Terrorists Are The Least Of Our Concerns...

[strikeeagle]

I went to a local festival this weekend. You know, a parade, food, rides, softball games - a typical right of summer in a typical small town.

AMERICANS ARE FAT PIGS! No worries, Osama, we'll kill ouselves before you ever do, so save the bullets.

Adults are HUGE, even "little" kids are porkers. You could barely walk through the crowd with all the fat slobs dragging around, slamming every form of crap known to man into their cakeholes. I'll bet I saw 1,000 women who weighed over 250 pounds, some on electric scooters, some on the oxygen bottle.

What in the hell are we doing to ourselves? Americans do nothing but eat crap and lay around. We are the enemy...

 

[xlr8ngn]

Have you ever seen the crowd at Walmart around midnight. Scary. Plus, they have their school age kids with them and it is way past a decent bedtime. Makes you wonder why kids are fat and lazy, sleeping till noon.

 

[1QWIK6]

Modern society is go-go-go... work faster... sleep less.. eat whenever you can and get back to work. Fast food chains need to add less fatting products to their lines.

 

[Black Box]

Originally posted by 1QWIK6
Fast food chains need to add less fatting products to their lines.

I agree with ya about the content of fast food, to me that stuff is death in a paper wrapper. I won't eat that crap anymore. Used to hog on it, but now only when there's nothing else around. But the truth is, people really need to be more careful of what they eat. Its the individuals responsibility to maintain their own health, and the health of their kids.

Sure, a lot of people have full schedules, constantly running around doing this and that, but what's more important than you and your families health?

Steve

 

[xlr8ngn]

It is all about portion size. When you order the great biggie super-size portion, you are eating probably twice or three times what you need if you work in an office. If you eat the proper portions, you can have a wide variety of those evil foods. If you need a gut full, then stick to lettuce and water. BTW, I wish I could eat small portions. I typically eat until I just begin to feel satisfied, but even that is way too much.

 

[Tony87gn]

Your telling me I work at Arthur Treachers and all I see is fat/old people eating this greasy food. All the kids that come in here are also little porkers it gets depressing at times

 

[Black Box]

Geez, Arthur Treachers. There's a name I haven't heard in a while. Hasn't been one of those around CT in many many years....

 

[denn454]

i don't blame it all on fast food. sure they play a part in it but they are not the main problem. you have soda pop that tastes good and is loaded with sugar, like someone else said proportions.

I usually do get the super size whatever with an ice tea and throw away half of the frys. i'm 6'1 and 135 lbs, i can out eat most anyone. the thing is i burn off all i eat. thats the biggest problem with most people. they eat like they work all day, then set around and watch tv. i think thats the key is burning what you take in.

 

[8587GN]

Your not kidding about the fatties. We went to the county fair last week,I hardly could tell the diffrence between the penned hogs,and the ones walking around. And they all were not older,most were in there teens and younger. Lay off the remote,and get your big azz outside and run around like a kid is supposed to do

 

[Lhorn]

Agree with the portion size. I think it's a big part of the problem. Portions are half again or twice what they used to be in the past decades. Obesity is very sad epidemic. Unfortunately it seems to be more and more acceptable. Not saying we should shun the obese, but we don't need Starr Jones telling us how big and beautiful they are. It's not healthy..that's the bottom line. And we're all gonna pay for it.

 

[Pronto]

In the early 90's the starved waif look was in. Now the fat pig look is in. I get grossed out seeing so many teenage girls with middies and hip huggers on but also have a Michelin Man tire bulging out over the pants. Kids definately need to do sports growing up to keep them active. There's plenty of time for sitting on your butt when your older and working full time.

 

[Vector]

denn454: I agree with you about burning off all of the energy that you take in, but remember Jim Fixx?
The dude ran a marathon every week and was stick thin and dropped dead of heart disease. Being thin has little to do with artherial schlerosis.
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Fast food joints: supply and demand, baby! Everyone wants a LOT of food quickly for the most value for their dollar.
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Personally, I am a cola junkie. I would have two or three 12 oz cans per day if I allowed myself to do so; as it is I try to restricy myself to one or two per week. I must be responsible for myself so I can complain about others lack of personal responsibility.

 

[motorhead]

A proper diet is a two way street.

You have the fat asses and the twigs.

When you are obese, you tend to be sedentary as well. Which means when you eat you sit around and only burn calories through the remote. Which increases the size of your fat cells. This stored energy, becomes the catalyst to the lethargic lifestyle that plagues North America.

