Let’s let it be clear that health looks different in every BODY…Sumo wrestlers for example. HOWEVER! Anyone that’s this size is definitely unhealthy & is at risk of dying sooner than later.
Sumo wrestlers have a life expectancy of 10 years less than the average Japanese man. Just because its a tradition, it does not mean its healthy. There are no ld sumo wrestlers at their weight because the body cannot handle eating what sumos eat for many years.
Sumo's aren't known to live very long lives and are some sort of athletes, they're not your tiktoker who just sits her bvtt down on a couch all day long with her phone in hand, stop using them as an argument to justify your poor alimentation choices. Even their diets are different from your high corn syrup, fat saturated deep fried food. + pin NPCs incoming, brace yourself.
I’ve been overweight all my life. I got up to almost 600lbs. The past year I decided to change my life around and lost almost 200lbs. Still a work in progress and still need to lose at least another 200lbs.
This was shot when Aba gifted Preach his bday present of cigars & cognac, hence why they were still smoking from that video. Aba's cigar technique is still trash
As someone who has struggled with his weight most of his life, I feel this topic whole heartedly. The since Covid I ballooned up to about 415lbs which scared the hell out of me. Our society has become a system of enablers when it comes to obesity but ultimately it is my fault, my responsiblity and my choices that led me here to where I am. This past winter I made the choice to make a change and have started to see thsoe results. I am down over 25lbs and am driven to get back in shape so I can be here for my family and esspecially my kids. When it comes between being over weight and dying early or depriving myself of unhealthy treats and conveint unhealthy foods, I choose to live.
Awesome job! Thanks for sharing for your journey with us. Remember we all have different struggles and setbacks but always keep the courage to keep on trying.
Try bouldering in your local area! It helped me get from 110kg fatty to 90kg nicely shaped body not super lean! I'm super healthy atm, even eating the shit I like most of the time! Also picked up skateboarding for cardio. xD Took about 1,5 years with many injuries (so take it slow) but now I feel like my body can do anything now. Even a unwarmed up beachvolleyball session for more then a hour and goings super hard.. only a bit of muscle ache. xD I've not been to the gym once in my last 10 years. That shit is toxic!! Good Job man! I hope you get there too.
If you have the funds consider seeing a psychologist/ therapist many ppl who are very obese have other issues going on & if not dealt with you can make weight loss more difficult. I have seen it happen with ppl at the medical centre I work at & with a close friend. She had very controlling parents. She had no choices as a kid & just had to do what her parents wanted. The only place they did not restrict her was how much she ate so she ballooned. The minute she started losing weight the feeling of being out of control krept up & she started to self sabotage until she started to self hate. It got so bad she was committed. Then she saw a therapist & everything clicked & now she is much happier & on her journey to her goal weight & this time its easier.
I don’t think there’s a need to rank a list of diseases, I’ll keep avoiding all of them any way I can. AIDS is cruel, diabetes is cruel, shingles is cruel, IBS is cruel.
@@_..-.._..-.._ Shingles is not cruel in the way cancer is. I have stage 4 nerve cancer myself, I’ve had this cancer for coming up on 2 decades in a 2 weeks, since I was 5 years old, and I’ve had shingles multiple times, they are no where near comparable. I can understand not wanting to create a hierarchy of diseases, but there is a clear line between the severity of these diseases. Diabetics often go on to live relatively normal lives my 80 year old grandmother is diabetic, trust me that’s the least of the issues she faces day in and out. With cancer, even if by some miracle it doesn’t kill you, your life is destroyed, your body is a broken mess, especially in cases like mine being childhood cancer. I got extremely lucky that for some reason my cancer decided to be the 1 in a million that just remained stable for nearly 2 decades now. But I still saw just how badly cancer destroys an entire family, how it breaks the minds of those enduring it and watching it, how it can make 8 year olds curse the world and everything in it. I spent plenty of time watching other families come and go, and how they handled their cruel fate, it was never an easy thing to watch. It forces you to grow up extremely quickly, come to terms with the reality that you’ll never have a normal life. Despite surviving 2 decades I still can’t have a normal life, my body is destroyed, I can barely walk to the end of the block without my back feeling like it’ll explode any minute. I look like I’m 14 when I’m actually 24, people will say to me “well you’ll be glad when your 34” to which I think to myself “oh yeah, I’ll get to go through most of my life without any social or relationship experience and I’ll still look 14, sounds fun!”. How am I supposed to have a relationship with someone when they think it would be illegal/paedophilic to consider dating me? My teeth are also rotted out due to treatments, I’m missing I think like 10 of my adult teeth now. My family sold everything they owned to get me treatment so I got no money to fix things or have that as my appeal. I was already genetically skinny before cancer, so now I look anorexic. I don’t have any proper educations and my only interests are random stuff on the internet, games and Tv shows/movies. I also live in an area that is impossible to get anywhere without a car, but I can’t drive to heavy pain medication and I can’t afford a car anyway. Point is cancer is on another level of cruel even for those that survive with it.
@@dylaroo24I’m really sorry. Your perspective isn’t talked about enough and that is a cruel reality. I definitely wish you healing and recovery. Sending love and prayers ❤
@Broskisnowski Exactly, I’ve had shingles dozens of times, I got a small rash on my right shoulder (always appeared in the same spot for whatever reason) it’d be itchy and I’d rub some special cream on it I got from the doctor (I think it was mostly just for the itching) and it’d be gone in a week or two. And every time I got shingles I had cancer and was going through treatment at the time, it was just a minor inconvenience, that was it. It’s a far cry from anything serious like cancer, shingles are a tame version of chicken pokes for the most part.
A obese person saying losing weight doesn't guarantee health is the same as saying airbags and seatbealts don't guarantee survival of car accidents. Just because there is no guarantee doesn't mean you shouldn't take precautions to ensure yourself the best possibility of living well
This comment is perfect! For anyone in the UK who is familiar with the actress June Brown (Dot from Eastenders) she smoked 20-a-day for 70 years and lived to 95 years old! There will be people who will say stuff like “my nanna smoked 2 packs a day since she was 13 and lived till 90, she was fine and so will I be!” but those hardy people are the exception to the rule. If we know what’s bad for us but still consume it to the extreme, we shouldn’t be surprised if it’s our downfall. What doesn’t k*ll you might k*ll me! It might be pure luck, good genetics or blessings from a higher power that determine these things, there’s no need to take it into your own hands to k*ll yourself slowly. PS. The only reason this dude is gonna take Ozempic is for the money. EVERYTHING he does is for the money!!
