Posted on 01/24/2012 1:00:12 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
I used to know someone who swore that if you ate your meals while standing up, you would get fat legs.
(Think about that. Yeah, I know.)
Maybe there’s something to that after all... :-)
From the Article: “It has been known for some time that people who watch hours of TV a day tend to be at higher risk of becoming overweight or obese, and stupid.”
That is more like it.
Does that mean that reading for hours a day tends to make people fat also?
Your post interupted my “post” button ... which is good because ... MY comment is, with this election year, I’ve become a FR Potato
Sitting is the new smoking.
Gain weight without eating?
The Law of Conservation of Mass says that’s impossible.
I watch a lot of TV at night, so this isn’t good for me I’m sure.
OSMOSIS!
You get the calories from watching cooking shows, restaurant, soft drink & beer commercials.
Hadn’t thought of it that way. Right on the mark, however don’t find myself as a FR potato getting obese, or stupid as do Couch Potatoes in front of a Leftist loaded television program.
Television anymore IMO is like a pistol that shoots Leftism into our brains. FR is like Kevlar between me and television.
We need warning labels on sofas and a Federal tax on “luxury chairs”. Then we need to haul La-Z-Boy’s CEO in front of Congress and get him to admit that he purposely made the chairs addictive and directed advertisements toward children. Then there needs to be a class action lawsuit for billions of dollars in damages, with the money going toward health care. It’s for the children.
Does this apply to “fooling around” positions too?
What about sleeping? It’s prettymuch the same position.
What about sleeping? It’s pretty much the same position.
I dunno, rock ... there’s a LOT of popcorn to eat and I’m an old fashioned, REAL butter and a sprinkle of salt man.
Inactivity slows the body’s metabolism.....duh! Assuming normal activity, a person could probably consume 1500 calories, but a person who sits on the couch probably doesn’t burn much more than their Basal Metabolic Rate, which is more in the 1000-1100 range. And of course not eating at all, will put the body in “starvation mode”, which will tend to conserve the fat stores, at the expense of muscle.
And it probably happens that if a person is getting overweight anyway, he has already been stuffing his fat cells with dietary fat. When those cells reach a certain repleteness, the formation of new cells from fat stem cells is stimulated. Sitting on one’s ass in front of a TV and having one’s metabolism decrease results in an additional amount of unburned nutrient requiring storage. This would be sufficient to trigger the formation of new fat cells to accommodate the storage.
Popcorn at my age is just necessary roughage. ;)
Exactly. They will be outlawing overstuffed anything, and we will be buying the likes of park benches for our family rooms.
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