US obesity problem is not budging, new data shows

[Ray From Cleveland]

In the 1970's early 1980's. we only had 1 McDonald's in our. closely knit three towns....there was no Taco Bell, there was no Wendy's there was no Burger King, etc etc etc....there was no other fast food joint...

And yes, there were sweets eaten, but it was once a week, or once every two weeks my mom cooked up a HOME MADE batch of Brownies or Tull House cookies and we could only have, 1 or 2...

It was a real major treat, if my parents took us to the Ice cream spot in town!

Everything is so much easier today, you can get any kind of junk food you want or the body is craving, in about a nano second.

Also, I think this goes deeper....it's sort of a real life, physical yet mental disorder...this craving for sugar which is making these kids obese and diabetic....the kind of junk food the kids are eating is sending a message to their brain, that they need more sugar...education is the only way to solve it, they have to learn to fight the cravings 24/7....and mothers need to read the label contents of everything they buy for their kids.

I agree with you to some degree.

A few years ago when I delivered to one of our customers, the shipper was on a diet. He was gaining too much weight according to him even though he was perfectly fine. He was from the Soviet Union so it was kind of funny the way he looked at our (and his) situation. So I'll add in the accents:

"Here, everything food. Turn on TV, eat our food, drive on highway, eat our food, stand in line at grocery store, eat our food. Food, food food.

We had no food like this where I from. Nobody had weight problem. Everybody skinny.

Here, come eat our food. Okay, I eat your food, now I'm too fat to get out of car. No problem, come to window, we feed you there!"

I think he tapped into one of our problems when it comes to weight in this country. He's right. Count how many food commercials you see during a program or movie on television.

 

[gipper]

NEW YORK (AP) - America's weight problem isn't getting any better, according to new government research.

Overall, obesity figures stayed about the same: About 40 percent of adults are obese and 18.5 percent of children. Those numbers are a slight increase from the last report but the difference is so small that it could have occurred by chance.

Worrisome to experts is the rate for children and teenagers, which had hovered around 17 percent for a decade. The 2-to-5 age group had the biggest rise.

The bad news is that the numbers didn't go down, experts say. In recent years, state and national health officials have focused on obesity in kids, who were the target of the national Let's Move campaign launched by former first lady Michelle Obama in 2010.

US obesity problem is not budging, new data shows

The last sentence is very telling: kids are still fat in spite of Moochelle trying to force them to eat foods they didn't want or like.

I'm sure leftists are totally shocked at this; Democrats can't control people like most people do their pets. Besides that idiotic campaign, her husband also forced restaurants to post calorie count on all menus from coast to coast. He assumed that unless Big Brother told us a Big Mac combo was not the best choice for dinner, we wouldn't be able to figure it out ourselves.

The federal government is not our parents and we are not the federal governments children. I wonder how many millions of private and taxpayer dollars were wasted on these programs that turned up absolutely nothing?

Message to control freak leftists: Leave us alone! Let us live our own lives and make our own decisions! Really.........you don't own us.....

"Folks, liberals measure success by intent. Conservatives measure success by results."
Rush Limbaugh

I don't care about fat people in Red States. They're the ones who need healthcare the most. That's why they get all those healthcare subsidies.
Republicans made a Moby their cult leader. After everything Trump is doing to his base, how can they still complain about Obama? Obama is not even president. Lard is.

Photoshopped!!

No reason to photoshop Fat Donnie

True, but there was for your beloved Big Ears.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Care, we had no knowledge of anything healthy. No healthy choices. Hardly.

This comment made me laugh. When we went out to a family gathering, the adults wanted to be left alone, so me and my cousins played outside if it was nice. To stop us from bothering our parents, they kept giving us a bottle of pop.

They didn't know the problem of too much sugar and caffeine. So when we got home at the end of the night, we were running around the kitchen table like we were high or something. My mother would yell at us "If you kids are going to get like this every time we go out, we're not taking you anymore!!!!" Yeah, like it was our fault we were so wound up. LOL!

Even if they did, there was no such thing as sugar free. No knowledge of carbs or how bad cooking with transfats were. Now we have warning labels on everything. Nearly every isle in the grocery market has healthy alternatives. Sugar free ice cream, cookies, etc.

Yet, we also have far more video games. I could be at the golf course right now. Instead I am banging away on my computer.

If this was not around, I would probably be fishing or golfing right now.

Totally agree. We are not guiltless when it comes to avoiding physical activity.

One of my most commented on posts that I put on Facebook:

View attachment 154267

Mind you, I am not dismissing diet. As I said originally. The less active we are, the better we need to eat. Most people I think are lazy. I am. Worse as I grow older. I use to be far more active. I am almost 50, and I have friends that are very active that are my age.

One of my friends is a captain for American. He eats like total shit. I have seen few people eat as much as he does.

However, he is almost 60 and I know very few people as active as he is. He called me at 530 this morning asking me to play golf. He walks the course mind you, which is about 5 or 6 miles. I turned him down. I could have. Didn't want to. "Too tired." Get that? 10 years younger and I was too tired.

He will then get home, and he will walk the beach.....about 4 miles. Try walking on sand for 4 miles. Just try it.

Guess what? That friend of mine....even though he eats like crap is like a rail. He has a washboard stomach. He basically walks 10 miles a day. Not to mention what he does around the house.

That was when I was starting to realize what all of this is about. Granted, as we grow older, we should EAT LIKE AN ADULT. No more Mcdonalds drive throughs, Once and a while sure, but a handful times a year.

I eat at a place all Bolay all of the time by me. Find out if there is one of those by you. Great place. Even if there is not one of those, there are those types of healthy spots all over.

The bottom line is the sedentary behavior with kids. I don't really blame the parents. However, I would try my best to limit my kids TV time AND/or COMPUTER time. I would find more ways for them to be DOING STUFF.

That is the real problem. Anyone denying that we ate worse back in the 60s or 50s are really naive.

Yes, much of it is genetics, but that's something government can't control or solve. My sister is a dietary technician, and she suffered with weight most of her life. In fact, she was hired by a food company to create new healthy products on the side. She has a full time job, but it paid pretty good.

