Fat People

Why thank you very much. I am glad you appreciate me

 

Is that the best you can come up with?
You are a cheeky little so and so....... but I like you LOL etc.

 

Pablo, how old are you?

 

Older than you.
what difference does age make?

 

Because you present yourself in your posts like a 14 year old with absolutely no life experience or any friends to speak of.

 

I have had plenty life experiences. I have travelled extensively. I have many friends as well.
I have opinions. Those that disagree do not present logical argument in return and just spout personal abuse in childish fashion as if I would be hurt, Duh!!
Don't think so.

 

Your momma is so fat she causes an eclipse when she goes outside

 

YOUR momma is so fat her ass has its own ZIP code

 

Okay, you want a logical argument as to why Americans especially are fat? I can give you one.

We live in a society that stresses the importance of working, being at work all the time, and the jobs most americans get are office jobs, where they sit on their asses all day answering phones or writing reports. So therefore, they don't get lots of opportunity to exercise.

Add to that the fact that most of us get measily amounts of lunch break, just long enough to scarf down a greasy cheeseburger that doesn't fill us up before we get back to the daily grind. After eating, we go back to our cubicles, sit on our asses until late in the evening, and then go home.

At home, we are barrated with television, programs that we just can't miss or we won't have anything to talk about with our work buddies. Why wouldn't we have much else to talk about? Because as a society, we seem discouraged from actual deep thought and debate, especially when you're at work in your seperate little cubicles. So we sit watching television, immersed in what the media tells us is popular, prevalent, and interesting.

So, that accounts for weeks. Weekends? We're encouraged to go to movies, shop, and eat out some more. While other activities are great exercise, the ones that are advertised most and are pushed into our brains are those that don't do us any good. And because our educational system taught us to basically do everything we're told, we don't hesitate to follow the masses.

Add to all of THAT, the additives put into the food we buy, such as bovine growth hormones (to fatten up cows) and other chemicals, reach our body systems as we eat them. So we, in turn, ingest those same chemicals and the same effects happen to us. Science hasn't said this of course, but why else would the whole of society suddenly blow up like Violet Boureguard eating the turkey-dinner gum? We're all now prone to it with the chemicals in our food.

So, it's just a theory, but there's a good reasoning for the obesity problem, at least of the USA. No name-calling, no bull-shit. I realise this is probably a blatant generalisation, but before you flame me, really think about the average american. You probably aren't average if you're upset by this. *shrugs*

 

obesity is a function of affluence, the more people you have above the poverty line the more obese people you have, it is the way it is, has been and will be until someone fixes it.....

for the first time in history there are more overweight people on earth (and this just happened this year) than underweight people

it may be unhealthy, but you usually live longer 40lbs overweight then 40 lbs underweight......

 

I agree with what HippyFreek said... additives to food more for its marketability and convenience than its nutrition... aggressive advetising of crapola foods- namely sugar and color laden breakfast cereals- aimed at children... so-called foods whose packages are worth more than their contents!

I'm stopping now to avoid hijacking this thread as a forum for my own personal rant about what's wrong- both with the industrial food supply AND the culture that makes it so damned profitable. A few of my friends are quite overweight and while I would very much like to help them I have far too much respect to attack them or their chosen lifestyle... not to mention too much respect for this forum to pull discussions too far off topic.

 

Not sure how much I agree with this... I've seen quite a few people who clearly are "have-nots" carrying alot of extra weight. Fast food is as inexpensive as it is nutritionally poor.

 

compare a poor american with food stamps, welfare and a job against someone from nigeria


I'm talking the REAL poverty level.......

 

Your point is well taken... I was responding within the parameters of observed obesity within our own borders where poverty is as you insinuate- CONTRIVED-- mostly by a so-called elitist free market system setting costs according to market-bearability and driving prices of many essentials beyond the means of our faux-needy.


...but I digress...

 

the thing is the same things that make america successful as a nation make it fail in terms of individual health....

 

Well, of course, the industries make the food to be addictive, non-filling, and profitable. So therefore it's easier to find a filler side-dish/snack such as cheetos for maybe $2-3 where as a vegetable side-dish/snack would cost maybe double that.

And while I understand that our "poor" aren't necessarily that in the eyes of most of the world, in terms of our own nation, this is just another social darwinism tactic to kill off the lower class slowly. You might not think it, but most of the nation's "poor" are also the majority of the nation's obese. Slowly but surely the food industries and media are killing off the most impressionable part of society...Again, just a theory, but it makes a lot of sense, no?

 

hypothesis would be a more accurate term, but it often does appear that social darwinism is a nasty force...

 

I agree.

 

1- This pretty closely approximates the relationship between drug addict and pusher -no?

2- My point in part was just this.

3- Slowly yes, slow enough to where the predatory industries can squeeze what few assets they can while the "victim" is still alive,

 

I think one answer in the USA would be to send all the morbidly obese to designated states such as Idaho and North Dakota maybe Alaska?