Survey: Most Obese Claim to Eat Healthy

AP Via Forbes ^ | 8-2-2006 | Mike Stobbe

[nckerr]

I was at the local community pool and saw that well over half of the kids were overweight by looks and at least a quarter were morbidly obese. And they had skinny parents some of them! If you are a parent and your kid is overweight, you should be ashamed. You are the same parents that would slap your kids silly for smoking but will load the kid full of unhealthy food.

Do parents not remember the trauma caused to fat kids in school? Not to mention the huge health problems fat kids have both psychological and physical? Or that the US Military is finding a huge shortage of healthy kids to volunteer for service. Wake up America!

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Ah, but rather than make the fat kids get exercise, the teachers celebrate fatso's digirthity.

[in hoc signo vinces]

"Put down the bucket of chicken!"

[Stepan12]

I eat healthy; I just eat too much. And that is not healthy!

[ConservativeMind]

Maybe they just eat too much healthy food.

[in hoc signo vinces]

This is going to end up being a bash "fatty" thread...

I know, I am not helping...

[Graybeard58]

This is going to end up being a bash "fatty" thread

I'm outta here before someone posts a picture of drunk fat ted.

[JennysCool]

"I gotta be meeeeeeeee!"

[IrishMike]

Most obeese people claim to eat healthy....
I'm one !!
How much did the Feds pay for that dumb a$s survey.

[mountainlyons]

There is a health tape out there called "Dead Doctors" that claims the USDA Food Pyramid that was designed by four lawyers is all wrong and that it fills the rules for fattening livestock for the market.

[cripplecreek]

I'm not fat. I'm big boned.

[Michael.SF.]

Sure, I eat healthy. it's the drinking that doesn't help.

[Jacquerie]

We are fast becoming a nation of porkers.

In WWII, malnourished recruits reflected the hard times of the Depression. Today . . .

[Hexenhammer]

Beefcake!

[ECM]

"Do parents not remember the trauma caused to fat kids in school?"

At the rate we're going they'll start picking on the normal kids soon for being 'underweight' once they're the minority.

[Normal4me]

Beer----->Monitor! I also give you a 10 for timing. ;-)

[wyattearp]

How often do you eat all of the food you are served at restaurants? About 41 percent of obese people said they always did, while 31 percent of normal weight people always did.

Maybe, but the "normal people" were ordering the daily special: The obese people were ordering "all you can eat".

[Proud_USA_Republican]

See it all the time:

"I'll take a double quarterpounder with cheese, supersized fries, and a (Drum roll please).....................diet coke.

[MarineBrat]

[taxcontrol]

If I eat "healthy" I put on fat and lose muscle mass. The more rice, beans, pasta, tofu and vegetables I eat, the more the effect takes place.

If I eat Atkins, all that fatty red meat, cheese, and eggs stuff, I lose weight and my workouts will put back on muscle mass (both blood pressure and cholesterol go down as well). Part of the issue here is that people need to learn how their body reacts to different types of food. But people are not trained to listen to their body.