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More People On Earth Now Obese Than Underweight, Says Study (statnews.com)
An anonymous reader writes: According to a new study published in the Lancet, obese people now outnumber the underweight population for perhaps the first time in global history. Majid Ezzati, an environmental health researcher at Imperial College London who led the study, analyzed data from 1975 to 2014 across 19.2 million adults from 186 countries. They found that over the 40-year-span, the proportion of obese men worldwide more than tripled, to roughly 11 percent, and the proportion of obese woman more than doubled, to about 15 percent. Researchers estimate 18 percent of men and 21 percent of women worldwide will be obese by 2025. What some may consider more surprising is that more than 25 percent of the world's severely obese men and almost 20 percent of the world's severely obese women are American. However, the rapid rise of obesity in developing nations is most concerning as it's more difficult for obese people to modify their diet and have access to medication.
When they got to a point of thought that was hard, they figured eating would resolve their problem because of the positive feelings it brings.
Then when they couldn't keep up with what's going on and had to think so much, they just ate and ate and ate because that's all they had to get past misunderstandings in the past.
It's all because nobody explains anything clearly and truthfully anymore.
How is this news for nerds, unless we assume that the typical slashdot user is obese?
And the people most upset are the anti-American retards who hate the US.
But for some reason it's OK for Mexicans to be fatter.
it's more difficult for obese people to modify their diet and have access to medication.
Why is this?
Although obesity may seem like a problem in developed countries, the fact that there are more obese people than underweight people in the world means that starvation is much less of a problem than it used to be. We now have enough food to feed the world. This is a good thing. Better to be a bit chubby than die of starvation which in some parts of the world, people used to do.
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Somewhat related:
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/03/us-increase-meat-consumption-europe-less-meat-sustainability
"where even the poor people are fat."
Pound for pound there are a lot more obese people.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
I'm old enough (58) to have seen some cultural shifts which seem related to this. I don't think it is anything so simple that you can blame it all on a few things, but it seems to me that these cannot possibly be helping:
** When I was a school child, there were no video games or internet. When you wanted to play, you got some friends together and had a pickup game of baseball or you rode your bikes around town or did some other outdoor activity. We were physically active on a daily basis, while now the normal entertainment is to sit still and play games. There's nothing wrong with games, but every hour spent doing that is one hour not spent running around outside burning calories.
** Sugar based sodas were consumed in moderation, or often, not at all. There were no "64 Oz Big Gulps", and no one ever drank sodas in my school. Your choices were milk or water. Parents rarely let children consume sodas.
** There was less acceptance of overweight people, more social shaming. I won't say that was a good thing - shaming people can cause long term emotional harm and hurts in other ways. But one byproduct of this is that no one wanted to be "that fat kid". (My school had just one fat kid, where now childhood obesity is systemic, and I see 3rd graders who look... morbidly obese).
Now I'm nearing 60 and still normal weight. I have an easier time going up multiple flights of steps than, I would estimate, around 2/3 of the people who are in their 20's, because I'm carrying 50, 100, sometimes even 200 pounds less than they are at the same height.
I think the solution needs a cultural shift back towards valuing healthy eating and exercise. There are no shortcuts. The culture has to value this, or it won't happen.
Obviously Western Civilization and Capitalism are to blame for this.
Wall Street sells us "imitation food" because the family farm doesn't scale. The most obesogenic of these so-called foods is "biodiesel", aka "vegetable oil".
For better health, we should all eat less biodiesel. Corn oil, soybean oil, rapeseed oil, grapeseed oil, linseed oil, and all other predominately unsaturated oils should only be used to power diesel engines.
The Obesity Epidemic: Evidence of a Crime Against The Public’s Health
People correlate "fat" with "obese."
BMI's of greater than 30 are not necessarily large in any dimension.
