Posted on 10/13/2015 11:33:37 AM PDT by Red Badger
We walked to the neighborhood school K-3rd grade. Then we went to a different school, 4,5,6 and rode a bus. Then we moved and a different school, was 1.25 miles each way, which I could do each direction in 12 minutes, every day in 7th and 8th grade. High school was just a few blocks, but we always walked. My kids (now 27 and 31) also mostly walked to school all of their K-12 years.
We also walked all over the neighborhoods, rode our bikes 5 miles to track practice (then home afterward) every afternoon in the summer.
These days, due to whatever set of reasons, kids are not being this active.
And powdered milk and powdered eggs................
If they can afford those high priced toys then they can afford to make nutritious meals, or even buy some from a good restaurant if they are too lazy to cook. We eat a lot of Chinese food from local restaurants that's full of veggies and made to order. It isn't fattening, but anything can be fattening if you eat too much of it...............
We’re all equal, don’tcha know...............
I picked skinny parents.
Next time I’ll try rich ones.
At my place of employment every year we have a ‘health screening’ where one gets weighed, blood pressure/sugar checked etc.; you would not believe some of the people who get a referral for being obese; it is ridiculous. Now I’m not saying there are not a lot of fat people out there, there are; but to classify someone who is 5’10” & 210 lbs. on a large frame is foolish; that person is not even fat, much less ‘obese’...not sure what is behind this, except maybe just another government power grab, but they really need to check the classifications.
no need for Food Stamps than
Nope, and you had to go get the food, they didn’t bring it to you unless you were elderly or disabled...............
That was back in the early 60’s, I was talking about. Before Food Stamps were created............
If we need large scale conscription and *really* need the bodies, you would be amazed at what a change 12=16 weeks of military training could do. Yes, it might take a little longer than with in-shape young football or basketball players, but it could be done.
Yep. Go to any liquor or convenience store at the beginning of the month when the EBT cards get recharged and you’ll see a couple of fat parents with pack of fat kids buying junk food, cigarettes and beer. It’s a common site in southern California these days.
In Japan, with an indoor-oriented youth culture that basically plays video games and watches anime all day, and with its high-carb diet of rice and noodles, you would think it have a big obesity problem like the US. But Japan has the lowest amount of obesity on the chart (4%). How come?
No HFCS...They use real sugar..................
The BMI calculation is biased by height. My 17 year old niece is 5'10", thin, very athletic (on varsity soccer team), and yet the BMI indicates she is 'obese'.
Go look at the chart again. On the left are Japan, South Korea, where there are a lot of short pudgy people, but because of the BMI formula's height bias they are not considered obese. Meanwhile, countries with tall people are all mostly on the right, where the BMI is biased upward.
The chart is biased in favor of short people because of the way the BMI formula is not properly calibrated for height. I'm not saying the US doesn't have an obesity problem (it does), but BMI isn't a good metric the way it is currently defined.
I was poor in the 30s and 40s.
When I hear people talking about poverty in the USA today I want to scream.
I would have considered myself wealthy if I had what most of the “poor” have today.
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So who should I believe: a detailed analysis and my own eyes about fat Americans or leftist do-gooders claiming millions of starving Americans?
Way to go. The wife and I both have lots of lbs to lose. She's big on exercise, but I told her keeping excess amounts of chow from going down your gullet is the best way to lose weight.
Exercise is good for a number of reasons, but withholding the food is still the best way to lose weight. I've tried both methods: dieting with little exercise and strong exercise and maintaining the same diet. For me, eating less food works better than exercise as far as losing the lard. But it is tough to go to bed hungry.
it’s REALLY hard to go to bed hungry, but it was better than dying in a bad way by 49!!
target 250 and i’m done. yeah, it’s still heavy. that’s fine :)
i NEED to try to exercise. but that’s harder for me than going to bed hungry!!!
I take an advil pm sometimes to make it quicker :)
So women are fatter.
(DUCKS!)
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