[Tall_Texan]

You missed the point.

The article proclaims Gen Xers will die before their parents. That's BS. I'm not arguing that obesity is good or that people need not take health issues seriously.

You, yourself, retort that new medications will extend lives. So doesn't that negate the very premise of the article? It didn't say "Gen Xers will live worse than their parents". It says "Gen Xers will DIE before their parents". Big difference.

[RedMonqey]

I don't want to sound antagonistic(especially against a tall Texan) but have heart disease, diabetes and being obese is not a healthy lifestyle our parents or grandparents knew , at least not until after old age. I'm not talking just being a big person(both my grandfathers and a great grandfather were big people who worked hard and ate heartily)).

I'm talking a people like the original person in the preceding pic photo-shopped into Kennedy. This person in an in earlier age would be a rarity and often seen in freak shows in the role of "fat man" or woman at the circus.


This person I can safly assume nrarely goes outside,cannot do so under his own power and cannot hold down a job(could be wrong) No one can seriously say this person has a "normal" life.

[RedMonqey]

PS

By the way don't count me among those who blame it all on fast food.


Out Southern forebearers ate greasey, calorie ladden food in large amounts. The difference between them and us is they worked from sun up to sun down, did't have central heating and air conditioning and if they wanted "fast food" they had to catch it or shoot themselves and then cook it.