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Welcome to America, where our poor people are fat. In fact, where they're fatter than any other demographic in the society. But the rest of the folks aren't far behind. In America today, the average person is fat. Fat is the new normal and, with just a few more percentage ticks, obesity will take over as the most common body type.
1 posted on 02/10/2010 4:54:21 AM PST by shortstop
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To: shortstop

Yup, my boy is fat... At 12 he wears size 16 pants that are too short and just right for size 12 in the waist. Thank God for belts. I’m thinking a kilt if he keeps getting taller and stays as thin.


2 posted on 02/10/2010 4:58:32 AM PST by Dutch Boy
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Michelle needs to have her body fat measured before she lectures others. Bring out the calipers!


3 posted on 02/10/2010 4:58:48 AM PST by tsmith130
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A few years back I read a new article stating that, suddenly, over the course of one year, something like an additional 10% of the American population became obese.

The story smelled, so I did some digging.

What was at the core of that change in America’s percentage of “obesity” was the fact that the federal government changed the weight categories for men and women by 10 pounds.

That’s right. If you were a man of average build and weighed about 190 lbs with a typical amount of fat, one year you were “average” the next year you were overweight because the federal government decided that you should weigh 180lbs.

I did some more digging and found out that, according to the categories defined by the federal government, Tom Cruise was considered overweight and Russel Crowe was obese. I looked at the charts the federal government had put together. The ideal American man, as they defined him, would be shaped like a woman (narrow shoulders, slim hips, a waist that is curved inward). The ideal American woman, as they defined her, would be shaped like a starving Ethiopian.

At the time, I was weight-lifting, training in the MA, running, and in very good shape. But I weighed over 200lbs. I, too, was a fatty.

Make no mistake, folks. The “obesity” Nazis are just like the Eco-Nazis and the Socialist-Medicine Nazis. What they want is control over your liberty, punitive taxes on our lifestyle, and to subvert America to third-world standards.


5 posted on 02/10/2010 5:01:31 AM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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Bravo.

Why is it that the ‘greatest generation’ grew up eating eggs and bacon and steak and potatoes, but didn’t battle obesity? Because they didn’t eat a small cow at every meal, and in between meals they were up and moving — grownups working, kids playing. Outside.

Now, our society views it as normal to have a hamburger half the size of the platter, after an appetizer of Cheese Fries, a never-ending supply of soda and a Chocolate Volcano for desert.

We spend our days on our behinds — in front of computers and televisions and video games.

Nothing to do with advertising or corn syrup. Just a lazy bunch of people who don’t know when to say when...and parents who are either too lazy or too doting to harm their little one’s psyche and tell them to put down the cookie and go climb a tree.


6 posted on 02/10/2010 5:03:38 AM PST by HGSW0904
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"Keep your hands off the twinkies lard butt."

8 posted on 02/10/2010 5:04:31 AM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality. (Hi Mom.))
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Just pass a law what says you can either have a 52” pair of pants or a 52” widescreen hi-def tv but not both. Problem solved.


11 posted on 02/10/2010 5:05:46 AM PST by InvisibleChurch (happily replying to threads without reading the articles since 2002)
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Ms. Obammy’s beam is broader than most ocean liners.
Around here she is known as ole shelf ass.


12 posted on 02/10/2010 5:06:12 AM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) Obammy is little more than a quota boy.)
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Michelle has a lot in common with Hitlery Rotham Clinton: a rear end big enough to play pinochle on.


15 posted on 02/10/2010 5:20:23 AM PST by IbJensen (A Prayer for Obama (Ps 109.8): "Let his days be few; and let another take his position.")
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MICHELLE OBAMA THINKS YOUR KID IS FAT

Everybody is entitled to an opinion.

My kids have an opinion of her, too.

I just can't post it.

17 posted on 02/10/2010 5:28:40 AM PST by humblegunner
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New bumper sticker: “My fat kid is smarter than Michelle Obama!”


20 posted on 02/10/2010 5:39:12 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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This coming from someone who outweighs her old mad, two kids and the dog combined!


21 posted on 02/10/2010 6:03:49 AM PST by RS_Rider (I hate Illinois Nazis)
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MICHELLE OBAMA THINKS YOUR KID IS FAT

I think Michelle has a lot of "junk in her trunk".

If she wanted to haul a$$, it might take two trips.

22 posted on 02/10/2010 6:11:28 AM PST by capt. norm (Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.)
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Big MO is the new Fat Czar.


25 posted on 02/10/2010 6:15:05 AM PST by CAluvdubya (We need a Commander-in-Chief, not a professor of Law standing at a lectern-Palin 2010)
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To: shortstop
Yeah, RIGHT --- what a complete blowhard, if this jerk had the solution to the current obesity epidemic and the Type 2 Diabetes epidemic, he'd be a millionaire.

Just another jerk whose probably never had a weight problem his entire life.

There's an interview somewhere online with a Dr. John Lustug, a pediatrician, who the FIRST thing he does is remove all the HFCS, and then concentrates on lowering the FRUCTOSE content of the diet.

There's a Dr. Robert Johnson who has written a book on how to successfully reduce your dietary fructose. If you're interested in how these experts are working with their patients and with the research they've done into the FRUCTOSE/diabetes and FRUCTOSE/gout and FRUCTOSE/fattie phenomenon, then http://www.google.com is Your Friend

IF Michelle Obama can create an interest in exercise & health among the nation's youth, good for her.

What I dislike about her concentrating on the issue of childhood obesity is that BLOWHARDS will continue to arrogantly pontificate about matters they are IGNORANT about.

27 posted on 02/10/2010 6:18:52 AM PST by hennie pennie
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What is Michelle Obama’s excuse for her body shape?


28 posted on 02/10/2010 6:23:18 AM PST by TennTuxedo
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She thinks her own kids are fat- she told the world their doctor had “concerns” about them.

She is an idiot. A boob belt wearing idiot with a husband whose goofy ears stand up when he raves about the White House pie, waffles, and grits.


29 posted on 02/10/2010 6:50:44 AM PST by silverleaf (My Proposed Federal Budget is $29.99)
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Don’t worry Michelle, by the time your nimrod hubby gets done destroying the economy we will all be on a forced diet.


31 posted on 02/10/2010 7:38:46 AM PST by jetson
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32 posted on 02/10/2010 8:03:25 AM PST by Pipe Dog
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