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- algaeturd, on 11/10/2009, -13/+45Because God forbid Americans actually take responsibility for their own bodies and their own fat.
***** Hell we've become the weakest nation in the world. We can't even keep the Twinkies at bay. - roflcopter47, on 11/10/2009, -3/+23When menus at chain restaurants in NYC were forced to reveal their calorie count on menus, people were shocked to discover that many entrees at places like TGI Friday's had almost 2,000 calories.
Some patrons asked for older menus, the ones without calorie counts.
The lesson learned is that if you just close your eyes and ignore the truth, it will go away!
/s
tl;dr stop eating so much you fat ***** - agentsrecord, on 11/10/2009, -2/+19Let's just solve this once and for all.
Now with every extra value meal: 1 free hit of cocaine! - Bloodwine, on 11/10/2009, -3/+20While sugar isn't the healthiest of foods, we really need to get away from high fructose corn syrup.
- tgc1, on 11/10/2009, -3/+17Stop subsidizing corn. Then we can eliminate HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup) -- maybe that'll help.
- Klisk, on 11/10/2009, -1/+13I think it's more than that. I grew up overeating and overweight, and I didn't decide to do anything about it until I was in my late teens and my parents influence had worn off. It's funny because both my parents are twig-skinny, but I was at least 250lbs in highschool.
Both my parents had insanely fast metabolisms and ate a ton of food just for therapy and because they could, and that ruined me as a child. I don't think either of my parents top 130lbs. No exaggeration.
Since I went through puberty overweight that's the 'imprint' my body has chosen.
I personally work with a personal trainer and my diet consists of 1000-1200 calories a day. (Note, I'm only around 5'2".) I've actually lost a lot of weight over the past 6 years on this routine, but I still struggle with the fact that my weight fluctuates and doesn't *stay* down and the fact that I'm burdened with a size 42 waist even when I'm only down to 140lbs. (No, seriously! It sucks. Granted I only get down to that weight maybe once every 2 years.)
Nevermind that I run on the treadmill for 60 minutes a day at 5.0-6.0mph.
My skinny counterparts exercise significantly less (often never) and lose weight with much less work. (My friend lost 15 lbs by doing 10 minutes of situps/day. In a week. I do at least 30 minutes/day and my stomach is still a big round jelly years later.) Hell, I gain weight should I even add something with dairy to my diet, or add variation to the diet. I've had live-in trainers to monitor me and, most importantly, to prove that I'm not 'cheating'. Trust me, I'm not.
I am thoroughly convinced that if I had grown up skinny that I would be like my skinny counterparts and need to do very little work now to retain a slim profile.
My point being, yes, you should take responsibility to a point -- And trust me, I do, but on the other hand a lot of it should be put on the parents shoulder. Your weight as a child/growing teen is extremely dictating towards your body type and ability to even lose weight when you get older -- Regardless of diet and exercise.
Granted, no, this isn't a universal rule, but it's part of the problem and kids growing up with chemicals like trans fats and corn syrup in everything they eat isn't helping the cause either. Still, I believe this problem really makes the hugest impact on children whose parents are still arguably most responsible for their diet. - dmbchris, on 11/10/2009, -1/+11No one likes the government telling them what to eat. But at the very least, they can stop subsidizing two huge players in the fattening of America, corn and beef. Ever wonder why a pound of beef is cheaper than a pound of spinach, when beef takes 10x the energy to produce? Thank the cattle industry lobby! Wonder why cheap corn syrup has replaced sugar (and lowered the price) of almost every processed food you can buy?
Farmers say they need the subsidies to survive? I say preserving the lifestyle of the corn farmer is not worth making the rest of the nation get diabetes. - IHaveIssues, on 11/10/2009, -1/+11"The company's know American's well so were *****."
