Obesity only here in the USA ?
josevolution
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Spent 10 days in in Italy and i did not see any obese people at all in fact the only one i would call obese was an American that was part of the tour i was on .. :oops:
jesus greets me looks just like me ....
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...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
But our nation has a growing problem though.
YES! Aussies lead the way when it comes to Obesity per capita.
But no wonder......
because of our couch festering, channel surfing, ipad socialising lazy parents AND the local community who do the same stuff, our kids are kept indoors immitating Mum and Dad. Sitting around eating because thier bored, getting fat and lazy like thier parents......It's too hard for the parents to take the kids down the park on thier bikes....too cold, too hot, to0 dark, too dangerous, too bothersome.......and the Mum or Dad/community want to stay home incase they get a note on Faceache. :oops:
I just read in yesterdays news paper, that OUR schools are going to employ " Wii FIT " as part of the physical education program......
..........HELLO :wave: Whatever happened to REAL tenis and REAL baseball?? :crazy:
Lucky for me I'm Techno Stupid and have no choice but to join my family outside running-a-muck!
Your food is home cooked with natural ingredience and tastes friggin AWESOME!
And then you go outside and play bocci and drink red wine.....so it's all good.
Yeah i figured as much USA numero 1 ..
No lol, didnt realise.
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Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
Yet, it's sad that that might be what it takes. :roll:
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Ubiquitous, and dirt cheap.
When it's cheaper to buy a McDonald's meal for $3 than a real, honest healthy meal...you know you have a problem.
don't tell this to the corn growers ... they believe they are feeding the planet!
Ahh yes...it's THE MAN'S fault we're all fat.
Nothing is ever anyone's fault anymore, huh?
There are a lot of people who are just plain lazy and over eat. That's the problem.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
I think its about 75% us and maybe 15% us but yeah i dont get how people get obese... seriously makes no fuckin sense to me, do people not think oh look im getting pretty fat i better stop, it doesn't cease to amaze me how some people let themselves get so big (excluding the very very small % who are mentally ill).
If they made fatty sugary foods more expensive that would definitaly solve the problem, but then again its all good in moderation.
There are multiple things that are contributing to our fear of "fat". One is that being REALLY overweight IS detrimental to your health, so there's an element of truth in pushing the obesity myth. Two, in the U.S. we live in a society that now privileges thinness (because it is a marker of social class and has become the norm in regard to attractiveness), this is different from 1800s and 1900s when being fat meant you were rich enough to consume a lot of food (therefore no social stigmatism). Three there's a SHIT TON of money to be made in the diet industry, the snack food industry, the grocery industry, the corn industry, the soda industry, and so on which infiltrate the minds of youngsters so much so that by the age of 5 we know virtually every snack food available for consumption. This means that YES it is the Man's fault when they create the very desires that make us "fat" then encourage us to get "thin", Know1 you're suggesting that our "desires" for bad foods just come from personal "failings" but that would suggest that we disregard the omnipresent commercialization of junk food (try as we might it's pretty fucking difficult).
What happens then is a perfect self-perpetuating capitalist platform where we purchase food and soda that gets us fat, then purchase more shit (like weight watchers, gym memberships, stomache stapling, and so on) to try to get thin. And yes the Man is extremely fearful that this gets found out, which is why they buy off researchers to create findings that support corn syrup, and stupid shit like that which means that the common person is confused as to which way is up. A perfect example of this was on Jaime Oliver's show last week where a girl said her dad died because he was obese, when no peer reviewed study has found anything more than a 9 percent corrolation between obesity and mortality. Yet we think this is true, b/c the Man makes money off of our belief that it is.
I wonder if there is any correlation between the increase in child obesity and the advance of technology in the home? When I was between 8 and 14 years old, I spent the vast majority of my recreational time outdoors.
I just get a laugh whenever the lines "we live in a society that teaches us ______" are used as an excuse for anything. Contrary to what a lot of people seem to believe, people can think for themselves and have the freedom to make their own choices. If they decided to just blindly follow "society" (and what does that mean, anyway - society is different for each of us), then they are likely doomed to begin with.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
PJ - Auckland 2009; Alpine Valley1&2 2011; Man1, Am'dam1&2, Berlin1&2, Stockholm, Oslo & Copenhagen 2012; LA, Oakland, Portland, Spokane, Calgary, Vancouver, Seattle 2013; Auckland 2014, Auckland1&2 2024
EV - Canberra, Newcastle & Sydney 1&2 2011
I do know that, at least in North America where there is so much available land, a big part of the problem is that the goal for a lot of people is to live in a big house in the suburbs with a big yard and all of that. The problem with living in these suburbs is that instead of being able to walk to the store, or to a friends house, or to school, people have to drive everywhere.
Also, kids are so sedentary nowadays it is unbelievable and sad. When I was growing up in the 80's and early-mid 90's, a day didnt go by that we werent playing baseball, soccer, football, street hockey, etc... Driving by the same fields, 99% of the time they are empty. When kids are actually playing there are usually about 3-6 kids as opposed to the 15-20 we would have on a daily basis. So many kids are obese now, thats not good.
Judging from what I see first hand and know from my background and training in Exercise Physiology... Obesity is a large problem which is rapidly getting worse.
Have you seen the documentary King Corn? I recommend it.
thanks ... i'll look for it ...
people have to understand nutrition when they look at the role of processed foods ... when you get pumped full of this artificial stuff ... some of the crap creates these defencicies where you are essentially craving more of it ... hence people over eating ...
2. sedentary lifestyle
really thats all there is to it
Hope you had a good trip Jose!