Things are as active today as they have ever been.
compared to when?
I know in the 90's, extra ciricular activities were stripped to a minimum.
So perhaps we have a generation of tubbies in between the 90's and now if you think everything is good?
Things are as active today as they have ever been.
My local high schools brag about having more extra-curricular activities than ever before.compared to when?
I know in the 90's, extra ciricular activities were stripped to a minimum.
So perhaps we have a generation of tubbies in between the 90's and now if you think everything is good?
Did you see that show a couple of weeks ago on mega obese people? May have been A&E. That one guy weighed over 800 lbs, lost over 600 then regained it all back. One guy on the show was over 1000 lbs! It was unbelievable. I felt so sorry for them.
The show was theorizing a genetic eating problem where the stomach never feels full. People become addicted to excess food. One guy said he would eat 24 hotdogs. It was like a drug. If he ate 1 he'd eat a couple dozen. He made a quote, paraphrased " imagine if you were a heroin addict and you had to take just a little heroin everyday. Do you think you wouldn't over indulge? Think what food addicts must go through."
This is how it is for over weight people. It's easy to say that they just need to get some exercise but there are also any number of factors involved that can make exercise problematical.... And the Catch 22 here is that what I can do, is expensive.
You assume a good means of doing so. Are the children not aught how to eat? Education is ultimately the best, is it not?
Zzarchov, "Their is no good moral or economic reason not to help people lose weight and prevent people from being overweight."
You assume a good means of doing so. Are the children not aught how to eat? Education is ultimately the best, is it not? Is it not our system's backbone? If not education, law? If not law, both? If not either, what? Fat farms and therapy? Pills?
Pills will come, and fat farms and doctors and government, to milk the cows because they're gone, but the foremost cure goes to cause.
Yes, yo-yo dieting will kill you.
Just being on a diet will not.
3500 calories (about) is a pound of fat. Your body burns a certain amount (based on metabolism) just sitting there.
Some people burn more, some people burn less. That doesn't change the fact of the matter.
You gain weight by eating more calories than you burn, and lose weight when you burn more than you eat.
With a slow metabolism you just can't eat much food without gaining weight. For many that is a blessing, it means you can live on less food.
However, our culture has eating as a fun passtime. Its something you do when your bored, unhappy, have company over or want to meet up with company.
If you eat as a passtime, then yes, having a slow metabolism will suck. But thats just nature and nature is unfair. Hopefully nature balanced it out in some other way (like brains, or looks or long life).
They have something similar for kids. It should be age-universal.I say we start a campaign. Push for a government 'Prescription Gym Plan'.
You really don't have a clue....do you.
Yes, I do. You cannot gain weight without eating more than you need to.
No one will die if they don't eat enough to gain weight. The problem is eating is a social and recreational activity in western culture.
You can gain other health issues from how you eat, but gaining weight is in and of itself caused by eating more than you need to.