Oh my. - imLissy, on 11/10/2009, -0/+8I had a similar experience growing up, though both of my parents were overweight and still are. I lost a significant amount of weight my freshman year of college. I'm lucky that I've been able to keep the weight off, but I'm still pissed at them for letting me eat what I did when I was a kid. Cinnabons every weekend, I could go through a pack of Oreos is one night. Makes me sick just thinking about it. I was a kid, I didn't know any better.
- Klisk, on 11/10/2009, -1/+8Cocaine doesn't help you lose weight. It's too short of a high and once you crash 15 minutes later you get really hungry. There's plenty of fat cokeheads.
The drug you want to lose weight with is speed. - Klisk, on 11/10/2009, -3/+10People who have a naturally slim profile and can lose weight with 2 weeks of exercise really need to remember that it isn't THAT easy for people stuck with a heavier build. The whole, "I exercise for 10 minutes every day! I'm so slim! You fatties are just LAZY!" schtick that gets thrown around -- Especially on digg -- Is painfully flawed. See my post above.
- gaymathman, on 11/10/2009, -2/+9Dude, ***** like that is way too expensive if you're on a tight budget (i.e. student). I've got rice, potatoes, spaghetti, ramen noodles, popcorn, oatmeal, legumes (absolutely essential for protein) and baking supplies (cookies, pancakes are indulgences). That's it. I spend about 1.40$ each day on food, but have a very healthy vegetarian diet. The availability of healthy alternatives is far from the major problem.
- christoast, on 11/10/2009, -0/+7What we need is little nano-bots to go in and eat away at the plaque clogging the arteries and all the unnecessary fat, constantly on duty. When the time comes, we'll probably have to pay monthly for them.
- Cepster, on 11/10/2009, -0/+6my stupid...........what?
Don't leave me hangin' bro - fortheworld, on 11/10/2009, -0/+6Get a different trainer, and a completely different diet. If you are exerting yourself as hard as you say you are, and you have no underlying health problems, then the only issue is diet. If you starve yourself, which 1200 calories a day is if you're working out, then your body just won't lose fat - it'll go into survival mode. Lower the amount of running you do to about 30 mins, and start doing full body exercises to get your muscles to start using energy. Do the running AFTER working out.
Start eating more and more vegetables. Spinach, kale, peppers, cucumbers, lettuce - anything green is good for you, and the greener the better. Nuts like almonds, cashews, pistachios - these provide Omega oils. Apples, bananas, pears, grapefruit, dates, berries of all sorts, pomegranates - these give you nutrients you need. If you need to eat meat, try for a decent sort of fish. Protein and EFAs.
Drink more water, and drink nothing else. A 12 pack of soda will have half a pound of sugar in it - same as stuff like Gatorade/Powerade/Superenergyade. - darkheritage, on 11/10/2009, -1/+7Stop corn subsidy! Problem solved.
Seriously, the government puts so much money into corn and beef production and next to nothing into vegetables and healthy foods. It is almost impossible to find reasonably priced food products that aren't filled with unhealthy corn syrups and corn byproducts. - inactive, on 11/10/2009, -0/+6@vodious: I know right. Would you give a dog a twinki? hell no, he'd probably throw up immediately, why do we eat this trash made of corn syrup
- TechnoRabbit, on 11/10/2009, -0/+6And if you happen to be a diabetic where eating rice, potatoes, spaghetti, ramen noodles, popcorn, oatmeal, and baked goods would spike your blood sugar because of the carbohydrates?
- MorbenDK, on 11/10/2009, -0/+5I'm glad you pointed some of those things out. It's not always about self control.
Genetics and upbringing play a part -- Food ingredients and additives play another part. - mishabear, on 11/10/2009, -0/+5I haven't had a Twinkie since grade school. The issue isn't overeating as much as it is the quality of food. Yes, many people overeat but if you look at the crap that's put out there as "food", you can see that it's filled with fats, sugars, High Fructose Corn Syrup, fillers, and all sorts of crap. It provides calories but not much in the way of nutrition. Personally, I am trying to eat more whole foods (meat, vegetables, fruit, etc) and nothing processed. For 20+ years, I was living on fast food, not really knowing how bad it was (or has become?). Fast food is the bane of existence.
