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# Why Americans are fat
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2004/12/why_americans_a/
- Published: 2004-12-02T17:43:52.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T09:03:53.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth

![All you can eat](https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2004/12/florfood.jpg?resize=250%2C167 "All you can eat")

I hear much talk about the obesity problem in the US and what can be done about it. If nothing else, the reasons are obvious:

1. Huge food portions
2. Driving everywhere

We’ve done what we can to work around the first problem. We’ll buy a single sub between two or three of us, for example, and only have one course for dinner. The latter is so much more difficult to deal with. Mum and I tried to hop from a mall to the Borders next door on foot, and nearly died in the attempt. Driving in Fort Lauderdale is a real pleasure, and I’ll write more about that later, but the same superb road design that makes it fun makes walking all but impossible.

25 lengths of the pool a day for me, minimum.