re: Is there a more lame excuse for obesity in America than "food deserts"?

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“Healthy food is too expensive.”

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This is bullshite. When my diet is right, I save money.

Prepared foods are more expensive. If you’re fat and too lazy to prepare your own meals, you’ll pay more for prepared healthy foods, and stay fat because you’re lazy.

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When it’s more difficult to purchase an item there will be a decrease in the purchasing of that item. Not hard to understand and your anger over this is weird IMO. You need to calm down.

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When chips and fruit punch taste better for breakfast, than oatmeal or milk and your mother on AFDC doesn't get up till 10AM, you have chips and fruit punch for breakfast on the way to school.

Laziness and a lack of self control is the reason for obesity.

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I was in the store yesterday, it’s incredible how many obese people there are and what they have in their carts, tons of precooked frozen shite. Soda, chips, sweets, all shite.

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oh it's amazing. i am legit curious what the bloodwork of these people would look like

now, admittedly last night i had cookies, a cupcake/ice cream for my saturday night cheat meal dessert, so i didn't look that great, but i was obviously not buying sustainable meals.

the amount of incredibly obese people buying frozen dinners is literally staggering to me. the soda isn't that mind-blowing, but the frozen dinners? utterly insane

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Great point.

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I'm not positive it is. The food itself has changed considerably over the past 100 years.

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If a person needs 2000 calories to maintain their current rate and starts running 4 miles a day, 7 days a week, they can add one restaurant slice of pizza to their diet.

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No.

I get what you’re saying but you went too overboard. I’m in decent shape and I can burn about 300-350 calories on a 2 mile run. At 28 miles a week (4 miles times seven days), that totals out to about 4200-4900 burned calories (probably more because the longer you are in caloric burn, the more efficient it becomes). That’s about two days worth of calories for most people, not a single slice of pizza.

And that doesn’t take into account the increased metabolism that will accompany cardiovascular exercise. In addition to the direct calories burned, people experience increased metabolism after regular exercise which allows them to burn more calories in a normal day.

Rich get fat too.

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’m in decent shape and I can burn about 300-350 calories on a 2 mile run.

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You sure about that?

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You burn about 100 calories for every mile you run. But as intensity increases, so does calorie burning—up to 10 calories per minute per mile. That may sound like a small difference, but it adds up.

- Liz Applegate, Ph.D., is the director of sports nutrition and nutrition department faculty member at the University of California at Davis in Davis, California

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The simple answer is that running at any speed expends approximately 100 calories per mile. Running a seven-minute mile will burn a few more calories than running a 10-minute mile because of the added effort. But most people can't log lots of additional miles at a faster pace without becoming overly fatigued or injured.

- Bryan K. Smith, Ph.D., is an assistant research professor at the University of Kansas Energy Balance Laboratory and Center for Physical Activity & Weight Management

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Runner's World Article

You'd have to be booking it to burn 350 calories on a 2 mile run.

If the 100 calories/mile is accurate, then 28 miles a week gives you an extra 400 calories cushion in your daily diet. A slice of pizzeria cheese pizza is ~300 calories according to various sources on a quick Google search. Add in toppings that people usually get, and there's your extra 400 calories per day.

Most people do not run 4 miles per day. In fact, in today's society, I'd be willing to claim that most people believe 4 miles a day or 28 miles a week is some kind of elite athlete who works out too much. In fact, it's the kind of response I get when I tell people how many miles I put into marathon training.

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That’s about two days worth of calories for most people, not a single slice of pizza

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You're looking at it by total caloric needs and not by what that would look like per day. People simply don't burn as many calories as they think unless they're working out at elite levels.

It’s because of the loss of traditional familial roles coupled with the continued infringement by work on family life.

50 years ago Mom had dinner on the table when Dad got home at 5:30.

Now chances are both Mom and Dad are working til 5:30-6pm and kids are at daycare, then they’ve got homework to do plus activities. And typically there isn’t time to make a traditional meal, you’re scrambling to find something simple and quick to fit in the schedule.

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