The "obvious answer" should be they eat way too much junk. It's a LOT easier to take in calories and gain weight than it is to burn calories and lose weight. You'd have to jog about 10 miles to burn the calories from a single doughnut. I could be off on the numbers, but not by much.
Limit food stamps to staples only. Meat, bread, rice, beans, vegetables, fruit etc. What do their welfare momma’s have to do all day beside take care of their damn kids?
I agree — it’s about the calories, not the exercise. Of course, they’re not totally independent, since if you’re outside playing you’re not sitting there with a bag of chips or whatever.
the Amish farmer eats whole foods and lots of it, which is ok because he works it all off in manual labor. the average American eats truckloads of useless calories with little if any nutritional value and sits on a couch all day. there is a happy medium somewhere.
"That's a problem, because soybean oil depresses the thyroid--which lowers your energy levels, makes you feel less like exercising, and generally makes you fatter."
One of the most effective forms of mind control and population control is that people are unaware of. The Soy kind in the food supply. Make them tired and fat with low thyroid and they will have no energy to resist the social engineering and globalist tyranny. Fat, tired, with slowed down thinking processes. Who owns the food companies that put partially hydrogenated soybean oil in the food?
“You’d have to jog about 10 miles to burn the calories from a single doughnut. I could be off on the numbers, but not by much.”
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That may be the official story but it doesn’t really work out that way in practice. Farm kids used to eat like starving hounds and stay as skinny as a rail, if you are active enough you just cannot get really fat. I can fairly well guarantee that if you jog ten miles every day you will not be able to eat enough to be fat.
There is a documentary about the old time loggers that I have seen on TV in which they say that the average logger who pulled one end of a two man saw and used an axe burned something like SEVEN THOUSAND calories a day and averaged weighing around one hundred and fifty five pounds. I can believe it because I started pulling my end of a saw while still in grade school.
I was just watching something about the Lewis and Clark expedition on the history channel and they said that those men HAD TO EAT six thousand calories a day to keep going and they certainly were not fat.
Of course those who say that a calorie is a calorie and it doesn’t matter what it comes from are dead wrong also. In reality it can make a world of difference what kind of food the calories come from and what the mix is. I learned long ago by practical experience that I could eat high protein or high carbohydrates without getting fat but if I eat meat AND potatoes there is a problem. Eat meat one day and potatoes the next and the results are much different.
Most Americans simply eat an atrocious diet and get little to no exercise.