For those of us who are under weight and have "high metabolic rates", excessive empty calorie and refined sugar carb loading will only maintain the problem. A year ago I had dropped to ~145lbs (I am 5'-11" (maybe 6'-0")) due to a lack of exercise over the previous 3 years (due to the go-go life style discussed above). I made a choice, be an unhealthy twig or get my ass in gear. I am now 170lbs and have never been stronger or healthier. And yes, that is 25lbs of muscle... it took 4-5 days/wk (~416 hours/yr) at the gym with a trainer (best bud of mine). Most of the change came from a modified diet, which excluded caffeine and all pops/sodas (used to be just coke). My brother looks like I did a year ago because he lives off of Coke and chocolate... It'll probably kill him. Oh and skinny people are lazy asses too.

When he tells me I am needlessly lifting/moving weight and not enjoying my life because of the self imposed limitations... I just chuckle and remind myself: At least I don't look like a coat hanger any longer.

The onus is on us to take care of ourselves... and if things don't change I am moving to Brazil or Sweden because, at least they care enough to move off the couch.

 

[denn454]

your dead on mr t.

i didnt' have time to write all i wanted last night. there is no doubt people are what they are. some people are fat and they always will be and theres not much they can do about it. others are small and they always will be, nothing we can do about that (me being one of them)

i've tryed and tryed to put on weight. i tryed eating and acting like a fat person, didn't work i lost weight by doing that. i'm a lot like mr t, the only way i can put on weight is working out and building muscle. right now thats all i am, i have something like 3% body fat, no i'm not big by any means but every pound of me is muscle and bone.

i think a lot of fat people (sorry for saying that, but you know what i mean) have just the opposite problem, they can't loose the weight for anything. diets don't work for them and they quit trying. diet didn't do a thing for me, and i dont' think it alone will work for most people out there, not to say there aren't exceptions.

but for the bigger people it takes more effort to do the same workout us smaller guys do, this is just my oppinion here but i think they see that its hard to keep up and end up quitting. again this is just the majorty of people, not everyone.

its really tough to change you weight to what you want it to be, either up or down. thats the problem with this country were a bunch of lazy people.

 

[Buick From Hell]

Don't blame portion size! If they make the portions smaller, all us piggies have to do is order TWO of something-which is probably more food than one BIG something...so which is worse?

for what it's worth--in high school, I used to eat 6 McDonalds regular burgers regularly--with fries. But for the last 30 years I only eat 3. So why am I overweight?

 

[Intercooler]

Atkins for all

 

[bruce]

Reader's Digest just had an interesting article on *fat*. In part, going back a couple hundred thousand years, humans were hunters and gathers. Being so meant going thru lean times, and the ability to be able to store fat, was actually a virtue for human development. So for some, yes, genes do play a role, and like anything genetic, that role might be dominate.

Yep, takes discipline, and personal responsibility, and that has nothing to do with what McDs figures is a good serving size. But, for some genetics is a hard thing to fight.

 

[motorhead]

Originally posted by CallMeMud
Atkins for all

Bad idea. We don't know the long term effects of this kind of dieting... most likely it is unfavourable.

The only real way to diet is to eat healthy and exercise.

You can have a high BMI, and large fat cells and still be healthy... as long as you take care of yourself fundamentally. Look at certain island cultures, there are some BIG and healthy men and women... it is a matter of genetics.

The other problem with North American fatties is the physical problems with carrying all that extra mass on a frame not intended to bear it. I wouldn't suggest a 400lb man run on his 150lb man ankles and knees... now you are fat with two broken knees sitting around waiting for the reconstructive surgery to heal.

Oh well... back to my morning banana and water.

Enjoy your coffee and donuts everyone!

 

[Vector]

I must admit that Atkins has worked for a lot of people, but any diet that says you can eat a steak with a pound of bacon on the side - BUT don't eat a stinking apple because of the carbs - well that diet sounds wrong to me.

 

[strikeeagle]

Yup, apples are KILLING America!!!

Americans want a quick fix for everything. But at the end of the day, it's still calories in versus calories out. Now, there are healthy ways to get those calories, and unhealthy ways - a pound of bacon falling into the former category.

One problem with Americans is that they eat the pound of bacon, and the pound of pasta. Atkins says, "Stop eating the pasta". Smart? Well...

I should'a been a doctor. The idea of turning folks' weakness for bacon and fried dough and big bags of Doritos and cartons of Marlboros into big homes and Mercedes and other stuff for me sounds swell.