re: Obesity is the real pandemic

Obesity is a very big problem. Pun intended.

However it’s hard for people to change their lifestyle, and a lot of it is emotional/psychological

The big thing would be to make healthier foods more affordable and to change the food stamp program.
I understand that not only poor people are overweight - but they should not be able to buy $100 worth of Doritos bc they can’t ‘deal’ with their kids.

Food stamps should be structured like the WIC program - you get so many of each item per month and that’s what you get. The Fed Gov and states have enough dietitians on staff that could come up with is necessary to food families.

To go into everything would be a very long post but people just need to walk more.

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It is easier to eat poorly as opposed to healthy. It’s sometimes cheaper as well.

Eating healthier takes commitment to a lifestyle change. When you work 3 part time min wage jobs, you don’t have time to meal plan, shop, and cook healthy.

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When I gained a little weight from where I wanted to be, dieting and money saving went hand in hand. I saved a ton of money when I cut my calories. I still track them during the week and I spend next to nothing.

Losing weight doesn't necessarily require eating healthier (though this is obviously ideal). It just requires eating less. If you're eating less, you should be spending less. Especially if you're cooking low calorie meals at home vs. going out for meals.

Also it doesn't necessarily require cooking. Hell, I ate fast food when I was losing weight. A 500 calorie burger from McDonalds isn't the picture of health, but it is totally workable into a diet.

There are people in the weight loss subreddit who have lost 100+lbs from Lean Cuisines alone. It can be done.

Time for JBE to open a public health state of emergency until us fatties lose some weight.

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What can we do to make America less fat?

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stop saving their lives and let them die

Agree. Let’s do it with cancer patients too. Get the cancer, send them home to die.

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Rice and beans are the problem. Seriously. Go to Mexico...loads of fat mexicans. They eat beans three meals a day. The problem is beans and rice taste good and they are filling and stick with you...but they ain't good for you the way we eat them in the west. When you eat rice and beans and have access to things like corn syrup the body stores all of that as fat for future famines. When there ain't no famine the body just keeps on storing it. The body can run on the energy from the junk. Rice and beans are fine if that is the only source of calories and the body is working to burn through it....but that is not the case in the US>

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I'll take a rice and bean diet over any packaged and processed cheap food any day.

Also from a thread last week:

HALF the world's population will be overweight by 2050 due to unhealthy diets, report predicts

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Since 1965, global consumption has been moving toward highly processed foods, high-protein meets, sugary products and carbohydrates.

Meanwhile, many populations have been skimping on vegetables, plant-based and whole foods and healthy starches.

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Like I sarcastically said in that thread, let's keep subsidizing corn though.

Reduce the normal work day from 8 hours to 5-6 hours. Maybe that would give people that extra time they need to exercise.

The obesity, the drugs, the single motherhood, the deadbeat fathers, the petty bickering on Facebook, the divorces, the ignorant people, the trashy people, the lazy people.

There is a solution to all of these problems, and there is only one. And it is a right wing, totalitarian Fascist dictatorship. But nobody wants to hear that. So the people will continue to keep getting fatter, less responsible, pettier, and stupider, perpetually.

There should be a federal law that restricts people from waiting in the drive-thru at Popeye's, Church's, etc. if the line reaches the street. Instead, they wait in that line, for over two hours sometimes, and the thought that this is a problem never enters their head.