Not a problem in Venezuela.
Luckily, healthcare costs are low.
Some of the most important people in the world, were.
It’s kind of myopic to see people in terms of one thing, but that is the way of our day, I think.
I started keto a few weeks ago but am getting confused by vegans like Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn (NO OIL!)
Most in this country seem to be on welfare too.
Good thing they added Diet Coke to save the day.Yeah,
And 30 percent are anorexic and 40 percent are nucking futs.
I love a good cheese ball.
My opinion as to why:
Increased prosperity/more food
Increased prosperity/air conditioners and heat
Increased prosperity/less hard physical labor
And the cut back of smoking cigarettes
That said are we not living longer than when we were thinner?
I saw a report about the obesity epidemic on CBS news one night. The news reader said that 2.2 billion people worldwide were obese and that “a third of those (approx 700 million) were in the U.S.
The news reader probably majored in Journalism in college and had only a 3rd-4th grade arithmetic (summing and take away skills) and ignored the screaming fact that there are only approx. 350 million people in the U.S. which is considerably less that 700 million or a third of the world’s total of obese people.
I wonder how many million people saw that broadcast and thought .... how did an idiot get a job like that?
Has there ever been sustained civil unrest when the poorest are the most likely to be obese? I don’t think that has ever happened. Of course the poorest being the most obese has never happened before either. So maybe there is a first time for everything. But I doubt it.
Freegards
This would not be that big a problem if airplane seats were a little wider. :-(
I dread flying partially because of several experiences being squeezed in between two “large” individuals.
We’re all gonna die!
Which is, in turn, an artificial number arbitrarily set.
All my life the medical community has been changing their targets, for one reason or another.
Other organizations (non-medical) change their targets too, for other reasons. Want to be able to say the population is xx% obese? Change the standard for obesity downwards and watch the number increase. Strange how that happens.
And oh, look, so many fat people! We need to implement OUR rules to fight obesity/insert your favorite ailment here!
AND, we need more grant money to do it!
Nick,
There a little island resort that can take care of this problem for America. People join the club down there and the fat ones get to be thin ones. The best part about it is you get paid for losing weight!
The island is called Parris Island and the resort is called Marine Corps Boot Camp. If you can’t hack it during the beginning of first phase, they have something called the Physical Conditioning Platoon (PCP) or as it is commonly referred to, the pork chop platoon. Let me tell you something, body shaming works, hard PT all day long and eating minimally works. I’ve seen massive weight loss there.