I don't have to have a chocolate bar every day. I can easily substitute cookies, cake, or ice-cream, ... or pie, ... or donuts ...If I can't resist having a chocolate bar each day, then I'm a slave to my desire to eat it.
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I don't have to have a chocolate bar every day. I can easily substitute cookies, cake, or ice-cream, ... or pie, ... or donuts ...If I can't resist having a chocolate bar each day, then I'm a slave to my desire to eat it.
A lot of fat people in the US and a lot of risk-related diseases. I say this as someone who is not in good physical condition.
That's great! I wish I could say the same about clothes I had 6 months ago.I am 76 and I could still get into my age 20 military uniform. OK,OK! I would have to suck in my gut at bit.
That's great! I wish I could say the same about clothes I had 6 months ago.
I'm not libertarian. I was not talking necessarily about policy though.This sort of thing is fine for other countries who do not have guaranteed liberties in their Constitution and Laws, but in the US it conflicts with the core values set forth by the Founding Fathers. At best the worst you can do is impose some kind of product sin tax and use that to pay for some program. But for the most part, we like to have the free market impose the penalties via charging more for insurance etc.
True. BTW don't plant the gmo cookies. Theirs seeds will not regenerate and in order to plant them you may have to sign a contract forcing you into a chemical farming system..We used to have to get out and plow, weed, and hoe to grow our food. I'm going to try and grow chocolate-chip cookies next year ...
Guess where most of the processed food comes from.All humour aside, it is my observation that obesity is a real problem in Canada and the statistics suggest that it is even worse in the USA.
You're young ... no other adult has a BMI of 21 ...
Yes, too much junk food (self-made) plus very few exercise and a lot of alcohol.
A lot of fat people in the US and a lot of risk-related diseases. I say this as someone who is not in good physical condition.
That's about what it takes me to get out of bed in the morning. Times change.It's a matter of setting aside maybe 30 minutes a day to devote to attention to maintaining your bodily fitness.
Problem is, NOT all fat people are gluttons.A lot of fat people in the US and a lot of risk-related diseases. I say this as someone who is not in good physical condition.
Gluttony is often a sign of underlying discontent. It's one reason I don't believe in evolution. What is the appeal of foods that are hazardous to health? If you believe evolution, we should be hungering after things that do us good.A lot of fat people in the US and a lot of risk-related diseases. I say this as someone who is not in good physical condition.
Not me, but there are small restaurants that do it. Like McDonald's but way smaller and more homemade.Are you back in the States yet? Bc I mean they are so insane about carding there that could help a little with the alcohol, lol. Especially if you live on campus.
You make junk food yourself? Like what?
I'm not so sure. I read something about the Roman diet. It was awful. No dietician would recommend it today.I don't believe the problem should focus on over-eating or lack of exercise. The main problem is people have gone from a meat, potato, vegetable, dessert, diet of 60 years ago made from basic ingredients where obesity was rare, to a diet of processed foods comprised of mainly what was once known as the poor man's diet of starches and super sugars. Couple that with various diet sugar substitutes that the body does not know what to do with so it stores it rather than rejecting it creating a rise in diabetes 2, and you've got today's problem. Fake food creates a fake body.
The fact that kids who drink whole milk are slimmer than those who drink 1% (with sugar added no less) should tell us something. Processed foods are just a way for more people to get rich than limiting it to those who produce the basics. People have become unskilled and lazy. Foolish humans.