As an ex fat person, we know that feeling so well. The one they don't want to admit. They are truly miserable and hate their bodies. Worst of all is they feel very unhealthy. It all comes with stuffing your face with toxic food and not taking accountability.
Yup and not getting exercise in any form or fashion. I walk 2 hours to work sometimes just for the exercise and to save some money win/win but when people hear 2hours they think I'm walking to the promised land or something and call me crazy... for using my legs the way nature intended they be used. I used to be sloppy fat and I refuse to go back to it. I feel bad for people that get to the 300+ weights because at that point life is gonna be exponentially harder for them and they usually aren't bad people which makes me feel for them sometimes
Body positivity was never for unhealthy people. It's for healthy people who don't feel they fit into society's standard of beauty. It's to remind them that there is more than one standard of beauty.
THIS, 100%. The are all types of healthy bodies in different shapes. For women, not every one of us has an hourglass figure. There are top-heavy ladies, pear-shaped ladies, skinny ones with minimal curves, etc. That was the original focus of body positivity.
I started losing weight in April 2022, I was 500 pounds. The world is so much different after losing 170 pounds. Being fat is a drag on your joints, bones, digestive system and organs. It's not a great way to be and Aba is right, your body becomes a prison. You can't fit in chairs, travel, you can't stand for extended periods, you set limits on yourself about where you can go and what activities you can participate in. If you have a conscience then you have to consider the impact of your body on others in tight spaces or if you are a liability to family and friends. You can change, believe.
I’m not fat, just very overweight. I’m a 5’4 woman and weighed myself a few weeks ago and burst into tears when I discovered I was 180lbs. I know to some people that isn’t that much but I had also already seen signs of pre-diabetes in my body, and I think I had a wake-up call. I’ve been trying to lose weight for the past two weeks, being more active. It’s hard. But I want to feel more confident about myself, be able to do things for the rest of my life and try to not die from a fairly preventable health issue. People like this scare me, they’re glorifying an eating disorder, glorifying something that can break down someone’s mental state so quickly. I hope people don’t follow in the footsteps of people like him.
180lbs for a 5’4 woman is quite a lot, and youre definitely fat. I wish u the best in your weight loss journey but i hope u dont sugarcoar your flaws like that so much that u stay blind to the wellbeing of your health
@@NotAnotherKuromi Nope. She's categorically obese level 1 if your gonna use bmi calculator online. Her BMI is 30.9 which is obese level 1. I used that BMI calculator online for myself and even with 10.4 lbs overweight, I still find myself struggling in the toilet with my beer belly. Can't imagine how hard it is in the toilet being obese myself. Best she can do is accept it and makes steps to not reach to what the guy in the video's weight is because that weight is a death sentence like what happened to Ricky Naputi and many others. Sometimes I wonder why so many westerners(even teenagers which at that age should not be using such stuff) use opioids a lot when your body don't really need stuff like that unless your a lumberjack or something. Then I see videos pertaining to people like these and "oh so that's why opioids are a thing in the west!". In my country, unless you work as a hard laborer, nobody really use opioids here but it makes sense why lots of people in the west are addicted to pain relievers because they are pushing their bodies past the limits of what the body is intended to be. That's why there's a saying of "too much of something is bad enough". There's a reason why the stomach is just about the same size of your fist and you shouldn't eat more than that unless your a blue collar laborer who needs it or an athlete who needs it to build more muscle.
Im overweight at 155 lbs and being 5‘4. I have recently decided to not eat as much sugar as I used to. This is so that stuff like running becomes much easier (especially since I have asthma).
Worked at a retirement community as a lifeguard for many years. You'd see dad/mom bod, beer bellies, a little chubby but never obese. The biggest guy i saw there was at the pool 3-5 times a week swimming laps due to wanting to live to see his grandkids. He even told me he regretted not trying to be healthy sooner and how hard it is trying to play catch up.
Worked as a life guard at a retirement home for a couple summers part time. Now that I think about it you’re right. I never saw any older person who was morbidly obese. Yea sure they weren’t built like Greek gods but they weren’t “big” people in fact the older they were the smaller they tended to be. The heaviest people were people in their late 40s or 50s
I run a kitchen in a retirement hospital and you absolutely see overweight elderly people, obese even. No, not many but we had one that was so big when she had a heart attack the firefighters had to take out the wall and forklift her out the second floor. Which was embarrassing for her. When she come back from the hospital the boss sat her down and spoke to her and said "If you pass away from this, we are going to have to get the firefighters here again to crane out your body and we do not want to put you or your family through that so we are putting you downstairs" She wasn't happy about that but she agreed. Out of 70 residences, we had 3 morbidly obese about 10 overweight, and the rest were your standard tiny elderly person
That is not me condoning Morbid obesity I am against it but I also don't like half truths or misconceptions. There are obese elderly people but they are the minority. Just like you have your 90 year old who still smoked cigarettes. We had alot of them lol
@@-Gax-Half truths and or misconceptions are definitely bothersome but these two examples in the comments state that they did not see obese elderly people. Not that they do not exist. In both comments they say "I never saw" not "morbidly obese elderly people do not exist". In everything there are exceptions to the rule. When people say "You do not see x" they most of the time are talking about the majority. Or at least that is how I see it. When people talk about how they do not see morbidly obese elderly people I think they mean they do not see it as a thing that is happening often. I could be wrong because I am not hearing it from them but I do believe they mean as something you see everywhere when they talk about morbidly obese elderly people.
My brother died a few months before his 40th birthday, he was 500+ pounds. He had trouble breathing one day, lose consciousness, and never woke up again. He had 4 kids. It has been a traumatic experience for all of us.
Apologises that your brother couldn't find his way out of his health problem! May he Rest In Peace and your family can find some kind of peace eventually.
I am obese and I hate it. I have been on a weightloss journey the last 2 yrs I weighed 498lbs and now Im 330lbs and still working on loosing the rest. Im 50 and I believe You guys said it all amen.
As someone who weighed over 460lbs over 2 years ago...I'm now down 115 lbs and trust me you don't know how bad it was til u lose substantial weight and realize all the lil normal things you can do like tie your shoe or like walk without getting tired 3 minutes or profusely sweating all the time for no reason.... it's not fat shame it's about overall health and well being. Hopefully this guy gets it together before it's to late
I didn't understand how unreasonably hard tying my shoes had become until I lost weight. One day I noticed that putting on my shoes in the morning was no longer a contest in holding my breath!
