Posted on 05/12/2012 8:08:48 AM PDT by bray
enough braying
The obesity myth? Face it, American are out of control weight wise. Americans are not just overweight but FAT...but I don't want gov't telling us what to eat or not to eat.
Define fat. Do you realize skinny people live shorter and less healthy lives than normal weight people? Be very suspicious of agenda driven science.
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Define fat? If you don't think Americans are not overweight as a whole and there is some big conspiracy I'm going to stop right now.
The country has record amounts of Type II diabetes, sleep apnea, joint problems, HBP, gastric reflux, breathing problems all related to obesity.
Jeesh look around.
slouching to Gommorrah is the proper term....
Good point, but this country has been going away from capitalism for quite some time now and is evolving toward socialism, if that were not the case Obama would not have had the chance of a snowball in hell of ever being nominated for president, much less winning.
There have always been a certain percentage of people who would not put out the effort to pee if their pants were on fire and due to the Government social programs in just the last ten to thirty years the percentage is growing fast.
Even the people who will work and do a half way decent job of taking care of them selves will vote for liberal social programs so that the government instead of them selves will have to support their worthless off spring along with the unwed mothers which may be their daughters and other kin and friends who may just be down on their luck temporary.
It is just like i have heard some one say before ( a good percentage of the people are too stupid and lazy to be free )
I sure hope you are right about the people evolving back toward capitalism and God, but i would be surprised to see it.
Everybody with more than 10% body fat is considered fat which is not the case. There are plenty of studies showing a more normal weight is healthier than these starvation diets people are on.
Women are told to look like they just walked out of Auschwitz and are having all sorts of health problems resulting from starvation. Be very skeptical of anything you are told from science. Much of it has an agenda as does this.
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The Tea Party and these elections are showing there is a movement in that direction. Socialism has got to be taken apart brick by brick.
obama’s second term will take care of the weight poblem.
I'm not referring to people with 10%-15-20% body fat or skinny people but obese people. The average American today is not at normal weight.
Anorexic girls? Sure they are out there..I never said they were not.
I just spoke with a Physical Therapist this morning at the gym. Been in the business for 25+ years. Years ago most of her work was workplace injuries or accidents. Today it's mostly hip/knee and back joint problems related directly to obesity.
Are they all related to obesity or are many of them over exercise related. Jogging is the worst thing you can do to your joints followed closely by fast walking and golf.
People make generalized statements about one thing and they may have different reasons altogether. What we need to define is what is obese, what is or what the gummit says is. The gummit charts say everyone is basically obese which of course drives up the injuries if everyone is and nobody isn’t.
I am too cynical to be a liberal.
Obesity. I give up discusing this you. Every person out there knows the American people are overweight as a whole compared to normal/good weight 30-40 years ago.
You would make a good liberal, your right I’m wrong, run away. I made good points you can’t refute so you declare yourself the winner and run and hide. Sounds like you’ve evolved?
Not sure why you got all incensed about 1 word, but guess that makes you tick. Probably a jogger who worships being skinny. Any time you want to go an a 30 mile bike ride let me know.
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Didn’t notice the signup date, what is the temp at DNC HQ? No wonder you sounded like an evolved lib.
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Don't have time to prove it right now but the low fat diet we've been sold on is responsible for the explosion in weight gain.
I teach hundreds of children, and they are constantly changing, as I teach music, all ages, all areas, all socioeconomic levels. In 13 years I have observed Two children who are “overweight”, and One who can be called obese. Perhaps there is an increase in weight amongst American Children, but the insane emphasis that is applied with a bludgeon by the government-media complex is overdone and inappropriate. Now Broward County is giving THREE Meals a Day to School Children, who have already had breakfast when they come to school, and after three taxpayer supplied meals, go home for yet ANOTHER one. This is NOT going to cure “Childhood Obesity”. In fact, it may be causing it!
Lol, no when you want to go on a 100 mile ride YOU let me know. I am a 5 year veteran of Dalmec in Michigan (100 miles per day x4) + numerous other tours.Been biking(road and mountain bikes) since I was 17 (I'm 26 now)
Broke my collar bone in 2 places on my Trek road bike 2 years ago-haven't been on a bike since. Went off the edge of pavement was not paying attention. Had to have it rebroken and reset 6 months later because it grew back wrong and was affecting my shoulder.
Still run with my gf though. Hiked with full packs for 10 days last year with my GF on the Appalacian Trail.
My GF and I are gym rats-we both pump a lot of iron-our main passion. She warms up with more weight than average men can lift. She is hardcore.
SRs, you out of all people should know the American people have a weight problem. I don't look at the gov't charts anyway.
We both have bodyspace accounts at bodybuilding.com
I'm not skinny. 6-1 197.50. 8-9% body fat but it fluctuates.
Nice talking with you but I disagree with what you are saying.
I agree with that. They took out the fats but loaded the foods with sugars to keep the taste.
Man after my own heart.
I've had the AT on my bucket list for a long time. Hope I can do it before I get too old!
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