Why Are People So Fat?

Add some mustard to that mix and it is extra delicious! And mustard has almost no calories or whatever. Some salt pepper and herbs of your choosing are also a nice add in to a dressing like that.

 

The future looks grim

Eight out of 10 men and almost seven in 10 women will be overweight or obese by 2020, according to a study published today.

Not only will people be fatter but the incidence of diabetes, stroke and heart disease will dramatically increase, the report added.

Led by Professor Klim McPherson from Oxford University, who is also chair of the National Heart Forum, the study uses figures from 1993 to 2007 to predict future levels of obesity.

Some 41% of men aged 20 to 65 will be obese by 2020 and a further 40% will be overweight, the new predictions show.
Meanwhile, 36% of women will be obese and 32% will be overweight.







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But that works out fine though, because illness and obesity generates income for our trustworthy adversary's in the pharmaceutical game.

 

all that is assuming the ecopocalypse won't be hitting us a lot harder before then.

(i'm so old i can remember when being fat meant you were one of the lucky few who could find enough to eat to GET fat)

 

Dude, face the facts In the near future clothing size of S, M, L, & XL will be replaced by Razorback, Seal, Walrus, and Orca size


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No food is inherently bad, fattening or unhealthy. It's all in the context of what and how much you consume. If you like salad dressing on your salad, eat salad dressing on your salad. It tastes good. Just don't overdo it if you're paying attention to your weight. There is no reason people cannot incorporate the foods they like into their diet while still losing or maintaining their weight. I used to put foods into a good and bad category, but if you're eating mostly real food, then eating "bad" food becomes much less of an issue. Even soda, which I used to rail against, isn't that bad unless you're regularly consuming it in quantity, or on top of other highly palatable, high-calorie junk.

 

Yeah but 1200-1500 calories a day, which is all one needs it isnt much.

Moderation isnt moderation

A bowl of cereal for breakfast, a couple pieces of fruit for lunch, and what would be considered nowadays as a kids sized main for dinner, that will do it, that will get you past 1200 calories, especially accounting for the 6 cups of coffee a day.

The moderation required is really not moderation, especially if family or friends are hoeing down three days of carbs in the one meal

 

That actually sounds like a very tasty idea. I have a 4 different mustards in my fridge just waiting to be used.

 

Pressed rat what is your opinion of my diet that consist of 90% fast food?

 

1500 calories a day... Shiiiit ******, I polish that off in a meal.

 

Good. Don't use a generic yellow mustard for that. Dijon or grainy or even a really good hot mustard depending on the salad would be yummy.

 

breakfast is gold, lunch is silver, supper is lead. its still ronald macdonald though. people eat the same crap all the time, their bodies keep trying to tell them they need to eat more different things, but instead they just keep eating more and more of the same things, because they can't seem to figure it out, or don't want to. besides, everything that isn't boring doesn't provide very much exercise except for the brain. walking around would be cool, if the way the mundanes want to live wasn't fucking that up. basically everything to do with it the dominant culture does wrong. like everything else, i think people really like to keep everything screwed up, just so they can enjoy bitching about it.

 

i had 3 chili cheese dogs and a donut today. and two cans of coke

 

Fuck $3 for a can of Coke.

 

Where are you getting 1,200-1,500 from? To gain a lb of fat, you must consume 3,500 calories more than you burn. A person's caloric requirement is based on their basal metabolic rate and the amount of physical activity they perform in a given day. Most fairly active people have a maintenance caloric intake of over 2,000 calories. Most people could not sustain themselves on only 1,200-1,500 calories per day. 1,200 calories would be considered a starvation diet for many people

 

IIFYM, bro.

 

when a can of coke costs more than a line of coke, you know something's wrong.

 

Because people are terrible at recognizing how small effects add up over long periods of time.

Most people aren't fat at the age of 18. But it isn't difficult to put on 2 pounds over the course of a year. By the age of 40, you are 40 pounds overweight.

 

But she was probably an exception with her obesity.

 

Thanks, Asmo. My point was that we are and have been convinced that this modern life with EVERYTHING done for us , is in turn, good for us. Fewer ways to get exercise, "food"
provided with just a little drive down the street, multiple ways to entertain ourselves while sitting at an event or sitting in front of the 'pusher of goods'-the TV, 4000 pound vehicles
used to drive a couple of blocks to a store to buy factory food, because we don't/can't raise our own real food. I don't see how anyone could find that this state of affairs has
NOT contributed to the obesity in this country.

I'm not a Luddite, but i believe that the state in which we find ourselves is reversible, somehow. Most ALL our ills can be traced to the political weakness on the part of those officials
that could affect the way people live, eat, exercise, and maintain healthy lives. And yet---one faction has attempted to eliminate physical education from schools. Remember cafeteria food? It was (probably still is) horrible, fattening junk. Who cares? Evidently no one. Who allows fast food joints to peddle their crap? Someone has to call these merchants of shit out. We sure as hell aren't doing it. Dear me---what to do--what to do?? Look away, of course. Like we always do. And please don't try and take away the freedom to pimp our shit food, our
unlimited access to you and your children to buy our endless supply of plastic crap. We all but have rings in our noses. And remember---you NEED a new car NOW.