My niece broke her arm while she was being born (I believe the umbilical cord wrapped around it), and then she survived cancer before she was even one year old. She's a fucking champ!
I'm a fat guy.. I don't want to be. I am working on losing weight. I am so sick of the body positivity movement telling me that my prison(body) is fine.. it's not fine, it is killing me and everyone like me.
THIS is exactly how I feel. I've lost 40 lbs since January but I have such a long way to go. Being fat doesn't make me happy. I'm missing stuff. I feel like the fat positivity movement is a facade. It stops the minute you're fat and reminded of it.
Just stuff yourself with fruit, vegetables, eggs, yoghurt, raw nuts & seeds, and some boiled potatoes. Tea/coffee/water/soda, all without sugar. Skip the rest. It's easy
Preach, I'm so sorry for your loss! It was painful to watch you being so detached. I hope you can find your smile again in the future. Sending you hugs! 🫂
My husband had that discussion with me. A lot of junk food can't come into the house now. Then, I found out weeks ago that Type 2 Diabetes runs on both sides of the family. No one is going to be chopping off toes or fingers. I got into kickboxing and started hitting the gym. I'm 43. It was time to change.
I lost my sister almost 2 years ago... She was obese and had heart diease. She only 35... I miss her everyday. We all need to stop this mess. Like yall said were gonna miss a lot of people cuz they didnt control their diet
At my peak weight, I was 494 lbs. It was an absolutely miserable life, both physically and mentally. When you're that weight, you are so broken that it's nearly impossible on your own to fix your life; that motivating "I've had enough" moment never comes. You're the frog in the slow boiling pot; it's gonna kill you but you but you've been in the situation so long it no longer moves you. Instead you just have a miserable mindset about every part of your existence: depression, shame, escapism, fatigue, and a complete lack of self-worth. This man needs help - even if he doesn't acknowledge it - and the person who's closest to him seems to be betraying him for fame and a paycheck. Don't get me wrong on that though; ultimately the responsibility is his. There's programs he can reach out to. I started medically supervised weight loss and followup advanced bariatric surgery last October. Since then I'm down 137 pounds and still losing. It's permanent life changes and it's much harder than I originally expected, but the final goal will be worth it.
494lbs?? Oof, I felt that on my knees. Good on you for losing the weight. I couldn't imagine how good those knees must've felt losing all that weight. 👍
As someone that went from 520+ pounds to 290 in about two years, I wouldn't be able to deal with the idea of going back to that size. At a certain point, the strain on your body every time you move is so darn hard on yourself that you can't exercise without hurting yourself if you're not careful. (Swimming and Cycling being the only two safe options.) I understand that this woman might not care for his husband's weight from a love perspective, but there are ways to help someone wihtout shaming them, which she doesn't seem to be inclined to work towards. I feel sad for this man because I used to be in that state of mind for a while, not caring about the effects it had on me. At 35 years, I'm happy that I've taken the steps to get my health on shape at 30 yo. Still not in the best shape right now, but I can move, I can dance, I can wear the clothes that I want instead of the one I can wear. I sincerly wish for that man to get back on track and find the motivation to take his health seriously. Because once you realize everything that you missed because of your weight, you'll never wanna go back to that way of living.
I am not for government interventions, but if you start your child smoking they are still going to be more likely to live to 50-60 years old then making your child morbidly obese. It is actual child abuse, the kids are not making their own choices, and are being given a disease. I don't understand how people think that is an individual choice issue. We protect children from adults in many situations and food/weight should not be separated.
Here's another aspect. My father is in his 70's and is obese. He has already drained his fortune due to his resulting health issues. He has to live in assisted living, he has to hire a nurse, and he's had to spend it all on other things. He's got nothing for himself and to leave behind and he's still got decades of life left.
Damn that sucks. I would’ve stopped living at that point cause a 70 yo being obese sounds like it would be the most miserable feeling anyone would ever feel. Like idk your dad situations but there’s no way I would believe u if u say “he not in constant pain he feel very comfortable” major 🧢
I don’t know how people fight back the tears. I look at you and feel your pain brother. I shed a couple for you when you explained your loss. Trying to get myself in better shape myself and it’s hard, especially when you’ve lived your life that way.
My 20 year old Nephew died last year of Obesity , he was 460 pounds and his heart gave out. Between him drinking alcohol everyday and carryout food it was gonna happen. I miss him .
Terminal cancer is no joke. I was diagnosed with stage 4 ovarian cancer in December 2022. After surgeries and barely surviving my 1st chemo round, I was told in March that I had 6 to 8 months. I was supposed to get married Feb 2024. We were going to have kids and see the world together. Now I have to find a way to say goodbye to my best friend. Cancer fucking sucks
Couldn't she be trying to kill him, for the life insurance? Maybe an inheritance? Wouldn't be the first time a wife or girlfriend were to try and collect on wealth, by killing the partner.
I really assumed it was on some fetish shit. I really want to highlight the importance of this shit though. Whether you are all muscle or all fat being 500 lb is absurdly unhealthy. Your organs are just not meant to support that much mass. No matter what you're doing you're always going to be overclocking them the bigger you get. Hell even bodybuilders that are 3 to 400 lb are more at risk for heart attack because of what I just said. Anyway, here's a fun fact: This guy weighs more than the average weight of most species of bears in the world. Again, humans are not supposed to be this damn big! And if someone is trying to gas light you by saying you're body shaming they are the real problem.