Societal norms decline on an epic scale and the people strive to blame somebody else. Being the best doesn't matter as long as you show up (everybody gets a trophy syndrome). Personal responsibility doesn't matter as you will state on social media that it's not your problem that you made piss-poor decisions about your diet regardless of the McCalorie-outlets of the world. It isn't your fault that good nutritional information is available if you just do the research (and it works in the Library.. you don't have to have a state-sponsored 10M up 10M down connection). There have been government programs in the US for nutrition since before WWII yet this post tells us there are some epic failures as this trend didn't start in 1937... It started MUCH later.
The McCalorie/McObesity/McDiabetes/McHeartfailure problem is tied to a lack of education, lack of will power or a problem of convenience. Spend an hour making a meal that was carefully researched and ingredients found either at the local supermarket.. or maybe the bulk store... that doesn't threaten your cholesterol level in a nuclear way is possible but it requires commitment. On a daily scale or just when you show up in the drive through with your wallet... and eat what they bring in a paper bag to the driver's side window it isn't being forced down your throat.. its just being coaxed by your commitment to not care about your existence or your family's.
It's soon time for the Harvest. Those can be sometimes rather .. affecting.
That's what's dong it. And it rots your teeth too.
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I know this thread is going to be full of We Hate Americans - it's already started. But I just think this is really amazing. For the entirety of human existence, food has been a huge problem. Hunger was always, at most, a year or two away. Starvation is the best way to kill huge numbers of humans at once. Malnutrition, or control of food, is one of the best ways to keep them in line. Ever seen those fiftyish/sixtyish Chinese ladies who are all so short? It's because their growth was stunted as children because their government didn't provide enough for them to eat. Even without shitheads starving people to death for political reasons, lack of enough food was always a concern.
Now, we not only have solved the food problem, but we have gone too far the opposite direction. Wow! People have too much food. Food is too cheap. But that's not all, they don't just have too much food, they have the wrong kind of it! It's not just the quantity, it is the diversity and free choice that is causing all the problems. Who would have even imagined such an outcome? Did any of the visionary Sci-Fi authors of the 20th century see this coming? Because this is more earth-shattering than landing a probe on a comet (but I have been educated by the media and now understand that the shirt the spokesman was wearing when he made the announcement WAS more important than any scientific achievement humanity might have accomplished that day). Moreover this food is available just about anywhere. It tastes delicious as well, something people today barely realize, if ever.
One of my minor hobbies is making old or ancient recipes straight from manuscripts or books, as close as I can. Something I've noticed is how much they really aren't that good. They're edible, to be sure, and they get you full and they're nutritious because they're always made from scratch. But they just ain't that good. There is almost always some simple optimization that would make them taste much, much better. I'm not saying the people of old didn't enjoy their food, because they did. It's a universal human condition, whether you're eating oeufs au plat Meyerbeer prepared by a separate entremettier, rotisseur and saucier; or a bowl of oat porridge with pig fat. A lot of people ridicule McDonald's hamburgers or Applebee's entrees in the boil-in bags. But damn, that food is super-tasty. Far better than kings used to eat. It's never spoiled, either, and if it is you send it back and get a fresh one...something else we never take note of.
Yeah, unhealthy food causes disease and cancer. We all know. But this is a new, thrilling problem to combat. It's *the right kind of problem*. It's like being confronted with what to do with too much money. How can we make healthy food taste just as good or better than that fast food crap? Surely society's great minds are going to work on this one. I don't know though...I get the idea too many people out there just enjoy hating fatties, Wal-mart, Applebee's, trailer parks, and Monsanto far too much to ever think that maybe things should be better. Imagine a day when McDonald's goes out of business because people can pick more delicious foods from public orchards. A microwave burrito that is more nutritious than fresh blueberries. A boil-in bag that makes fresh spinach look like a twinkie. It can happen, if we want it to happen.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
In Belgium they have an egg and milk fund that every family with children gets every month. You can't use it to buy processed foods.
