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It's all Obama's fault!!!

Welp time to raise food and gas prices again.

Americans will continue to get fatter still, so long as we have a misinformed populace, eating the diet pushed by the usfed gov for decades via the food pyramid, along with the nonsense of calories in calories out.

Eat less, exercise more, fatties (and then wonder why you're still getting fatter)

I created a thread about this earlier today. "Calories in" - "calories out" remains the basic equation for weight gain or loss, but the source and quality of "calories in" can make a much bigger difference in medical consequences e.g. diabetes:

"In a study of 154 countries that looked at the correlation of calories, sugar, and diabetes, scientists found that adding 150 calories a day to the diet barely raised the risk of diabetes in the population, but if those 150 calories came from soda, the risk of diabetes went up by 700 percent."

Other studies have shown that exercise makes a huge difference in how the body deals with excess calories including especially sugar. Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps consumed reportedly 10,000 kcalories per day, including a lot of sugar, but he exercised so much that he turned a lot of it into muscle tissue, which burns more calories (similar to a bigger engine using more fuel to travel the same distance); the more exercise he got, the more muscular he became, and the more calories he could consume, maintaining the cycle. A sedentary person consuming a lot of sugar is much worse off than a physically active person consuming the same amount, and I suspect that problem may explain much of the depression and suicide observed among military veterans: they continue consuming the same calories and sugar even after they stop getting the same exercise.

You never see fat people in Europe, unless they are Americans. When I see 180 pound ladies here in the US, I think to myself what is there secret for staying so thin!

errc says

Americans will continue to get fatter still, so long as we have a misinformed populace, eating the diet pushed by the usfed gov for decades via the food pyramid, along with the nonsense of calories in calories out.

Eat less, exercise more, fatties (and then wonder why you're still getting fatter)

Eat less, exercise more always works, just better with the right diet.

Call it Crazy says

Personal experience, I spent last week on a cruise ship, and this was the typical view I saw day, after day, after day. Actually, it was almost impossible to see someone of average weight....

Imagine the cruise ship sinks and you are stuck with these on a small life raft...

errc says

Americans will continue to get fatter still, so long as we have a misinformed populace, eating the diet pushed by the usfed gov for decades via the food

The food pyramid is idiotic, but many would be better off, if still unhealthy, if they switched to even that.

Instead, they're eating a pyramid made of Cheetos, doughnuts, pizza, and deep-fried whatever. Basically, a diet of beige food.

mell says

Eat less, exercise more always works, just better with the right diet.

Yes, but with a diet of doughnuts, they lack the strength to heave their massively bloated zombie corpses off the sofa, so they don't get any exercise beyond reaching for the remote. If the remote drops off the armrest onto the floor, they can't even reach it anymore, so they get no exercise at all and merely stare at the same channel. Time was, the station used to stop broadcasting around 3am so they might get some REM sleep; now, with 24/7 commercial "news", the indoctrination never stops.

Call it Crazy says

Heraclitusstudent says

Call it Crazy says

Personal experience, I spent last week on a cruise ship, and this was the typical view I saw day, after day, after day. Actually, it was almost impossible to see someone of average weight....

Imagine the cruise ship sinks and you are stuck with these on a small life raft...

You would see me swimming back to land....

Just roll them over. They'll float.

Strategist says

Just roll them over. They'll float.

Folks.....I sincerely apologize for the above comment. It was insensitive and uncalled for.
I'm sorry.
Mark

Want to see fat people?

North Bend, Oregon.
Presque Isle, Maine.

Mexico various places.

I remember last time in Mexico I would see women driving SUVs while eating.

Since we've only had food in surplus since agriculture 10,000 years ago, it's in our genetic makeup to gain weight. Less efficient weight gainers died in previous famines in human history.

The foods we crave have super concentrated calories in abundance, e.g. In-n-out burger double double.