I have a friend like yours. He can eat a large pizza every day and never gain a pound. We grew up together so I know what he ate. But when we were kids, we never stayed home. We were out all day.

 

[Theowl32]

In the 1970's early 1980's. we only had 1 McDonald's in our. closely knit three towns....there was no Taco Bell, there was no Wendy's there was no Burger King, etc etc etc....there was no other fast food joint...

And yes, there were sweets eaten, but it was once a week, or once every two weeks my mom cooked up a HOME MADE batch of Brownies or Tull House cookies and we could only have, 1 or 2...

It was a real major treat, if my parents took us to the Ice cream spot in town!

Everything is so much easier today, you can get any kind of junk food you want or the body is craving, in about a nano second.

Also, I think this goes deeper....it's sort of a real life, physical yet mental disorder...this craving for sugar which is making these kids obese and diabetic....the kind of junk food the kids are eating is sending a message to their brain, that they need more sugar...education is the only way to solve it, they have to learn to fight the cravings 24/7....and mothers need to read the label contents of everything they buy for their kids.

I agree with you to some degree.

A few years ago when I delivered to one of our customers, the shipper was on a diet. He was gaining too much weight according to him even though he was perfectly fine. He was from the Soviet Union so it was kind of funny the way he looked at our (and his) situation. So I'll add in the accents:

"Here, everything food. Turn on TV, eat our food, drive on highway, eat our food, stand in line at grocery store, eat our food. Food, food food.

We had no food like this where I from. Nobody had weight problem. Everybody skinny.

Here, come eat our food. Okay, I eat your food, now I'm too fat to get out of car. No problem, come to window, we feed you there!"

I think he tapped into one of our problems when it comes to weight in this country. He's right. Count how many food commercials you see during a program or movie on television.

We also have common sense, and really always have. While we did eat worse, there were those who were very much in shape.

Of course even our athletes had no clue about nutrition etc. I mean if you read some of the exploits or naivety of our athletes back then it would probably stun you.

Here is a famous photo of QB Len Dawson of the Chiefs, smoking a cigarette and drinking a "beverage" at the HALF TIME OF THE SUPER BOWL in the 60s.

They had no clue. Smoking was everywhere.

It was not uncommon for news casters to be smoking while telling the news...

This is all part of the naivety we lived in and to suggest we are eating worse today....come on.

There was smoking in hospitals. Again, all of those junk foods were readily available and there were hardly ANY healthy choices. Yet, we are fatter now?

Whats changed since then? More healthy choices, better informed public with labels and education.

What....has changed since those days? What?

 

[Care4all]

The fatter the country, the better that place is to live.

Of course, the left will blame diet and sugar etc........meaning capitalism and America. Another little opportunity to justify their desires for communism.

Let me theorize what the problem has been. First let me point out what the left won't point out. Obesity AROUND THE WORLD has increased dramatically. They are not going to point out the problem in those socialist paradises in Europe. We all know why.

Obesity and overweight

Junk food, coke, Mcdonalds, etc has been around for a while now. Hundred years or more. Yet, the obesity PROBLEM has increased dramatically over the last 25 years or so. What has been introduced as a part of world culture over the last 25 years? The internet? Oh.....yeah. Since 1975 according to that study I provided, WORLD OBESITY has tripled. Oh right around the time home computers and video games and cable TV? Yeah, right around that time?

Huh.....

Let me give my little theory now. It is not necessarily what you eat. It is how active you are. It you are the type that is constantly moving.....and active you can eat whatever you want....within reason. As you grow older your diet should become more adult. Also, as you grow older the slower your metabolism. The less active you are, the better you should eat. That is the key.

Problem with kids (and adults) is we eat the junk food or load ourselves on carbs (or sugars) and then we do not burn it off. That is where the internet and video games play the major part. Along with excessive television watching. The average person probably spends 6 or 7 hours at work in front of a computer. Come home, and right back onto a computer or in front of a TV. Even if you got 30 minutes of exercise a day, it is probably not enough.

So, the basic formula (which is not rocket science) is the worse you eat, the more active you should be. Walk or find an activity that you do in the yard. Move, move, move. If you are not going to be active, then you better be eating strictly. That is the reality.

Don't let the American hating commies let you think this is a capitalist problem as they try and take over every nook and cranny of the average persons life.

You goof.. these convenience frozen and processed foods are making people sick and doesn't care what your political position is.

People get home from working hard all day and throw the frozen dinner in the microwave..not looking at what the poison ingredients are..

Dairy/ meat is jammed pack with estrogen's and drugs .. girls are getting boobs at 10 years old.. Estrogen's cause cancer..

.

Well unless you go somewhere that makes homemade bread, any bread you buy today lasts over a month. When I was a child, bread lasted three days, and out to the birds it went if you didn't finish the entire loaf. Today you can keep a loaf of bread around for six or seven weeks if not more.

Up here you can keep bread for a few weeks, out of the fridge, but when I lived in south and central Florida, with all the humidity, even with all those preservative chemicals in the bread, the bread would mildew in just a few days!

 

[Theowl32]

Care, we had no knowledge of anything healthy. No healthy choices. Hardly.

This comment made me laugh. When we went out to a family gathering, the adults wanted to be left alone, so me and my cousins played outside if it was nice. To stop us from bothering our parents, they kept giving us a bottle of pop.

They didn't know the problem of too much sugar and caffeine. So when we got home at the end of the night, we were running around the kitchen table like we were high or something. My mother would yell at us "If you kids are going to get like this every time we go out, we're not taking you anymore!!!!" Yeah, like it was our fault we were so wound up. LOL!

Even if they did, there was no such thing as sugar free. No knowledge of carbs or how bad cooking with transfats were. Now we have warning labels on everything. Nearly every isle in the grocery market has healthy alternatives. Sugar free ice cream, cookies, etc.

Yet, we also have far more video games. I could be at the golf course right now. Instead I am banging away on my computer.

If this was not around, I would probably be fishing or golfing right now.

Totally agree. We are not guiltless when it comes to avoiding physical activity.

