Flash Junkins
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Shut us down with Covid + a ton of lazy people + free money.
What the fuck else did you expect?
What the fuck else did you expect?
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CDC Sees Significant Increase of Obese Americans, Reveals Most Overweight State
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Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
The food that is the healthiest for us is either relatively expensive or is usually time consuming to make/clean up. Meanwhile the food that is the worst for us is either cheap or is usually extremely convenient to make/clean up.
Add that to fact that most people are working their asses off/watching their spending thanks to inflation/gas prices and you get a perfect storm of people just choosing convenience and money over their health.
And that will continue to be the case until changes are made.
Add that to fact that most people are working their asses off/watching their spending thanks to inflation/gas prices and you get a perfect storm of people just choosing convenience and money over their health.
And that will continue to be the case until changes are made.
newtypepilot
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belmarduk
Member
Probably more so in Mexico, because in many places there the tap water is unsafe to drink. Mexico actually has a higher obesity rate than us.. its 75% fatties.
juliushandle
Member
NeoIkaruGAF
Gold Member
Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is the most common cause of hypothyroidism.
It’s an autoimmune diseases that causes hour thyroid gland to lose function, and since thyroid hormones are literal fuel for the body and a key factor in metabolism, a hypofunctioning thyroid gland will make you gain weight very easily and very hard to lose weight. It also messes up with your body in many other ways. It’s literally deadly if untreated, even if it usually takes many years to get to that point.
MacReady13
Member
Imagine a world where fat, unhealthy celebrities come out and say that having the body you want is a positive thing... I just cannot fathom anyone with a fifth of a brain promoting an unhealthy and lazy, fat lifestyle and body weight/size. People like Lizzo can go and get stuffed promoting this unhealthy bullshit. 1 round of diabetes and see how quick they change their tune...
juliushandle
Member
I went on a strict diet for 3 months eating a big salad of dark leafy greens with canned sardines and extra virgin olive oil, red meat/organs, while snacking on goat/sheep cheese.
I was the healthiest I ever been and bested my body composition numbers. 16% body fat and a BMI of 25 (muscular build). I also reversed my pre-diabetic number from 5 something to 3 something.
I was the healthiest I ever been and bested my body composition numbers. 16% body fat and a BMI of 25 (muscular build). I also reversed my pre-diabetic number from 5 something to 3 something.
bitbydeath
Member
Losing weight can be hard but not gaining weight in the first place is actually quite easy. If you’re not diving in on frequent fatty foods every few days or eating til your tummy feels bloated then you won’t be in a situation where you need to lose a lot of weight.
It’s all laziness.
It’s all laziness.
Demand and supply.
It is the fault of society that so many people want easy and fast access to food, so businesses found ways to satisfy those desires. Unfortunately the easy path tends to be the least fruitful.
belmarduk
Member
Assumptions.
Top 10 Reasons Why The BMI Is Bogus
Weekend Edition math guy Keith Devlin graded the body mass index, a popular measure of determining healthy body weight, and failed it on 10 grounds.www.npr.org
Doubt you’ve heard much of anything because you always come off as an ignorant cunt.
Oh wow. How could I have missed this gem of a post. Sorry if it upsets you, whole milk, but BMI is the best metric to determine fitness unless someone is an extreme bodybuilder.. which, let’s be honest: you are not.
Toytown Assassin
Member
To be fair BMI is also a tad shit for tall and short people. It is true however that most people who complain about it are light bending land whales.
harry mason 1989
Banned
Yep
They're promoting plus size unhealthy models on snapchat instagram twitter ect
With these self_love dumb massege
And of course Disney are trying to push this garbage as well
Chronicle
Member
Fat ignorant Americans..... ugh.
All you need to so is walk more. Just walk everywhere. Walk to get something to eat. Just keep walking and the pounds will come off.
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
I tapped out at :36.
German Hops
GAF's Nicest Lunch Thief
I couldn't even make it that long.
Winter John
Gold Member
I used to wonder why fat chicks had phones. What was the point. Who was callin em?
German Hops
GAF's Nicest Lunch Thief
I was a chubby chaser back in the day. They were easy targets.
Now days, though, even beach whales think they're 10's.
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Kilau
Member
How dare you, I'm lactose intolerant!
Swift_Star
Banned
Go to the gym and avoid processed food, people...It's West Virginia!
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released data showing that more than seven in 10 (73.6 percent) United States adults aged 20 or older are either overweight or obese. Although the rates in children and adolescents have decreased, the rates overall have seen a drastic rise in recent decades.
Obesity costs the health care system around $173 billion per year, and the diet and weight loss control industries rake in around $72 billion, according to WalletHub. That website also chronicled the most obese and least obese states in the nation, with West Virginia falling in the former category and Utah in the latter.
