Medics want obesity warnings on clothing...

No, weave, I wasn't dissing you, just that the Government isn''t CAPABLE of doing what was suggested. Shit, they now want to OK CLONED ANIMALS for publc consumption. Putting restrictions on someone's definition of "Junk Food" isn't going to stop people from eating it, no more than restrictions on alcohol or drugs stops people from taking them. I was being PRACTICAL about what the goverment is capable of doing. They can't even run a damn army or take care of their own poor, do you really want THEM in charge of tellling YOU what is "good for you?" I don't.

IMO, Dairy Products are Junk Food. What chance, with the Dairy Lobby and all it's money, do you think there is of these foods being delared "dangerous" (Althogh we know they are) much less having an other govermental COMMITEE deciding how much sugar or fat in a certain food equals "Junk Food." Not doable.

WTF does that mean? No, people should be able to kill themselves with tobacco if they want. Restricting tobacco will only create a black market, and that isn't good. I don't want people smoking this shit around me, but anyone who is stupid enough should be able to buy it. Ya know, you have a very narrow view people who don't think exactly like the Status Quo Republican.

 

Cloned animals? Lovely..I guess mad cow disease wasn't lesson enough.

Yeah, I'd like to see better ingredients in prepackaged foods. Of course, my idea of healthy differs from the governments..
Point taken Maggie.

 

Oh, I agree. I can't grocery shop without getting angry. (I have issues. LOL!) But, I think education of our children (not the "food pyramid" crap they teach them in school, but real good food) is best. I have spent years talking to my kids about healthy foods, nunhealthy foods, and striking a balance. I used to have NO white sugar and no white flour at all in my house, and my kids were sneaking it at other people's houses, so I had to strike a balance.

I think there should be, maybe publc service announcments, but they should not let the meat, dairy or sugar industries get involved.

 

Yep, read it an weep, as I did. *sigh* This is awful.

 

i just don't understand at all why they would even clone animals in the first place. i don't get it.

 

Those kinds of tags are not nice nor fair...I personally don't think someone who is a size 12 is obese at ALL...damn I fit somewhere between 14 and 18 and I'm a vegetarian and into whole foods and exercise and all that... so damn...according to them...I must be screwed

I agree with HippieChickMommy... take all the money for this idea and use it to take hydrogenated oils and high fructose corn syrup out of foods... That would be a much nicer idea....

 

good points.

After I was raped I went from a 4/6 to a 16 in 3 months. I wanted no one to find me attractive or want to get near me. This carried on for years until last winter and now my weight has just gone kinda normal 10-12 ish but I do notice if I get into a new relationship I eat high caloric foods to try to gain weight fast (unconciously) or if I am in a thinner stage I starve myself so whoever I am dating will not want to become physcial with me.
Also, with the thyroid issue. My mother has a slow thyroid and is a 12/14 and not 'fat'. My grandmother actually told my mother she should take the thyroid medication because she would be 'skinny for life'...despite the fact that she is already jittery and anxiety ridden.
I have to keep my head above my family's eating issues or they will consume me as they have in the past and I am finally in a place where I think I am beautiful and I want to clench down on that feeling and hold it for life.

But yeah my family is so messed up my mother accussed me this morning of having the stomach flu on purpose...what the fuck is that about?

 

yeah, my father was physically and emotionally abusive. he was constantly beating up my mom, sleeping with all her friends and calling her a fat cow even though she was a long distance runner who weighed less than 100 lbs. then i hit puberty early and had to deal with all the groping and people calling me a slut and older men couldn't keep their hands off me. i didn't want to be pretty, either. i had no defense, i had no one to help me. but that was so long ago. the problem for me now is that all that fat i got on me all those years ago as a defense mechanism are so easily fed and not so easily emptied. i'm an extremely healthy eater, though perhaps i don't eat frequently enough, i'm working on that. but it's a lot of work and it takes a long time. i don't want to have to constantly hear the shit people love to spew about what i should be doing when i've already got on it.

