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While that is certainly true, the % of fat people in a fitness oriented state like Colorado is noticably less than any other state I have ever lived in. There is also a far higher % of active people in Colorado than any other state I have lived in.
While that is certainly true, the % of fat people in a fitness oriented state like Colorado is noticably less than any other state I have ever lived in. There is also a far higher % of active people in Colorado than any other state I have lived in.
That is true. Fat people often come to Colorado and become skinny and fit.
My old roommate showed me some pics from college and he was pretty husky. Now he runs marathons.
I don't trust that study. If that's true California or one of the more populous states could well over have more fat people than Mississippi. I haven't found a more accurate study to date.
I've been to most other southern states, california, and the northeast pennsylvania new jersey ny etc. Trust me fat people are everywhere, a lot of fat people in new jersey. We have our fried chicken and pies and they have their greasy pizzas and pastas.
The study is rating who has a higher percentage of overweight people by state. California has nearly 10x the population as Alabama. Therefore, they could have 9x the total number of overweight citizens and still have a lowever percentage of overweight folks, per capita.
While that is certainly true, the % of fat people in a fitness oriented state like Colorado is noticably less than any other state I have ever lived in. There is also a far higher % of active people in Colorado than any other state I have lived in.
One thing I did notice about the south is that it seemed they had about 10 fast food restaurants in a one mile radius. Plus,when one wants to go out,its always seems to be "let's go eat". There wasn't much to do but eat.
I don't know if it has to do with the south being "family oriented",but I believe it plays a large part.
When you think other forms of entertainment are sinful,well, there isn't much else to do but eat. JMO
Maybe its so normal to see obese people in Alabama that when one does get obese,they look normal and out of place. Now in Jersey,it would look out of place to be 300 pounds,because that isn't the norm.
That being said,I still think a lot of Californians had plastic surgery,which is why they look so good. I don't belive for one second that all of them worked toward looking good the hard way.
When we visit family in the south , they always want to take us to Lamberts over in 'bama , a "southern" place...... I don't think there is a single healthy thing on the menu, even the veggie sides are things like candied yams, fried apples , canned peaches or swimming in butter, or fried.... Plus they "throw" rolls (and butter) at you - it's kinda their "thing", I think.... Plus they have servers wandering around with their "pass-outs", big cauldrens of fried okra, fried onions, fried potatoes they they heap onto your plate with ladles....
I have travelled quite a bit all over the States (and a good bit of the world as well) and by far, people are heavier in the Southern states than they are in pockets of the US where people are more active - like Colorado. Generally speaking, I don't see the same obesity here in SoCal (San Diego county) because people are more active (lifestyle and weather), and I'd guess because we have alot of active duty or former military folks...
Why do I keep seeing this question everywhere? I don't understand why fat women get all the incrimination. Just as many fat men out there. All those men out there with huge bellies hanging down over their privates. Moobs. Men need to get over it. America has a weight problem.
Why do I keep seeing this question everywhere? I don't understand why fat women get all the incrimination. Just as many fat men out there. All those men out there with huge bellies hanging down over their privates. Moobs. Men need to get over it. America has a weight problem.
Interesting point of view, and it is true beyond any shadow of doubt that there are plenty of fat men out there too. Percentagewise, I don't know if more women or men are fat. But you're right when you say, "America has a weight problem." Who could argue with that?
However, in all these threads where the issue of weight discrimination comes up in one form or another, why is it almost always women who are taking up the lance for the overweight people? Where are the fat men posting here, not just in this thread but in the various others? They are rather conspicuous by their absence. Perhaps more men know not to become fat militants because they realize it is largely their own fault? Perhaps they are more embarrassed about it than the women so they don't post about it? I do not claim to have the answer, I'm just saying I find the whole gender/fat issue interesting.
Interesting point of view, and it is true beyond any shadow of doubt that there are plenty of fat men out there too. Percentagewise, I don't know if more women or men are fat. But you're right when you say, "America has a weight problem." Who could argue with that?
However, in all these threads where the issue of weight discrimination comes up in one form or another, why is it almost always women who are taking up the lance for the overweight people? Where are the fat men posting here, not just in this thread but in the various others? They are rather conspicuous by their absence. Perhaps more men know not to become fat militants because they realize it is largely their own fault? Perhaps they are more embarrassed about it than the women so they don't post about it? I do not claim to have the answer, I'm just saying I find the whole gender/fat issue interesting.
Good question,
I think people on both sides loose track of reality. We only know what the TV or magazines us. Example, woman should be thin and sport a set of DD's. As for the other, I think women are harder on each other than men. Guys just except obese men while women talk negative about obese women and avoid them.
why is it almost always women who are taking up the lance for the overweight people? Where are the fat men posting here
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Originally Posted by Giesela
I don't understand why fat women get all the incrimination. Just as many fat men out there. All those men out there with huge bellies hanging down over their privates. Moobs. Men need to get over it. America has a weight problem.
Well, fat guys without any strength or muscle are equally as off putting but I'm not interested in fat guys.
I am interested in women and why so many have an anti-fitness, anti-muscle attitude.
Feel free to start another thread about Un-fit guys if it is an issue you want to discuss.
Why do I keep seeing this question everywhere? I don't understand why fat women get all the incrimination. Just as many fat men out there. All those men out there with huge bellies hanging down over their privates. Moobs. Men need to get over it. America has a weight problem.
Yep.
It's OK for men to be fat, though. They face less job discrimination (get hired more easily, and promoted), less negative thoughts against them (they're lazy and dont care about themselves), and arent treated the same way at all my society. That's just the way it is.
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“The proof that the One Stone Solution is political lies in what women feel when they eat 'too much': guilt. Why should guilt be the operative emotion, and female fat be a moral issue articulated with words like good and bad? If our culture's fixation on female fatness of thinness were about sex, it would be a private issue between a woman and her lover; if it were about health, then between a woman and herself. Public debate would be far more hysterically focused on male fat than on female, since more men [40 percent] are medically overweight than women [32 percent] and too much fat is far more dangerous for men than for women...
...But female fat is the subject of public passion, and women feel guilty about female fat, because we implicitly recognize that under the myth, women's bodies are not our own but society's, and that thinness is not a private aesthetic... ” ~Naomi Wolf
(dont know what study came up with the percentages)
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