One of my most commented on posts that I put on Facebook:

View attachment 154267

Mind you, I am not dismissing diet. As I said originally. The less active we are, the better we need to eat. Most people I think are lazy. I am. Worse as I grow older. I use to be far more active. I am almost 50, and I have friends that are very active that are my age.

One of my friends is a captain for American. He eats like total shit. I have seen few people eat as much as he does.

However, he is almost 60 and I know very few people as active as he is. He called me at 530 this morning asking me to play golf. He walks the course mind you, which is about 5 or 6 miles. I turned him down. I could have. Didn't want to. "Too tired." Get that? 10 years younger and I was too tired.

He will then get home, and he will walk the beach.....about 4 miles. Try walking on sand for 4 miles. Just try it.

Guess what? That friend of mine....even though he eats like crap is like a rail. He has a washboard stomach. He basically walks 10 miles a day. Not to mention what he does around the house.

That was when I was starting to realize what all of this is about. Granted, as we grow older, we should EAT LIKE AN ADULT. No more Mcdonalds drive throughs, Once and a while sure, but a handful times a year.

I eat at a place all Bolay all of the time by me. Find out if there is one of those by you. Great place. Even if there is not one of those, there are those types of healthy spots all over.

The bottom line is the sedentary behavior with kids. I don't really blame the parents. However, I would try my best to limit my kids TV time AND/or COMPUTER time. I would find more ways for them to be DOING STUFF.

That is the real problem. Anyone denying that we ate worse back in the 60s or 50s are really naive.

Yes, much of it is genetics, but that's something government can't control or solve. My sister is a dietary technician, and she suffered with weight most of her life. In fact, she was hired by a food company to create new healthy products on the side. She has a full time job, but it paid pretty good.

I have a friend like yours. He can eat a large pizza every day and never gain a pound. We grew up together so I know what he ate. But when we were kids, we never stayed home. We were out all day.

I do think though if my friend did not walk 10 miles every day that he would not look like he does. The point is he burns it all off. The potentially toxicity is sweated out of his body.

That is the main point.

Yes, genetics play a part. However, committed to being active is as important as anything.

 

[Eaglewings]

The fatter the country, the better that place is to live.

Of course, the left will blame diet and sugar etc........meaning capitalism and America. Another little opportunity to justify their desires for communism.

Let me theorize what the problem has been. First let me point out what the left won't point out. Obesity AROUND THE WORLD has increased dramatically. They are not going to point out the problem in those socialist paradises in Europe. We all know why.

Obesity and overweight

Junk food, coke, Mcdonalds, etc has been around for a while now. Hundred years or more. Yet, the obesity PROBLEM has increased dramatically over the last 25 years or so. What has been introduced as a part of world culture over the last 25 years? The internet? Oh.....yeah. Since 1975 according to that study I provided, WORLD OBESITY has tripled. Oh right around the time home computers and video games and cable TV? Yeah, right around that time?

Huh.....

Let me give my little theory now. It is not necessarily what you eat. It is how active you are. It you are the type that is constantly moving.....and active you can eat whatever you want....within reason. As you grow older your diet should become more adult. Also, as you grow older the slower your metabolism. The less active you are, the better you should eat. That is the key.

Problem with kids (and adults) is we eat the junk food or load ourselves on carbs (or sugars) and then we do not burn it off. That is where the internet and video games play the major part. Along with excessive television watching. The average person probably spends 6 or 7 hours at work in front of a computer. Come home, and right back onto a computer or in front of a TV. Even if you got 30 minutes of exercise a day, it is probably not enough.

So, the basic formula (which is not rocket science) is the worse you eat, the more active you should be. Walk or find an activity that you do in the yard. Move, move, move. If you are not going to be active, then you better be eating strictly. That is the reality.

Don't let the American hating commies let you think this is a capitalist problem as they try and take over every nook and cranny of the average persons life.

You goof.. these convenience frozen and processed foods are making people sick and doesn't care what your political position is.

People get home from working hard all day and throw the frozen dinner in the microwave..not looking at what the poison ingredients are..

Dairy/ meat is jammed pack with estrogen's and drugs .. girls are getting boobs at 10 years old.. Estrogen's cause cancer..

.

Well unless you go somewhere that makes homemade bread, any bread you buy today lasts over a month. When I was a child, bread lasted three days, and out to the birds it went if you didn't finish the entire loaf. Today you can keep a loaf of bread around for six or seven weeks if not more.

Did you know that they put Chinese hair in bread to keep it fresh.? So many gross things in our food that they try to hide by crazy named ingredients..

True fact: A common ingredient in commercial breads is derived from human hair harvested in China


.

 

[Eaglewings]

In the 1970's early 1980's. we only had 1 McDonald's in our. closely knit three towns....there was no Taco Bell, there was no Wendy's there was no Burger King, etc etc etc....there was no other fast food joint...

And yes, there were sweets eaten, but it was once a week, or once every two weeks my mom cooked up a HOME MADE batch of Brownies or Tull House cookies and we could only have, 1 or 2...

It was a real major treat, if my parents took us to the Ice cream spot in town!

Everything is so much easier today, you can get any kind of junk food you want or the body is craving, in about a nano second.

Also, I think this goes deeper....it's sort of a real life, physical yet mental disorder...this craving for sugar which is making these kids obese and diabetic....the kind of junk food the kids are eating is sending a message to their brain, that they need more sugar...education is the only way to solve it, they have to learn to fight the cravings 24/7....and mothers need to read the label contents of everything they buy for their kids.

Food can be just as addictive as drugs and smoking..it triggers the feel good hormones in your brain and screams if you don't keep eating it.
Sugar, Fat,Salt...

.

 

[Theowl32]

LOL, check out this ad from the 50s....

More doctors smoke Camels.

 

[Eaglewings]

This comment made me laugh. When we went out to a family gathering, the adults wanted to be left alone, so me and my cousins played outside if it was nice. To stop us from bothering our parents, they kept giving us a bottle of pop.

They didn't know the problem of too much sugar and caffeine. So when we got home at the end of the night, we were running around the kitchen table like we were high or something. My mother would yell at us "If you kids are going to get like this every time we go out, we're not taking you anymore!!!!" Yeah, like it was our fault we were so wound up. LOL!

