The spokesperson chose not to read the following clarifying remark: “Since you don’t have the willpower to limit your soda intake and we certainly can’t point that out to you, we must therefore deny access to soda to everyone so you can maintain your self-esteem to girth ratio indefinitely.”
Here’s a radical thought: MYOB When did we lose that concept?
—Obesity fight must shift from personal blame—
Actually it should. The focus should shift TO personal RESPONSIBILITY.
We’re all fat because of electricity.
Seriously.
Take away air conditioning and television and all the automation that electronics provides. Go back to wood stoves and growing our own food.
Mind you, I’m not advocating any of that, but we would, of necessity, be much slimmer.
That layer of insulation that most of us carry around is a product of prosperity.
I was in Sam’s Club the other day. I saw a young mother, child in tow, with a heaped-up basket full of nothing but processed junk and carbohydrates. Bottom line: as long as that’s the kind of food people bring into the house, they will be fat. And there’s nothing else to be done about it.
IOW:
FAT government cures FAT but.
Current ag policy encourages over-production of corn (high fructose corn syrup) and soybeans (vegetable oil), and these crops also yield abundant cheap livestock feed (animal fat). Most people don’t understand - or refuse to acknowledge - that their burgers and sodas are taxpayer subsidized.
stop cramming stuff in your mouth.
it’s that easy.
The casual use of “epidemic” bothers me. An epidemic generally describes a disease or infestation that grows exponentially. It arises from sources beyond our control.
Obesity is NOT a disease! It is the result of choices. Choices free men and women are entitled to make. While you can control a disease by eradicating the infectious agent, you can’t control CHOICES the same way. Not without severely compromising individual liberty.
I did some checking up on this and found out they are using the old, 1960s MET Life standards for height and weight. The US Army tried using those in the 1980s, and quickly discovered that those tables were based on people who never exercised and had lots of other bad habits. So much of the Army appeared to be overweight.
That is, if you are physically fit, the tables will indicate that you are overweight, simply because muscle weighs more than fat.
To get around this problem, first the Army tried to use immersion tanks full of water to determine soldier’s fat, in that fat is more buoyant than muscle, based on how much they weighed on dry land vs. how much they weighed in water.
This was both expensive and ineffective as well. So they tried using pinch calipers to measure belly fat and other rolls of fat. And that was really inaccurate.
The bottom line was quietly adopted by the US Army that, if you look fat, you probably are fat. If you don’t, you probably aren’t. Admittedly, there are problems with this as well because many people who are thin and trim have very little strength or endurance; and many people who look pudgy can bench press a Volkswagen and run half marathons in good time.
“The whole point of this country is if you wanna eat garbage, balloon up to 600 pounds and die of a heart attack at 43, you can! You are free to do so! To me, that’s beautiful.” - Ron Swanson
No need to worry about it. If I know anything, I know this...Americans will continue to get fatter and fatter until they waddle off this mortal coil. Nothing’s going to change that. Our food supply is what it is, tailor made for wide-bodies.
They have to protect us from Freedom again.
Free people can make bad decisions.