Don't blame other people for it. Don't say that society makes you act a certain way.
Average Obese Woman Gets 1 Hour of Exercise a Year
Obese men don't do much better, breaking a sweat only 3.6 hours annually, researchers say
http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exerci...man-gets-just-1-hour-of-exercise-a-year-study
If all you do is sit like a potato then you will look like a potato.
The glorification of failure & weakness that is "fat acceptance" makes me sick. When did we as a country decide that it's better to idealize failure and "good enough" instead of success? Do you think our society today could dream the impossible and put men on the moon? Or would someone say we were "space shaming" the other nations?
I've been waiting for some time for lawyers to discover fast food the same way they discovered big tobacco. Talk about a cash-cow. There's an entire industry waiting to get started based on fat people suing fast food conglomerates for making them fat.
So gays deserve HIV because that's the choice they make?
So those with Thyroid disease are at fault, gotcha.
This. I read a lot of science and health stuff, and there have been a lot of fascinating articles about obesity over the last few years. It's not nearly as simple as the sanctimonious bigots want it to be.
For example, one study found that it's not just Americans who are fatter. Indeed, it's not even just people who've become fatter. It's also lab animals, many different species, that have become heavier over the decades, even when controlling for diet and exercise. They don't yet know why but speculate it may be certain food additives or the effects of artificial lighting.
I've also seen several articles discussing a link between gut bacteria and obesity. One study found that if they transferred gut bacteria from fat mice into thin mice, the thin mice started gaining weight, even though their diet and exercise remained the same. Other studies found people would often spontaneously start losing weight after procedures that substantially changed their gut bacteria.
Finally, I read that the extremely obese are metabolically different from those who merely carry a few extra pounds (like Mursilis). Diet and exercise works great for those with a few extra pounds. For the extremely obese, however, it works temporarily at best. Less than 1% of the extremely obese succeed with diet and exercise over the long term (either 3 years or 5 years, don't remember). From a medical perspective, such a complete failure rate would normally completely discredit the treatment, yet even many medical professionals cling to their old prejudices.
The bottom line is that while diet and exercise are always a great starting point, the problem with obesity is far more complex than that. Especially for the extremely obese, other treatments are necessary.
On a side note, it's interesting to note how this issue unites ignorant people across the political spectrum. Even the most die hard lefties who denounce bigotry based on ethnicity, color, or sexual preference, are happy to jump on board with smug, anti-fat bigotry. Educate yourselves, gentlemen. It's the best cure for bigotry.
Lol look at all the blimpouts in this thread.
On that note, tempting I'm sure another round of your clearly lightning wit, are you of the impression that obesity is a simple issue that is easily resolved on both an individual and societal level despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary? Your posts seem to lend that impression but I have trouble believing someone with your clear intelligence and insight would make posts that demonstrate startling ignorance of science and medicine.
Everyone needs and wants a sense of belonging and belittling and bullying other people fulfills that vacuum in their pitiful life.
Where you all wannabe bullies in school?
fat people are a bunch of loser assholes. stop shoving so much god damn food down your fat gullett.
A random Kickstarter campaign to showcase one person's opinion?
On that note, tempting I'm sure another round of your clearly lightning wit, are you of the impression that obesity is a simple issue that is easily resolved on both an individual and societal level despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary?
The 'fat acceptance' movement isn't just one person's opinion, there seems to be a growing body (pun not intended) of self harmers that are at least pretending to deny reality.
Obesity is a simple issue, it's not like we don't know what causes it. It's only made complex by blaming people who aren't involved (no one gets super morbid obese without help) and trying to generate revenue on the basis that culinary indulgences should be subject to sin taxes.
Who let you join?
The 'fat acceptance' movement isn't just one person's opinion, there seems to be a growing body (pun not intended) of self harmers that are at least pretending to deny reality.
Obesity is a simple issue, it's not like we don't know what causes it. It's only made complex by blaming people who aren't involved (no one gets super morbid obese without help) and trying to generate revenue on the basis that culinary indulgences should be subject to sin taxes.
95 posts and I'm still trying to figure out of this thread is a complex, multi-poster, coordinated troll thread or not. This discussion can't be serious, can it?
These are but the start to a list of questions that need answering if we are to fully understand the issue. You act like it is cut and dried, that more food is more weight but it is well known that some people can overeat as much as they want and never gain a pound while in others even mild overindulgence can cause rapid weight gain. The issue is more complicated than you are giving it credit for.
Then we are in agreement here.Some bodies achieve homeostasis at greater weights or bmis (as useless a metric as there ever was) than others. While I do generally subscribe to the calorie economy I'm aware of other research that implicates insulin and other hormones effect on weight gain. More research is warranted in this respect.
Which gets you part way home. On the other hand, some foods are healthy or not by preparation, such as fried chicken vs. grilled. Sometimes it isn't the type of food but the quantity, the portions you are raised with seeming normal.I find it difficult to believe that people achieve adulthood thinking that chronic, obviously terrible food choices are not going to impact their health. There's a reason that we have labels on all of our food. If people cannot effectively use the data that has been provided to them then we need to have a long very critical talk about our school system.
Because demonizing drug addicts certainly ended the drug problem in the US.If food "addiction" is a severe problem then perhaps fat people need to be demonized like smokers are.
Somehow people are creating excuses for why they aren't responsible for their condition. For reasons beyond mortal comprehension, other people are accepting these excuses. Now that social justice is involved, I'm sure it's systems of oppression that make people fat and powerless to become healthy.