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re: What will it take to reduce the obesity rate in the US?

Posted on 9/13/18 at 11:18 am to
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
260228 posts
Posted on 9/13/18 at 11:18 am to
It will only become worse

Easy life, plentiful food, desk jobs, HD TVs.... People just don't get outdoors enough.
Posted by TheCaterpillar
Member since Jan 2004
76774 posts
Posted on 9/13/18 at 11:18 am to
The whole world does a mile foot race.

Each age group has their own race.

The bottom 10% from each flight are killed.

Posted by Celery
Nuevo York
Member since Nov 2010
11086 posts
Posted on 9/13/18 at 11:18 am to
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Let everyone smoke and do cocaine like the good ole days.


You’re joking, but it’s true.
Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2015
65851 posts
Posted on 9/13/18 at 11:19 am to
more threads about fat people
Posted by tigerinthebueche
Member since Oct 2010
36791 posts
Posted on 9/13/18 at 11:20 am to
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I think we have become desensitized to all these people waddling around. If you stop and observe it is astounding how many people are overweight



this is true. I remember Camryn Manheim on The Practice being lauded for being an overweight actress years ago. I think it started back then.




On the other hand, its none of your business if a person is fat. Or a drunk. Or smokes recreational weed where legal. mind your own fricking business and worry about yourself.
Posted by Klark Kent
Houston via BR
Member since Jan 2008
66784 posts
Posted on 9/13/18 at 11:20 am to
Step 1: Stop celebrating obesity. Stop excusing obesity. Stop accepting obesity. Sorry not sorry, but overly obese people should be ridiculed for being lazy and treating their body like shite

Step 2: Double down on Step 1

Step 3: Stop providing healthcare for anyone extremely obese
This post was edited on 9/13/18 at 11:22 am
Posted by X123F45
Member since Apr 2015
27378 posts
Posted on 9/13/18 at 11:20 am to
Honest answer?

A societal shift to an agrarian style of living.

Real work instead of tapping on a computer.
Posted by al_cajun
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2017
2442 posts
Posted on 9/13/18 at 11:21 am to
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Serious answer, stopping ridiculing good programs simply because of who instituted them would help. I'm not an Obama fan, but the way Michelle Obama was treated over her desire to help childhood obesity with healthier school lunches was ridiculous. Have yall been to any schools lately? There are a lot of fat kids going to school.


Yeah but none of her shite worked. They still serve unhealthy food in school because lobbyist pushed that pizza is a vegetable because it has tomato sauce on it and it actually got approved which is ridiculous.
Posted by StringedInstruments
Member since Oct 2013
18369 posts
Posted on 9/13/18 at 11:22 am to
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I think we have become desensitized to all these people waddling around. If you stop and observe it is astounding how many people are overweight.


It is astounding and more so that most people have no clue. I’m 15 pounds overweight with jiggly love handles and my family speaks to me like I’m a starving Ethiopian.


Posted by Mingo Was His NameO
Brooklyn
Member since Mar 2016
25455 posts
Posted on 9/13/18 at 11:22 am to
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It's impossible our food has become so unhealthy because food lobbyist have big money and have gotten some ridiculous shite pushed the FDA to the point where there is no turning back


This simply just isn't true. There are plenty of healthy choices, people just choose not to eat them. The real answer here is to stop empowering fatasses and start educating them. To me, it's no different than cigarettes. In the 50s and 60s everyone smoked because it was cool. Now we know how bad they are for you and I don't know a single person in their 2ps that's "a smoker" in the sense of the word (though I don't hang out with trash). If we as a society start being realistic and telling these people they're killing themselves they will change their behavior. Not today or the current generation but it will fade out of society just like smoking is starting to.
Posted by HeyHeyHogsAllTheWay
Member since Feb 2017
12458 posts
Posted on 9/13/18 at 11:22 am to
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On the other hand, its none of your business if a person is fat. Or a drunk. Or smokes recreational weed where legal. mind your own fricking business and worry about yourself.




