Posted on 08/27/2007 5:36:16 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
High fructose corn syrup.
Bingo. All the processed crap doesn’t help either. Not voting for Huckabee, but a fat man who can get thin is worth listening to.
“Dr William Rowley, who was a vascular surgeon for 30 years and now works at the Institute for Alternative Futures, said 61 per cent of US active-duty military personnel are overweight.”
And it’s clearly having an extremely detrimental impact.
Let’s get more politicians pandering to populist hysteria so they’ll have more fodder to laugh at us with overseas.
I was on a bicycle every minute I wasn’t at school or asleep from age 4 to about 15. I couldn’t have gained weight if I had tried. Now I’m 375 lbs. Hmmmmmm.
This has been going on for years. When I was a military instructor in the early nineties, 80% of our weight control and remedial PT programs were composed of students under 22 years old.
It’s not processed crap, it’s not HFCS. It’s food availability. We’re wealthy. Food is cheap. We can easily afford it, and we can easily get it on any street corner. We have softer lives, we don’t have to work in the fields, we don’t even have to walk that much. We live in a continent-sized country, which means a large chunk of us have to drive because mass transit doesn’t exist and isn’t cost effective for the sheer geographic scales involved, which means we aren’t walking a fair amount daily (as many city dwellers might). There are numerous reasons for increasing weight, and we’re hardly alone in it. (As the rapidly advancing overweight and obesity numbers in other nations attest.)
We are good, though, at making increasingly outlandish claims and airing that outlandishness in public for everyone to laugh at.
Not sure if I would use the overused word, crisis.
I was just at the Minnesota State Fair yesterday. There were well over 50,000 people there. I would say that well over 90% of the people there were in normal or better shape.
Growth hormones.
Once a fatty always a fatty.
That’s why we need to slap an excise tax on high calorie food that tastes good and use the proceeds for weight reduction advertising.
I can hardly wait to do morning calisthenics with President Huckabee on the boob tube.
75% of the people running for president on both sides of the aisle are purile morons.
Too many Buffet restaurants! Go there and you can easily spot the regulars.
I agree that corn syrup is a problem. But we’re a car culture. We need rail service in our Metro areas. Our towns need to be more pedestrian friendly. This is a huge problem in America. A strong country isn’t made of strip malls. Our whole culture is suffering.
Please elaborate...
After returning from a visit to West Point last week, I’m confident that young Americans are fit to fight. In fact I feel pretty damn good about young Americans after that visit!
Perhaps as a diet expert, but I am fed up with politicians trying to play national mommy and daddy. I thought that was what Democrats did.
You are, no doubt, correct, but whatever happened to the studies that say that slightly overweight people live longer than underweight people ?
BUMP!!! What are Republicans doing trying to be better national mommies than the Democrats!
You mean like post #11 ?
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