American Obesity

Walking through the streets of Singapore, something that caught my attention was how nearly no one was overweight. Walking in the busy subway stations and in shopping malls, seeing someone overweight was pretty rare. It was surprising compared to in the US where many people are struggling with obesity.

America is generally known as being overweight and lazy. I always knew that, but never before this had actually payed attention to other countries in comparison. I thought about it more and more every day we were out walking around, and then last night we were out at a restaurant best known for their crab. During the meal, we all commented saying the crab was good, but it was a lot of work just to eat it. None of us really enjoyed breaking up the crab, because it took quite some time. However, my uncle told us that Asian people actually enjoy doing that. They like taking the time to pick out the edible pieces. This helped me realize how lazy we really are. Us Americans don't even like to pick out some crab meat because it takes an extra 3 minutes?