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re: Why is everybody so fat?
Posted on 11/19/18 at 11:10 am to tigerpawl
Posted on 11/19/18 at 11:10 am to tigerpawl
-Healthy food is far more expensive than unhealthy food these days.
-For decades the government advised people on what to eat from false data and now we’re a nation with horrible eating habits and a raging sugar addiction.
-The life of the average American, both work-life and home-life, is far more sedentary than it used to be. People like to sit on their arse and watch TV... or post on TigerDroppings.
-For decades the government advised people on what to eat from false data and now we’re a nation with horrible eating habits and a raging sugar addiction.
-The life of the average American, both work-life and home-life, is far more sedentary than it used to be. People like to sit on their arse and watch TV... or post on TigerDroppings.
Posted on 11/19/18 at 11:10 am to Mingo Was His NameO
I’m guilty of everything said in this thread
Posted on 11/19/18 at 11:11 am to crispyUGA
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Healthy food is far more expensive than unhealthy food these days
Again, patently false.
Posted on 11/19/18 at 11:19 am to tigerpawl
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My unscientific analysis also shows it's more prevalent among women.
It's not. Women and men have gained weight at roughly the same weight over the last 50 years, with men gaining slightly faster than women.
Posted on 11/19/18 at 11:22 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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Again, patently false.
I can go to Wendy’s and get a meal for $4. Fast food is cheap as frick.
Posted on 11/19/18 at 11:23 am to crispyUGA
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I can go to Wendy’s and get a meal for $4. Fast food is cheap as frick.
I can cook 2 meals of chicken and brocolli for that.
Posted on 11/19/18 at 11:24 am to crispyUGA
You can get a head of lettuce for 89 cents.
Posted on 11/19/18 at 11:24 am to crispyUGA
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I can go to Wendy’s and get a meal for $4. Fast food is cheap as frick.
Not only this but it is easy. People are lazy as hell and want instant satisfaction.
Posted on 11/19/18 at 11:27 am to LasVegasTiger
quote:Add 1 thin slice broiled Center Cut Pork Chop for about $1. (sub broiled chicken breast). Our portions have gotten waaaay too big over the years.
You can get a head of lettuce for 89 cents.
Posted on 11/19/18 at 11:30 am to tigerpawl
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I've often said we need to revert back to the "caveman" days. Hunter-gatherers
Quoted from a book I am reading
The book posits if “civilization” mainly through a grain based farming model was a good long term strategy
ARTIFICIAL HORIZONS
You may not know it, but your understanding of ancient history probably owes almost everything to one man, V. Gordon Childe. He is the man who, in the mid-twentieth century, gave us the three distinct phases of preindustrial society we all carry: savagery
barbarism, then civilisation. Entirely artificial horizons were drawn based on what Childe considered to be the hallmarks of advancement from one stage to the next and then every single culture that is or ever was got dropped into them. V. Gordon Childe gave us the magnet. Savages have very unpleasant and dangerous lives, foraging and killing exclusively wild foods. Today we use the more polite term, hunter-gatherer, but the subtextual unpleasantness –the sense that these are lesser cultures leading largely miserable lives –remains. Savages progressed to the higher state of barbarism during a period Childe named the Neolithic Revolution. Barbarians domesticate animals and begin agriculture. This surplus of food allows for barbarian cultures to become more complex and diversify. Priests emerge; villages are created; megalithic sites are constructed; people own things. As for civilisation? That only happens with the birth of the city. Because it can get difficult to demarcate when a large town becomes a city, it is best if urbanisation occurs in conjunction with writing. Without writing, a culture is probably ‘high barbarian’ at best. Sorry Incas.
Subsequent to the invention of Childe’s artificial horizons, it emerged that the development of grain-based agriculture was an unmitigated disaster for human health and longevity. What Childe saw as an evolution is a devolution . Measuring the march of civilisation from this point, we see a succession of politico-economic systems that purported to improve human existence –culminating in today’s modern, materialist age –that have most often had the complete opposite effect. Rather than getting ever closer, we have moved further away from genuine sources of meaning and purpose.
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For those that follow these things, the finding of Gobekli Tepe is supporting the idea that the savages were a lot more intelligent/clever than we have given them credit for in the past
This post was edited on 11/19/18 at 11:43 am
Posted on 11/19/18 at 11:31 am to crispyUGA
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Healthy food is far more expensive than unhealthy food these days.
Nope, false.
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For decades the government advised people on what to eat from false data and now we’re a nation with horrible eating habits and a raging sugar addiction.
So it's the government's fault? Not even close. People have been knowing for decades that eating 4,000 calories a day makes you fat. It's not rocket science. It's less about what you eat and more about how much you eat.
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The life of the average American, both work-life and home-life, is far more sedentary than it used to be. People like to sit on their arse and watch TV... or post on TigerDroppings.
Valid point. People don't work in factories or farms or outdoors as much any more. So maintaining a healthy weight requires cardio and telling yourself no. But people don't like that. The average American is soft and weak and would rather eat the doughnut than look good.
Posted on 11/19/18 at 11:31 am to tigerpawl
Why does everybody focus on everyone else's shortcomings and not their own? This very argument usually comes from someone who could stand to lose a few pounds themselves but they are too damn busy criticizing others to realize it. If you want to criticize someone go look in the mirror. I'm sure there's plenty that you could be focusing on. Seriously if you want to make the world a better place, look inward and focus on yourself instead of judging and criticizing others.
Posted on 11/19/18 at 11:32 am to crispyUGA
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I can go to Wendy’s and get a meal for $4. Fast food is cheap as frick.
You think fatties only eat a $4 meal? You think the average 300 pound whale is eating a junior cheeseburger, small fries and small soda?
Posted on 11/19/18 at 11:51 am to OweO
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OweO
Why does it take you so many words to make one simple point?
Posted on 11/19/18 at 11:52 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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I can cook 2 meals of chicken and brocolli for that.
This.
People are more sedentary these days with technology and there's less focus on home cooked family meals.
Posted on 11/19/18 at 12:07 pm to tigerpawl
The answer is simple.
People no longer have any shame, and you're the a-hole if you shame them for their poor behavior. I mean when you get called an a-hole for calling a woman who is 24 years old 5'3" tall and weighs 400 lbs a fat arse because "she may have a medical condition" that is where fat people come from.
People no longer have any shame, and you're the a-hole if you shame them for their poor behavior. I mean when you get called an a-hole for calling a woman who is 24 years old 5'3" tall and weighs 400 lbs a fat arse because "she may have a medical condition" that is where fat people come from.
Posted on 11/19/18 at 12:22 pm to ClientNumber9
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People have been knowing for decades that eating 4,000 calories a day makes you fat.
I eat closer to 5,000 calories / day and I'm not fat
Posted on 11/19/18 at 12:27 pm to tigerpawl
Sugar, processed foods, lack of education on the subject, and lack of will power
Posted on 11/19/18 at 12:29 pm to LSUsuperfresh
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I eat closer to 5,000 calories / day and I'm not fat
Unless you are professional athlete in training, if you are eating 5,000 calories a day, you are fat.
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