Posted on 07/04/2010 6:50:50 AM PDT by rellimpank
“The problem is that the left wants EVERYONE to live in the cities”
You hit the nail on the head with the above statement. Look at Russia. Everyone lives in cities, cramped in block house buildings. A co worker married a Russian fellow from outside Moscow. After she got married, he wanted to take her to Russia and introduce her to his family. She told me stories that would make your head spin. His family, an average one, lived in what we would consider, project housing, in other words, government subsidized housing. Ugly as sin, amidst concrete parking lots. She said that the local government controlled the water supply and that once every 6 months or so the government workers came out and had to clean the pumps or something, so they shut all the water off in the area to do so. My friend couldn’t flush the toilets or get fresh water unless you went outside to a local pump and hauled up to the apartment. Because these were government employees, they had no urgency in finishing their job and the water remained turned off for the entire day. No one seemed to mind it though; they just accepted it as routine. I recall watching a travel channel program about Russia, and it seemed the only people that lived in the country were retired big wigs from the Communist ruling class. It is very frightening because it is obvious that if you live in rural areas, you have more opportunity to be self sufficient, and less in need of government intrusion. Not so with urban dwellers. We should be aware of this and take it to heart.
“You’d have to jog about 10 miles to burn the calories from a single doughnut. I could be off on the numbers, but not by much.”
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That may be the official story but it doesn’t really work out that way in practice. Farm kids used to eat like starving hounds and stay as skinny as a rail, if you are active enough you just cannot get really fat. I can fairly well guarantee that if you jog ten miles every day you will not be able to eat enough to be fat.
There is a documentary about the old time loggers that I have seen on TV in which they say that the average logger who pulled one end of a two man saw and used an axe burned something like SEVEN THOUSAND calories a day and averaged weighing around one hundred and fifty five pounds. I can believe it because I started pulling my end of a saw while still in grade school.
I was just watching something about the Lewis and Clark expedition on the history channel and they said that those men HAD TO EAT six thousand calories a day to keep going and they certainly were not fat.
Of course those who say that a calorie is a calorie and it doesn’t matter what it comes from are dead wrong also. In reality it can make a world of difference what kind of food the calories come from and what the mix is. I learned long ago by practical experience that I could eat high protein or high carbohydrates without getting fat but if I eat meat AND potatoes there is a problem. Eat meat one day and potatoes the next and the results are much different.
Most Americans simply eat an atrocious diet and get little to no exercise.
Yes, the liberals call it, “urban infill”. It’s part of their program to limit growth in non-urban areas and move people back into the cities. They claim to want to return the land to it’s rightful owners, the Indians and the wild animals. It’s all a part of their world view, global warming, socialism, reduced population and anti-materialism. Of course those concepts only apply to the hoi polloi, not to the leftist elite.
It’s actually a part of the UN Agenda 21, but they will call you a conspiracy theorist if you dare to mention it. If you haven’t read about UN Agenda 21, you should do Google search.
Yes, but I didn't say "every day". In any case, it definitely is a LOT easier to take in calories and gain weight than it is to burn calories and lose weight. According to the chart I posted earlier, if one were 164 lbs and walked 5 miles at 2 mph they would burn about 600 calories, about the caloric content of a glazed doughnut. That unfortunate mathematical relationship is the biggest problem.
Why would they try to achieve anything...there is no such thing as first place anymore...they are all just a bunch of kids under the UN!!!
Everyone gets a trophy
The key is regular vigorous exercise, when kids got that every day there were very few fat ones. There were very few fat adults either. Watch some movies from the forties and fifties, it is amazing how skinny people were. I don’t think it was because we all were on strict diets.
There are also many more junk foods available today, and more fast food/junk food places.
That's it exactly!
True, there was very little junk food when I was growing up. I never even saw a pizza until I was in Navy boot camp. Up until then it was a word I heard on TV.
I wouldn’t necessarily describe pizza as ‘junk food’. Cheese, tomato sauce and dough aren’t all that bad nutritionally.
I don’t really consider pizza junk food either, I just threw that in because a lot of people cannot imagine someone not seeing their first pizza until they go to boot camp. There just weren’t many food service places of any kind back in the fifties in the South. The nearest place to buy a hamburger was probably ten miles from where we lived.
Now if you had walked there and back at 2.73 mph you could have had 2 burgers, fries and a thick shake and just about broke even calorie wise. :)
Let it pass while glaring at the driver to have the audacity to drive on our road....hehehe. We used to get so mad when a car came by!
I remember lots of junk food and fast food places (born in 70). However; we were ALWAYS told no....and we never had our "own" money to buy it either. There was no such thing as "allowance". Whatever we received was purchased by the parent/guardian and given to us.
And that was not very often!
Actually I used to walk all day every day except Sunday at about that pace during the summers and I ate everything I could get my hands on.
That’s what I’m currently doing. I walk close to 100 miles per week, maybe more. No joke. I’ve not been in such good shape in about 30 years.
I notice poor areas are often “food desert”, which lacks access to fresh foods to maintain a healthy diet.
You are right. I do see more adults getting fat. I notice fat children usually have fat parents.
Now, you mention about skinny kids becoming fat adults. I have friends from high school and college that were skinny. Now, they have gotten balder and fatter as they get older.
That’s exercise right there! One can setup a garden in a small lot. Not really much work right there.
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