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It will just get worse and worse. Most people stay at home now except to work, shop or go to a restaurant.
It seems as though everything revolves around food these days. It is no wonder that the rates of obesity are skyrocketing.
The parks are empty, but the restaurants always seem so very busy in no matter what city I am in.
Many people these start the morning with 1,500 calories with a sugary milkshake and pastry from chain coffee
Then for lunch, they have a burrito or light-lunch at a restaurant that has perhaps 1,000 more calories
Snacking at work, 500 empty calories out the vending machine and maybe 500-1000 calories of soda
Then maybe take-up with 1,000 calories of mainly oil and lard for take-out.
I was just looking at some video of Venice Beach in the 1980s compared to today. In the 1980s, there were crowded video frames of 100 or more people and not was one had a person considered obese. Today, a video of people watching performances on Venice has around a third or more people obese.
I just moved to Nebraska a few weeks ago and I am constantly in disbelief about the rate of not just obesity here, but morbid obesity.
I saw obesity in Arizona, California and Nevada. But coming to Nebraska, it is stunning the amount of morbid obesity here.
Many Nebraskans in their 20s and 30s can't breathe because of morbid obesity and Nebraska is not even in the top 10.
It will just get worse and worse. Most people stay at home now except to work, shop or go to a restaurant.
It seems as though everything revolves around food these days. It is no wonder that the rates of obesity are skyrocketing.
The parks are empty, but the restaurants always seem so very busy in no matter what city I am in.
Many people these start the morning with 1,500 calories with a sugary milkshake and pastry from chain coffee
Then for lunch, they have a burrito or light-lunch at a restaurant that has perhaps 1,000 more calories
Snacking at work, 500 empty calories out the vending machine and maybe 500-1000 calories of soda
Then maybe take-up with 1,000 calories of mainly oil and lard for take-out.
I was just looking at some video of Venice Beach in the 1980s compared to today. In the 1980s, there were crowded video frames of 100 or more people and not was one had a person considered obese. Today, a video of people watching performances on Venice has around a third or more people obese.
I just moved to Nebraska a few weeks ago and I am constantly in disbelief about the rate of not just obesity here, but morbid obesity.
I saw obesity in Arizona, California and Nevada. But coming to Nebraska, it is stunning the amount of morbid obesity here.
Many Nebraskans in their 20s and 30s can't breathe because of morbid obesity and Nebraska is not even in the top 10.
Do you have another hobby besides worrying so much about the weight problem in the US? Just curious.
It's too simplistic of a baseline, really. Doesn't account for bone size or muscle at all. When pro athletes (the people who do tons of exercise, etc and are in great shape physically in many cases) are considered to be obese because of a simple height to weight comparison, something is wrong.
Lol ok. 39% of Americans are pro athletes now. Thanks for the laugh.
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It's too simplistic of a baseline, really. Doesn't account for bone size or muscle at all. When pro athletes (the people who do tons of exercise, etc and are in great shape physically in many cases) are considered to be obese because of a simple height to weight comparison, something is wrong.
Sure, it doesn't handle edge cases, but the overwhelming majority of people are not edge cases - they're just lazy and fat. Really, really fat.
We're not going to do anything though. Actually tackling the problem might cause middle America to have to do something besides grow government-subsidized garbage.
Lol ok. 39% of Americans are pro athletes now. Thanks for the laugh.
Oh geez, of course that is the EXACT fact I was trying to say. How did you know?
Try reading it again. I did not say all obese people were pro athletes. I was merely pointing out that a system that lumps in actual pro athletes and other people like that into obese by a simple calculation that does not take into account the actual composition of their body is quite flawed and a different calculation system would be better for seeing how healthy people are.
I didn't find out I was obese until I had to take medical for insurance purposes. When I expressed surprise, the doctor said to not pay any attention, as it's flawed (see the post #10). He said that at a guess, my body fat percentage would be around 10%.
Unfortunately, the doctor's opinion carried to weight, and my insurance cost was based on me being obese -maybe it's about money?
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