In the United States of America, food stamps (well, credit cards now) can be used to buy processed foods. It's too demeaning to have any proper controls and limit things to rice, flour, sugar, eggs, milk, etc. The big food manufacturers love it, the poor love it and changing it back to the basics (remember government cheese), will be next to impossible to do.
I've noticed that there is a correlation to the people who use food credit cards that they usually have two carts with free food and another with beer and yet more crap that isn't free. Usually they are in front of me in line and yes they are usually fat pushing obese.
I have three kids. I like the way Belgium does it better. The rich have always had a really good deal in the US, because taxes are based on non-investment income (why Warren Buffet still pays a lower percentage in taxes then his secretary). Now the poor also have a good deal. The middle class get jack all in this country. Poor kids get free breakfast and lunch and free after school programs (50$ for my kids). Poor families get free phones, free cable, free housing, free food, etc. But being poor is based on reported income. So there are literally millions in this country who get all the free stuff and can still drive around in a brand new mega truck cause they don't report their income.
More and more are gaming the system and for some getting on the government dole is the new American dream. And in instead of doing anything about this, the government keeps rolling out more and more programs for the fraudsters. I blame the baby boomers and their offspring, of which I am neither.
I totally agree, and im 36. I was actually thinking about it the other day, I feelt like my generation was more or less the last one for a lot of that, so maybe its just decreased more and more. People in rural areas especially.
I remember my farmer grandad ate huge hearty meals, bacon and eggs and sausage....like you said though, they worked it off with much more physical labor. They needed to eat a big meal for breakfast and dinner, so even if the serving size isn't all that changed its still more than most people need in one sitting.
Yea, people need to get off there ass's just a little bit more, I always get depressed when I look at pictures of my parents and all the people in the background from the 70 and early 80s, they all looked healthy and skinny. I live in a pretty obese city, its like living in the walking dead.
The largest cultural shift to happen in your time frame has been two-income households and on top of that most people are working longer hours than ever before.
That means less time to cook nutritious meals, less time to monitor what the kids are doing, and less time for recreation.
This notion of a qualitative shift within a few generations is asinine. There's a reason energy drinks happened within this generation. People are tired and harried.
the vegetables on special don't keep. When you're working poor you usually have two jobs and pull 60/hr a week. Getting to the store every day isn't happening.
Bananas are just sugar. That's why they're cheap. Whole Chickens aren't cheap when you count the calories in them. They seem cheap because the weight of the skin and bones is part of the cost. Cheap cuts of beef aren't. They don't really exist anymore. Even 80/20 pink slime is $3/lb in a lot of places. Onions aren't food. They're a garnish. Like lettuce they're cheap because their complete lack of nutritional value means they're cheap to grow.
Eggs are up to $3/dozen for the off brand. They also don't keep long if you're not buying the fancy ones. Those are $4.39/dozen. Flour and butter are basically junk food. Flour especially. Why do you think they make donuts and cheap bread with it?
That leaves bulk rice and beans. For beans you better know what to buy and how to cook them or you're going to get sick. I forget why. I suppose I'll give you rice though.
All that said there's two other things your forgetting.
a. After a 60 hour work week plus dealing with the kids you didn't want to have (but couldn't stop yourself from having because a substantial portion of our electorate is trying to keep you from affordable birth control options because little hussies like you should have to have kids in exchange for sex) you're in no shape to clean. You live in a cheap, shitty apartment. That means bugs, and lots of them. I'm not the first one to make this observation. It was made in a rather famous essay kicking around google from a single mom with bad teeth who lived homeless for sometime because the bad teeth kept her from getting a job.
b. Cheap junk food and TV are the only pleasures the 1% let the working poor have. They don't get vacations or even time off. They're kids are miserable because so are they. They're poor education means enjoying literature is beyond them and the lack of birth control and a social safety net means they have to be careful with sex.
We here in America like punishing people. We just do. Well, not all of us, but the ones that do vote. And the ones that vote make the rules. So there you go.
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Even though you are more than a decade older than me I will say I have seen similar trends.
