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Why is it cheaper to buy a bag of sugary candy or salted potato chips than a healthy salad? Too much hyperprocessed food is available for cheap. Rather than wasting billions of dollars to subsidize grains, dairy, and cattle, what we should be doing is subsidizing healthy fruit and vegetables. An entire junk food industry has grown fat on the government's subsidy.
"Over eating" is a vague term that says nothing about how much someone is consuming, or what their lifestyle entails. If someone sitting on the couch all day eats the typical diet of a body builder, the person on the couch will get fat. Same caloric consumption, different results.
The lifestyle of the average American today is nothing like it was 100 years ago, when people were leaner. The biggest difference is the type of work people were doing then vs now. Most people are getting jobs today where they sit in a chair for the majority of the day, in front of a computer, etc. And when they come home, they are pecking away and their cell phone or computer, or watching TV.
Why is it cheaper to buy a bag of sugary candy or salted potato chips than a healthy salad? Too much hyperprocessed food is available for cheap. Rather than wasting billions of dollars to subsidize grains, dairy, and cattle, what we should be doing is subsidizing healthy fruit and vegetables. An entire junk food industry has grown fat on the government's subsidy.
Same food and pricing is available in many countries and even here in the US, yet the obesity disparities still exist even though access to food is the same.
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Originally Posted by andywire
"Over eating" is a vague term that says nothing about how much someone is consuming, or what their lifestyle entails. If someone sitting on the couch all day eats the typical diet of a body builder, the person on the couch will get fat. Same caloric consumption, different results.
The lifestyle of the average American today is nothing like it was 100 years ago, when people were leaner. The biggest difference is the type of work people were doing then vs now. Most people are getting jobs today where they sit in a chair for the majority of the day, in front of a computer, etc. And when they come home, they are pecking away and their cell phone or computer, or watching TV.
Over eating is not a vague term at all, it means you eating too damn much, plain and simple. Quit eating so much.
It is not even 100 years, the obesity shift is only one generation, starting in the 80's, but accelerating in the 90's.
"Over eating" is a vague term that says nothing about how much someone is consuming, or what their lifestyle entails. If someone sitting on the couch all day eats the typical diet of a body builder, the person on the couch will get fat. Same caloric consumption, different results.
The lifestyle of the average American today is nothing like it was 100 years ago, when people were leaner. The biggest difference is the type of work people were doing then vs now. Most people are getting jobs today where they sit in a chair for the majority of the day, in front of a computer, etc. And when they come home, they are pecking away and their cell phone or computer, or watching TV.
100 years ago, almost no one "went to the gym" except for boxers, now there's a gym on practically every corner and we still have this obesity epidemic.
I doubt that's what's doing it. Most people have enough sense not to eat that stuff every day. Eating that once a week or so isn't going to make people fat.
Sedentary lifestyle is what's doing it. Too much sitting on the couch, playing with the cell phone, time spent burning off very few calories. I eat a garbage diet, a fair amount of fast food... But I have a physically demanding job, and I work 70 hours a week. Maybe not the healthiest lifestyle, but I'm burning lots of calories, and am near underweight for my height, and always have been.
Try getting Americans off the couch, and watch the lard melt. And bring back some of those physically demanding jobs from China that democrats look down upon. China is making America fat and lazy, and democrats couldn't be more happy about that.
Well maybe you just got lucky with genetics. Not everyone gets fat. Some are predisposed to being fat within the family history. Im naturally between cause I had a skinny father's side and a fat mother's side. But alot of people inherited the "fat gene" and these which republican business owners don't help matters being able to operate. They put addictive chemicals in their food too no different from a drug dealer selling addictive drugs. Point is, EVERYONE is to blame. Not just the citizens eating it.
Im tired of just seeing the commoners being blamed for every atrocity and not the rich
Take any study that uses BMI to "measure" fat with a healthy dose of salt.
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