I doubt Preach will see or read this, but condolences to him, that child, and the other family/loved ones of the woman who recently died of cancer. Cancer affects all of us in some way. Either we go through it or someone we love endures it (and often loses their life). At age 18, my precious Uncle Sonny succumbed to cancer, exactly 6 months after his 31 year old son (my first cousin) died in a car accident hitting a deer on his way home from work. Joey was a newlywed and like his father, a pure soul who was always kind and nurturing to all who loved him. My Uncle Sonny was the only true, loving father figure I ever had in my life. It’s been 27 years, and I still miss him every day (as well as his son, my sweet cousin). In 2016, my former partner died after a hard fought battle with breast cancer that spread to the bones and brain. She died the day before my 38th birthday. She was only 42 years old. I still think of her, as even though we were not romantically involved when she died, we had become closer friends than ever before. She was so damn brave! Cancer sucks. It’s so ugly and unfair. It can get any of us at any time. 💐
My cousin and her 4 children lost their father to obesity. Heart attack in the middle of the night. He was early 30s and a little smaller than this guy. Was a great guy overall too
Questioning the establishment about the promotion of refined sugar to kids is the steppingstone of the rational thinking rabbit hole of this whole system and also the reason why I will always support you guys. You will most definitely help our society get better by tackling these subjects one after the other so much love and respect for you guys. Thank you. ❤
I grew up fit. I realized when I was overweight ( steriods cushings syndrome) I felt so ashamed of what I looked like I locked myself away and got bigger. I think people should be healthy but not want to self delete because of their weight. I thought the point of this movement was to love yourself, stop the judgement from others, so you can get healthy. I knew I was fat, I didnt need to feel shame 24/7. It took hard work on my mental health to lose the weight. I felt too disgusting and at one point I lost hope. My in-laws treated me awful for the way I looked. My husband married me at my worse cuz he knew who I really am. I have gained weight twice. From illness, injury, mental health/stress, and bad habits. I lost weight twice. It took a will to live to lose weight. My point to body positivity is encourage health, stop judging weight. It's unhealthy to promote obesity, but acceptance and letting people live their lives is supposed to be the goal. If I felt more accepted in society for my size and less like I was getting laughed at, if I had clothes that were big but cute, I would have had less social anxiety, my mental health would've improved, I would feel encouraged to go live life, and get active.
There's no such thing as "food addiction", it's the same as any addiction. Sugar is an incredibly powerful, addictive drug, same as many other chemicals they put in food to get you hooked. No one is getting addicted to the chicken in a Popeyes chicken sandwhich, they're addicted to all the crazy chemicals they put in it.
I went over the last 2 and a half years from 420lbs to 230lbs, one of the motivators I always used to tell myself is that "You only see fat old men, you never see old fat men". After losing nearly half my body weight I can confirm that no matter what bullshit excuse you state that you are "healthy" when you are fat, yes, you may be a healthier 400lbs than a different 400lb person, but you are nowhere near as healthy as a 250lb you. The amount of strain it puts on your body is unbelievable, the low level chronic endotoxic inflammation that is present in obese people is harrowing. All the aches and pains and constant illness I had when I was 420lbs, the lower leg oedema, respiratory issues, sleep apnea, chronic fatigue....all of that shit has gone. And you can't even say "its due to exercise" because apart from walking a lot more now I lost weight via diet, it was purely the weight that caused the issues. People need to get a fucking grip and stop killing themselves or their loved ones.
I have a buddy whose parents didn’t buy the healthiest foods. Met him in 6th grade, and from that time, until about our first year of college, he was morbidly obese. I was with him throughout, so I saw what he did. Honestly, he simply would eat, maybe two meals a day. Never went to the gym, though he did a lot of work outside. But the biggest thing, I noticed through that, is diet. How many calories you eat. You will lose weight, if you eat less. There’s not much more to it. He’s as fit as me these days.
weight and the overal BMI index vary between people. depens on the overall size. your Metabolizm is mostly influenced and effected of what you grew up with. if you had a unhealthy lifestile as young child you'll struggle with the afte effect from it as an adult. however it is never to late. all it means it mostly requires more work and dedication than on average but it is very much possible. if somone whos crippled with no leggs can do it. than what is your excuse for not being able. in the end its all depends on the individual. not your family and friends nor society
@@dendrienMetabolic function adapts to your needs in the present, mainly whatever is necessary to sustain your weight. So it'll adapt if you force it to.
I need to lose weight, I'm like 5'10 340 lbs, my issue is when I screw with my diet I get so nauseous I can't eat, idk if it's some kind of addiction or withdrawal symptoms or what but it's really rough Honestly I'm open to advice if anyone who knows anything sees this lol
@@DissyFanartwell likely your diet isn't healthy in micro nutrients, but we do make some things harder than they need to. At 340, the process is actually easier to lose weight than when you DO hit under 300. Your body metabolism is higher now and will go down as you lose weight. Eat 500 calories less and make a walking goal that's doable. Maybe that's 5k steps a day. Do that each weekday while eating 500 less calories and check your weight weekly (not daily). Also make sure your water intake is good. If this works, keep doing it, but do little increases with the fitness. Add 500 extra steps every 2 weeks so it doesn't feel dreadful to add on. Another way is to add hills into your route or simply walk faster for sustained periods. Walking is a slept on activity. I'd highly recommend staying away from running and constant stairs until you get your weight down. Walking doubles the force of your bodyweight on your legs. Running can be several times more than that. Stairs not as much as running, but it adds a lot. Let your body get used to working with the walks and adapting to it. This will build a habit by about a month in if you kept to it. As you start to go down in weight, slowly begin to learn about macro and micronutrients to be better informed about your health. You'll learn that what you eat now is likely calorie dense foods (lots of calories in something easy to eat a lot of). You can eventually find non calorie dense foods you can eat. Imo, what will help you is taking measured steps that enable longterm adherence. Crash diets will either fail you short term with you giving up, or longterm when you relapse. Take steps, but smart small ones and keep taking them until you reach your goal. Consistency is what will get you there
@@DissyFanartI’m not overweight never was but I have family members who were. And there advice is simple. Cut the carbs. You have to eat good lean meat and if you do eat carbs make it be from fruit and not fruit juices. Only drink water. Start exercising with walking until you can run, or if you can swimming is great. Intense cardio without the stress on your joints, or a stationary bike. Lots of cardio with minimal carbs.
When I came to US I was completely shocked to see how big Americans are . I was shocked to find how expensive was pure water and to find school lunch was completely junk. No salad, no organic fruits. People prefer to drink coke instead of water . Every food contains either vegetable oil or high fructose corn syrup . Top of that this kind of people entertaining themselves and being influential figures 😢
Agreed. I'm a euro, with part of my family in the US. One of my cousins came back to live here 3 years ago. He was all about fat, sugars, ketchup, corn etc. When he started getting used to all the variety and tastes our Mediterranean foods and dishes have to offer, he was like a kid on Christmas morning for months. Well, he ate quite a lot, enjoyed his meals even more and... lost weight. What the US is doing to its people is criminal. And with all the big pharma shenanigans, we're unfortunately on the same highway to bs land too. Our strong cultures and the sheer variety of it in Europe is probably the reason why we haven't completely lost the plot already. But still, it's quite alarming to see how things used to be when I was a little girl in the 80s and what's the situation today.
