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Old 09-13-2019, 07:55 PM
 
Location: Arizona
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6zv_4_3BXs&t=534s

https://www.stateofobesity.org/states/wv/

It's going on all over America but it's amazing how fit and athletic people looked in West Virginia in 1981. Now, the state has 44% obesity among those 26-64 years old and thats only the percentage who admit to it on the phone.

Many of those claim to be obese, are likely morbidly obese. The obesity is especially skyrocketing among young adults, well over 40% in several states.

America is going to have tens of millions of people in their 30s and 40s who won't be able to work if the trends continue.

Many of the 40% young adults are that are considered obese will end up with decades of expensive chronic conditions and one health episode after another.

I don't worry about it, but it is very interesting how far this country has fallen in the last generation or two.

I really do think that the obesity along with the vaping and products people are prescribed which causes a slippery slope is going to be America's downfall and the quality of life is going the plummet in the next decade.

Wow, the rates are up all across America but a video of Charleston, WV shows a city where person a handful of people were not athletic looking in 1981 out thousands of people.

Now, the obesity rate is 44% for those 26 to 64 years old in the state up from 13% among the adult population in 1990.

 
Old 09-13-2019, 07:59 PM
 
Location: Santa Monica
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And this is relevant to...

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Old 09-13-2019, 09:00 PM
 
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And this is relevant to...

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Some relevance to the "free market" where corporations and the government collude to offer the highest calorie and lowest nutrition foods to the populace......which then happen to ALSO enrich the 3 Trillion dollar Predatory Medical System.....

https://fee.org/articles/did-america...nment-experts/

BTW, Trump just redesigned the food guidelines even more to satisfy the meat producers and the fast food corporations.

All the food pyramids have been lobbied for - corporations are people and corporations want people to be fat and profitable.
 
Old 09-13-2019, 09:06 PM
 
Location: Kansas City, MISSOURI
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And this is relevant to...

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The really funny thing about the OP's complaining about this issue is, the ONLY solution for this particular problem is to take the kinds of measures that conservatives (like the OP) generally hate.
 
Old 09-13-2019, 09:06 PM
 
Location: Santa Monica
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Some relevance to the "free market" where corporations and the government collude to offer the highest calorie and lowest nutrition foods to the populace......which then happen to ALSO enrich the 3 Trillion dollar Predatory Medical System.....

https://fee.org/articles/did-america...nment-experts/

BTW, Trump just redesigned the food guidelines even more to satisfy the meat producers and the fast food corporations.

All the food pyramids have been lobbied for - corporations are people and corporations want people to be fat and profitable.
I don't know what this means either. Makes the OP's soliloquy appear purposeful.
 
Old 09-13-2019, 09:09 PM
 
Location: Santa Monica
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The really funny thing about the OP's complaining about this issue is, the ONLY solution for this particular problem is to take the kinds of measures that conservatives (like the OP) generally hate.
Bingo.

I hate both of you guys (Team Red and Team Blue).

But at least your team is open with the "government-cures-all" spiel. Team Red is still in the closet. They'll complain about this stuff, public schools, and the media yet refuse to get government out of...or even somewhat reduce the government...in those arenas.
 
Old 09-13-2019, 09:15 PM
 
Location: Kansas City, MISSOURI
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The really funny thing about the OP's complaining about this issue is, the ONLY solution for this particular problem is to take the kinds of measures that conservatives (like the OP) generally hate.
Here's one thing I'm talking about.

It appears that one thing responsible for the increase in obesity worldwide the past 40 years or so is the increased prevalence of plastic food packaging.

BPA May Prompt More Fat in the Human Body
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A new study suggests the long-held industry assumption that bisphenol-A breaks down safely in the human body is incorrect. Instead, researchers say, the body transforms the ubiquitous chemical additive into a compound that might spur obesity.

The study is the first to find that people’s bodies metabolize bisphenol-A (BPA) — a chemical found in most people and used in polycarbonate plastic, food cans and paper receipts — into something that impacts our cells and may make us fat.
There's a lot more on that particular topic if you want to Google it.

The solution there? Either force the plastics industry to come up with a form of plastic that does not do that to the body. Or put restrictions on plastic food packaging.

Both would be "liberal" regulatory solutions of the kind people like the OP continually rant against.

There are other reasons in addition to the plastics one, but the solutions to those would be similarly "liberal."
 
Old 09-13-2019, 09:18 PM
 
Location: Arizona
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Some relevance to the "free market" where corporations and the government collude to offer the highest calorie and lowest nutrition foods to the populace......which then happen to ALSO enrich the 3 Trillion dollar Predatory Medical System.....

https://fee.org/articles/did-america...nment-experts/

BTW, Trump just redesigned the food guidelines even more to satisfy the meat producers and the fast food corporations.

All the food pyramids have been lobbied for - corporations are people and corporations want people to be fat and profitable.
I agree with you on everything you just said.

The food pyramid is basically a recipe for obesity.

Many people are starving from malnutrition even though they morbidly obese because of the extremely low nutrient density of the food many eat.
 
Old 09-13-2019, 09:25 PM
 
Location: Santa Monica
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I agree with you on everything you just said.

The food pyramid is basically a recipe for obesity.

Many people are starving from malnutrition even though they morbidly obese because of the extremely low nutrient density of the food many eat.
Hold up there, Professor.

Are you saying the USDA, funded by your tax dollars since the inception of the Food Pyramid back in 1992, completely screwed the pooch on that one?

Are you willing to announce, here and now, a call to abolish the Agriculture Department (which oversees the USDA)?
 
Old 09-13-2019, 09:29 PM
 
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Remember when Michelle Obama was encouraging healthy living in students and conservatives screamed bloody murder over it?
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