The recent CDC reporting also shows that around 72.2 million Americans over the age of 6 were completely inactive in 2021, and lack of physical activity remains a leading cause of obesity.
Yahoo!
That's pretty fuckin' sad, bro. Gonna need to move those jellyrolls!
Swift_Star
Banned
The real problem here is not body positivism...
It's the food industry that wants us to eat fast-food and processed food and marketing them 24/7 as if that was the path of happiness, so maybe we should focus on fighting that?
It's the food industry that wants us to eat fast-food and processed food and marketing them 24/7 as if that was the path of happiness, so maybe we should focus on fighting that?
SafeOrAlone
Banned
I love to eat fatty foods.
So I intermittent fast and shove down a few healthy things everyday. I separate eating for health and eating for pleasure and just try to squeeze both in everyday.
Then I do minimal work outs like walking every day or using my pull up bar.
The hard part, lately, is the intermittent fasting. My stomach adjusted to it for a while but lately I’ve been hungry earlier in the day again.
But it’s just a matter of discipline.
I have my own problems, as we all do, so it might be ignorant for me to question those who can’t lose weight. But It seems like such an easy win to me. Eat less, reap rewards.
But I do see a lot of denial. I heard a couple overweight people commiserating that “Doctors always say you’re overweight, man”, just last night. I can say that’s never been my experience and they are hearing that because it’s true.
But again, we all have our vices, addictions, or lapses of control, so I shouldn’t judge.
So I intermittent fast and shove down a few healthy things everyday. I separate eating for health and eating for pleasure and just try to squeeze both in everyday.
Then I do minimal work outs like walking every day or using my pull up bar.
The hard part, lately, is the intermittent fasting. My stomach adjusted to it for a while but lately I’ve been hungry earlier in the day again.
But it’s just a matter of discipline.
I have my own problems, as we all do, so it might be ignorant for me to question those who can’t lose weight. But It seems like such an easy win to me. Eat less, reap rewards.
But I do see a lot of denial. I heard a couple overweight people commiserating that “Doctors always say you’re overweight, man”, just last night. I can say that’s never been my experience and they are hearing that because it’s true.
But again, we all have our vices, addictions, or lapses of control, so I shouldn’t judge.
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Grildon Tundy
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As a non-smoker or -vaper, I have been hooked on nicotine off/on for 15 years now. Let me tell you, it is easily the most addictive drug I've experienced. People might do it to look cool for like the first week or two, but after that, your body tries to convince you it's a critical need. Like trying not to breathe or sleep. Sure, the withdrawal won't kill you, but your body is signaling you like it will.
The same mechanisms are in play for overeaters. You won't die if you don't eat five large meals a day, but their bodies make cutting back incredibly uncomfortable. Like going without sleep for days uncomfortable
Aesius
Member
We eat a lot more than we used to. Portion sizes are much bigger. Average caloric consumption per adult is up almost 400 calories per day compared to 1970.
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Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
SMH openly admitting to be intolerant. What has become of our society?
Kilau
Member
My dream of a world free of lactose tyranny will not be quelled.
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
I will not stand by idly while you spread your hate. We shall lock horns on the cattlefield.
Kilau
Member
Your udder defeat is imminent.
German Hops
GAF's Nicest Lunch Thief
You guys are milking these cattle jokes.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/...-was-easier-to-be-skinny-in-the-1980s/407974/
I had read this one before.
darrylgorn
Member
Coincidentally, sperm counts are dropping at record speeds.
Winter John
Gold Member
I was a chubby chaser back in the day. They were easy targets.
Now days, though, even beach whales think they're 10's.
Sure. I like a chick with curves. Chubby is fine. I'd rather date a chonk than one of them breadsticks. I once picked up this girl in a bar we went back to hers. She took her top off and she had them horrible pancake tits. I says to her Christ Anne, did ya just escape the war? She didn't find that half as funny as I did
strange headache
Banned
No, just no.
You telling me a handful of rice and some veggies are time consuming to cook and more expensive than your XXXL burger menu?
There are plenty of options for cheap, clean eating.
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OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
We are entering and have been in a fit shaming, fat loving culture. Thanks in large part to social media. Thanks in a large part to a certain demo within social media. The same kind of people who say, "trust the science!" yet completely ignore it when it comes to their bodies and the objective facts about obesity being unhealthy. Fuck those assholes.
It’s a little too cheesy.
I’m in the fatphobic camp I guess due to not being attracted to fat women and wanting to not be fat. I have good self control with food and do workout around 3 times a week not including 2-2.5 mile dog walks at least every other day. Sure a little curvy is nice but the general population is overall getting really big. Finding an attractive and not fat single girl in my age range in my city is very tough.
