No, it has to be their genetics. It can't be their fault. //sarc
Posted on 10/08/2009 6:15:17 AM PDT by GOP_Lady
Americans need more exercise, not another tax.
Obesity is a complex issue, and addressing it is important for all Americans. We at the Coca-Cola company are committed to working with government and health organizations to implement effective solutions to address this problem.
But a number of public-health advocates have already come up with what they think is the solution: heavy taxes on some routine foods and beverages that they have decided are high in calories. The taxes, the advocates acknowledge, are intended to limit consumption of targeted foods and help you to accept the diet that they have determined is best.
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It certainly helped keep Barry Obama trim and energized.
But you can’t buy it over the counter.
He's a damned hypocritical busybody.
I support an Idiot Tax!
England already has a tv tax.
Over here, the President NEEDS people watching The Obama Show. TV is a drug. It contains so much computer animation and distortion that I’d wager it puts the mind into a psychotropic state.
The people who work in the media study the work of Soviet and NAZI propagandists (Eisenstein and Reifenstahl are taught to those studying film, not so much Frank Capra who’s considered a square conservative fuddy duddy, who also made pro-US propaganda shorts during the war titled Why We Fight).
Whether the messages come in the program itself (Today, Morning Show, The View, Late Night, Daily Show, MTV Remembers The 90s, Law & Order, ...) or the advertising really doesn’t matter.
Let me guess: she still lays awake at night lamenting her relentless and revolting “obesity”.
“All those people trying to explain why so many people are fat have obviously never watched fat people eat. It is not what they eat that makes them fat but the humongeous amount of food they consume. Fat people are prodigous eaters. That is why they are fat.”
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Actually it is not so simple. I have fought a weight problem for years, I went froma chubby fourteen year old to a stringbean Navy recruit and have evolved through many incarnations from skinny to fat to muscular and back to fat and now back to muscular. The biggest factor is probably WHAT you eat followed by exercise. I defy anyone to go on a diet of tomatoes, celery, boiled unsalted rice etc. and become anything other than skinny, if you eat the right foods you cannot consume enough to be fat, this is proven.
I know from experience that I can eat protein only and lose weight but that is an unhealthy diet and I cannot stay on it long. I also know from experience that I can go an a carbohydrate only diet and lose weight as long as I stay away from sweets, I can last longer on that than on high protein only. As soon as I combine meat and carbs I start to gain weight.
Currently I do heavy weight lifting three times a week along with cardio. I eat pretty much what I want to and at six four I weigh 265 pounds, obese by the weight chart but I wear a size 52 jacket and size 38 waist jeans, the jeans are starting to get loose on me. According to the charts I am obese but people tell me I look great. I am not quite at the six pack stage but am starting to see definition in my abs. Where I used to have a double chin I have only the slightly wrinkled turkey neck that comes from age. The fun part is being much stronger than the vast majority of much younger men.
I watched a very interesting documentary on TV once. It was all about the loggers who used to cut trees with hand tools only. They described the average oldtime logger as around five eight and one hundred and fifty five pounds and they were reported to have consumed seven to eight THOUSAND calories a day.
In summation, HOW MUCH a person eats is far from being the whole story.
Of course I've been hugging 450lbs since i was 14 but that's another story altogether.
No, it has to be their genetics. It can't be their fault. //sarc
That’s some link :)
Some people notice a slowdown as they are crossing into early 30s. For others, it’s mid 40s. For me, it was 14. I was eating my can of pringles every two days and all of the sudden, I noticed there was an extra 30 pounds that wasn’t there before.
Didn't hurt either. HFCS and sucrose offer the same number of calories. Unless you think glucose and fructose from HFCS is different than glucose and fructose from sucrose.
Nonsense. It's the amount of calories consumed vs. the amount of calories burned that causes obesity. Nothing more. Nothing less.
We didn’t have very much work many years ago and I sat in my office and drank 4 or 5 soda’s a day. I ballooned to 300lbs (I was 260lbs).
After a few months I got tired of being tired and the devil and I were fighting. He lost. I stopped drinking soda’s for two months and I lost 30lbs. I’ve got stretch marks to prove it.
HFCS also carries fungus’s. Which is the culprit in people with diabetes. The corn sits in silos, then it’ll get wet and the fungus grows. Then they process it and we drink it.
It’s exclusively genetic. My father is slim as he can be and also eats as he pleases and also never gains a pound.
What's really interesting is the fact that countries that don't use high fructose corn syrup in any significant quantities are experiencing, like we are, a dramatic increase in obesity and diabetes, especially in children. Go figure.
My experience is a little different. I’m 3 years younger. In March of 2008, I weighed 206. I’m 5’9” so that qualifies as Obese. I began dieting and exercising and today I weigh 173 and have 10.3% body fat. My waist has gone from 37” to 32 1/2” and I now wear a 40 Regular suit instead of a 44 regular. I have much more energy and stamina.
Congrats on the weight loss!
Calories in - calories out. What you eat, how much you eat, how much you exercise, your genetics, your metabolism, your medical condition, your big bones - these are all factors, but in the end it comes down to calories in - calories out. That's a physical fact.
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