Before air conditioning we'd see more people go to a swimming pool to cool off. If not that then people would at least sweat off some calories.
Before computers and video games people would be more likely to go outside to play. This has some overlap with the air conditioning thing since people are also just as likely to read a book or play a board game inside as opposed to going out in the heat. Even when outside people will play with electronics rather than go climb a tree.
It's not just soda that makes us fat, it's fruit juices, breakfast cereals, and so many other sweet foods that got cheaper. Also with more money it's easier to treat yourself to something sweet than if you don't have as much money. I say this is true even of the "poor" since poverty in the USA is not like poverty in other places. Even the "poor" in the USA can afford a candy bar once in a while. It's a cheap and easy to get treat.
The trend to do less biking, hiking, and exploring is because of a (IMHO, highly irrational) fear of injury, abductions, and so forth that parents have of their children. At a young age my brothers and I asked our parents if we could walk the two miles home from school to avoid the lengthy ride on the bus. The bus would drive in a big loop and we were the last to get dropped off. If the weather was nice we'd walk. Few parents would let their children do that today out of a fear that their kids could get run over, kidnapped, molested, or get lost.
I will agree that there has been a shift in the public acceptance of being overweight. I don't watch a lot of TV but I do notice that there are more heavy actors on TV than I recall before. When there were fat characters in the past their weight was usually seen as a flaw or somehow an aspect of the character. Now we have obviously overweight people on TV but their weight is rarely mentioned.
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short for "Women Infants and Children". It was created to prevent the sort of childhood diseases that exists when women don't get enough food while pregnant and children go hungry when they're gowing up.
Our Republican party defunded the program. It was one of the concessions our president gave them last election in exchange for not driving our economy over a cliff by not paying our national debt. Our voters allowed it because they don't understand that national debt and household debt are different things and that our national debt is in many ways a strength. That's a complex, nuanced view that a lot of our voters can't grasp, and so they've been duped into crap like this.
Belgium sounds nice. I wish I lived there...
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I gave up soda pop and believe me, it helped, but only about 5lbs worth. The trouble with Americans is that junk food is a cheap pleasure in a world that doesn't give out many pleasures to the poor. At the end of a long, miserable day it's hard to say no to a cheeseburger, fries and a chocolate shake. The fact that I can get all that for $6 bucks (no tip, it's fast food) is just icing on the cake (there's a pun in that somewhere). It doesn't help that vegetables are expensive and unsubsidized and that just about everything has added sugar...
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nutritious food is too expensive. Also companies are modifiying our food supply to make it addicting and encourage overeating (it's not an accident that eating chips goes well with soda pop). Plus people are turning to junk food to cope with the misery in life and to get a quick boost to get them through a long day.
When you look at wealthy folk they're rarely overweight. It's poor people getting shafted by a bad system. That's where the hate is coming from...
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I recently read an article that showed the method most western governments use to measure who is over weight is actually not that accurate. In fact many professional sports people or gym junkies would be classified as overweight based on the measurement systems used. Trying to define who is overweight with a single measurement doesn't work due to lifestyle and genetic variations.
I think I'll leave everyone with. One of the aspects of our food supply nobody every talks about is that we use oil byproducts to replenish soil. That's how we're able to grow so much food. Anyone want to guess what's going to happen when our oil supply dwindles...?
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But instead we get article after article about plus sized models and how fat people need to feel good about their body image. Feeling bad about being fat is the first step to not being fat.
I visit the USA several times a year. I come from a place where obesity is much less common, and much less extreme. These are my observations of the USA. I don't want this to sound like I'm hating on Americans, because some of you are super nice. This is just what I've seen.
The obesity axis runs diagonally, northwest to south east. People in Seattle are not much bigger then people around here. People in Mobile were appallingly huge. My theory is this correlates with biscuits and sausage gravy for breakfast.
It also correlates with escalators. In Seattle most people were walking up the escalators, In Mobile nobody walked up escalators.
