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I still think that there is something physiological going on with all the chemicals in foods. I don't think it's just a matter of "put down the donut and get some exercise." Did anyone see the piece on 60 Minutes last night about the National Institute on Drug Abuse's (NIDA) $1 billion budget. The Director of the NIDA Nora Volkow (interestingly Trotsky's granddaughter), who is studying the neurological effects of dopamine and addiction, groups food in with hard drugs and alcohol, as they have the same dopamine effect on the brain for some people.
Oh please ****! That is the problem with Americans and these intellectuals. Of course food has the same effect on the brain as drugs and alcohol. DOH!!!!!!! You don't need a billion dollar budget to realize that. You know what else does too? SHOPPING, Xtreme sports, Sex/porn, and just about EVERYTHING else that we as human beings spend our time doing. All those kids that are incessently playing video games 8 hours a day? Guess what? They are changing their brain chemistry. I'm sure all of us talking on cell phones are changing our brain chemistry too. Our communities and human interactions sure as heck are changing because of it.
You see when I was a kid I was so active I could eat whatever I wanted. I was so damn active I didn't have time to sit around and down a bag of chips. If I did a few minutes later I probably just peddled an hour to my friend's house where we spent the rest of the day building forts, running through the creek, and or playing "army". And when I wasn't doing that stuff after school I was playing sports on the weekends. And guess what when I wasn't doing THAT stuff I was raking leaves, mowing grass, at my grandfather's property. And when I wasn't doing that stuff I was in the Boy Scouts backpacking, hiking, and what not. I probably rode more miles on my bike as a kid than Lance Armstrong has in his entire career. Seriously....PEOPLE ARE FAT BECAUSE THEY DON'T MOVE!!!!!!!!!! FUTURE GENERATIONS ARE GOING TO BE FAT BECAUSE THEY ARE INACTIVE AND LAZY KIDS!!!!!!!!!!!
And you know what the carry over effect was from all those times my parents had the nerve to tel me to get up off my butt and go outside because it was a nice day out...........My set point of my adult metabolism is so high I can still eat whatever I want and stay a lean 200lbs at 6'5. And guess what else? I can't stand sitting around.......I want to be outside, working out, running, biking, backpacking, hell even working in my yard.
People are fat because we drive everywhere, we microwave everything, and we sit on our fat rear ends all day and then we buy our kids all the latest and greatest technology and let them do the same thing.
So yeah you bet your fat lard a#@es this behavior changes 'brain chemistry". LOL..........
Oh and one other thing.....in winter time my parents actually made me shovel our driveway and shovel our neighbor's driveway because they were elderly. And when we got done shoveling our drive way we went out into the woods and cleared off the local pond and played hockey all damn day! WE DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO EAT!!!!!! We were 1980s KIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!
May I examine your life? I'll bet I can find something you need to pay more for too.
Rest assured the health-Nazi's will do exactly that and use YOUR support of what you said as an excuse. If higher costs can be applied to me because of what I do, they can and will be applied to you too at some point and, since you support the notion, you won't have a leg to stand on when they come after something you do.
By supporting higher costs for me, you're making higher costs for yourself inevitable.
Hope you like it.
I haven't examined yours since I'm not an insurer. So I don't care. And unless you are MY insurer - no you can't inspect my life.
But if something I do deserves higher costs - at an intellectual level I am likely to be OK with it. I am NOT ok with spreading costs around which seems to be what you are asking society to do on issues like this. You want to be fat, but you don't want to pay the price for it.
I drive certain cars. Some cost more to insure than others. I made those choices and am OK with it. I pay gas taxes, which means if I use more fuel (by choice of course) I pay more taxes.
May I examine your life? I'll bet I can find something you need to pay more for too.
Rest assured the health-Nazi's will do exactly that and use YOUR support of what you said as an excuse. If higher costs can be applied to me because of what I do, they can and will be applied to you too at some point and, since you support the notion, you won't have a leg to stand on when they come after something you do.
By supporting higher costs for me, you're making higher costs for yourself inevitable.
Hope you like it.
Of course you would like to examine his life and control it..... you are a Democrat
I'm telling you..they are doing something with the clothes. My weight has NOT changed yet I have to buy smaller size clothes now to get the same fit. They seem to be cutting clothing bigger over the past 5 years. It's called "vanity sizing" to keep women feeling good about themselves.
I'm telling you..they are doing something with the clothes. My weight has NOT changed yet I have to buy smaller size clothes now to get the same fit. They seem to be cutting clothing bigger over the past 5 years. It's called "vanity sizing" to keep women feeling good about themselves.
I've seen that too. My mom and I both wore size 6/8 for years. Now, we're suddenly in size 2/4 and sometimes size 0. I haven't changed sizes, so it's the clothes.
"The additional medical spending due to obesity is double previous estimates and exceeds even those of smoking, a new study shows. . . These concerns come stem from the fact that the percentage of obese Americans- which is qualified as those with a Body Mass Index of 30 or higher- has tripled since 1960, coming in at 34 per cent. The incidence of extreme or ‘morbid’ obesity (BMI above 40) has risen sixfold, to 6 per cent."
They're back.
Are you lost, sweetheart?... I'll sing you a song... until your mom comes back!
Sounds like a good argument to get the government out of the health care business.
Only when individuals have to suffer the consequences of their behaviour will they make better lifestyle choices ( and if they dont, its only on them)
I suppose the o.p. thinks the government should herd us all to the same feed trough?
I get annoyed when I have to pay extra at the airline check in because my suitcase is a few pounds over 50 and I weigh 140. Yet the 300+ woman whose suitcase is 49 pounds, pays no extra. Does that make sense?
Of course you would like to examine his life and control it..... you are a Democrat
I'm simply pointing out that if one behavior can be identified as being "in need" of compulsory reform in the name of reduced costs, so can ANY behavior.
But, nobody wants to see that. All most people want is their prejudices validated by "research" which proves it's costing them a little more for somebody to be different and action taken to correct someone else's perceived failures. They never stop to think that something THEY are doing could be defined the same way and the same measures applied to them.
The prejudice, arrogance, selfishness and myopia of the health nuts is the greatest threat to our liberty right now.
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