 

Totally and completely wrong. My roommate is almost 300 pounds, and while she's always been "big", she gained 50 pounds in one year while dancing 4 hours a day every day, living in a low carb/no sugar house (both parents are doctors), and for awhile being vegetarian. I've never seen someone eat so healthy in my entire life. She got gastric bypass last week because doctors KNOW that there's something wrong, but they can't figure out what. Her mom also had the surgery and had been 350 pounds while eating 1400 calories a day on a very strict diet for over 5 years.

That's like saying nobody who eats healthy is a size 1 or 2. There are very legitimate health problems that cause huge weight gains.

Personally, I'm a size 16/18 and I work out at least an hour a day, have to walk an hour more between classes. I go up and down at least 500 stairs a day (I counted one day) because of my campus. I don't eat sugar, I only eat meat for one meal a day and do not eat breads or pastas. I don't touch dairy because I'm allergic. Typically I eat between 1200-1500 calories a day, which is where I should be in terms of weight loss. But I don't lose the weight. Everything else about me is perfectly healthy- perfect blood sugar, blood pressure, cholesteral, and never really sick. But there is something wrong with my metabolism that my doctors have never been able to find. Theoretically, I have the symptoms of hypothyroid disorder but according to the doctors, my actual thyroid seems just a tad sluggish and not to the point where they can safely give me treatment. When I gained all of my weight, I was playing 4 sports and running in the off time to train for them. I've never grown up with sugar or carbs because my dad is diabetic, so there's no real reason in my food intake either.

Fuck anyone who tries to tell me that it's my fault for being my size or to anyone else who really has health problems. To do any more work to lose weight, I'd have to drop out of school and move into a gym!

 

ugh I hear you. I knew a girl just like your friend...she just got the surgery too. I grew up with her...I know it was beyond her control.

Also, I'm a 16/18 as well...I don't eat meat and rarely eat white sugar/flour and excercise...it just the way it is...I don't mind my curves...though sometimes the fact that I'm two sizes smaller on top than bottom kinda sucks

 

i've had a couple friends like that, as well as my brother and mother. i know why i got to this point, i have reasons, i have explanations. doesn't explain why it comes off so slowly, though. my one friend had surgery as well. there was just no explaining why she was huge. both her parents were diabetic, though thankfully she was not. but the diet she lived on was very spare. i was with her 24/7, i don't think i ever saw her step out of line, food just wasn't all that big of a deal to her. i dunno, sometimes, what the hell goes on with the human body, and the more i read and learn, the more i realize that the medical society doesn't really get it, either. they're stumped, too.

 

If you're fat and fine with it, that's one thing.

But all these excuses are highly amusing, because everybody, barring the most extreme physical defiencies (ie: quadruple-amputees), can lose weight.

I've never seen any serious runners with an obesity problem. Or starving africans.

 

obesity is on the rise in africa....

 

btw, my brother, the biggun, is a hard-core beach runner and surfer. just thought i should tell you. he and my father run together every day. then there's soccer and all that fucking swimming.


last line editted for rudeness. apologies. it just gets tiresome.

 

ha ha, I think the tag should read "WHEN YOU EAT MORE THAN YOU BURN YOU GAIN WEIGHT, TURN OFF THE TV AND GO DO SOMETHING, THAT ONE TIME LAST WEEK DOESNT COUNT FOR TODAY" ha ha ha pretty simple really.... make up all the excuses you want but apparently if your still big you need "more" exercise or "less" food intake, or better yet, better food intake.... get a piece of paper and write down everything you ate/drank and the servings you ate/drank of it, figure out exactly how many calories your taking in per what the label says, then go here www.wvda.org/calcs/ enter your height and weight and age and if you want to lose weight eat less than what its telling you, eat more if you want to gain weight......

 

editted again because frankly i'm just being cranky and unreasonable. it's just kinda shitty that being overweight is the one mistake you can make and fight the rest of you life and still be hammered for it on a daily basis. once those fat cells are created, they're with you forever, and you're far more likely to get fat again than someone whose never blown it. but i'll tell you this, even overweight, i'm still freaking gorgeous and that's that.

 

those old shrunken fat cells are always hungry and waiting to plump up and make us heavy again...damn them

 

I'd hit it

 

likewise, beauty.

 

I think it is a good idea. It's a health issue, and I don't care if it offends people. Just because lots of Americans are overweight, does not mean that it is healthy or normal.