Even if they did, there was no such thing as sugar free. No knowledge of carbs or how bad cooking with transfats were. Now we have warning labels on everything. Nearly every isle in the grocery market has healthy alternatives. Sugar free ice cream, cookies, etc.

Yet, we also have far more video games. I could be at the golf course right now. Instead I am banging away on my computer.

If this was not around, I would probably be fishing or golfing right now.

Totally agree. We are not guiltless when it comes to avoiding physical activity.

One of my most commented on posts that I put on Facebook:

View attachment 154267

Mind you, I am not dismissing diet. As I said originally. The less active we are, the better we need to eat. Most people I think are lazy. I am. Worse as I grow older. I use to be far more active. I am almost 50, and I have friends that are very active that are my age.

One of my friends is a captain for American. He eats like total shit. I have seen few people eat as much as he does.

However, he is almost 60 and I know very few people as active as he is. He called me at 530 this morning asking me to play golf. He walks the course mind you, which is about 5 or 6 miles. I turned him down. I could have. Didn't want to. "Too tired." Get that? 10 years younger and I was too tired.

He will then get home, and he will walk the beach.....about 4 miles. Try walking on sand for 4 miles. Just try it.

Guess what? That friend of mine....even though he eats like crap is like a rail. He has a washboard stomach. He basically walks 10 miles a day. Not to mention what he does around the house.

That was when I was starting to realize what all of this is about. Granted, as we grow older, we should EAT LIKE AN ADULT. No more Mcdonalds drive throughs, Once and a while sure, but a handful times a year.

I eat at a place all Bolay all of the time by me. Find out if there is one of those by you. Great place. Even if there is not one of those, there are those types of healthy spots all over.

The bottom line is the sedentary behavior with kids. I don't really blame the parents. However, I would try my best to limit my kids TV time AND/or COMPUTER time. I would find more ways for them to be DOING STUFF.

That is the real problem. Anyone denying that we ate worse back in the 60s or 50s are really naive.

Yes, much of it is genetics, but that's something government can't control or solve. My sister is a dietary technician, and she suffered with weight most of her life. In fact, she was hired by a food company to create new healthy products on the side. She has a full time job, but it paid pretty good.

I have a friend like yours. He can eat a large pizza every day and never gain a pound. We grew up together so I know what he ate. But when we were kids, we never stayed home. We were out all day.

I do think though if my friend did not walk 10 miles every day that he would look like he does. The point is he burns it all off. The potentially toxicity is sweated out of his body.

That is the main point.

Yes, genetics play a part. However, committed to being active is as important as anything.

Remember these machines..haaa

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

The fatter the country, the better that place is to live.

Of course, the left will blame diet and sugar etc........meaning capitalism and America. Another little opportunity to justify their desires for communism.

Let me theorize what the problem has been. First let me point out what the left won't point out. Obesity AROUND THE WORLD has increased dramatically. They are not going to point out the problem in those socialist paradises in Europe. We all know why.

Obesity and overweight

Junk food, coke, Mcdonalds, etc has been around for a while now. Hundred years or more. Yet, the obesity PROBLEM has increased dramatically over the last 25 years or so. What has been introduced as a part of world culture over the last 25 years? The internet? Oh.....yeah. Since 1975 according to that study I provided, WORLD OBESITY has tripled. Oh right around the time home computers and video games and cable TV? Yeah, right around that time?

Huh.....

Let me give my little theory now. It is not necessarily what you eat. It is how active you are. It you are the type that is constantly moving.....and active you can eat whatever you want....within reason. As you grow older your diet should become more adult. Also, as you grow older the slower your metabolism. The less active you are, the better you should eat. That is the key.

Problem with kids (and adults) is we eat the junk food or load ourselves on carbs (or sugars) and then we do not burn it off. That is where the internet and video games play the major part. Along with excessive television watching. The average person probably spends 6 or 7 hours at work in front of a computer. Come home, and right back onto a computer or in front of a TV. Even if you got 30 minutes of exercise a day, it is probably not enough.

So, the basic formula (which is not rocket science) is the worse you eat, the more active you should be. Walk or find an activity that you do in the yard. Move, move, move. If you are not going to be active, then you better be eating strictly. That is the reality.

Don't let the American hating commies let you think this is a capitalist problem as they try and take over every nook and cranny of the average persons life.

You goof.. these convenience frozen and processed foods are making people sick and doesn't care what your political position is.

People get home from working hard all day and throw the frozen dinner in the microwave..not looking at what the poison ingredients are..

Dairy/ meat is jammed pack with estrogen's and drugs .. girls are getting boobs at 10 years old.. Estrogen's cause cancer..

.

Well unless you go somewhere that makes homemade bread, any bread you buy today lasts over a month. When I was a child, bread lasted three days, and out to the birds it went if you didn't finish the entire loaf. Today you can keep a loaf of bread around for six or seven weeks if not more.

Did you know that they put Chinese hair in bread to keep it fresh.? So many gross things in our food that they try to hide by crazy named ingredients..

True fact: A common ingredient in commercial breads is derived from human hair harvested in China


.

Yeah, they did the same thing with cigarettes. They wanted to stop cigarette fires, so they put carpenter glue in them now. They call it something else, but it's nothing more than glue. But I digress:

I left for a while and went back to the political forum and can't find this topic. It wasn't locked out and no alert from a mod. Is anybody else having a problem finding this topic in the forum or is it just me?

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

This comment made me laugh. When we went out to a family gathering, the adults wanted to be left alone, so me and my cousins played outside if it was nice. To stop us from bothering our parents, they kept giving us a bottle of pop.

They didn't know the problem of too much sugar and caffeine. So when we got home at the end of the night, we were running around the kitchen table like we were high or something. My mother would yell at us "If you kids are going to get like this every time we go out, we're not taking you anymore!!!!" Yeah, like it was our fault we were so wound up. LOL!

Even if they did, there was no such thing as sugar free. No knowledge of carbs or how bad cooking with transfats were. Now we have warning labels on everything. Nearly every isle in the grocery market has healthy alternatives. Sugar free ice cream, cookies, etc.

