High fructose corn syrup.
Bingo. All the processed crap doesn’t help either. Not voting for Huckabee, but a fat man who can get thin is worth listening to.
“Dr William Rowley, who was a vascular surgeon for 30 years and now works at the Institute for Alternative Futures, said 61 per cent of US active-duty military personnel are overweight.”
And it’s clearly having an extremely detrimental impact.
Let’s get more politicians pandering to populist hysteria so they’ll have more fodder to laugh at us with overseas.
This has been going on for years. When I was a military instructor in the early nineties, 80% of our weight control and remedial PT programs were composed of students under 22 years old.
Not sure if I would use the overused word, crisis.
I was just at the Minnesota State Fair yesterday. There were well over 50,000 people there. I would say that well over 90% of the people there were in normal or better shape.
Growth hormones.
I can hardly wait to do morning calisthenics with President Huckabee on the boob tube.
75% of the people running for president on both sides of the aisle are purile morons.
Too many Buffet restaurants! Go there and you can easily spot the regulars.
I agree that corn syrup is a problem. But we’re a car culture. We need rail service in our Metro areas. Our towns need to be more pedestrian friendly. This is a huge problem in America. A strong country isn’t made of strip malls. Our whole culture is suffering.
After returning from a visit to West Point last week, I’m confident that young Americans are fit to fight. In fact I feel pretty damn good about young Americans after that visit!
You are, no doubt, correct, but whatever happened to the studies that say that slightly overweight people live longer than underweight people ?
That’s another consequence of Big Sugar’s tariff on “Foreign Sugar.” High fructose corn syrup is used nowhere else in the world. Whether or not the stuff has evil properties if it weren’t for cane sugar being priced artificially high there would be no need for it.
Were it not for the tariffs and subsidies, cane sugar could not be grown economically anywhere in the U.S. There’s a buttload of Everglades land that could otherwise be reverted to it’s proper role of growing alligators.
also comes from the sodium saccharin, equal, splenda, and other artificial sweetners. mostly people who drink diet sodas are not THIN
We used to not be in such a crisis:
Overweight:
Body Mass Index (BMI) is defined as the ratio of weight (in kg) to height (in meters) squared and is an inexact measure of body fat, though it supposedly establishes cutoff points of normal weight, overweight, and obesity.
Old definition: BMI > 28 (men), BMI > 27 (women)
People under old definition: 70.6 million
New definition: BMI > 25
People added under new definition: 30.5 million
Percent Increase: 43%
The definition was changed in 1998 by U.S. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
http://easydiagnosis.com/secondopinions/newsletter17.html
We are a nation of porkers and it isn’t because of genetics. Go to Europe. You don’t see many overweight people and very few of the giants you see here.
A generation ago adults weighed on average 25 pounds less than they do now and you rarely saw monstrous eight year olds. What changed? Lifestyle and diet. We drive everywhere and a lot of people get little to no exercise. Our portions are bigger than anywhere else in the world and more of us are eating out on a regular basis. We watch TV all day long. Our kids are getting worse because rather than play outside, they tend to play hours of videogames while stuffing their chubby little faces.
This stems from our insatiable society. To help the country, I will begin selling Fat Credits. When someone gains weight, they can pay me to find someone who is losing weight. Available just in time for the holiday season.
Absolutely! Plus all the other make believe additives they put in processed foods to make you addicted to their near toxic alchemy...
We have engineered activity out of our modern lives...