But LOSING weight isn't as easy as "eat less than you expend". Your body learns to adjust and lowers the metabolism. Then it's even harder to lose weight. Most of the kids here have NO IDEA how your body changes over time. You get stuck in a job working 60 hours a week chained to a desk. You start a family. You develop responsibilities. You don't get out and exercise as much anymore. At about 30, even just smelling a pizza seems to put on weight. - 029A, on 11/10/2009, -1/+6Start smoking again like the rest of the world.
- iDiggYa, on 11/10/2009, -0/+5Fat chicks need love too...but they gotta pay!
- JustLoren, on 11/10/2009, -0/+5Are you jogging while typing this comment out? I'm not.
- RealmDown, on 11/10/2009, -3/+8Here's an idea : Stop making it cheaper for people to buy more than they need. When 1 hamburger costs $3 but 2 hamburgers costs $4, naturally people are going to buy 2. Make the cost of your food equal and don't over charge for the smaller portion.
As this is a MAJOR source of profits for the greeders, I seriously doubt anyone of consequence will listen, but I wanted to say it anyway. - schnikies79, on 11/10/2009, -2/+7I'm going to take your giant (and mostly ridiculous) list and make a much shorter and much more effective one.
Eat less. - mishabear, on 11/10/2009, -0/+4you forgot:
>>keep nutrition content low so they need MORE "food" to make up for it. - UselessTrivia, on 11/10/2009, -0/+4Detox: *****...doesn't do anything...new age alt-med quackery. Most detox programs are terrible for your health. They usually involve voluntary starvation or ingesting untested "herbal remedies" which have not gone through any safety screening and are just as much a "processed chemical" as any over-the-counter medicine. Or they're just nonsense like mixing half a cup of syrup with water and drinking that as your only calorie intake for the day.
Meditation and prayer: also known as relaxing. You can get the same effect by reading a book. Doesn't need to be spiritual in any way, but if that's what works for you, so be it. There's no "correct" amount of time for this. Everyone is different.
Man-made processed food: Processed food is not automatically bad for you. Eating too much of the wrong kinds of any food is bad for you. We'd have a hell of a time feeding the world's population if it weren't for mass-production methods.
Heavy metals and chemicals: not harmful unless you're a retard and are swallowing them...so *****. Having some bleach and 409 in your house will not hurt you and might just help you kill bacteria and viruses that could make you sick. Don't eat too much fish, don't eat paint chips and don't handle broken CFL bulbs with bare hands and you'll avoid the most common problems with mercury and lead poisoning.
Laugh every day: It certainly can't hurt, and laughter has been shown to improve moods, which elevates certain hormone levels which in turn can improve immune response, but if you're sick, go to a doctor, not Comedy Central.
Above all, if you want to lose weight, consult your board certified medical doctor, not a shaman, not a "nutritionist" (the legally protected term which requires actual schooling is Dietitian) not random internet comments (including mine) and find out what YOU should do to improve the health of YOUR unique body. - TheUngod, on 11/10/2009, -0/+4Arsenic is also naturally occurring. That doesn't mean it's good for you. It's all about how your body processes it.
- IHaveIssues, on 11/10/2009, -1/+5Pray to what?
- krellor, on 11/10/2009, -1/+5Maybe he is just hoping they will OD or run their power chair into a ditch on the way home?
- stonebear, on 11/10/2009, -0/+4Oh yeah? You obviously have not tried to fend off a pack of determined twinkies in a dark kitchen in the middle of the night.
- Wargala, on 11/10/2009, -0/+4I got fat, then had enough of it, and got back to the gym and eating healthier. It's really not that hard people, it's just a matter of willpower. I got tired of being almost 300 pounds, so I did something about it. It's called personal responsibility. By the way, I weighed in at 230.8 this morning.
