroccan? The Dirty Mexican?

[brat]

You can eat healthily quite easily for not much money.

It's all about education, not cost.

Agreed which it why it is pointless trying to tax sugar and fast food.

Yep and a lot of it is habitual and ignorance/laziness

Get sick of hearing how coke is cheaper than milk- well water costs nothing

And taking gst off vegetables etc won’t have a huge effect on most people - take 15% off brocolli and people aren’t going to all of a sudden eat brocolli - in general most peoples eating habits are ingrained from an early age -and that’s the key

[Sonny Blount]

It costs more to eat healthy food.

Fast food is cheap. Refined sugar is cheap. Poorer communities eat more fast food.

Need to jack up taxes on unhealthy foods. Although sugar taxes have just made the manufacturers add sweeteners to fizzy drinks. The weekend was a rare occasion where I wanted to have a mineral and couldn't get one without fecking sweeteners.

Its as likely to be when you eat as what you eat. fudge off with your taxes on my biscuits.

[Zico]

Towny might know this one but Trans on Newcastle St. in Perth were ahead of their time.

[Zico]

Towny might know this one but Trans on Newcastle St. in Perth were ahead of their time.

Trains!

[fonzeee]

You can eat healthily quite easily for not much money.

It's all about education, not cost.

Agreed which it why it is pointless trying to tax sugar and fast food.

Not to mention the burden will mostly fall upon those least able to bear it. I.e. a regressive tax

[Ghost-Of-Nepia]

I was conceived on Nauru so I'm definitely blaming that for my "spread" in my 30s and 40s.

How were you conceived? The Wheelbarrow? The Backwards Wheelbarrow? The good ol' Missionary? The Sideways Spaniard? The Double Twisted Moroccan? The Dirty Mexican?

Our family history suggests dad bent mum over a guano outcrop.