re: America's Obesity Epidemic Reaches Record High

Butter and cheese and other fats aren't the culprits

Honestly, "low fat diets" are the worst thing that happened to this country. Little known fact, sugar and other carbs don't carry fat so they can carb load shite and you eat "low fat"

Yup. I've lost a good chunk of weight since June eating a diet that is 70% fat.

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In reality, 6'0" 221 lbs is obese..

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What a obese for 6'3? I'm 6'3 220 and I feel like a fat slob sometimes.

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While I'm 300lbs

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You're a complete fatass unless you're a world class athlete but you're still a fat arse

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Which is a shitty indicator of health if you carry more muscle than average.

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From my experience in healthcare, for every 10 people that say this, 9.5 are fat

BMI > 30 is considered obese. I would say there's a good chance that even if you have "a decent amount" of muscle, you likely have a "decent amount" of fat if you're pushing into the obese range.

This thought process is the same as those 300 pound whales thinking they're a little chunky. Yeah, you're not just a little flabby, you're clinically obese.

BMI sitting at a steady 22

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True. The in shape people today are in far better physical shape than the in shape people from the '50s

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We have better equipment, access, training / know so much more bout building muscle and sculpting our bodies but as far as our actual health, I think it is debatable... considering 50's foods were largely natural. The introduction of polyunsaturated fats into the US diet was a massive time bomb, now the with mutant, genetically modified food that has taken over our food supply, disease and cancer rates have skyrocketed. We may have better "shape" from sculpting muscles but even then we are probably not in better shape than in the 50's in the big picture. I'd be willing to bet the average active American from the 1950's was healthier in general than most "shape" oriented of us who work out.. environmental stresses, vaccines, and our food supply has introduced thousands of new health risks that didn't exist then. We can live a little longer because medical techniques are greatly superior but our actual quality of life while being kept alive with pharmaceuticals can also be questionable.

But seriously, we need to get our shite together as a society, have some self control, self-respect, and stop stuffing our faces like Roman gluttons with obscene amounts of food. And I don't mean just fast food, even higher end restaurants serve single meal portions that is enough fat for four adults.

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'd be willing to bet the average active American from the 1950's was healthier in general than most "shape" oriented of us who work out..

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Disagree. There are people now who have blood tests done and get completely tailored diets to their exact bodies