Yet, we also have far more video games. I could be at the golf course right now. Instead I am banging away on my computer.

If this was not around, I would probably be fishing or golfing right now.

Totally agree. We are not guiltless when it comes to avoiding physical activity.

One of my most commented on posts that I put on Facebook:

View attachment 154267

Mind you, I am not dismissing diet. As I said originally. The less active we are, the better we need to eat. Most people I think are lazy. I am. Worse as I grow older. I use to be far more active. I am almost 50, and I have friends that are very active that are my age.

One of my friends is a captain for American. He eats like total shit. I have seen few people eat as much as he does.

However, he is almost 60 and I know very few people as active as he is. He called me at 530 this morning asking me to play golf. He walks the course mind you, which is about 5 or 6 miles. I turned him down. I could have. Didn't want to. "Too tired." Get that? 10 years younger and I was too tired.

He will then get home, and he will walk the beach.....about 4 miles. Try walking on sand for 4 miles. Just try it.

Guess what? That friend of mine....even though he eats like crap is like a rail. He has a washboard stomach. He basically walks 10 miles a day. Not to mention what he does around the house.

That was when I was starting to realize what all of this is about. Granted, as we grow older, we should EAT LIKE AN ADULT. No more Mcdonalds drive throughs, Once and a while sure, but a handful times a year.

I eat at a place all Bolay all of the time by me. Find out if there is one of those by you. Great place. Even if there is not one of those, there are those types of healthy spots all over.

The bottom line is the sedentary behavior with kids. I don't really blame the parents. However, I would try my best to limit my kids TV time AND/or COMPUTER time. I would find more ways for them to be DOING STUFF.

That is the real problem. Anyone denying that we ate worse back in the 60s or 50s are really naive.

Yes, much of it is genetics, but that's something government can't control or solve. My sister is a dietary technician, and she suffered with weight most of her life. In fact, she was hired by a food company to create new healthy products on the side. She has a full time job, but it paid pretty good.

I have a friend like yours. He can eat a large pizza every day and never gain a pound. We grew up together so I know what he ate. But when we were kids, we never stayed home. We were out all day.

I do think though if my friend did not walk 10 miles every day that he would not look like he does. The point is he burns it all off. The potentially toxicity is sweated out of his body.

That is the main point.

Yes, genetics play a part. However, committed to being active is as important as anything.

Yeah, kind of. When I was younger, I was always on the go. I did the weight lifting thing, the martial arts thing, but now that I'm older, it's payback time. I can barely squat down to pick something up because of my knees. Of course I'm 6'3" and tall people always have problems with their backs and knees. But I think what I did when I was younger played a big part in what I am today. I just didn't have the genetics for it I guess.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

The fatter the country, the better that place is to live.

Of course, the left will blame diet and sugar etc........meaning capitalism and America. Another little opportunity to justify their desires for communism.

Let me theorize what the problem has been. First let me point out what the left won't point out. Obesity AROUND THE WORLD has increased dramatically. They are not going to point out the problem in those socialist paradises in Europe. We all know why.

Obesity and overweight

Junk food, coke, Mcdonalds, etc has been around for a while now. Hundred years or more. Yet, the obesity PROBLEM has increased dramatically over the last 25 years or so. What has been introduced as a part of world culture over the last 25 years? The internet? Oh.....yeah. Since 1975 according to that study I provided, WORLD OBESITY has tripled. Oh right around the time home computers and video games and cable TV? Yeah, right around that time?

Huh.....

Let me give my little theory now. It is not necessarily what you eat. It is how active you are. It you are the type that is constantly moving.....and active you can eat whatever you want....within reason. As you grow older your diet should become more adult. Also, as you grow older the slower your metabolism. The less active you are, the better you should eat. That is the key.

Problem with kids (and adults) is we eat the junk food or load ourselves on carbs (or sugars) and then we do not burn it off. That is where the internet and video games play the major part. Along with excessive television watching. The average person probably spends 6 or 7 hours at work in front of a computer. Come home, and right back onto a computer or in front of a TV. Even if you got 30 minutes of exercise a day, it is probably not enough.

So, the basic formula (which is not rocket science) is the worse you eat, the more active you should be. Walk or find an activity that you do in the yard. Move, move, move. If you are not going to be active, then you better be eating strictly. That is the reality.

Don't let the American hating commies let you think this is a capitalist problem as they try and take over every nook and cranny of the average persons life.

You goof.. these convenience frozen and processed foods are making people sick and doesn't care what your political position is.

People get home from working hard all day and throw the frozen dinner in the microwave..not looking at what the poison ingredients are..

Dairy/ meat is jammed pack with estrogen's and drugs .. girls are getting boobs at 10 years old.. Estrogen's cause cancer..

.

Well unless you go somewhere that makes homemade bread, any bread you buy today lasts over a month. When I was a child, bread lasted three days, and out to the birds it went if you didn't finish the entire loaf. Today you can keep a loaf of bread around for six or seven weeks if not more.

Up here you can keep bread for a few weeks, out of the fridge, but when I lived in south and central Florida, with all the humidity, even with all those preservative chemicals in the bread, the bread would mildew in just a few days!

I'll have to ask my niece about that. She moved to Florida over a year ago. But I can keep bread well over a month and not one green spot. I'm single and live alone so a loaf of bread lasts me forever unless I take sandwiches to work for a week.

 

[Eaglewings]

The fatter the country, the better that place is to live.

Of course, the left will blame diet and sugar etc........meaning capitalism and America. Another little opportunity to justify their desires for communism.

Let me theorize what the problem has been. First let me point out what the left won't point out. Obesity AROUND THE WORLD has increased dramatically. They are not going to point out the problem in those socialist paradises in Europe. We all know why.

Obesity and overweight

Junk food, coke, Mcdonalds, etc has been around for a while now. Hundred years or more. Yet, the obesity PROBLEM has increased dramatically over the last 25 years or so. What has been introduced as a part of world culture over the last 25 years? The internet? Oh.....yeah. Since 1975 according to that study I provided, WORLD OBESITY has tripled. Oh right around the time home computers and video games and cable TV? Yeah, right around that time?

