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Young Americans too fat to fight
The Scotsman ^
| August 27, 2007
| Emily Wagster-Pettus in Biloxi, Mississippi
Posted on 08/27/2007 5:36:16 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: television is just wrong
mostly people who drink diet sodas are not THIN
Back in the Eighties, I was in downtown Denver at a big fast food operation. There were like 200 people in line. This woman that weighed like 400 lbs ordered four orders of fries, several shakes, four double-cheeseburgers and, when the clerk said "Will that be all?", she replied "I'll have a jumbo-sized diet Coke."
I think you could have heard the queue folks laughing three blocks away. I know it sounds mean but it was one of those things in life that take you by surprise and you just start laughing because it's so ridiculous. Yeah, like that diet Coke was going to make a difference in a 4,000 calorie snack.
Of course, most obese people don't actually eat more than the rest of us do. It's just a stereotype.
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posted on
08/27/2007 7:17:25 AM PDT
by
George W. Bush
(Rudy: tough on terror, scared of Iowa, wets himself over YouTube)
To: Lazamataz
Curiously, I am a reformed smoker, a former fatty, an ex-druggie, and a dried out lush.
Well, of course I wasn't talking about you, Laz. LOL...
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posted on
08/27/2007 7:18:18 AM PDT
by
George W. Bush
(Rudy: tough on terror, scared of Iowa, wets himself over YouTube)
To: George W. Bush
I have a sister who is 5’3” and weighs 500 pounds. She lives on diet soda. Listen to the term sodium saccharan what is the first word, sodium and what does too much salt do? makes you hold water weight.
I worked for a few years at a Bob’s Big Boy Restaurant. I cannot tell you how many people would come in and order a Hot fudge cake, or a Hot fudge sundae with a diet coke. AMazing.
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posted on
08/27/2007 7:22:56 AM PDT
by
television is just wrong
(deport all illegal aliens NOW. Put all AMERICANS TO WORK FIRST. END WELFARE.i)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
We are in a crisis, no doubt. I think a lot of it stems from high fructose corn syrup and other sweeteners we started using several decades ago. Absolutely! Plus all the other make believe additives they put in processed foods to make you addicted to their near toxic alchemy...
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posted on
08/27/2007 7:25:39 AM PDT
by
tubebender
(My first great grandson is a Miniature Schnauzer...)
To: television is just wrong
Maybe they just like diet drinks, once you’ve had them for a number of years you actually develop a preference for them.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
We have engineered activity out of our modern lives...
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posted on
08/27/2007 7:37:09 AM PDT
by
ßuddaßudd
(7 days - 7 ways Guero >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona....)
To: television is just wrong
mostly people who drink diet sodas are not THINI'll have a cup of the broccoli and cheese soup, a half-pound mushroom-swiss burger with jalapenos, an order of onion rings and a DIET COKE!!
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posted on
08/27/2007 7:38:53 AM PDT
by
HIDEK6
To: Lazamataz
Curiously, I am a reformed smoker, a former fatty, an ex-druggie, and a dried out lush.Well, duh.
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posted on
08/27/2007 7:40:42 AM PDT
by
HIDEK6
To: ThisLittleLightofMine
yes. it is the same diff with drinking lowfat or non fat milk the whole milk tastes like you are drinking heavy whipping cream.
you just become adjusted to it.
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posted on
08/27/2007 7:41:41 AM PDT
by
television is just wrong
(deport all illegal aliens NOW. Put all AMERICANS TO WORK FIRST. END WELFARE.i)
To: metesky
The crisis is in the minds of wanna-be totalitarians whose most fervent wish is to control what you and I eat, drink and when and how much we exercise. Well said. It's about more laws, more control, more oppression and less freedom. Once laws were changed regarding smoking, the barn door was opened and it'll eventually turn in to a stmapede by the totalitarians and the trial law-yers.
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posted on
08/27/2007 7:44:36 AM PDT
by
subterfuge
(Today, Tolerance =greatest virtue;Hypocrisy=worst character defect; Discrimination =worst atrocity)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I think it has more to do with people doing less physically and letting their childrem sit in front of video games, TVs and computers all day long. People used to eat about 5000 calories a day(back a few years)and most of them were not fat because they burned it off in their everyday work. If we ate that many today we would gain weight at a tremendous rate. I say this as a recovering fatty, losing weight as we speak.
I use to work hard but landed a soft job and got fat, now I am losing it(and it isn't easy!)and feel much better. I put exercise(not a tremendous amount but enough)back into my life and I watch my calories, two pounds a week floating off me(well not floating, but dissapearing at any rate!).
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posted on
08/27/2007 7:50:05 AM PDT
by
calex59
To: George W. Bush
“Of course, most obese people don’t actually eat more than the rest of us do. It’s just a stereotype.”
Yes, obese people just gain weight from the thin air.
/snerk
Find me the most honest person in the room, and the one thing they’ll lie about is their weight, and diet.
We’re a nation of gluttons. Be it food, money, sex, power, toys, whatever - we’re a nation of greedy, lazy gluttons.
If you’re completely honest with yourself, you’ll see it.
What you do after realizing it...defines you. I chose to not be like that. If you disagree, fine. It’s your life.
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posted on
08/27/2007 7:51:14 AM PDT
by
ByDesign
To: metesky
75% of the people running for president on both sides of the aisle are purile morons. Well, at least they are playing to their base of puerile morons.
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posted on
08/27/2007 7:56:12 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(May the heirs of Charles Martel and Jan Sobieski rise up again to defend Europe.)
To: reagan_fanatic
When I was in the army, during second eight weeks of training for tanks, we had a recruit that looked like the picture you posted, he made it through basic somehow but never survived the second eight weeks of tanks. I think they must have passed him in basic just to see the reactions of the DIs in the second eight!
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posted on
08/27/2007 7:58:47 AM PDT
by
calex59
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Interesting that I’ve never seen a study that indicates how much time off work people take due to on-the-job stress. Of course, employers don’t want to admit that people miss work because of that.
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posted on
08/27/2007 8:07:38 AM PDT
by
MEGoody
(Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
To: sinanju
Ah yes, nothing to add to the discussion, no intelligent discourse, just ad hominem attacks and name calling.
Does your mommy and daddy know you’re on the PC instead of at summer school?
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posted on
08/27/2007 8:07:43 AM PDT
by
t_skoz
("let me be who I am - let me kick out the jams!")
To: ichabod1
Thats why we need to slap an excise tax on high calorie food that tastes good and use the proceeds for weight reduction advertising.Excellent imitation of the thinking of the left. ;)
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posted on
08/27/2007 8:09:54 AM PDT
by
MEGoody
(Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
To: SmoothTalker
I agree 100% but I’ve already been called a smart growth nazi on this thread. Watch up.
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posted on
08/27/2007 8:09:59 AM PDT
by
t_skoz
("let me be who I am - let me kick out the jams!")
To: MEGoody
Thank you for getting my sarcasm. I thought it not so offensive that I needed to spoil it with a sarcasm tag, yet exquisitely annoying in its banality.
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posted on
08/27/2007 8:11:50 AM PDT
by
ichabod1
("Liberals read Karl Marx. Conservatives UNDERSTAND Karl Marx." Ronald Reagan)
To: KarlInOhio
75% of the people running for president on both sides of the aisle are purile morons.It's become a Catch-22, anyone with a brain in their head, would not want the job.
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posted on
08/27/2007 8:12:10 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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