- christoast, on 11/10/2009, -0/+4Well obviously it would include Norton in the starter bundle.
- fortheworld, on 11/10/2009, -0/+4This is very true. A good example is peanut butter that keeps for months vs peanut butter that is just peanuts. The taste difference is stark, but so is the list of ingredients. Why does peanut butter require upwards of 15 ingredients?
- Cepster, on 11/10/2009, -0/+3Wait, who was ***** the companies? Colonel Sanders? I'm confused by this story...
- shutaro, on 11/10/2009, -3/+6OM NOM NOM NOM!
- fortheworld, on 11/10/2009, -0/+3Brown rice and quinoa are better than white rice, and don't contain all the starch that white rice does. If you pick and choose correctly, you can get buy eating quite well for about $30 a week. I know that's more than $1.40 a day, but the amount of vegetables, fruits, nuts and grains i can put together for that much is brilliant.
- Klisk, on 11/10/2009, -0/+3Not according to Hollywood. Food is for peasants and all.
- nepidae, on 11/10/2009, -0/+3He's just a messenger, its up to you to take control of your body. Whinge all you want but excuses don't burn many calories.
- tdogg241, on 11/10/2009, -0/+3Not really a new idea there. McDonald's has been doing that for decades.
- JackTheSkeleton, on 11/10/2009, -3/+6I was watching t.v. the other day(family guy to be exact) and it went to commercial. During this time there was two KFC commercials, a dairy queen commercial and 2 other food places which I don't remember. The company's know American's well so were *****.
- Angostura, on 11/10/2009, -2/+5Just FYI, there is absolutely no scientific evidence that "detox" diets do anything at all.
When you say "processed foods" you have to be a bit more explicit - cooking is a form of processing, so what types of processing do you mean? Would you include milling wheat?
Harmful chemicals, again - what do you mean: Soap is harmful if ingested.
Overall though, the regime you outline isn't going to do too much harm. - UselessTrivia, on 11/10/2009, -0/+3Silly me...I forgot that "beautiful" and "healthy" were synonymous terms.
- schnikies79, on 11/10/2009, -6/+9Nobody likes a fatty.
- ThaATrain, on 11/10/2009, -2/+5Its a simple problem and capitalism is at the head of it:
>> Rich (usually unhealthy) food corporations want money - nothing else.
>> Spend hundreds of millions to desperately brainwash people into buying their (usually unhealthy) product as opposed to someone else's
>> The masses get fat - Propethic, on 11/10/2009, -0/+3Meh, I could eat that every day, not exercise and not gain weight. I can also eat <1000 calories a day and not lose weight either, funny how everybody is different
- kuarce, on 11/10/2009, -1/+4Don't digg locondcoco down. Klisk's trainer sucks. If you've been training for the past 6 years on this routine, your trainer should be constantly trying to push you. You're not going to get into any serious shape or control your weight by running 60 minutes at 5.0-6.0 mph. A more intense workout will increase your metabolism. Also: are you eating the right foods? It's not all about calories.
Seriously: your trainer sucks. - troy1of2, on 11/10/2009, -0/+3So buy the larger portions, eat some now, save some for later. That's how I get even with them. Admittedly, it's not always convenient to do so if you don't have a refrigerator handy at work or wherever you are going but I do what I can when I can. Also ice chest with some of those freezer packs are a pretty inexpensive way to keep things for a few hours or until you can get to a fridge.
- dmbchris, on 11/10/2009, -1/+4A lot of countries eat beef, but not a lot of them eat 12 oz steaks and use 1/2lb patties on their burgers. A reasonable serving of red meat is 1/4 to 1/3 lb and shouldn't be eaten more than twice a week, if that. When ground beef is $1.99/lb it tends to make people forget that.
- SneakyNinja, on 11/10/2009, -1/+4Want to reverse your obesity?
Eat right & exercise.
It's very simple but not very easy. Use some will power to keep yourself in check. -
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