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Probably because finding time for all the external factors that go into weight loss is difficult vs. just getting a vaccine. If all you needed was a shot to be thin, most people would be.
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DavidGzz
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The average male skeleton weighs 31 pounds. The VAST majority of people don't have enough lean mass for BMI not to be accurate. I'd say it isn't accurate for less than 1% of people. I'm considered overweight with abs, but I have also been lifting consistently for 23 years.
How did you lose the weight? You may have lost enough lean mass to look a little emaciated, or it was just a shock for people because it was a huge difference since the last time that they saw you.
Aesius
Member
The media doesn't want to report that because the food and beverage industry (which is entirely comprised of junk food) spent $2.54 billion advertising in the U.S. in 2021.
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DavidGzz
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Yeah, and if people like me tries to spread awareness, I'm just a fat shaming asshole with good genetics who has it easy. I work my ass off to be in shape.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
That's because people are self centered and think short term.
Killers like drunken car crashes, getting lung cancer early, and dying from overdosing on drugs can scare people because you can die at 20 years old. Ok, maybe not lung cancer, but booze and drugs can lead to death fast.
Overeating like a pig, nobody dies at a young age from it, nor does someone die from grisly looking death scenes or have black lungs.
Some people tolerate pigging out because it's a long term kind of thing (heart disease at 60 years old) and as long as they dont give a shit about being fat, they'll just keep doing it.
Anti-fat shaming is a thing too. If you're sitting somewhere and someone is blowing smoke in your face or doing drugs or downing a beer, you'd be like WTF, do that shit at home. The person may or may not stop, but there's a generally accepted thing that if someone does it in improper places the person will likely agree. If a fat person at a ballgame or airplane seat is oozing into your seat and you say WTF, stop overflowing into my seat. The chances of that person changing their perspective on life to diet to stop being too big for normal sized things is practically zero. In fact, the person will likely go into a hissyfit.
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Batiman
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IMO it’s office work or no work at all that leads to obesity. Or at least plays a major part. I work a very physical job and happy for it and it’s almost impossible for me to be overweight. I also believe 1 hour at the gym a day isn’t good enough. We as humans should be very active throughout our day as it’s always been apart of our livelihood since forever.
I can’t count how many of my co workers take office jobs and blow up like balloons in a couple months. It’s just not natural. They become weak and fat very quickly. That’s just from my own perspective
I can’t count how many of my co workers take office jobs and blow up like balloons in a couple months. It’s just not natural. They become weak and fat very quickly. That’s just from my own perspective
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Swift_Star
Banned
One hour per day is actually enough. The problem is that people eat junk food and don’t exercise at all. Eating a 2000kcal burger for lunch every day will make you fat.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Agreed. In life being fit goes something like this on a sliding scale:
Super fit
- Pro athletes. They got the knowledge and trainers to help them do it too
- Physically active jobs (when driving by a construction crew, the chances of seeing a giant fat ass is low)
- Office jobbers. In every office of 100 people, I'd bet the number of fit people who eat right and work out is probably 10 people. You got maybe 30 or 40 people who are average. And you got 50 people who are obviously overweight (and some outright obese)
Fat asses
diffusionx
Gold Member
The vast majority of obesity (95%+) is because people eat more food than they need. That’s it. A donut can erase 30 minutes of hard gym work in 30 seconds. Our food needs change depending on our lifestyle obviously, and office/sedentary work means you need less food. If you don’t eat less food, you’ll gain weight. You can’t fix it in the gym.
Working out has a lot of benefits, heart health, lungs, physical strength, lowers cortisol etc., but the fallacy is that it will be a primary driver in people losing weight. Weight loss is made in the kitchen not the gym. Part of me really wonders if it was food companies that convinced America that you can run off that slice of cake so they can sell it to you.
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Swift_Star
Banned
I can’t imagine my life without exercising anymore. It’s so good, it makes me feel good, healthy, active. It kills anxiety and helps with depression and it also makes me feel attractive. Can’t understand why some people hate it so much.
AmuroChan
Member
When people try to sell me that it's not unhealthy to be obese, my response is simply, do you see many obese 80 year olds? Obesity is a gateway to many other diseases and comorbidities and it is an absolute disgrace that society can't talk about it anymore because some people's feelings are hurt.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
It also doesn't help that in every office (at least the ones I've worked at) the vending machines are all junk. Pop, chocoalte bars, chips etc... Even the premade sandwiches are obviously high calorie crap like pre-cooked burgers and burritos you warm up in the microwave. The only thing healthy in the machines are maybe protein bars(?). And the free coffee has as much milk, cream and sugar packets you want.
The cafeterias are different though. They can have a mix of junk and healthy stuff like soup and salads if you want. So that part is up to them. But the quick fixes are all junk.
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