@@ghjuI’m an American who just came to Germany. I was under the impression that it’s hard in Europe to not see people who are fairly thin, but uh… I guess not? Definitely better than the u.s. though as I have only see like 1 morbidly obese person though.
As a 36 year old man, I totally agree with aba on health issues. I was damn near 300 lbs and on my death bed frfr. My doctor told me cut the weight or cut the suit for your funeral. I dropped to 220 and can't be any happier.
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 I commend thee! I'm trying to lose 90 pounds, because I gained that much thru antipsychotic medications. I am currently trying to not get diabetes and my weight loss is still in progress.
I used to be chubby and I was not happy with my body. As the COVID pandemic came around, I gained 55+ lbs. I finally started to accept my body for what it was because I felt insecure before when I was at a lower weight. I made an effort to lower my weight as I reached 325 lbs, and to this day I lost 30+ lbs and I feel happy and more secure with my body the more pounds I lose. Body positivity is loving your body and accepting your insecurities, but if does not give you the opportunity to sloth and eat everything in gluttony. It gives the peace of mind to do your absolute best to become your best and achieve your true potential.
Congratulations to you for caring enough about yourself to gift yourself good health. I just gained the knowledge you have and hope to have my own success story.
As someone who has struggled with my weight for forty years, these videos glorifying fatness give me motivation. It's 5am and I'm not planning for a coffee drink with loads of sugar. I'm at the gym.
I lost a friend a year and a half ago to obesity. Technically the cause of death was listed as cardiac arrest due to complications from sleep apnea but death certificates aren't going to say obesity. Ultimately it is what it is. I always knew he was a big guy, and to be honest I always knew something was going to happen. I just thought there would be an event, and then I would visit him in the hospital and we would have a heart to heart and that combined with the hospital stay would be the final tipping point to him getting the help he needed to finally lose the weight. But there was never an event. One day he was here and the next he wasn't. I regret not having that conversation with him. I never wanted to overstep and it's not like he didn't know he was overweight. But I do think maybe if I had brought it up ever it could have been a nudge in the right direction. He was such a great person. And he was only 34. Don't wait to turn things around if you need help. If your loved one needs help I hope you don't wait to approach them compassionately. Life can be over in a second.
As someone who has been gaining more weight than I'm used to, I feel like my partner addressed it in the perfect way (for context I'm usually underweight since I struggle with chronic anxiety, depression, and IBS which makes me nauseous a lot and hard to eat regularly and absorb nutrients. Over the last few months I've been doing pretty well mentally and have been able to meet my weight goal, but actually went over my goal by a significant amount) Because of my situation my BF is aware that my situation is sensitive and doesn't want to push me in the opposite unhealthy way that I was stuck at. So he just brought up my weight goal and genuinely asked If I was happy being over the goal I set for myself. I admitted that I wasn't so we decided to be more active TOGETHER to counter it. Now we go to the gym together a lot walk the dogs together, and he wants to teach me how to box. Cooking together also help us eat healthier. It feels so good to work together and not be alone on my journey. He's more of a let's focus on the solution not the problem, which I really appreciate, cuz he never points out my weight problem areas to shame me and make me more self conscious and still makes me feel desired and attractive in general.
How do you not absorb nutrients well me and my wife have ibs and that was never am issue so kinda confused about that I'm in shame and my gf has been overweight for awhile but she tries. Really it's what you eat and your habits just jot eating is enough you need physical activity and alot of it. The it's gets better with, learning to communicate and mentally teaching yourself that, your anxiety is uncalled for. We're human nothing is perfect but we can't use things as excuses. I know people without legs who try harder than most we have to be more accountable
That's how a real man should treat you tho I do the same for my wife we go to the gym and diet and cook together even work together what helps is not taking stuff personal and just communicating like an adult relationship is the best ever
@@jasonmurdock6495 there is varying degrees of IBS. Mine is triggered by anxiety and depression. So the worse my mood the worse the flare ups are. And it pretty much makes me nauseous, upset stomach, and the food I do eat goes through my digestive tract more quickly so it doesn't digest properly and I don't absorb all the nutrients.
I grew up overweight, and it affected my self esteem bad. At my heaviest I was 260 about. I hated what I saw in the mirror, sometimes felt almost disgusted. I couldn't even climb a flight of stairs without breathing pretty hard. I just hated everything about it. I feel much better now after losing 110 pounds. I dont get as tired, and just feel more healthier. The saddest thing though is that people actually look at me more so now than when I was growing up as a person. I understand that's not always the case, but people really do treat you differently on weight. And I think that's sad, it hurts, and even if they're overweight or obese they're still people who deserve respect. I dont think people over 100+ even 50-60+ pounds are happy with how they look or physically feel. Very few but a lot I would say no.
Sorry to bother but wanted to vent real quick, im at the same weight you were right now, my friends and some family members think making fat jokes will give me the necessary push for better but it never does. I even told said people that its not my way to be more productive and actually leads me to overthink and self sabotage. My push has always been positivity, not being the laughing stock. Have you ever had to deal with people like that and how did you?
@@teeceedoc When I was younger some of my family would make jokes, and it was my mom who told them to stop which I'm grateful for. As for friends, some of my friends were also overweight like me so I didn't have any experience like that. And if they won't listen to you asking them to stop, if you can perhaps spend less time, and just try focusing more on you and losing weight for you not anyone else. I hope this helps.
I lost my brother who struggled with his weight and was 400+ lbs. Died at 29 years of age. Never got married, never got to have kids any of that just because of the effect that food and unhealthy habits had on him. Still miss him everyday and hate myself that I couldn't help him more so.
nah bro, dont hate yourself too much. If that's the first time you had someone rely on you because they weren't strong enough themselves, you can't hate yourself for not being good enough to change their life around. There's a reason people who give therapy need extended education and years of experience. Shit's hard, and hopefully you learned something to better your or someone else's life in the future
I've been nearly 300 lbs before and it was definitely not fun (especially at night cause it was hard to breathe) but now I'm down to 155 lbs and plan on putting on some muscle. To those on a similar journey, i wish you the best of luck and have a good day
Thank you guys!!! This has really kicked me in my butt. I was vegan for a year and I let myself get in my head too much, food was my comfort. I’m fasting this week to get my head back on straight. I appreciate you 🙏🏽
You don't even need to be vegan, if that's your preference then sure but if you can't sustain it simply cut off sugar or anything high carb and count calories (especially on days you cheat and eat fried food).. Eating at a low carb diet is the easiest way to lose weight by far
Yeah it's definitely a misconception that vegan means healthy and losing weight. Many sweets and processed food are vegan! I have followed a primarily vegan diet for a few years now, and the being was rougher with all those transition foods, but I was forced to get better at cooking and try to incorporate whole and simple foods, its been so much better lately I wish you guys the best on your health journeys
At the start of 2023, I was at 350+lbs. I don't really know, there was no scale that could read my weight. They all said "Overload" or "Please get off". I always was struggling with my weight, I never was that active. This morning, the scale said 294lbs. Still have a long road ahead of me, but I don't want to go back there. Everything was hurting. No physical activity was fun. Everyone deserves respect, no matter their weight. But no amount of body positivity will make me think that being fat is good for you.