A much bigger percentage of black people are overweight compared to white people. (Is this poverty related?).
You all drink way too much coke cola. I met people who drank 2 or three cans of soda per day at work and then drank it with every lunch and dinner.
Food servings in some restaurants are stupid big. Plates of spaghetti that two of us couldn't finish. 24 ounce prime rib. (really)
Most appalling thing I saw was whole families of fat people which is super rare here. Like mom and dad both 250 lbs plus and then 2 or 3 huge fat kids. Around here if your ten year old was 150 lbs the child welfare people would be all over you.
This is a good thing. Being overweight is pretty much always better for you than being underweight. If you're 50 pounds overweight, yeah, that's not great, but if you're 50 pounds underweight, you're feeling really bad. Even 10 pounds underweight isn't good for you.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Remember how it went - when forming the football teams one gets the fat kid, the other gets the weird kid. Notice there is only one representative of those groups. I am in my early forties; back in primary school we were 36 kids in the class. We had 1 fat boy and 2 fat girls and that was that...
http://www.everydayhealth.com/...
"I observed the obesity paradox in a published study I conducted while studying at the Mayo Clinic. We looked at 226 people who experienced a heart arrest in the community and were resuscitated. What we found was that people that were slightly overweight (BMI from 25-30) had the highest 5-year survival at 78 percent. People who were underweight had a significantly lower survival at 67 percent, similar to people considered morbidly obese."
The redefinition of what is "overweight" by lowering the ideal BMI did more to harm the validity of scientific analysis than any pseudoscience postulation ever could. Overweight people live longer than underweight people. You twiggie admirers can go hump yourselves.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
"What some may consider more unsurprising is that more than 25 percent of the world's severely obese men and almost 20 percent of the world's severely obese women are American."
You could use me as an anatomy model. You can see individual fibers of the muscles on my body move independently.
I'm technically obese.
Just saying- we have a lot of fit people these days who are classified as obese.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
Supersize me worked better than expected. Thanks, McDonald's.
...y'all might bear in mind, here, that the government deliberately changed the definition of what "overweight" is, specifically in order to describe more people as overweight. Now, I'm not saying that people haven't gotten heavier. You look at an old black'n'white movie and everyone looks practically gaunt. But, the statistics have been meddled with by changing the definitions.
The federal government plans to change its definition of what is a healthy weight, a controversial move that would classify millions more Americans as being overweight. ...old article, just first one up. This change was, in fact, made. So, instant "fat epidemic", courtesy of the government's fat fingers on the scales.
** When I was a school child, there were no video games or internet. When you wanted to play, you got some friends together and had a pickup game of baseball or you rode your bikes around town or did some other outdoor activity. We were physically active on a daily basis, while now the normal entertainment is to sit still and play games. There's nothing wrong with games, but every hour spent doing that is one hour not spent running around outside burning calories.
When you were a kid, you played on playground equipment that was barely safer than just handing kids a box of razor blades. Nobody asked just why Mr. Johnson always had a pocket full of candy and liked to watch the children play all day. You would have killed your parents to get your hands on one of the video games we have now, you just didn't have a choice and can feel nostalgic about it.
** Sugar based sodas were consumed in moderation, or often, not at all. There were no "64 Oz Big Gulps", and no one ever drank sodas in my school. Your choices were milk or water. Parents rarely let children consume sodas.
And a lot of those kids grew up and said "I'm not going to be MY parents, here baby, have all the soda you want!" Besides, mommy and daddy are too busy working 24/7 to maintain our lifestyle to actually pay attention to you.
** There was less acceptance of overweight people, more social shaming. I won't say that was a good thing - shaming people can cause long term emotional harm and hurts in other ways. But one byproduct of this is that no one wanted to be "that fat kid". (My school had just one fat kid, where now childhood obesity is systemic, and I see 3rd graders who look... morbidly obese).
