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| quote: | Originally posted by pointPi
Ditto, pretty much.
Back in the days when the average life length was 25, due to high infancy mortality, overweight people were considered attractive, since that meant they weren't exactly living on a potato per week. Today though, the town is packed with fast food restaurants and the grocery stores are filled with fast food in boxes, making it easier and cheaper than ever for the working class to eat until they exceed the old beauty standards. That happened and suddenly, skinny people were no longer the norm and thus they became the physical role models. Okay, maybe the whole story is more complicated than I just described, but I just wanted to put in some more relevant information into the debate.
In case you wonder, I personally prefer the thinner ladies, but I think it really just have to do with in what period of history I live rather, than some absolute and universal expectations. Looking at the society today, it's more probable to meet a thin person who lives a strong and healthy life, than a overweight person living a strong and healthy life. Thus, it seems obvious in our culture that thin equals healthy and strong, the two traits that defines the perfect mate for all animals, basically.
So I agree with Fledz in the fact that obesity is a burden to society, but the tactics we use today to stop this problem is not working. In fact, in some cases it just makes the situation even worse. So let's break it down, shall we?
First off, food. Let's be honest here: WE IN THE WEST WORLD EATS TOO MUCH MEAT! If all the rich and middle class people in the world were all have stopped eating cattle, chicken, pork and sheep products by 365 days from now, a lot of the problems we as humanity face today would be gone or at least decreased radically. Obesity wouldn't be much of a problem, methane based pollution wouldn't be much of a problem, the risk of a world wide epidemic would basically be gone and...
Whoa! Okay, okay! Now where was I? Fat chicks!? Sigh, all right, I'll get to the point.
You see, the reason we tend to eat too much, is that we aren't ingesting enough essential vitamins and minerals that our body still believes will be included in the carbon hydrate high food...look, I could easily fill an entire wall with nutrition facts, but since people would just fall to sleep during my lecture, let's get to what I wanted to say.
We all need to eat a varied diet with high values of vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber, preferably with as little animal products as possible. In order to make sure everyone eats correctly, we need to radically change the entire food industry and western food culture. That is not going to happen without torches and pitchforks from the food industry.
Moving on to exercise, a lot as possible. Make sure you walk as much as possible during one day. In order to make sure everybody moves as much as possible, here we also need to do some radical changes in society and infrastructure to make sure you don't get any benefit from driving instead of walking. The car industry will obviously not be happy over these reforms.
Phew, that's about it and I just told you my opinions on the problem. Man, I should really do a moviebob styled video about this. |
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Oh, thank God. I also agree with this. I mean, on the face of it, it really does seem like you and I have control over the amount of food we take in along with what type of food and these choices as they relate to our weight. This is what I've been trying to hammer into some of the thicker skulls around here.
If you take away the premise of that choice with how our bodies metabolize food, it kind of loses the sting of gas-lighting fat people with the word, cow, masked under a sneeze or a cough. When I've seldom found little more satisfying than muttering fat bitch, under the pretense of clearing my throat, your suggestion that obesity is little more than a lifestyle choice lends credence to the salt on the wound.
The truth is that I've never, ever understood what it's like to make such choices in order to lose weight, simply because I don't ever have to. Hell, I have to stuff my face in order to maintain weight. How am I going to help "voluptuous" women without the assistance of covert ridicule?
And what better way to stifle the questioning of that ridicule than an iron-clad premise which implies that I willingly eat the broccoli I actually abhor?
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Last edited by EddieZilker on Jan-04-2011 at 21:02
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I like it.