I'm so sorry for your loss. We lost a friend a few years back to cancer and she also left a young child behind. Surround that baby girl with all the love you can, she will be ok.
I hit a high of 426.2 lbs years ago. I've been nickel and diming my diet and lifestyle changes so that I can experience permanent lasting changes that I can keep up without having to think too hard about them. I'm close to being a full 100 lbs down now. It's tough, I hate the way that it feels sometimes. I appreciate you for making and sharing this video. You actually show true care and you approached the topic by still viewing obese people as actual people. So many people dehumanize us and treat like we're happy living in a body that constantly hinders us and brings us pain. We have to use that same body to make it better, we have to fight the addiction and impulses while they're at their strongest. It takes time and it's best to make changes that result in better results long-term that can be maintained. Take care Aba & Preach.
I needed to hear this today. Ive been lacking motivation because of personsl reasons and events for the past 3 years. Im not crazy overweight but I'm definitely unhealthy right now. This is my crossroads. I need to stop thinking about it and do it. My decisions now could change who i am in the next three years.
Preach I am so sorry for your loss. My best friend of 35 years just died from cancer this morning. She ballooned up due to abuse, dead at 56. Thanks for trying and the diet food adds cancer to the other issues
My father has been overweight for most of my life, actually both my parents and extended family. He went to the doctors a couple months ago and got a myriad of diagnosis that could potentially kill him if he doesn’t drop the weight. Seeing him drastically change over the following months to now having and upcoming weight loss surgery has left me in awe. He cares about his family and *being* there for us. Diabetes has robbed my family of a lot but it’s never too late for anyone. Well…obviously until it really is
We are living in a crazy world, as someone that has only recently arrived at a point of my wheightloss journey where i am finally ok with my weight. (120kg down to 85kg) at 180cm, i cant imagine how These guys live on a day to day basis
I have a food addiction and have reached over 300 lbs. I have tried every kind of therapy and new eating "lifestyle." I think I've finally found something that gives me a fighting chance... Buddhism. Learning to love and center myself allows me to make better choices for my health. I don't recommend this for everyone, but if you're struggling DON'T GIVE UP! You ARE worth it!!
Great way to do it! Buddhist Vipassana meditation retreats specifically teach how to deal with desire, purge addiction and master the mind. Good for freaking you for doing the hard work! Since Buddah is only depicted as fat because it's a mental exercise where you sit, it could be really good to add some type of yoga in there.
My understanding of body positivity are things like a missing limb, breast cancer survivors, things about the body that can not be changed. Ppl can lose weight. I don understand how 1) that justified as okay when it’s unhealthy 2) has anything to o with body positivity
400 pound guy here. I have a bum knee which happened prior to my massive weight gain, I'm now fighting to get in better shape. I go to the gym to lift every other day and have greatly changed my diet, for the first time in my life I am not gaining weight but I'm certainly not losing and it's been four months stuck in a five pound range since an inital 20 pound weight loss. The thing people don't see is how horrible it is to be trapped in a very obese body, I would have to lose almost two people worth of weight to get healthy it's incredibly daunting. I know it's fun to boil the issue down to treats and sweets but it's far more than that. It's also over eating in general and lack of exercise. I don't know what the point of my comment was outside of venting but this is hard and I would encourage you to not look down on fat people when they're working to become better because I'll tell you dragging around an extra one and a half of you while doing exercise is a monster you'll never be able to understand.
My ex- mother-in-law was a bigger woman, struggled with her weight mostly due to inactivity. She passed away at 66, only a couple years after retirement. Her grandkids were the light if her life but she did not get the chance to fully enjoy them. It's really sad
I am fromNorway, first country to have «sugar TAX» in order to make sure sugar is expensive to sell and not allowed in big volumes each bite considering the product. Meaning many products produced in america has WAY above whats legal to sell in norway to customers. I swear, I love my country for this. We still have sweets, but NOTHING in my country is near as dangerous as any of those products America has. Not only is american sweets filled with sugar but full of chemicals the body has no idea how to deal with so it ends up storing it.
I can tell just by her facial expressions and how she’s wording it, she doesn’t wanna upset or it looks she’s afraid to even upset him. It’s pretty sad that we’ve gotten this far to this point in the “fat positivity” movement that even if you express concern of any way or provide pretty valid and irrefutable evidence to why it’s a toxic lifestyle, you’ll immediately be labeled as fat-phobic or a bully. It’s sad. I get not making feel people feel shitty for their weight but rather encouraging them and uplifting to make healthy choice instead they are more so normalizing being overweight and that’s wild to me.
It is much easier to say "I'm happy with how I am and everyone should like me the way I am" than it is to say "I really need to do some work to better myself." This goes beyond just weight - far too many people want to make excuses for their choices instead of working to make better choices.
But I think it's also fair to say that some people may ACTUALLY LIKE having fat bodies. Idk why that bothers people so much. Like we just saw a whole extreme body modification trend of women buying themselves huge butts and breasts that in most cases would only be naturally found on someone with an unhealthy bmi..
@@ajm935 There may be a few that like being severely overweight, but I would expect that to be a massive minority. Most people like to be able to move and do things, and do not look forward to health problems. The problem is they lack self-control when it comes to food. Some of that comes from the fact that the food they eat is incredibly flavorful, but insanely unhealthy, leading to an addictive feedback loop. The "bothers" question is a bit misguided. It is not that people are bothered by someone's choice to be unhealthy, it is that as influencers they are pushing an unhealthy lifestyle as if it was okay. Likewise, the assertion about the plastic surgeries is misguided, but that goes off into a separate topic pretty quickly. Suffice it to say that the vast majority of women getting boob jobs or BBLs are not looking to get fat. As an influencer, he needs to realize he is (for better or worse) a role model for people. On TikTok, especially, this is primarily younger people. By giving them the message that living like he does is okay, he is setting them up for massive health problems later if they follow his lifestyle.