Huh.....

Let me give my little theory now. It is not necessarily what you eat. It is how active you are. It you are the type that is constantly moving.....and active you can eat whatever you want....within reason. As you grow older your diet should become more adult. Also, as you grow older the slower your metabolism. The less active you are, the better you should eat. That is the key.

Problem with kids (and adults) is we eat the junk food or load ourselves on carbs (or sugars) and then we do not burn it off. That is where the internet and video games play the major part. Along with excessive television watching. The average person probably spends 6 or 7 hours at work in front of a computer. Come home, and right back onto a computer or in front of a TV. Even if you got 30 minutes of exercise a day, it is probably not enough.

So, the basic formula (which is not rocket science) is the worse you eat, the more active you should be. Walk or find an activity that you do in the yard. Move, move, move. If you are not going to be active, then you better be eating strictly. That is the reality.

Don't let the American hating commies let you think this is a capitalist problem as they try and take over every nook and cranny of the average persons life.

You goof.. these convenience frozen and processed foods are making people sick and doesn't care what your political position is.

People get home from working hard all day and throw the frozen dinner in the microwave..not looking at what the poison ingredients are..

Dairy/ meat is jammed pack with estrogen's and drugs .. girls are getting boobs at 10 years old.. Estrogen's cause cancer..

.

Well unless you go somewhere that makes homemade bread, any bread you buy today lasts over a month. When I was a child, bread lasted three days, and out to the birds it went if you didn't finish the entire loaf. Today you can keep a loaf of bread around for six or seven weeks if not more.

Did you know that they put Chinese hair in bread to keep it fresh.? So many gross things in our food that they try to hide by crazy named ingredients..

True fact: A common ingredient in commercial breads is derived from human hair harvested in China


.

Yeah, they did the same thing with cigarettes. They wanted to stop cigarette fires, so they put carpenter glue in them now. They call it something else, but it's nothing more than glue. But I digress:

I left for a while and went back to the political forum and can't find this topic. It wasn't locked out and no alert from a mod. Is anybody else having a problem finding this topic in the forum or is it just me?

Try to clear your cache, but keep your passwords.

.

 

[Theowl32]

Even if they did, there was no such thing as sugar free. No knowledge of carbs or how bad cooking with transfats were. Now we have warning labels on everything. Nearly every isle in the grocery market has healthy alternatives. Sugar free ice cream, cookies, etc.

Yet, we also have far more video games. I could be at the golf course right now. Instead I am banging away on my computer.

If this was not around, I would probably be fishing or golfing right now.

Totally agree. We are not guiltless when it comes to avoiding physical activity.

One of my most commented on posts that I put on Facebook:

View attachment 154267

Mind you, I am not dismissing diet. As I said originally. The less active we are, the better we need to eat. Most people I think are lazy. I am. Worse as I grow older. I use to be far more active. I am almost 50, and I have friends that are very active that are my age.

One of my friends is a captain for American. He eats like total shit. I have seen few people eat as much as he does.

However, he is almost 60 and I know very few people as active as he is. He called me at 530 this morning asking me to play golf. He walks the course mind you, which is about 5 or 6 miles. I turned him down. I could have. Didn't want to. "Too tired." Get that? 10 years younger and I was too tired.

He will then get home, and he will walk the beach.....about 4 miles. Try walking on sand for 4 miles. Just try it.

Guess what? That friend of mine....even though he eats like crap is like a rail. He has a washboard stomach. He basically walks 10 miles a day. Not to mention what he does around the house.

That was when I was starting to realize what all of this is about. Granted, as we grow older, we should EAT LIKE AN ADULT. No more Mcdonalds drive throughs, Once and a while sure, but a handful times a year.

I eat at a place all Bolay all of the time by me. Find out if there is one of those by you. Great place. Even if there is not one of those, there are those types of healthy spots all over.

The bottom line is the sedentary behavior with kids. I don't really blame the parents. However, I would try my best to limit my kids TV time AND/or COMPUTER time. I would find more ways for them to be DOING STUFF.

That is the real problem. Anyone denying that we ate worse back in the 60s or 50s are really naive.

Yes, much of it is genetics, but that's something government can't control or solve. My sister is a dietary technician, and she suffered with weight most of her life. In fact, she was hired by a food company to create new healthy products on the side. She has a full time job, but it paid pretty good.

I have a friend like yours. He can eat a large pizza every day and never gain a pound. We grew up together so I know what he ate. But when we were kids, we never stayed home. We were out all day.

I do think though if my friend did not walk 10 miles every day that he would not look like he does. The point is he burns it all off. The potentially toxicity is sweated out of his body.

That is the main point.

Yes, genetics play a part. However, committed to being active is as important as anything.

Yeah, kind of. When I was younger, I was always on the go. I did the weight lifting thing, the martial arts thing, but now that I'm older, it's payback time. I can barely squat down to pick something up because of my knees. Of course I'm 6'3" and tall people always have problems with their backs and knees. But I think what I did when I was younger played a big part in what I am today. I just didn't have the genetics for it I guess.

I just recently had total hip replacement surgery. It was in August, and that was a result of years of playing golf etc. I developed such severe osteoarthritis in my right hip. For the last 3 years I became almost entirely inactive. I gained a lot of weight. 40lbs.

I only started swinging a club last week, and two days ago I walked around 5 miles. That was the reason my friend called me to see if I wanted to get out there and give it a go.

The overall point is we as a society have actually been eating far healthier than we have. The notion that we are eating less healthy today is a pure fallacy. Does not measure up with the actual facts.

To say there were less Mcdonalds in the 60s etc is ridiculous. They were all over the place. Not to mention what we ate at home based on health foods NOT AVAILABLE combined with our naivety. It was far worse in the average home compared to today. My bread does not spoil easily, and even if it did. We have far more choices. Gluten free labels, along with labels for everything.

We have different health drinks that we never had like healthy smoothies.

You think a restaurant like this existed anywhere in the 50s or 60s? I eat here in my area 3 days a week.



