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Obesity "epidemic": any solution? (pg. 2)
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| Vlad |
| quote: | Originally posted by tubularbills
one solution.
put the ing fork down. |
Actually the solution is to stay active and exercise even 30 mins out of the day. The problem isnt eating, its the fact that people eat, than sit their fat asses down and dont do . The dependency on cars is also causing this because nobody walks anywhere anymore. If you workout, even alittle, it doesnt really matter what youre eating (obviously food isnt good for you no matter what). |
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| infinity HiGH |
Stop eating McDonalds. Start being more active. Instead of taking the car across the street to buy something...try walking for change.
Obesity isn't the problem. Laziness is.
edit what Vlad said |
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
haha i was gonna post this. dennis leary right? |
YES!
"the first day that i wake up and don't see my dick, i stop ing eating!" |
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| KilldaDJ |
| quote: | Originally posted by XaNaX
Solution = start putting methamphetamine in the water |
but then dry mouth would force the fat bastards to drink more and then insomnia becomes the next epidemic :wtf: |
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| medinaM5 |
| eat all u want fatties, but jam two fingers down your throat when u finish |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| People have offered good solutions, but what I wanted to focus on is this: Do you think that these solutions will actually be implemented, or will all the world's non-starving people continue to get fatter and fatter? |
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| infinity HiGH |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
People have offered good solutions, but what I wanted to focus on is this: Do you think that these solutions will actually be implemented, or will all the world's non-starving people continue to get fatter and fatter? |
Well how would you implement these solutions? Being obese in America is a lifestyle. People's mentality and attitude needs to change. |
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| KilldaDJ |
| quote: | Originally posted by infinity HiGH
Well how would you implement these solutions? Being obese in America is a lifestyle. People's mentality and attitude needs to change. |
ur avatar looks like a big mac. |
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| infinity HiGH |
| mmmmm...big mac *drools* |
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| DJ Mikey Mike |
Is it really that hard to choke down a salad and go for a run every once in a while? Fat people make me sick.
(Unless their fatness is sick related - then I can sympathise, I suppose.) |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
Most of you people are misunderstanding the aim of this thread. He isn't asking how people reverse the trend of obesity - I think it's pretty ing obvious that regular exercise and moderate consumption are good ways to reverse the trend, thanks for letting us all know again though. He is asking whether it is realistic or not to expect people to listen to the facts and be more observant of what foods they eat. In that case, I would say that it is quite unrealistic to expect people, as a whole, to have any real logic when it comes to this.
Individuals keep themselves healthy anymore because of the benefits - I would say that the most common benefit is attraction of the opposite (or sometimes same) sex. Though it's a fact that healthier people simply look better, you do not necessarily have to be healthy to be considered "good-looking", and I think that this particular trend is likely to gradually change as more and more people become, well, larger. I mean, beauty is only skin-deep, right? Right. :nervous:
People know the facts - they KNOW that exercise and proper eating habits will make them healthy, they may not necessarily know how to go about this, but the information for improving oneself is readily available, especially in America. People know all this. But the aim of a species is self-preservation, on many different levels, and the more proliferative will almost always be partaken by the most amount of people, regardless of "logic" or whatever warnings that people like to issue just so they can say "I told ya so" later on.
When copious amounts of food are available for a great amount of people, the people will eat. There is definitely something to be said about the health trend as far as the substance of the food many people eat though - and yeah, the corporate aspect of it is quite significant as well. People eat like because it's easy and it's cheap. A lot of people say that eating healthy is "easy" and it "costs less" but really, the calorie:$ ratio you get from a numberfourwithcheeseandasupersizecokeandfries is way larger than with tofu and soy milk. And so, the people will eat.
It would seem that we no longer have to fight to survive anymore - not in middle America, at least. Pretty much not anyone who has internet access and a computer who is reading this right now. I think that the trend will continue until people must really, truly survive in every sense of the word once more. When will that happen? No idea. |
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| tranceDJ |
| Healthier food definetly has become more expensive partly because less people eat it...less demand, higher price. The McDonald's-type food is in such high demand that the price is driven down, making even more people eat it. If health food was the common thing amongst people to eat, it would be much less expensive...this isn't likely to happen anytime soon though. |
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