Posted on 11/26/2007 12:46:45 PM PST by MotleyGirl70
only in a first-world country... lol
Now they’re blaming an adequate number of opportunities for lower income kids to exercise/play in their neighborhoods.
It never ends.
Yep
I get fat just watching Paula Dean. Way too much fried foods for me. If I cooked the way she does, I’d be 300lbs.
“I figured NYC would make the top 5.”
Doesn’t Rosie O’Donuts live there? That’s gotta throw off the curve.
Ooooooooooo ooooooooooooo, pick me, pick me, I know the answer!!!!! It's it's it's because they can't afford good food, what with food stamps and wic and other food programs, they JUST CAN'T afford to buy good food..........oooooooo oooooooo do I get a gold star, huh, huh, do I, do I, huh, huh, LOL!?????
Hyannisport sank into the ocean a few months back!!
ROTFL!
Women get called heifers a lot from men who don't live here.
We wear it as badge of honor. Lol ;)
They're well aware of that fact - and they'll (rightly) point out that cheap food is invariably unhealthy.
When you can get food from the dollar menu from McDonalds cheaper than what you can cook, obesity is always going to be a factor.
A personal anecdote - I graduated high school heavy. Dining hall food was a disaster. I put on 25 lbs. my freshman year alone. My sophomore and junior years I added even more. I hit my peak my junior year at 305 (at 6'0", that's just not good). My senior year, I started dieting. My first year of grad school, I started exercising. I lost 110 lbs., and have kept it off for 3 years. But my food bill doubled from the fresh fruits and vegetables and whole grains. I had to buy expensive running shoes to keep from getting injured.
In short, fitness is expensive.
The question for us conservatives is this - how can we, in the free market, encourage fitness and healthy living? How can we make nutritious food cheaper without too many handouts?
It’s fascvinating to see the law of Unintended Consequences in action when schools stop requiring physical educations and parents provide their rugrats with electronic babaysitters inside of incentives to “go play outside”.
In the 50s, President Eisenhower initiated a physical fitness challenge that school age children were expected to meet. Since then, we’ve had Bubbaburger Clinton who turned out to be a disaster as a . . . . . . . . well, pretty much anything!!!
I think in the South, its not the food, but the oppressive humidity esp in the summer that makes it hard to shed weight. I know I always put on a few more pounds in the summmer because of the weather...even though I eat more in the winter. Florida humidity is killer, but not as bad in the winter
How was this determined? Visual observations or did someone gain access to medical records?
If you ever watch the Food Channel, tune in to Paula Deen's show - she's a Southern girl, and every receipe starts with a stick of butter, a tub of sour cream, or a pint of heavy cream. Sometimes all of them at once. I LOVE that show, as much for her delight in these creations as for the receipes themselves. If she represents Southern cooking, I can believe these findings.
This may be an indirect nanny ping. Or a pre nanny ping.
“They’re well aware of that fact - and they’ll (rightly) point out that cheap food is invariably unhealthy.”
Last I checked, fruits and veggies were still pretty inexpensive and covered by food stamps and WIC programs.
Can’t blame it all on McD’s...know what I mean?
Sugar coated: We’re drowning in high fructose corn syrup. Do the risks go beyond our waistline?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2004/02/18/FDGS24VKMH1.DTL
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