We are eating healthier. We are less active. There is no disputing this. Notice though how it is mainly the left wingers that push the fallacy. Hell, very few of them are even acknowledging we are less active. Does it take a rocket scientist to think that we are less active with the amount of tv watching, spending time on the internet, or playing video games?

I mean really.

Just look at the brainwashed ones pushing the false narrative, and then you will understand why there is a push for the false narrative.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Totally agree. We are not guiltless when it comes to avoiding physical activity.

One of my most commented on posts that I put on Facebook:

View attachment 154267

Mind you, I am not dismissing diet. As I said originally. The less active we are, the better we need to eat. Most people I think are lazy. I am. Worse as I grow older. I use to be far more active. I am almost 50, and I have friends that are very active that are my age.

One of my friends is a captain for American. He eats like total shit. I have seen few people eat as much as he does.

However, he is almost 60 and I know very few people as active as he is. He called me at 530 this morning asking me to play golf. He walks the course mind you, which is about 5 or 6 miles. I turned him down. I could have. Didn't want to. "Too tired." Get that? 10 years younger and I was too tired.

He will then get home, and he will walk the beach.....about 4 miles. Try walking on sand for 4 miles. Just try it.

Guess what? That friend of mine....even though he eats like crap is like a rail. He has a washboard stomach. He basically walks 10 miles a day. Not to mention what he does around the house.

That was when I was starting to realize what all of this is about. Granted, as we grow older, we should EAT LIKE AN ADULT. No more Mcdonalds drive throughs, Once and a while sure, but a handful times a year.

I eat at a place all Bolay all of the time by me. Find out if there is one of those by you. Great place. Even if there is not one of those, there are those types of healthy spots all over.

The bottom line is the sedentary behavior with kids. I don't really blame the parents. However, I would try my best to limit my kids TV time AND/or COMPUTER time. I would find more ways for them to be DOING STUFF.

That is the real problem. Anyone denying that we ate worse back in the 60s or 50s are really naive.

Yes, much of it is genetics, but that's something government can't control or solve. My sister is a dietary technician, and she suffered with weight most of her life. In fact, she was hired by a food company to create new healthy products on the side. She has a full time job, but it paid pretty good.

I have a friend like yours. He can eat a large pizza every day and never gain a pound. We grew up together so I know what he ate. But when we were kids, we never stayed home. We were out all day.

I do think though if my friend did not walk 10 miles every day that he would not look like he does. The point is he burns it all off. The potentially toxicity is sweated out of his body.

That is the main point.

Yes, genetics play a part. However, committed to being active is as important as anything.

Yeah, kind of. When I was younger, I was always on the go. I did the weight lifting thing, the martial arts thing, but now that I'm older, it's payback time. I can barely squat down to pick something up because of my knees. Of course I'm 6'3" and tall people always have problems with their backs and knees. But I think what I did when I was younger played a big part in what I am today. I just didn't have the genetics for it I guess.

I just recently had total hip replacement surgery. It was in August, and that was a result of years of playing golf etc. I developed such severe osteoarthritis in my right hip. For the last 3 years I became almost entirely inactive. I gained a lot of weight. 40lbs.

I only started swinging a club last week, and two days ago I walked around 5 miles. That was the reason my friend called me to see if I wanted to get out there and give it a go.

The overall point is we as a society have actually been eating far healthier than we have. The notion that we are eating less healthy today is a pure fallacy. Does not measure up with the actual facts.

To say there were less Mcdonalds in the 60s etc is ridiculous. They were all over the place. Not to mention what we ate at home based on health foods NOT AVAILABLE combined with our naivety. It was far worse in the average home compared to today. My bread does not spoil easily, and even if it did. We have far more choices. Gluten free labels, along with labels for everything.

We have different health drinks that we never had like healthy smoothies.

You think a restaurant like this existed anywhere in the 50s or 60s? I eat here in my area 3 days a week.



We are eating healthier. We are less active. There is no disputing this. Notice though how it is mainly the left wingers that push the fallacy. Hell, very few of them are even acknowledging we are less active. Does it take a rocket scientist to think that we are less active with the amount of tv watching, spending time on the internet, or playing video games?

I mean really.

Just look at the brainwashed ones pushing the false narrative, and then you will understand why there is a push for the false narrative.

It's no secret it's all about control by the left. The left want to change your first diaper when you are born and put the first shovel of dirt on your grave when you die. We don't need them to tell us what kind of problems we are having. We know it already. We know what we want our kids to eat in school, and we know what kind of food we want to eat when we go to a restaurant.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

The fatter the country, the better that place is to live.

Of course, the left will blame diet and sugar etc........meaning capitalism and America. Another little opportunity to justify their desires for communism.

Let me theorize what the problem has been. First let me point out what the left won't point out. Obesity AROUND THE WORLD has increased dramatically. They are not going to point out the problem in those socialist paradises in Europe. We all know why.

Obesity and overweight

Junk food, coke, Mcdonalds, etc has been around for a while now. Hundred years or more. Yet, the obesity PROBLEM has increased dramatically over the last 25 years or so. What has been introduced as a part of world culture over the last 25 years? The internet? Oh.....yeah. Since 1975 according to that study I provided, WORLD OBESITY has tripled. Oh right around the time home computers and video games and cable TV? Yeah, right around that time?

Huh.....

Let me give my little theory now. It is not necessarily what you eat. It is how active you are. It you are the type that is constantly moving.....and active you can eat whatever you want....within reason. As you grow older your diet should become more adult. Also, as you grow older the slower your metabolism. The less active you are, the better you should eat. That is the key.

Problem with kids (and adults) is we eat the junk food or load ourselves on carbs (or sugars) and then we do not burn it off. That is where the internet and video games play the major part. Along with excessive television watching. The average person probably spends 6 or 7 hours at work in front of a computer. Come home, and right back onto a computer or in front of a TV. Even if you got 30 minutes of exercise a day, it is probably not enough.

So, the basic formula (which is not rocket science) is the worse you eat, the more active you should be. Walk or find an activity that you do in the yard. Move, move, move. If you are not going to be active, then you better be eating strictly. That is the reality.