Congrats, you made fat people feel horrible and caused years of mental therapy and possible physical violence, but as long as they put down a hamburger mission accomplished I guess. You must feel proud. Not like anorexia is any kind of problem at all. Or like overeating can be caused by emotional trauma like hazing.
Now I'm nearing 60 and still normal weight. I have an easier time going up multiple flights of steps than, I would estimate, around 2/3 of the people who are in their 20's, because I'm carrying 50, 100, sometimes even 200 pounds less than they are at the same height.
We invented elevators and escalators because stairs suck, and now we shame people for using them.
We beat world hunger! We beat the over loving shit out of it.
It's not like there's some obvious marker..
No, what they're doing is doing statistics on BMI, and using some arbitrary thresholds.
In theory, BMI is distributed in a normal (gaussian) distribution, and there's some number of SD above and below that establishes "normal".
Or, they are making a circular argument.. "Studies show that people with BMI greater than 30 have more problems" so then they define the cutoff as 30, but in reality, it could just as easily be 31 or 29, because those studies don't show a CURVE of health effect vs BMI. they're binned into arbitrary bands.
"What some may consider more surprising is that more than 25 percent of the world's severely obese men and almost 20 percent of the world's severely obese women are American" I am surprised that the rate is not higher. Who ever is surprised that it is at least 20%/25% has not visited the US in the last 10 years or has not been able to compare to other countries. I have flown all over the world. But when I am in the US, it is always shocking me with abandon.
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"But it takes work. So nevermind. Just complain instead." people which are in the poorer job often work multiple job or longer hours and are far more tired or have no time to cook. Really I knew a few people working minimum wage job and they came back at 20h-21h with feeding 1 or 2 kids and in such case what would you do ? Remember as study showed over and over they can't get food reserve long in advance so food and essential stuff is bought on the last moment when it is needed with the money at hand. This means doing the grocery AND preparing the food which can and will take a long time if you add vegetables compared to a macdo which takes 15 minutes if you are in city. I timed myself, the easiest meal I prepare are 15 minutes vegetables preparation included, 15 to 20 minutes buying included. That's 30 minutes over a long day. And that's an easy to make meal but making the same over and over and you get mad. The more complicated one can take upward an hour with half of it washing and preparing various ingredients. I am betting that you have a enough money to buy stuff once per week in advance in nice enough quantity like I do. But some people don't. Look. It is not stupidity or lazyness which somestimes drives people to macdo or similar junk food. But simply the lack of time overall, because they already got physically and mentally drained by the terrible low wage job they got.
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you're fat.
** There was less acceptance of overweight people, more social shaming.
There are subtler and more powerful forces in play. Humans on the whole don't like to be the odd one out. We also judge ourselves on how we compare to others. If you're a fat bloke in a slim part of the world you stand out. There's no shaming, finger pointing, whispers behind the back etc, but you still stand out. Likewise if you're a skinny guy in a fat part of the world you ALSO stand out.
Few people like standing out.
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Surprised that it's not higher?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
In the same time period, it has been discovered that pulsed electromagnetic can disrupt transport system in the body leading to an increase in body fat.
The correlation being that obesity and the prevailance of pulse modulated sources appear to run hand-in-hand.
Looking back at photos the "fat kid" wasn't that by current standards either. And that was with baked goods at the school canteen dripping with fat (cream buns, sausage rolls etc). No carbonated drinks though, which I suspect are a very major part of the cause.
Surprisingly low, yes.
It's not a damn disease, you calorie intake was significantly more than you need for extended periods of time. That's it.
Just call it what it is, and stop sugarcoating the truth.
It's not that the sea levels are rising! Oh no, it's because all the extra weight is make the ground sink.
Those fat bastards are so many that they pull up the awerage! /s
We need reservation (Quota) for the underweight people now.
In terms of number or quantity?
