Posted on 09/10/2015 12:54:24 PM PDT by Rusty0604
Go back as far as you want. The ratios were the same. Watch Casablanca, watch the Maltese Falcon, checkout picture of all our presidents. What’s changed is our deep addiction to crisis, which leads to us changing the definition of a problem down to make sure the “danger” of the crisis keeps going up. Look at how regularly they keep adjusting the BMI chart (which is junk science from the start) down to make a higher percentage of the populace obese. And the ADA keeps changing the blood sugar chart to label more of us diabetic too. If we went back to defining these things the same way we’d realize the situation hasn’t really changed. We are a nation of plenty in bodies genetically wired to deal with lack, some of us are going to be fat because of that. But our life expectancy keeps going up, so really it isn’t that big a deal.
He got irritated at how our economics is going and the mishandling of our finances by the gov’t, so he decided to just write about what interests him on his blog.
True, but since most people aren’t so active these days and don’t need that many calories, eating soft carbs doesn’t contribute much nutritional value.
Depends on what’s with them.
Thank you for that info.
No problem. This stuff is heavily used in Central and South America. Most people don’t know about it. If you are at 120 you should drop back to 100 in about 90 days. If you drink it twice a day even better.
According to the BMI chart Arnold would have been morbidly obese when he was winning Mr Olympia being 6-1 and a half 245 :-)
I think, in fairness, part of revising the healthy percentage of body fat down a little is based on sound medical science; once you get above 20-25 percent there is a lot of good solid evidence that you are making things harder on your body than necessary, plenty of hard data on 25% plus being bad in all sorts of ways; but although *I* like being in better shape at 54 than at 27 I don’t demand that it be mandated as the only healthy state.
Of course the BMI isn’t body fat percentage, which is a big part of it’s problem. It actually came out of the same era as phrenology, and with the same goals of proving that poor people were poor because God said they should be as clearly demonstrate by looking at their mass to height and the lumps on their skull. That some “doctor” decided 100 years later maybe these folks were onto something is actually kind of disturbing.
Now with body fat percentage that is generally true. But you also have to deal with your genetic disposition. Some people can actually be a rather healthy fat, some bodies just don’t want to ditch the fat no matter how much muscle and endurance they have. Now those tend to be outliers, but it’s worth keeping in mind. Or keeping out of mind and just not worrying about other people’s problems. Which is really what all these crisis people need to do.
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