why the dramatic rise in obesity? somethings wrong, page 1
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reply posted on 31-8-2008 @ 06:32 PM by PhloydPhan
While I am sure there are a number of factors contributing to the increase in obesity in America, I would single out two as likely predominant causes. One is the increasingly sedentary lifestyle of the average American. The other is the commercialization of the growth and production of much of our food.

As for the first, we have become much more sedentary in our recreation - until the Baby Boom generation people didn't have the option of sitting in front of the television to entertain themselves. Likewise, in the last fifteen years or so the internet has become another source of sedentary entertainment. In general we don't spend as much time outside engaging in physical activity as we did before, say, the 1950s or so.

However, we are also far more sedentary in our work lives. Granted, this is not universally the case, but we are becoming more and more a service-based economy, not an economy where people run machines and build things, an activity which tends to burn far more calories. 50 or 100 years ago people didn't need to go to the gym or exercise for recreation as much because they got a good deal of exercise at work!

As for the second, anyone who is interested in where their food comes from and hasn't yet read Michael Pollan's
The Omnivore's Dilemma should definitely add it to their reading list. It is staggering to learn the extent to which the growth and production of much of our food has been commercialized.

From the standpoint of a corporation, there is no incentive to offer a consumer anything more than basic nutrition. The fewer dietary needs which are met by a given processed food product the more a consumer needs to eat in order to survive, which means more consumption.

As has already been said in this thread, the healthiest way to eat is to keep your diet balanced, prepare as much of your own food as possible, and to include plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables.


reply posted on 31-8-2008 @ 06:48 PM by Anonymous ATS
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Dont forget fluoridated water, it effects the thyroid which can make you fat.

www.fluoridealert.org...

Hypothyrodisim, most commonly diagnosed in women over 40, is a serious condition with a diverse range of symptoms including: fatigue, depression, weight gain, hair loss, muscle pains, increased levels of "bad" cholesterol (LDL), and heart disease.. The drug (Synthroid) used to treat hypothyroidism is now one of the top five prescribed drugs in the U.S.


population control, make you fat, and you spend more money getting fat and when you are overweight you will easyer to control, watch tv all day, brain mushed from crap diet and how are you going to stand up for yourself if you are 20 stone and cannot climb a flight of stairs without having a heart attack.

Enjoy.


reply posted on 1-9-2008 @ 12:23 PM by verbal kint
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The fact of the matter is that people aren't getting "fat" per se. They're filling up with waste - poo. For many reasons, not the least of which is our worship of anal-retentive behavior, people are getting stopped up. Remember that dump you needed to take, but were too busy, and then after a while it just kinda disappeared or 'went back up'? Well sometimes it just goes to the side. Then it forms a pocket in your intestinal wall. Sometimes the pocket's entrance will just get grown over and that poo becomes a part of you - forever. Other times, as you work other stuff through, so does that pocket get pushed along - Elongating and becoming larger. Ultimately it reaches "the end" and you experience what you think is incredible constipation but it's just your body messed up and trying to excrete the side wall (the pocket) of your intestine as if it were excrement. Don't forget that while the initial waste is at the bottom of the pocket, trying to be pushed out, there's now a long tube behind it. As new waste cruises through your intestine, occasionally a piece slips into the pocket opening and starts it's way down the tube/pocket. Eventually, it comes up to the initial poo sitting at the bottom, unable to escape, and stops there. Followed by the next misdirected piece, and the next, and the next. All compacting together, filling up your insides, moving around your spine and organs, causing all sorts of havoc, not to mention making you one big fella with a gut the size of a beanbag chair.

Now take this information and start to think about all those other problems - tiredness, bad skin, constipation, allergies, immune suppression/malfunction, etc. Think it may be related to the fact that you are full of toxic waste?
-v



reply posted on 1-9-2008 @ 01:21 PM by kidflash2008
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How many people actually exercise?
How many people practice portion control?
How many people actually restrict what their children eat?

The problem isn't them, it is us!
We have to look at the ingredients of what we buy.
We have to give our kids more vegies to snack on instead of chips.
We have to go to the schools and look at what they are serving our kids and keep on top of it.
We have to get turn off our computers and TVs and get off our collective @sses to exercise with our family.

Europe has beaten the US in the obesity rate recently. China is on hand to beat Europe. No other countries can make fun of fat USA without looking into a mirror. Obesity knows no color, race or nationality.
I have gained a lot of weight, one reason is being medical, the other is my fault. I have to change my diet and find other ways to exercise.


reply posted on 1-9-2008 @ 01:27 PM by AGENT_T
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Gotta agree.
Maybe the Gov ARE stuffing our freezers with pre-packaged poo,devoid of any real nutritional value..
BUT it's still down to the individual to use a little sense and education to find out what is or isn't good for us.

No-one is actually holding our mouths open and stuffing it down.. yet..

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