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What's Causing the Rise In Obesity? Everything.
Mr_Blank writes "We all know — because we are being constantly reminded — that we are getting fat. Americans are at the forefront of the trend, but it is a transnational one. Apparently, it is also trans-species: Over the past 20 years, as the American people were getting fatter, so were America's laboratory macaques, chimpanzees, vervet monkeys and mice, as well as domestic dogs, domestic cats, and domestic and feral rats from both rural and urban areas. Researchers examined records on those eight species and found that average weight for every one had increased. The marmosets gained an average of 9% per decade. Lab mice gained about 11% per decade. Chimps are doing especially badly: their average body weight had risen 35% per decade. What is causing the obesity era? Everything."
Aliens are fattening us up for the slaughter...
*It's not what you can do for the Dark Side but what the Dark Side can do for you!*
Very simply food manufacturers removed the fat in the 70's and replaced it with huge amounts of sugar. The problem with sugar is the brain doesn't see it as nutrition thus it doesn't suppress your appetite when you eat sugar filled foods.
And, as we all know, marmosets are among the greatest consumers of manufactured foods.
Late late nights, Games, Beer and doing fuck all about it for years. But they are symptoms of depression and wanting escapism. A knee injury doesn't help. Also, a dumb sense of being able to lose a few KG with magic when I finally get the motivation to put the effort in. But Skyrim and Arkham Asylum have to take some blame, they should have sucked more so I could put them down.
Thanks for asking.
Actually obesity is the defence against the peeders. No one wants the ugly fat child. Keep Em fat and safe people!
What? America is not the number 1? That's not acceptable! EAT MORE!
The problem isn't that obesity runs in the family; it's rather nobody runs in the family!
You must be outside the U.S.
In the U.S. we've been using High Fructose Corn Syrup as our sweetener for a couple decades now. Why import something natural when you can synthesize something much worse locally?
Help! I'm a slashdot refugee.
Sugar doesn't make you fat. Marriage makes you fat. [...]
What's the difference between a bachelor and a married man?
The bachelor comes home, looks into the fridge, finds nothing interesting, and goes to bed.
The husband comes home, looks in the bedroom...
There are fewer illiterates than people who can't read.
No one wants the ugly fat child.
What about with fava beans and a nice chianti?
Really? Here's the only link I could find:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/tag/mehth/products/
So, just listening to that music can make you slim. I'm intrigued.
You're a temporary arrangement of matter sliding towards oblivion in a cold, uncaring universe
But, but... if they DON'T add sugar, then grandma will think it tastes TERRIBLE when that's all she can afford.
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Impossible means not yet done." ~~ Julia Ecklar