Posted on 04/20/2010 12:25:55 AM PDT by chasio649
I have always known that the problem of obesity or plain being overweight has risen in this country...but i went to a WalMart over the weekend (my wife usually does all the shopping) and noticed many, many people of all ages (especially young) that were huge. 20 year olds with huge beer bellies, young girls with massive muffin tops with tight shirts on, monstrous lardos shuffling down the aisles....geeez what is it going to be like in 20 years when they turn 40 and all have diabetes?...and no i don't think the government can do anything about it...there needs to be a shift in our way of living or thinking...any ideas? also...when did it become fashion for fat girls to wear tight clothes?...i guess i have been living under a rock....i'll go back now.
what is a massive muffin top
That’s the belly flab that hangs over a girl’s pants when they are too tight...like a rising muffin in its cup.
Think of the way that a baked muffin is sort of mushroom shaped in that the top most portion rises and spreads to take a shape wider than the lower part of the muffin. So a muffin top on a woman describes the style of wearing very tight low-rise pants that forces love handles and excess weight around the abdomen up and over the edges of the tight pants. This silhouette places emphasis on the waist in such a way that the waist is the widest part of the figure.
I don’t recall if it was a Freeper or what. But the guy was overheard by his girlfriend talking about her as a “muffin top”.
“What did you say? What does that mean anyway?!”
“Oh you know Honey. How the best part of a muffin is the part on top?”
“Oh you sweet thing!”
Inexpensive food is high calorie and high fat. McNuggets, fries, pizza. Expensive food can be, too, but ordinarily is not. Whoever can afford to partake of fruit or veggies out of season and a lot of lean meat & fish isn’t too concerned with grocery budgets. And, from what I have seen, how to feed a family on a shoestring is a big deal. One time, I dropped by a Wal-Mart to pick up things and a woman was telling one of her children to put a yogurt back “because (she) couldn’t afford it.”
Hope you’ve seen http://www.peopleofwalmart.com BTW.
There is some site with “WalMart People” or some-such. Some pretty funny (and sad I suppose) stuff on there.
I imagine it is the fast-food, store-bought meals, etc. I know my mom always had home-cooked meals. At our house it is sometimes a lot of quick foods and store-bought mixes with who-knows-what added into it. Although our kids are all on the skinny side, but they are real active too. (Me? I could stand to lose my muffin top! (Can guys have a muffin top? I suppose if we wore tights? I think a good old beer belly is a better description.)
Once that programming is in there, forget it.
Hey! You’re being sarcastic, yes?
There is nothing more affordable than vegetables, beans and rice. But some people don’t want to cook them. It’s easier to buy fast food.
If people who have limited budgets would take responsibility for their diet, there would not be a problem.
These days, if you’re poor, you get FAT, not skinny.
Veggies, beans & rice are inexpensive, but add in meat & fish and it’s a race to $100 in 2 sacks.
You can add inexpensive cuts of meat and canned fish. It’s not impossible.
There are victims everywhere. I’m not one of them.
YES! ;)
I didn’t mean to imply you were. I did see the woman telling her son to put one yogurt back because she couldn’t afford it. Where I shop now, almost no one goes to the frozen food aisle, and even at a big warehouse place like Sam’s Club or Costco, people go together and/or are on the phone or their iPad looking for better prices. That’s different.
I know we’ve cut back and buy things differently. No more soda pop for this household. Crystal Light & sugar free Kool Aid here. If I can find 49 cent bread, I buy a couple & freeze one for sandwiches.
I'm also writing a book about how rap music and basketball cause irreparable brain damage, but I'm still trying to find an exception that proves the rule (i.e. at least one person who listens to rap and plays or watches basketball, who still has more than two sparking neurons).
I was just fixin' to expand the control group to golfers, hoping to find a live brain cell among the jock crowd, then the whole Tiger Woods thing hit the fan. Maybe NASCAR next.
thanks. The site is sad and strange. If you ever have to go to Wal-Mart for something, you have to practically run in and run out and time yourself. And the really, really difficult thing is all the stuff from China, or the foods tagged now for WIC.
The stores have dropped variety in many cases. Some Wal-Marts don’t have asparagus, for example. And the strawberries are from Mexico, even though there have been stories about farmers in Florida plowing their fields under because the prices they can get are not profitable.
Finally, I didn’t use to be one of those people who checks the back of the box, but it does make a difference. All the things that are added are daunting.
I had to go on a diet for medical reasons, and the sweet or salty taste of something if I eat differently now is the 1st thing I notice. And the fat-loaded stuff can go right through me.
Over the years, I have noticed that some places that serve food must use a certain type of oil to cook foods or something, because the foods end up making me sick. Maybe I’m a canary in a coal mine. And yet, McDonald’s is still popular.....
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