I’ve lost a lot of people to obesity, and even with the reality check they still continue the same habits. It’s become a problem now to not take care of your health.
Coming out of the Pandemic I got seriously over weight and my wife got on my case about it to the point she burst into tears because she did not want me kick the bucket before it was my time. She was right by my side helping me diet and exercise until I lost 30kg over the course of a year. I do not understand that fat guy's wife at all: either she secretly wants him to die or all that bank they are making has made he delusional.
I consider myself to be a recovered processed sugar addict and I could deeply relate to that "cloud" Aba was experiencing. processed sugar addiction is real. I now substitute my natural cravings with fruit, more water throughout the day, and better eating habits. this was the last step I had to take before going heavy in the gym, and I look & feel much better nowadays. this isn't talked about enough.
12:55 - 12:57: This part. I’ve been overweight my entire life and my family was always getting on me about it when I was a kid, but never gave me the resources to lose weight or gave me the encouragement I needed. Instead I just felt shame, had horrible self image issues, and always thought about starving myself. Now as an adult, I have to do the work to reverse the damage.
I can’t believe people let themselves get this way. I’m 250 now and I’m constantly feeling it. My breathing is hard, my heart palpitates, my knees and feet and joints all hurt, I’m sweaty all the time. It’s not a good existence. Idk how they do it.
@@_angeflow 250 is a far cry from 500 dude. It’s literally twice my weight. How a body could handle that when I feel like I feel at this weight. I can’t imagine. But very nice just wanting to call a stranger a fat slob. I’m sure you got a pathetic little swell in your chest.
As a 300 pound man - I dont eat sweets but I know I overeat - I have gained and lost the same 30-50 pounds but I am trying because even though I can love the body im in I also know its not healthy and I am still in good enough shape now to do something about it. It is difficult but there is certainly a difference between body positivity and being healthy.
The fact that this was filmed during Preach's B-Day celbration with you guys just gives me a chance to appreciate you guys being good NOT-firiends all over again. Appreciate you guys. Edit: Aba being the preacher about health while smoking a cigar is peak content. Still appreciate you guys
He doesn't smoke them every single day. You guys are clowns, he does ONE thing ONE time. That doesn't make him as bad as a person who doesn't give a shit about their weight, making rhe same mistakes MULTIPLE times. D*mbass
Im 25 and have low back and leg problems cause of my weight it sickens me to see people proud and convincing others its ok when I struggle. Im working on it and hurts to see that being unhealthy gets more support nowadays.
better not look up Butterbean then... seriously though... fat people aren't automatically weak... especially their legs... think about that. they aren't going to win any races but your blanket statement is clearly not going to hold up in the right circumstances.
Sumo, MMA, baseball, football, shot put, javelin throw, weightlifting, arm wrestling, boxing, 40-yard dash. First things first, redefine your definition of "fit." Fit is only objective to circumstances. If I needed to move my car, a slim person wouldn't be fit for that but a fat person might be, depending on their athleticism. Also, fat people will be the last people to die during a famine because they last several months without food. Temporary fatness or fatness with a healthy amount of muscle mass is okay. However, too much of anything is bad, even "fitness." I've never seen a fitness expert live longer than a regular guy. Fact.
Okayyyy so I am not overweight/fat/obese. I am in good shape, mid range for my height and weight. A person can be fat but have a ton of muscle. If you mean the obese like the man in the video, then yeah, agreed. A lot of people really don't realize how many people are generally overweight or fat even by just twenty pounds. Very inflated statement you made.
This all stinks of mysanthropy/blackpilling to me. You gotta be a person that hates themselves and says "fuck it why bother?" to get to the levels of this guy, and misery loves company. So encouraging others to do the same is going to seem natural to them. Money's practically a bonus, not the actual objective.
The self destructive stuff that has a lot of backing HAS to be by design. We all are in a demographic the evil ones can appeal to and that we need to check in order not to be complacent as a human. This is going to be remembered as a time we pushed down hard on flushing society.
Delusion only gets acknowledged. The reward is living a long healthy life. No matter how they try. No one wants to see a overweight protagonist in anything other than a comedy. Lizzio says she’s happy and confident but cries on social media every few months when she keep seeing her comments about her weight. Meanwhile Rihanna a billionaire on her second kid. Yeah you see the difference.
@@ShunJ89Lizzo has a serious problem with addiction to food.. with all the money she has, she could’ve invest on a good coach to help her with her weight. The problem is her fans who keep telling her she’s « perfect » the way she is.
@@Good_Horsey "mysanthropy" Misanthropy. How do you get that wrong? Lmao. You obviously don't understand what this word means given what you write after it.
"I'm not worried about him being 500 lbs but worried about his well being." That's like saying, I'm not worried about the cancer but the baseball sized tumor on my thyroid.
I fkn hate when people use poverty as an excuse for being fat, I grew up in poverty and ya the food is mostly empty calories and sugar but to end up that size you ain't just eating shit food three times a day, you are overeating bs food all day. Real poverty has you skip meals because you can't afford it not has you buy extra food so you become fat.
It could be connected to poverty. I know that I have to restrain myself from eating a huge amount of food every time I buy groceries and it's related to not having enough when I was a kid. There's a fear of running out of food that makes me want to eat all the time. If I wasn't actively trying to change my relationship with food I'd be over 300 pounds lol
Plus there's the extreme addictive nature of these inexpensive foods, and the advertising that makes it all the more appealing. The price is attractive. You can buy twice as much unhealthy food for the price of a smaller serving if healthier, less addictive food.
Nah you can get fat as hell off poverty. Especially in America. A family on food stamps has a stocked fridge and pantry. You can eat Little Debbie Cakes and Twinkies for days and all the sodas and chips your heart desires. However, there are a lot of healthy foods that people on food stamps can’t even buy. I use to love going to visit my cousins who were on food stamps because they stayed with the snacks.