Don't let the American hating commies let you think this is a capitalist problem as they try and take over every nook and cranny of the average persons life.

You goof.. these convenience frozen and processed foods are making people sick and doesn't care what your political position is.

People get home from working hard all day and throw the frozen dinner in the microwave..not looking at what the poison ingredients are..

Dairy/ meat is jammed pack with estrogen's and drugs .. girls are getting boobs at 10 years old.. Estrogen's cause cancer..

.

Well unless you go somewhere that makes homemade bread, any bread you buy today lasts over a month. When I was a child, bread lasted three days, and out to the birds it went if you didn't finish the entire loaf. Today you can keep a loaf of bread around for six or seven weeks if not more.

Did you know that they put Chinese hair in bread to keep it fresh.? So many gross things in our food that they try to hide by crazy named ingredients..

True fact: A common ingredient in commercial breads is derived from human hair harvested in China


.

Yeah, they did the same thing with cigarettes. They wanted to stop cigarette fires, so they put carpenter glue in them now. They call it something else, but it's nothing more than glue. But I digress:

I left for a while and went back to the political forum and can't find this topic. It wasn't locked out and no alert from a mod. Is anybody else having a problem finding this topic in the forum or is it just me?

Try to clear your cache, but keep your passwords.

.

So you see this topic in the political forum?

 

[Theowl32]

Mind you, I am not dismissing diet. As I said originally. The less active we are, the better we need to eat. Most people I think are lazy. I am. Worse as I grow older. I use to be far more active. I am almost 50, and I have friends that are very active that are my age.

One of my friends is a captain for American. He eats like total shit. I have seen few people eat as much as he does.

However, he is almost 60 and I know very few people as active as he is. He called me at 530 this morning asking me to play golf. He walks the course mind you, which is about 5 or 6 miles. I turned him down. I could have. Didn't want to. "Too tired." Get that? 10 years younger and I was too tired.

He will then get home, and he will walk the beach.....about 4 miles. Try walking on sand for 4 miles. Just try it.

Guess what? That friend of mine....even though he eats like crap is like a rail. He has a washboard stomach. He basically walks 10 miles a day. Not to mention what he does around the house.

That was when I was starting to realize what all of this is about. Granted, as we grow older, we should EAT LIKE AN ADULT. No more Mcdonalds drive throughs, Once and a while sure, but a handful times a year.

I eat at a place all Bolay all of the time by me. Find out if there is one of those by you. Great place. Even if there is not one of those, there are those types of healthy spots all over.

The bottom line is the sedentary behavior with kids. I don't really blame the parents. However, I would try my best to limit my kids TV time AND/or COMPUTER time. I would find more ways for them to be DOING STUFF.

That is the real problem. Anyone denying that we ate worse back in the 60s or 50s are really naive.

Yes, much of it is genetics, but that's something government can't control or solve. My sister is a dietary technician, and she suffered with weight most of her life. In fact, she was hired by a food company to create new healthy products on the side. She has a full time job, but it paid pretty good.

I have a friend like yours. He can eat a large pizza every day and never gain a pound. We grew up together so I know what he ate. But when we were kids, we never stayed home. We were out all day.

I do think though if my friend did not walk 10 miles every day that he would not look like he does. The point is he burns it all off. The potentially toxicity is sweated out of his body.

That is the main point.

Yes, genetics play a part. However, committed to being active is as important as anything.

Yeah, kind of. When I was younger, I was always on the go. I did the weight lifting thing, the martial arts thing, but now that I'm older, it's payback time. I can barely squat down to pick something up because of my knees. Of course I'm 6'3" and tall people always have problems with their backs and knees. But I think what I did when I was younger played a big part in what I am today. I just didn't have the genetics for it I guess.

I just recently had total hip replacement surgery. It was in August, and that was a result of years of playing golf etc. I developed such severe osteoarthritis in my right hip. For the last 3 years I became almost entirely inactive. I gained a lot of weight. 40lbs.

I only started swinging a club last week, and two days ago I walked around 5 miles. That was the reason my friend called me to see if I wanted to get out there and give it a go.

The overall point is we as a society have actually been eating far healthier than we have. The notion that we are eating less healthy today is a pure fallacy. Does not measure up with the actual facts.

To say there were less Mcdonalds in the 60s etc is ridiculous. They were all over the place. Not to mention what we ate at home based on health foods NOT AVAILABLE combined with our naivety. It was far worse in the average home compared to today. My bread does not spoil easily, and even if it did. We have far more choices. Gluten free labels, along with labels for everything.

We have different health drinks that we never had like healthy smoothies.

You think a restaurant like this existed anywhere in the 50s or 60s? I eat here in my area 3 days a week.



We are eating healthier. We are less active. There is no disputing this. Notice though how it is mainly the left wingers that push the fallacy. Hell, very few of them are even acknowledging we are less active. Does it take a rocket scientist to think that we are less active with the amount of tv watching, spending time on the internet, or playing video games?

I mean really.

Just look at the brainwashed ones pushing the false narrative, and then you will understand why there is a push for the false narrative.

It's no secret it's all about control by the left. The left want to change your first diaper when you are born and put the first shovel of dirt on your grave when you die. We don't need them to tell us what kind of problems we are having. We know it already. We know what we want our kids to eat in school, and we know what kind of food we want to eat when we go to a restaurant.

Make no mistake about the left too. They are not referring to themselves. Meaning, the left wing ELITES. They are worse than poison and they are absolutely the hypocrites and wolves in sheeps clothing we are warned about.

For example, all of them chant that they want to more taxes for the rich and none of them voluntarily pay more. They can and choose not to. In fact they are rather infamous for getting tax breaks. Like ALL of the hollywood.

They rail against building any walls, yet most of them live behind and safely ensconced behind armed guarded walls.

It is a giant damn list and how they are able to manipulate their sheep. You have to stand in awe really.

 

[Aldo Raine]

Amazing to me how anybody can link the obesity problems of this country to any political party. This is how bad the far left and right have gotten.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

All you have to do is walk out your front door and see all the lard asses stomping and waddling around like a bunch of hippos. In fact, some of you can just look in your mirror to see one.