I miss Slim Goodbody, personally.
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I liked the ā20 Minute Workoutā but I could only last about eight minutes before collapsing limp and spent.
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Apologies if itās already been mentioned, but:
Cocaine.
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she donāt lie?
That workout alone is an order of magnitude more taxing than the mean energy per day I spend when measured on ab average week. I need to be more active.
ā¦ which would leave you without money for food.
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How? They stay in all (horribly frozen over) winter eating gravy over fries
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Apparently Iām the only person whoās noticed the obvious correlation between the rise of obesity in this nation and the decline of Olivia Newton-Johnās career.
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you and @Drew_G may be saying the same thing, since poor neighborhoods seem to have plenty of fast food joints.
then again, @japhroaig raises a perfectly valid point. when I lived in the hood, there was a lot of fast food right on the prominent streets, but there were 2 independent Korean groceries that were full of fresh food near all that, not as visible but right down the same blocks. This was also the most walkable neighborhood Iāve ever lived in, all the stuff you might need was within a mile radius, I think. a dense population of people less able to afford cars and right by MARTA, all the business came to them. It was great, really.
ETA: and what @anon67050589 wrote meshes exactly with that experience.
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I didnāt mean it as such; itās merely an observation. I know that it might not have to do with diet or lack of exercise, that it could be glandular or due to medication.
My mother told me that when she had to change the diaper of one of my older cousins, it disgusted her not because of the smell, but because the infant had big rolls of fat - he weighted 20 lbs before he was six months old. However, she didnāt know how much he weighed at birth. This cousin is now in his late 50s/early 60s and is not obese. Overweight maybe, but not obese.
Iām with the HFCS/hormones/gut bacteria theory, but genetic background should be considered. But thatās just me.
From all that weāre seeing out there, it looks to me that genetics sets up the play and something environmental is spiking it into the net.
My moneyās on gut flora being disturbed by some chemical that has become more common in the last 20-30y, but I donāt think Iām entirely convinced that it has to be something weāre eating.
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One factor left unmentioned: idiocracy
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What makes you think that society in the 80s was any smarter? How were the 80s any better than today?
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I live near Detroit, itās a very stark example of the grocery store desert and high rates of obesity coinciding. There arenāt bodegas, there are no major chain grocers, and the association-type grocery stores are few and far between. Yeah, thereās Eastern Market, but if you live on the west side and donāt have a car, youāre gonna have a hard time getting over there on Saturday, assuming you donāt have to go to work. But of course, thereās lots of shitty fast food. Detroitās not the only one, either. Any city that lacks banks will also lack grocery stores, and will have few bodegas.
I wonāt disagree about small towns out in the sticks, your fresh food options can be limited. Usually not by general availability, but by the fact that the fresh food is getting shipped far away from your community.
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Except, again, this study is supposedly specifically correcting for amount of food eaten, and exercise. As the first sentence in the OP makes clear. How are so many people in this thread missing that part, and simply jumping on the āWeāre all just lazy junk food eating slobsā narrative?
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I donāt think this is fair. @Lucy_Gothroās whole point was that there are indeed some people with a genetic propensity towards being much larger ā friends of mine have a breast-fed-only son who, at nine months, is heavier than my two-year-old ā but that there are some people who, as adults, appear to be obese without having that propensity.
If Lucy_Gothro was āfat shamingā simply by pointing out that some people are obese due to their life style, then the whole research paper is āfat shaming.ā
(I make no comment on the accuracy of being able to tell peopleās genetics by looking at their ankles, however.)
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Go away! āBatinā!
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Bigger babies are healthier if anything and someone who is disgusted by fat rolls on a baby that hasnāt even learned to walk needs to get over their unhealthy obsession with fat instead of projecting it onto infants. I donāt mean to be harsh towards someoneās mom, but if someone had told me my daughters fat rolls were disgusting when she was little Iād have said some pretty unkind things in response.
I donāt know, it seems like they did a lot of smart things. Like Reaganism and Thatcherism. Smart people.
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Ha. I mean, damn. Will we ever recover?
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