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Study: Most Will Be Fat Over the Long Haul
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| 10/3/05
| Alex Dominguez - ap
Posted on 10/03/2005 3:21:09 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: editor-surveyor
The people whom they are calling overweight ar the healthiest people on earth.
No, you would be more accurate to say that of those they classify as overweight, a tiny minority are not overweight, and it is obvious to them and anyone else that they are not. The vast majority who are classified as overweight are in fact overweight, no matter how much they'd like to deny it.
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posted on
10/03/2005 5:09:22 PM PDT
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
To: speekinout
I was in WVA last week-end (the fattest state in the nation), Isn't it also the poorest state in the nation?
How cheap are Carbs (sugars)? Cheaper than foods that are high in protein? Cheaper than foods with the "healthy" fats?
I suspect that the culprit is that the poorest people tend to eat the cheapest foods and tend to overeat in case the next meal isn't a sure thing.
There are also probably some other factors, like traditional foods in certain areas, that are "bad news" (Fried stuff down south. Anything from a street vendor in NY. Seven donut shops per block in MA. etc) These are usually not indicative of staple foods, however.
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posted on
10/03/2005 5:10:58 PM PDT
by
Triggerhippie
(Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.)
To: Beelzebubba
Being skinny is the best way to live a long time. You notice how when they interview the 100-year-old man or lady that it's never a chubby person who lives that long?
Actually that is my point exactly when you see a very elderly person that is thin. As you age, you start to lose weight.
That 100 year old person you see them interviewing might have weighed a lot more in their 80's.
Case in point, my FIL. He lived to be 92. He was about 5'5", a little stocky at 165, healthy as a horse his entire life. When he hit his mid 80's we noticed he started to lose a little weight.
He had several cancer operations (sarcomas), lost more weight, but survived the operations and radiation.
Kept going strong right up until he was 92, at at 92, he was proportionately about right for his height at 140 lbs. (the thinnest he had been in his adult life.) Then he fell, and broke his hip, ended up with MRSA after the operation and died from pneumonia.
My great uncle is 95, he's been on the heavy side his whole life, but these last 5 years he's had a stroke, and some other health issues, yet he lives independently. He's lost weight with his illnesses, and now would be considered a healthy weight.
But with both these men, if they hadn't started out with a little extra weight on them, their bouts with illness, IMHO, would have weakened them more as they lost lbs due to the illness.
I'm not saying we shouldn't strive for optimum health, but if you eat sensibly, exercise sensibly, and still have a few lbs on in your later adult years, I don't think it's wise to try to starve yourself to get to a weight that the doctor thinks is healthy because some chart says so.
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posted on
10/03/2005 5:23:03 PM PDT
by
dawn53
To: NormsRevenge
Guys stay thin to chase women. As you get older that gets less urgent.
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posted on
10/03/2005 5:33:15 PM PDT
by
neuron2
To: Beelzebubba
So, you've got to eat like a rabbit to live forever. I think I'll eat the rabbit instead. Living to an over ripe old age is not a top priority.
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posted on
10/03/2005 5:46:18 PM PDT
by
seowulf
To: Cobra64
May I come and eat dinner at your house?
To: Beelzebubba
Ditto your insightful comments at # 18.
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posted on
10/03/2005 5:57:10 PM PDT
by
T Ruth
To: Beelzebubba
Politically correct, but devoid of fact or reason.
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posted on
10/03/2005 6:20:22 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Atheist and Fool are synonyms; Evolution is where fools hide from the sunrise)
To: speekinout
Yeah, but don't tell the Liberals this: they'll start pushing bills to tax the crap out of our food just like our cigarettes. (here in Mass. a pack of Marbs. is probably about 5 and a half bucks) I subscribe to the John Wayne theory: he ate steak three meals a day every day, but I'll bet his steak was damn enjoyable. Maybe he died at 62 or so, but he had fun on the way.
To: NormsRevenge
That's why I'm going to lose all the weight I can before I get married. Once those kids come, I don't wanna find out if I'm going to be able to shake a leg ;-)
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posted on
10/03/2005 6:26:05 PM PDT
by
cyborg
(I'm on the 24 plan having the best day ever.)
To: NormsRevenge
maybe I shouldn't comment on this one.......
To: Beelzebubba
Not all of them. Genetics has a lot to do with it in most cases. Eating healthy is a way to cheat genetics, but I have known 90 something people who are chubby. Some of them smoked for over seventy years too.
To: A Longer Name
Cheryl Ford: 6'3": 215 lbs:27Is this considered fat for a 40 year old man?
To: seowulf
So, you've got to eat like a rabbit to live forever. I think I'll eat the rabbit instead.
Actually, you can have both. Just skip all the white bread, white rice, potatoes, dessert, and you'll be fine.
Eating moderately, and avoiding fat-inducing foods in very different than eating like a rabbit. Have as big of a steak as you want. Just skip the fries, and have a nice Caesar salad.
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posted on
10/03/2005 6:46:18 PM PDT
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
To: editor-surveyor
Your comment does not support your position. Can you explain?
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posted on
10/03/2005 6:47:27 PM PDT
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
To: NormsRevenge
a new study that followed Americans for three decades suggests that over the long haul, 9 out of 10 men and 7 out of 10 women will become overweight Very interesting. The same study also found that 10 out of 10 men and 10 out of 10 women will become dead.
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posted on
10/03/2005 6:54:58 PM PDT
by
massadvj
To: Triggerhippie
No, WVA isn't the poorest state. It's close, but not like MS, MO, etc.
And the buffets we saw had a good selection of healthy food, as well as fatty stuff. The buffet costs the same whether you eat a ton of fatty stuff, or a reasonable amount of healthy food.
If people are going to go out for a buffet dinner, what is their reason for eating a huge amount of food? More for their money, even though it is bad for them in the end?
(I love buffets, because I am a grazer. I like having just a bit of a lot of things. But I know that most buffet goers are there for quantity. And they get fat.)
To: Beelzebubba
"Your comment does not support your position. Can you explain?" Perhaps you misunderstood my position. 90% of the people that the medical establishment wish to describe as 'overweight' are not overweight. The medical establishment has sought to describe everything as a treatable malady, and the pharmaceutical poison manufacturers are goading them along to enrich themselves.
Anyone here who has not yet read Kevin Trudeau's "Natural Cures," and Moynihan and Cassels "Selling Sickness" is ill-equipped to even dabble in this kind of discussion.
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posted on
10/03/2005 7:35:37 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Atheist and Fool are synonyms; Evolution is where fools hide from the sunrise)
To: Beelzebubba; dawn53
"You notice how when they interview the 100-year-old man or lady that it's never a chubby person who lives that long?" You're confused!
Few people live passed 80 who were not 'chubby' when they were 60. most of the skinnies die in their 60's and 70's (those who didn't have massive heart attacks in their 30's, 40's, and 50's)
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posted on
10/03/2005 7:41:18 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Atheist and Fool are synonyms; Evolution is where fools hide from the sunrise)
To: speekinout
I knew it! It's the foods fault!
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posted on
10/03/2005 7:42:37 PM PDT
by
Ditter
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