Of course all of those things are my business when I ultimately have to subsidize those choices through some form of welfare.

I mean it's none of your business if someone defrauds the government for social security disability is it? Why yes it is your business, because you pay the taxes that fund that social security.

Your point would be valid if , for example, people who live unhealthy lifestyles weren't allowed into the same healthcare insurance pool as the rest of us.....

Posted by NotoriousFSU
Atlanta, GA
Member since Oct 2008
10202 posts
Posted on 9/13/18 at 11:23 am to
Preach
Posted by Rand AlThor
Member since Jan 2014
9436 posts
Posted on 9/13/18 at 11:24 am to
Why are you skinny people so obsessed with this? Can I just eat shite food and die of heart disease in peace?
Posted by Mingo Was His NameO
Brooklyn
Member since Mar 2016
25455 posts
Posted on 9/13/18 at 11:25 am to
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It will only become worse

Easy life, plentiful food, desk jobs, HD TVs.... People just don't get outdoors enough.



Wrong. I sit at a desk 50, 60, sometimes 70 hours a week, but I eat right and make sure I make time for my workouts. But I k kw the health risks and am educated on the topic, but most aren't. All they see is the news saying fat is beautiful.
Posted by Mingo Was His NameO
Brooklyn
Member since Mar 2016
25455 posts
Posted on 9/13/18 at 11:26 am to
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Why are you skinny people so obsessed with this?


Because the skinny people get to pay for it. It's not complicated that this is a societal epidemic in more ways than one.

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Can I just eat shite food and die of heart disease in peace?


Not on my dime.
Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2015
65851 posts
Posted on 9/13/18 at 11:27 am to
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It will only become worse

Easy life, plentiful food, desk jobs, HD TVs.... People just don't get outdoors enough.



Wall-E was not a movie. It was a documentary from the future.
Posted by fillmoregandt
OTM
Member since Nov 2009
14368 posts
Posted on 9/13/18 at 11:28 am to
For starters, quit normalizing/celebrating fatties

I don’t care about your feelings: obesity is not attractive or healthy
Posted by Fourteen28
Member since Aug 2018
1156 posts
Posted on 9/13/18 at 11:29 am to
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End EBT cards


Obesity is not confined to the poors. Lots of fatties from the middle and upper class
Posted by HeyHeyHogsAllTheWay
Member since Feb 2017
12458 posts
Posted on 9/13/18 at 11:29 am to
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Yeah but none of her shite worked. They still serve unhealthy food in school because lobbyist pushed that pizza is a vegetable because it has tomato sauce on it and it actually got approved which is ridiculous.



Yes, of course some of that happened. But what I was speaking about was the way the woman was absolutely skewered for getting involved and TRYING to do something, simply because of who she was. That has to stop. Okay some of her ideas didn't pan out, and okay for sure the idiots in DC did stupid shite like label ketchup as a vegtable, but at least she was offering suggestions.

And by the way, pizza never qualified as a vegetable under the program championed by MO.

And it's pathetic that Trump ended most of the program simply because Obama's name was attached to it. Just pitiful.

I know a lot of the excuse was "well the lunches were terrible so kids weren't eating them" well I'm here to tell you , that was a local issue caused by local schools that didn't have people who knew how to prepare food that was edible. It took about a year for food companies to start producing ingredients that were tasty and fit into the guidelines, but they were available.

Posted by al_cajun
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2017
2442 posts
Posted on 9/13/18 at 11:30 am to
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There are plenty of healthy choices, people just choose not to eat them.


Agreed this a problem but if you look at overall availability of food, unhealthy options are much more available then healthy. You don't have vending machines of apples sitting around. I agree its no excuse and people need to start taking responsibility but if you look at what the FDA approves for the use in foods compared to what Europe approves its eye opening. The FDA approves a lot of shite that doesn't fly in other countries. So their food on average is healthier and better for you.
This post was edited on 9/13/18 at 11:31 am
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