If it's the former then I retract my question as I am outnumbered :P
One thing I cannot stand: fatsos. They're ugly, repugnant, smelly and filthy. Whenever I see one of those disgusting piles of flabby chicken-like skin stretched over a bloated pile of lard, I want to torch it with a flamethrower and see if it burns to a crispy or simply melts like an oversized shapeless candle. Fatties should not be allowed to live, period.
Fat people are eating skinny people. None of us are safe.
People have a choice. They can go back to farming and growing or raising your own food. I did. It's not expensive, but you no longer have money for various wants and you have to budget your money carefully. I know many others who did also.
I recall hearing somewhere that the chances of a male dying from cancer is about 50%.
As my old doc used to say, if a man lives long enough he will get prostate cancer. It's inevitable.
...on average, world hunger is no longer a problem?
It's not the diet causing obesity, it's the lack of exercise. Automation is killing people by placing them in sedentary jobs. Corporations need to be held responsible and do more to make options for treadmill/standing desks and on-site gyms with showers available for all workers including contractors and temps.
in 'Murica they like to blame fattening foods and processed foods and sugar for obesity, what do they claim in other countries?
Does this mean that Earth will now have a larger mass and we'll fly out of orbit? We could get the whole population to Mars by starting a national campaign to eat more twinkies and drink Coke !!!
Seems cheaper than building a rocket for "5" people and would stimulate the world economy to boot !! everyone wins!!
You made the main point I was going to make, but also:
1. You have to do the main dough prep a day or 2 before, with a food processor and a fridge that many people don't have access to
2. It's actually a good focus for an evening getting a few people involved in the toppings
3. Pizzas are much better veggie only (but not vegan - need the cheese). That was a surprise to me too
4. Having done the above, you realise that the ingredients used by chain pizza places are cheap and nasty. Down to the fake cheese
5. To quote Ed Goldberg on the top 3 places to get pizza in USA: 1- Italian-family-run in NY. 2- Other in NY. 3- There is no 3.
Add: Shirts were required to be worn tucked IN. No possibility of hiding fat as it grew.
IMHO, the clothing manufacturers are behind this. They have been secretly gaslighting us for the past 10 years by cutting clothes just a little bit smaller and labeling them the same as before in order to save money. Example: Levi's 505 and 550 jeans are now cut for emaciated hipsters when they should have left them alone and made a new number.
What this means is more people are getting more than enough to eat. Starvation is in decline, partly thanks to the rollback of a lot of Marxist totalitarianism and globalization. People who live in a food-rich nation have 99 problems, and starvation isn't one.
People who don't have food only have one problem. We lose sight of this.
You fat fuckers!
We kicked the shit out of that horseman and threw him on top of Pestilence. Now we're coming for you DEATH!
Sadly War seems to linger around, although we've shrunk him down quite a bit.
I always wonder who determines when a person is obese or not. Is it a definition cooked up by health and life insurances? Or is there any substantial scientific research done? I wonder because both my grandparents would have easily fit into the obese category and they lived to be 96 and 98, respectively.
The largest cultural shift to happen in your time frame has been two-income households and on top of that most people are working longer hours than ever before.
That means less time to cook nutritious meals, less time to monitor what the kids are doing, and less time for recreation.
This notion of a qualitative shift within a few generations is asinine. There's a reason energy drinks happened within this generation. People are tired and harried.
remember when you couldn't change the channel without getting out of your chair? if you gave people the option of perfect health until 100 years of age, but they would have to give up the remote, which do you think they would choose? i'm not even sure which i would choose.
Star Trek transporters are just 3d printers.
Looking back at photos the "fat kid" wasn't that by current standards either. And that was with baked goods at the school canteen dripping with fat (cream buns, sausage rolls etc). No carbonated drinks though, which I suspect are a very major part of the cause.
absolutely, sugary drink are a major source of excess calories. time was, of course, when a normal soda was 6 ounces. now the norm is to guzzle down 4 times that. and that's led to every other kind of sugary drink, crapuccinos etc.
Star Trek transporters are just 3d printers.
It is fool not to understand they have interests in obesity.