Aba’s face😭😭😭 At this point, people have to see that delusion is at an all time high and it’s your decision to join the circus 🎪 or not. Sorry about your friend, Preach 🙏🏾
Growing up in Canada in the 90's, our commercials were ALSO about moments from our history (both good and bad), how to ask questions about what we saw in the media, how to be aware for our own safety, and how we could be weird and still have fun and have friends
Thank you for this. I started a weight loss journey a week ago and it was getting hard. Needed this little reminder about why I’m doing this (my husband and daughter). My baby eats 95% healthy so she never has to fight this fight I’ve been challenged with for most of my adult life.
In the middle of a weight loss journey because having a child made me look more long term into my future. Was around 270 lbs. Down to 215 now with 180lbs as my goal. All I did was cut fast food (saved so much money to) and cut my portions in half. Instead of a full plate I get half a plate or a quarter of a plate. It's hard at first but just power through and the feeling of wanting more, at least for me after a month, it went away. So many changes already occured. I have more energy, my bp is alot better, the nightly heartburn is gone, I'm just more productive overall among other things. I think what helped to is I drilled holes in my belt to visually see the progress. I've lost almost 8 inches around my waist. Gonna work out again once my elbow heals up and wean off soda to drop this caffeine addiction. What worked for me was taking it one step at a time so it's not overwhelming.
I used to be nearly 100 pounds overweight and Aba is right when he said your body becomes like a prison. The most basic of tasks become painful laborious and your easily winded doing them. If this man spent all of his Tik-Tok videos talking about the consequences of his obesity and showing a weight loss journey that would be fat more beneficial for not only himself but everyone watching him.
I wasted my college years being fat at 6’5 and weighing 330 pounds, I didn’t have many friends if any, At my senior year I started hanging out with my old high school friends who were in college sports and they encouraged me to join them sometime and use my height to my advantage, I started watching them play then joined them training then slowly started losing fat and changed my diet and it was like I finally started living my life out of my shell, at 25 I got to 270 Ibs and built alot of muscle and I met my now wife at 27, I wholeheartedly believe that if my wife saw the old me who was in bad shape and low self-esteem she wouldn’t have dated me in the first place.
Im interested, did you find breathing easier when you lost weight? I got about a stone and a half overweight recently (not sure what that is in the US, 16 pounds i think) and i have asthma, the effect it had on my athma was insane, from never even having an attack to having to carry an inhaler and spare everywhere.
@@Ukraineaissance2014 Im sorry to hear this, this was some years ago I’m 33 now and I remember that I had sleeping problems with my neck and nostrils, they would often block air while I lay down and my neck would often ache in the mornings along with frequent migraines, this could be due to the fact that I was at risk of a multitude of diseases like diabetes, hbp, cholesterol etc…. I still had those issues for sometime in the beginning of my weight loss journey but I slowly started sleeping better, my migraines stopped in the mornings, my neck and nostrils were at ease during my sleep, I started getting more social and go out more, alot of things improved in my life and training was the thing that gave that domino effect in a sense. I don’t have asthma but my suggestion if you are struggling with breathing and fat gain, you should start doing low reps weight lifting, and have more rest between sets, I can’t explain how lifting combined with better food like protein rich food and low carbs changed my life as have more energy during my day, with that I’d encourage to take the first steps by creating a gym routine then actually showing up and introduce better food in ur diet and I hope u get better and stronger 💪
I used to be obese and after I lost a massive amount of weight, I reversed my type 2 diabetes. And regained my vitality. I’m preeetty sure there was a correlation there. And people tend to forget, you might be able to get away with it when you’re younger but that shit will catch up to you. I didn’t have type 2 diabetes until YEARS into my obesity.
Sometimes I wish influencers would just say the money/clout is too good to stop promoting their lifestyles instead of the mental gymnastics to justify it
I started my fitness journey last year February and I stopped drinking soda for a few months drank one and found it tasted weird and was lowkey hard to finish and by far was the hardest thing I ever had to quit
Since I’ve changed my diet, when I try to eat ice cream it tastes way too sweet. All I taste is sugar and it’s unpleasant. I got Taco Bell last night and was overwhelmed by how disgustingly salty it was. I used to be somebody who would even add extra salt to my fast food. I can’t believe how desensitized I was to salt and sugar.
I'm a bus driver and as part to keep our license we need to do a bunch of courses over the five years. One of them that I got was about better lifestyle. The guy showed how much sugar there is in a bottle of Cola. They boiled cola and when you do that only the sugar is left....damn that was scary to see how much there is in a bottle of coca cola. It made me drink a whole lot less soda and I'm not even overweight (I'm thin as fuck but you bet your ass that many thin people die of the same reasons as fat people, they eat just as much junkfood but you can't tell as they don't gain any weight). I drink a whole lot more tea and water now, sure I still have a soda, but mostly Cola Zero. Yes I eat sweets every now and then, but I decreased my consumption a whole lot after that one. As with everything in life, it's fine to enjoy some things that aren't healthy, just don't over do it. Keep it moderate. A soda per day won't kill you, but three of four sodas per day is a much bigger risk.
Just wanna say to avoid artificial sweeteners. The recent news about aspartame and sucralose aren't so great. Both gave my dad immense headaches growing up and were banned in my house. Processed cane sugar isn't that great either, but at least it's just refined from a plant. Artificial sweeteners are a whole 'nother deal
"The guy showed how much sugar there is in a bottle of Cola. " This is something that always surprises me. I'm not trying to attack you but I'm genuinly curious, how did you not know this when there is complete nutritional info on the bottle itself?
I did an economic report as part of a university project which tackled indirect taxes on sugary products. Obesity is a serious problem in Europe. I studied in Spain, where 2 out of 3 men are overweight, and 1 in every 6 people are obese. That is roughly 16.67%. 1 in 3 children aged 13-14 are overweight in Spain. In the UK especially, it is rampant, where statistics from 2021 show over 25% (1/4) of people are obese. These figures are expected to increase by at least 10% over the next 10 years. The indirect tax proposed in the UK in April of 2018 would see companies having to pay 24p/litre of drink if it contains more than 8 grams of sugar per 100 millilitres. And 18p per litre of drink if it contains between 5-8 grams of sugar per 100 millilitres. The idea being that it would both encourage companies to decrease the amount of sugar in their products, while allowing the government to obtain tax money that can be used to hypothecate the problem, e.g. healthy eating initiatives, or fitness and activity days for children. In China and Japan, because diets become more westernised and the countries have become more developed, there has been a surge in obesity in the past 10 years. The Chinese are committing obese children to sports and fitness programs and encouraging healthy eating in order to mitigate this problem.
